Kate1933 wrote:Are we as a country sufficiently armed to go to war Frank? military reduced by thousands, weapons, "what weapons"? A country full of
Agitators, "The enemy within." I think our supposed politicians are complacent.
We're certainly not geared up to go to a conventional war. But Nuclear? Our subs that Corbyn, the Lib Dems and the Greens are trying to remove are enough, even in their current limited form, to devastate half the cities in the US. Nobody is going to attack the UK head on with that capability floating around the oceans. Not even Russia.
As for the insurgency and 5th columns, I've already floated the point that there are enough loosely controlled weapons and ammunition that IS trained people coming back to the UK could case a pretty serious civil war like the did in Iraq. Knock over a few banks, etc. Their main issue would be that, unlike Iraq, we would be able to close our shores and they would not be able to resupply from without no matter how much money they stole. So we would have a short nasty and thoroughly ruthless little war and "disinfect" a significant problem in the UK.
Hopefully the IS already know this. Then again, my military trained part hopes they don't.