The graphic above illustrates the RN during WWII. The Royal Navy today by the numbers: Carriers: 2 Available: none (a littoral ship that has no blue water capability) Frigates: 7. Available: 3 Destroyers: 6. Available: 1 - HMS Dragon (broken). Naval Manpower (excluding Royal Marines): 20,000 Admirals : 40 Commodores: 90 MOD Civil Servants: 55,000 Clown Service - destroyed by politicians. 17-year old Royal Navy ship HMS Conway sits aground in the Menai Strait, North Wales. She ran aground on April 14th, 1953, when on tow to Birkenhead for a refit. ***...

UK warship HMS Dragon has been forced to withdraw in order to be repaired at port after experiencing issues with its fresh water supplies. HMS Dragon had been deployed to the Middle East to help defend RAF Akrotiri during the Iran conflict. The MoD insists HMS Dragon was always due for a logistics stop at this stage in deployment but a "minor technical issue" with the onboard water systems will be fixed as part of it. Just another reason for Argentina to strike now & take the Falklands. The Allied naval forces have had a raft of issues.Laundry fires, clogged toilets, potable water...

GEN McChrystal was a martial disaster. What wrong looks like… This is what happens when your architects fall in love with their processes so much they forget about the objective. Military students should really study why graduate-level white papers, PowerPoint slides, and endless Battle Update Brief (BUB) and Commander's Update Brief (CUB) "battle rhythm events" didn't beat a decentralized bunch of illiterate goat-herding Muslim jihadists. The Taliban is one of the most successful Islamic insurgencies since the 17th century. Steven Pressfield: “It’s the tribes, stupid.” "It was only Mao who...

One of four SLBMs are operational. One of two carriers is operational. Two of seven destroyers are operational. On and on. The Argentinians need to make a deal with Iran for oil, to keep the British busy in the Maldives; then they'll finally have the islands. Luxury beliefs will kill you. But then again, ships are obsolete. Only submarines will survive. Britain's navy is no more. It would be well for the government to face facts. What Britain should now focus on, is obtaining and maintaining a fleet of fully functional and modern small warships. Capital ships are obsolete. The era of the...

2 F-35 stealth fighters hit 4 F-15 Strike Eagles lost 7 KC-135 Stratotankers damaged (one lost) All of those aircraft are a big maybe; fratricide, friendly fire, we don’t know yet. To be fair, let’s suppose not a single aircraft suffered Iranian fire but 11 Reapers drones are confirmed hit. The after-action historical analysis will determine the air war losses, we simply don’t know. During the Iraq War in 1991, the US and coalition forces lost approx 41 aircraft. BUT Ten expensive radar systems taken out including lower-value assets like the AN/TPS-59 but also including the one billion...

"Tomorrow we attack the Germans" "Let me guess Sir, we climb out of our trenches and do a frontal assault" "Damn it, Blackadder, that's supposed to be a secret" "We've tried it 17 times before and always failed" "Ah, but they will never expect it an 18th time!" *** Please listen to Winston Marshall's discussion appended below. Presently, the UK would have a hard time projecting a brigade size element and support in a Continental expeditionary footprint. Shocking paragraph in Stringer’s assessment: “Put in stark terms - and this is largely hidden from the British electorate - not one...