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With the UK military operating on two fronts, Iraq and Afghanistan, the chief of the defence staff has privately admitted that the UK's military forces are over-stretched, over-burdened and hugely under staffed for the tasks confronting them.

With the death toll mounting, another 4 soliders killed in Iraq in the past 4 days, the military are increasingly relying on reservist's to fill important gapes in front line duties. However, these reservist's are not 'battle-hardened' and might, according to military chiefs, create extra problems for their fellow front line troops.

Fuck those figures, I see LOTS of squaddies bored shitless and raring to go into a war zone. The MoD should pull its resources from Germany, Christ knows theres enough of the fuckers doing nothing at all there.
Reservists LOVE to play soldiers at weekends, watch the cunts get out of real action..seen MANY TA lads shit 'emselves when called up for a tour of duty........suddenly, they don't like dressing up in combats.

At the current rate the UK is losing one highly qualified solider a day!

Bismarck famously told his military commanders to never ever fight a war on 2 fronts. Hitler did and got fucked by the Russian winter.

The BBC news has just said we cannot withdraw from Iraq until America tells us we can. So we are still under the thumb of Washington even though VP Blair ahs moved on.

warren zevon rip wrote:
>
> That's 365 a year! The question is, can recruitment and
> training make up 365 fatalities a year?

The question is; do we want to be losing a highly trained solider every day?

warren zevon rip wrote:
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> Fatalities are still at historically low levels,

Compared to when?

> particularly for battlegrounds which give our type of army no huge military
> advantage.

Such as the concealed road side bomb, or suicide bomber with a lorry load of high explosives.

> Replacement speed and quality is the real question.

According to military chief's the replacements are not as highly qualified/trained as they are only reservists, and are not battle hardened.

There are not just deaths.. some personnel lose limbs.. sight..hearing etc.. these statistics are very high but never released.

Shelley Louise wrote:

> There are not just deaths.. some personnel lose limbs..
> sight..hearing etc.. these statistics are very high but never
> released.

An excellent point there Ms. Louise, you are absolutely correct!