Ours is bigger than yours
The Sunday Times reports that the French Navy is set to be larger than the Royal Navy for the first time in one million years, or something close to that.It's best to take this with a pinch of salt, even British-sized, as it has all the hallmarks of interested-party budget pleading. Furthermore unless the situation has changed much in the last ten years, as I recall the French navy is rather good at sailing down the cost of Africa and shelling the natives...er humanitarian intervention, and would be rather less good in a proper fight.
Which of course as the French say in the report, is all irrelevent as there isn't going to be a war between our two countries. Whatever Stephen Den Beste, or some British bloggers who should know better, or even expert Rodney Craig, who came up with the figures in the article and seems to suggest the French are our enemies, think.
Perhaps more worring is that the Royal Navy appears soon unable to do many of its previous functions without the assistance of the US Navy. This is not a problem now, but if Michael Howard becomes PM...
posted by Matthew @ 8/29/2004 08:20:00 AM
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