General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

as for the expense involved???in most major conflicts this country has been involved in, we have been for the most part dependant on the yanks for equiptment and stores. this is highlighted in this present fiasco in iraq. time and time again in the second world war, the brit advance was held up waiting for fresh equiptment,along came the yanks and away we went. it has always been the problem with this and any other shade of gov, they scrimp like h**l on the services,we are told we are the best equipt in the world???tell that to the lads/lasses in the front line were it matters, and they will laugh their socks off. thanks to the internet, its a much smaller world now, and communication is a blip away, soething the politicians should bear in mind with their daily output of SPINNNN.