A British RAF Tornado GR4 ground attack aircraft leaves RAF Marham in Norfolk, eastern England. Press TVLibya Fighting Shows Just How Idiotic The Defence Review Was -- The Register
Vast fleet of RAF planes delivers just 3 crap missiles.
Analysis Recent combat operations by British and allied forces in Libya are beginning to tell us a lot: not so much about the future of Libya, which remains up for grabs, but about the tools one actually needs for fighting real-world wars against real-world enemy armed forces.
The vast bulk of our own armed forces are set up, equipped and focused on this type of mission – rather than the hugely more common one of battling guerillas and insurgents, as seen in Afghanistan – so the Libyan operations of the last week are very important to us at a time of shrinking budgets and worldwide turbulence. Libya is telling us how well the Coalition government did in its recent Strategic Defence and Security Review - and bluntly, it is showing that the Review was a fiasco.
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