British report says the British military capability in perpetuity will face Chinese threat
Date:2011-10-05Author:adminCategory:International militaryComment:0
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despite outstanding performance in the Libyan air strikes, but the British continued to decline to indulge in “sun empire,” recalls some of the British unbearable. British “Guardian” 28 said, the British Association’s new national defense strategy document “uncomfortable truth” calls on the British government at this critical moment should be reviewed and updated 2010 edition of strategic defense and security white paper. The report recommended that Britain’s defense spending should be based on the increase in the present at least 50%. In this report, China and Iran, North Korea, Russia and other countries as the United Kingdom are together confronting the major “threat.” It is reported that the new national defense strategy document by the British Association of a group of retired generals to complete.
“The Guardian” said the report warned that if Britain is to avoid “expensive, catastrophic mistake”, the UK needs to increase input in national defense spending billions of dollars to deal with future threats . The report warns that, as the British military’s continuing recession, the Falklands to Argentina in terms of the future, may be “waiting to pick the ripe plum”, “the Falklands oil will be put into operation in 2020, when Argentina, perhaps in conjunction with new friends, together with China to guard the This can easily get the resources. ” The report also said the British military “in perpetuity”, London has been in defending the global interests in a weak position.
British author of the report is an important defense of the five people, including former Air Force Chief of Staff Admiral Michael ? Graydon, commanding the 1990s the United Nations peacekeeping force in Bosnia on the Michael Rose ? will. They have called for an immediate reset priorities within the government to consolidate national defense. The report said that although British forces had performed well in the air raids Libya, but the “Ark Royal” aircraft carrier captain Jeremy ? Former Lieutenant Burke said Beckham, the British faced only “a minor enemy,” ” uncomfortable truth is that the British air raids Libya, first on the premise that the U.S. military to destroy Libya’s air defense capabilities, and then all the air support missions accounted for 75%. ” Graham Burke said the United States is extremely concerned about Britain’s defense spending cuts, and this will reduce the number of British combat capability.
report also claims that cutting defense spending illogical, because the threat is difficult to predict the future. ? Air Force Brigadier General Andrew Lambert, said, “the British public do not realize how thin the ice or how bad things can be developed to the extent.” Report that the strategy developed last year, the White Paper on defense and security chaos and the ideology is not coherent, not to predict the “Arab Spring.” Reported that, North Korea, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia and China are likely to pose a threat in the future, with China maintaining a huge military spending, is developing stealth aircraft and anti-ship ballistic missiles, and prepare the next ten years to build five aircraft carriers, so The report concluded that China has “considerable ambition”, and has monopolized the market a lot of necessary minerals.
the report concluded, “It is now clear, to protect the UK in the past 50 years the two major pillars of security — the special relationship with the United States and the continuation of an effective NATO, has can no longer guarantee the security of the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom as soon as possible unless a substantial increase defense capability. “▲ (Hou Tao)
(” Global Times “September 30, 2011 No. 08 version)
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