Comments by "John Allen" (@johnallen7807) on "Inside British Army's nerve centre supporting largest Nato exercise in decades" video.

  1. A tiny exercise, I remember Lionheart and Crusader, more troops took part than there are now left in the entire British Army!
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  2.  @Surv1ve_Thrive  Exercises are fine BUT we need to rebuild our armed forces. In 2010 the Army was 100000, now it's 72000, there are 19 major surface units in the RN and just 6 frontline fighter squadrons in the RAF. We need 3% min GDP on defence NOW and for the next 10yrs, what do we get from Shapps? 2.5% by 2030 i.e. in SIX years time! God help us, the entire WW2 was less than that!
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  3.  @Chubby_T0511  Mud, freezing rain, cold food and 7 dead on a night drop?
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  4.  @Chubby_T0511  SA80? Bit out of date or are you still in Amy cadets???
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  5.  @Surv1ve_Thrive  16000 is hardly "massive", Ukraine is building up an army of 1 million!
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  6.  @Surv1ve_Thrive  16k is the figure for this exercise, I did both Lionheart and Crusader, massive exercises but a fraction of what we faced in the Warsaw Pact.
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  7.  @Surv1ve_Thrive  lol, you're right! Let's hope Putin doesn't look too closely at the numbers!
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