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  1. Born Hunter
    Just read this…
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    Cheers mate, you know what I’m like, ha. Soon as the vicar let us move, everyone was taking photos of my cousin and family at the sink thing (font?). I slipped off for a tour I expect I got some curious looks. Churches and cathedrals etc are fascinating places anyway but this one was a bit special.
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    I was at a family baptism earlier and noticed the brigade insignia of the 16 air assault brigade on the wall of the church. Then looking around more, the church was like a memorial to the parachute regiment and more specifically the parachute signals. The stained glass, the carpet between the aisle, flags, engraved tablets! Honestly it was just really pleasing, if that’s the word, to see this church, tucked away in rural Lincolnshire, honour the historic connection of the village to this unit. Stiffmeister particularly might appreciate this but here’s a few pics I managed to gather and th
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    His lad, Uday, was even more evil IMO. God forbid he ever inherited the throne…
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    No. I think we may see air strikes taking out the kit but no I think how the ANA folded means trying again is a non starter. Long term I think it’ll just be another region with low tempo SF ops ongoing but nothing big. But who knows…
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    Fair mate and an important point imo. I remember when ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh first came on the scene and their MO was considered to be as you describe, brutal ideology but focussed on establishing territory, not attacking the West. For that reason they were considered less of a threat to our homelands than Al-Qaeda. The threat they posed was stability to the region whereas Al-Qaeda, though severely degraded, were still totally focussed on hurting the West to make our involvement in their backyard too painful. But that changed with the onslaught of IS inspired lone wolf terrorist attacks.
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    I think I'm the only one who's mentioned ISIS. Is that aimed at me? If so, yes I'm well aware there are many different factions and ideologies that are Islamic in nature.
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    That's essentially how we feed radicalisation right? That fact isn't lost on me. But personally I think the extremist terrorist groups need to be distinguished from the recognised regimes in power of the countries where they reside. IMO Western forces are very adept at counter terrorism. Where we have continually failed or seen questionable success is with regime change. Which is why I think the containment strategy suggested has better potential than regime change. But I really don't think there are any right answers and trialling anything costs blood and treasure. It's an easy and conve
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    I appreciate the respect and you're right I am interested in this stuff. But again, it's not born of experience. We're just sharing opinions. I think we disagree on the nature of muslims and the Islamic world but right there at the bottom in boId I agree with. If these places are going to change for the better they have to do it in their own time and by their own initiative, we can't force it and need to respect that fact I think.
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    We're all just sharing opinions mate. I've never exactly planned a war, so I'm not speaking from any kind of experience. Oh for sure, special operations which are not discussed in Parliament or publicly are ongoing forever and always, granted. I think what's being suggested though is something that does involves sufficient combat mass of conventional forces to not go unnoticed. Something like intelligence that there is once again a large Al-Qaeda camp somewhere in the mountains which rather than a full invasion is responded to by a combined air strike, airborne assault and special forc
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    Maybe but I'm inclined to disagree. Though typical Islamic cultures are not good fits with our Western cultures, they're not all one cohesive organised mob of extremists/jihadis. For instance I doubt that Sunni Arabs give a f**k about Shia Iranians. Do you think the Kurds feel the pains of Turkey or Baathist Iraq? They're too easy to play off against each other for them to be all 'Islamic brotherhood'. I think the only reason that belief exists in the West is because in our countries all the brown people are mobbed together. I don't believe that is representative of the wider world. Th
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    Someone would need to give him a heads up that the mujahedeen aren't on our side this time round.... bit awkward like.
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    How about this. Given the disastrous history of regime change, since at least the Iran coup of '53, is limited operations with the aim of 'containment' the most viable strategy? It's certainly the direction the British government is taking with military reforms. Light, highly trained, highly equipped, highly informed, forces with short reaction times and global reach. No intention of holding ground or forcing change, just go in at a moments notice and leather them then f**k off, as and when necessary until the regime naturally collapses through internal pressure, rather than external.
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    Imagine, next week the RNLI towing in a lifesize inflatable C-17 off Dover ram-packed with immigrants. This place will explode!
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    I’m sceptical as to whether a blow up C17 is even possible. A C17 is a very large aircraft. Material wise it’d have to be light as hell for air pressure alone to maintain any kind of shape, heavy as hell to not move. It’d be far easier to use a real aircraft, it’s not like they’re short of them. I expect you’d need a chinook or Herc size transport aircraft to just transport this hypothetical blow up.
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    Deception over force size has been absolutely standard during the Second World War and even Cold War. 22SAS were originally named L detachment SAS to make the Nazis think there were numerous commando units operating in the area. Likewise false airfields were built all over the place to confuse enemy intelligence and bombers. I don’t see the sense or practicality in faking that scene with blow ups when the US had ample real transport aircraft to fake it with real kit. Not that I’m inclined to believe any of it is faked.
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    Gents the likely reason the video is edited is because there’s nothing to see when it takes off. The fella who fell would’ve been up in the landing gear out of sight. It’s not uncommon. The other fellas sat on the side probably, quite sensibly got off when they realised they couldn’t stop it and so there’s literally f**k all to see. There’s not going to be a video of Afghans peeling off the side of a c17 with the hammer down, as funny as that would be. The sound of those engines powering up would scare the death out of anyone near to them, they’re not that daft.
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    Well I'm reliably informed that I'm equipped to overthrow the government now so ISIS were cutting about in Hilux's and they got leathered!
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    Only if that's what you want it to be. The general mainstream media outlets just don't report with any depth or detail on defence so you have to find specialists.
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    The consensus of specialist military commentary to date has been that this administration has carried on the former administrations policy and stance towards china. And I'm not talking BBC/CNN, I'm talking specialist defence media sources that 99.9% of the public don't even know exist, much less pay attention to. The first real defining act in this policy area for the Biden administration was to send two CSGs east as is typical of peacetime gunboat diplomacy. And as you say, they have followed through with broadly the same Afghan strategy as what the Trump administration had.
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    Evans Halshaw!
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    No, vulgar! limited (income, lol)
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    I've just bought one today I'll check the back for my complementary turban and Kalashnikov!
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    Given that many people are asking "what was the point of the last 20 years" if it's now all back to normal, in the future if faced with another 911/Afghanistan what do you think we should do? What are the 'right' circumstances and what are the right ways to use military force?
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