he was in a leadership position during the most traumatic event in british living memory. and despite everything that came after the imperial mindset of britain is so strong that they've only recently begun to fully realize that they're no longer a world superpower.
They don't even have a functional army. It's all attachments, like parts you can add onto an army to make it more effective as specific tasks. They don't have a core to it.
Google is increasingly useless to the point it would literally be faster to do the analysis myself than it would be to find it already done somewhere. I did some heuristical type analysis and found their naval budget to be 2/3rds of their army budget. That required me to make assumptions like their naval aircraft costing the same as their ground based ones, their ratio of land based and sea based helicopters being similar as that of the US, their land and sea based helicopters being of similar cost, the salary of navy and army personnel being the same on average, etc etc.
he was in a leadership position during the most traumatic event in british living memory. and despite everything that came after the imperial mindset of britain is so strong that they've only recently begun to fully realize that they're no longer a world superpower.
Yesterday I saw a comment that mentioned the size of the 2021 UK military budget. I would have guessed it was $5 or maybe $10 billion
The actual number
~$72 billion
If you aren't a world superpower - you can at least cosplay as one.
They don't even have a functional army. It's all attachments, like parts you can add onto an army to make it more effective as specific tasks. They don't have a core to it.
How much of that is for the navy? That seems like a pride thing more than anything, no way they let that falter
Google is increasingly useless to the point it would literally be faster to do the analysis myself than it would be to find it already done somewhere. I did some heuristical type analysis and found their naval budget to be 2/3rds of their army budget. That required me to make assumptions like their naval aircraft costing the same as their ground based ones, their ratio of land based and sea based helicopters being similar as that of the US, their land and sea based helicopters being of similar cost, the salary of navy and army personnel being the same on average, etc etc.
Gotta keep those neocolonies in line