If I were a British bank robber, I would petition th government to guard me while I rob banks, and run interference for me while I escaped. That seem to be about their speed these days when it comes to "apprehending" criminals.
I don't know why no one thinks to train the British military in how to sink boats. That would seem to be the solution - sink them when they are half way across the channel. If they're using rubber dinghies, then even a single man, or maybe two, could drop them to the bottom with just a bow and arrow set. 3 billion pounds a year in hand outs against a couple hundred pounds for a set of archery tackle would seem to be a no-brainer to me.
If they got really efficient at sinking the interloper boats, it probably wouldn't take very many being sent to the bottom to get the point across and put some serious brakes on the invasion force.
Has no one thought of sinking them? Escorting an invasion force is an entirely new concept to me. I wish we'd thought of that years ago in Afghanistan, and got the Russians to escort border crossings from Pakistan into Afghanistan - we probably could have gotten rid of the Russians in less than half the time it took otherwise!
Iran has a nasty habit of arresting, jailing, and torturing people who cross their border into Iran. Maybe someone needs to take them aside and explain how it's supposed to be done in the modern world - you don't arrest or eliminate, you escort and provide safe passage to invaders.
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I don't know why no one thinks to train the British military in how to sink boats. That would seem to be the solution - sink them when they are half way across the channel. If they're using rubber dinghies, then even a single man, or maybe two, could drop them to the bottom with just a bow and arrow set. 3 billion pounds a year in hand outs against a couple hundred pounds for a set of archery tackle would seem to be a no-brainer to me.
If they got really efficient at sinking the interloper boats, it probably wouldn't take very many being sent to the bottom to get the point across and put some serious brakes on the invasion force.
Has no one thought of sinking them? Escorting an invasion force is an entirely new concept to me. I wish we'd thought of that years ago in Afghanistan, and got the Russians to escort border crossings from Pakistan into Afghanistan - we probably could have gotten rid of the Russians in less than half the time it took otherwise!
Iran has a nasty habit of arresting, jailing, and torturing people who cross their border into Iran. Maybe someone needs to take them aside and explain how it's supposed to be done in the modern world - you don't arrest or eliminate, you escort and provide safe passage to invaders.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake