In message , Ed Rasimus
writes
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:30:21 -0700 (PDT), hcobb
wrote:
What potentially hostile powers can put jet fighters within range of
the population centers of UK

For the UK, the unification of Europe has reduced the threat greatly,
but the logical extension of that reasoning is that UK needs no
defenses at all now.

There's also the point that we find ourselves operating away from home
rather often these days, and thus rather closer to potentially or
actually hostile air arms.

--
The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done
by fools.
-Thucydides


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