I never said they did, only that the UK has a military that actually works.

To be entirely fair, so does France.

The Brits did especially well in Basra, because they treated it as a
Middle East version of Belfast, just oozing into it rather than taking
it by assault.

France has done especially well in African messes. We tend to forget
how many of these there have been (French military adventures, not
messes) because American media resolutely ignore anything that doesn't
have an American angle. Before the U.S. bombed Gaddafi, for example,
the French had a small army in Chad (was it Chad? oh God I can't
remember) that whupped Gaddafi's invasion.


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