Editorial
“Punching your weight” a phrase from the world of boxing has always been a handy shorthand for the employment of military and
diplomatic power. A country with a strong economy and clear sense of its role in the world – like Victorian Britain in the late 19th Century – clearly punched its weight. Or did it? British military operations during Victoria’s reign include the Crimean War – with its logistic and medical breakdowns and the humiliation of the Boer War. It was also during Victoria’s reign that British troops fought campaigns in Afghanistan
...as they say tout ça change At the dawn of the 21st Century Britain is not the engineering and economic giant it was, indeed the coalition government is faced with a battered and weakened economy and massive debt crisis. It is an urgent priority that British military and political leaders address the question of the weight at which we punch. A Defence White Paper will have to be bold, asking if we still need some of the high cost weapons systems developed for World War III. The indicators are that conflict in the 21st Century will be rather like the Boer War and Afghanistan – wars in which the Dreadnought battleships – the SSBNs and aircraft carriers of their time - played no part. Politicians and diplomats who still press the case for retaining a nuclear arsenal need only look across the North Sea to Germany – a non-nuclear state that is currently punching its weight in Europe and the world.
Editor Will Fowler
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G3 DEFENCE 3
Volume 2 Issue 3 June 2010
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