Good post up at The Conservative Woman in regards British weakness, feckless leadership, etc. in the face of Iranian advances that will put London within reach of conventional- and nuclear-armed missiles quite soon unless something is done (see here). The question is raised there ‘what do we do’ in regards that, when the real question is ‘what can you do?’
Short-term, the answer is not much at all. You have a leadership class — of which Starmer is a figurehead, a meat-puppet — that hates Great Britain, the Empire, etc. and is determined to end it. The Chagos treaty is just the latest in efforts to divest the last vestiges of the empire, with Hong Kong being the zenith of same. They have gutted the military and done everything they can to make England to be easy pickings. If you are just starting to wonder why, you may be too late to the game.
I need to do a full answer to the post in question, especially as I notice what I regard as some rather gross inaccuracies. For example, in talking about the Strategic Defense Initiative (calling it ‘Star Wars’ reveals much about the author IMO) using nukes to ensure kills in boost stage. While I need to tread carefully, I think I can safely say that I don’t know of any serious effort to use nukes.
Nevermind that having them in orbit is a violation of treaty (ho hum, yet another treaty violation), but even worst is how many would be needed against widely dispersed targets. Also, nevermind that it is amazingly easy to mess up a rocket booster of any type, and the same can be said of many nuclear weapons themselves. I would suggest learning about “Brilliant Pebbles” (and for something older, look at Pournelle’s ‘Project Thor’ aka orbital crowbars) as well as the close-in defense systems (that we used to have) for protecting our land-based missiles.
For all that I have some issues (technical, strategic, otherwise) with some of the framing and background, there are a number of good questions and thoughts raised in the article. Check it out and sound off, there or here.
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Missile Defense of the UK is like NATO, no action talk only.
The Royal Navy has tactical systems that can cover parts of the country, but nothing that can cover it all.
UK might benefit from US Aegis Ashore in Europe, unless they PO the US.
Yep. And on the last part, I’m hearing they are working on the PO part hard, and that Chagos is just the tip of the iceberg. Sigh.
In SDI, I didn’t mind the name Star Wars because I like science fiction, but in SDI, one of the concepts was pumped X-ray lasers in orbit, which were to be fueled by the detonation of a nuclear device.
Obviously the missile defense we originally had, ie Sprint/Spartan/Safeguard, were nuke-tipped.
And I can’t say much more on SDI, other than I hope Golden Dome is smart enough to pick up on some of the foundations laid.