Re: [OT]Nukes... tunnels.... boom....

Quoting John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>:

> 
> --- Jonathan White <jonw@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > bullet. I suggest you consult a good late C20
> > history book about the Suez
> > crisis 
> 
> Didn't that backfire rather badly?  
> 
> > or Falklands conflict, 
> 
> Granted--although the fact that it strained the entire
> UK military establishment to send a tiny task force
> and two light infantry brigades to a place in the same
> ocean is worth noting.  Once upon a time, such an
> insult to UK sovreignty would only be purgable by
> occupying Argentina.	Semi-permenantly.

Yeah, we did have a long-standing war to conduct in Ireland as well...
plus at 
that time we had Hong Kong to guard, and quite a lot of British forces
were 
committed to Germany.

We don't do "two-and-half" wars, we do
"nine-halves-and-a-couple-of-maybes"..

{There was a certain amount of clownishness involved as well. ISTR
someone 
packed all the landing craft capable of landing the armour onto the same

transport. Which promptly got sunk...}