Today’s random thought– Coalition ops are great, except when they’re not. The coalition at its best gives you a huge range of capabilities as well as the great intangible– the manifest political will of many nations, arrayed against one foe.
Except that is, when some of the many nations aren’t arrayed against thefoe. When some of the many nations are doing fuck all. When one or two of the many nations aren’t doing much more than eating chow and filling up shitters.
However, it’s an undeniable fact that the Anglosphere– the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand– is the backbone of this coalition. Some of the other shitheads, the real BFQs, we can do without. But go it alone without our fellow English speakers? No way. There are too many cultural links, too many unspoken understandings, too much common history and common interest. A coalition built around the Anglosphere, with some other countries, willing and able ones like the Poles, thrown in as well is pretty well unbeatable on the field of battle.
We need them, now and in the future. I hope our elected and duly appointed leaders understand that, and pay particular attention to the maintenance of this grand alliance.
