The PM is pissed!

via Defense Management.

PM rebukes forces chiefs over Libya

21 June 2011

Prime Minister David Cameron has hit back at forces chiefs' warnings about the strain being placed on Britain's armed forces.

In recent weeks the heads of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy have warned that Britain would struggle to maintain operations in Libya beyond September due to the difficulty in refreshing personnel and equipment in both Afghanistan and Libya.

When the First Sea Lord repeated his warning recently he was said to have been called to Downing Street for a 'dressing down' by the Prime Minister.

Today it emerged that Air Chief Marshal Simon Bryant warned MPs that allowance cuts had affected morale and that the RAF was 'running hot' in terms of the demand on its personnel and airframes.

Confronted with today's news, Cameron told a press conference: "There are moments when I wake up and read the newspapers and think 'you do the fighting, I'll do the talking'."

"…Time is on our side, not Gaddafi's. We are allied to some of the richest and most militarily capable countries in the world. We have the Libyan people on our side and we'll keep going.

"The pressure is turning up all the time: you can see that in the desertions from his regime, the pressure on the west of the country, the pockets of resistance that people had assumed would be snuffed out are growing in strength.

"Britain's military are performing magnificently."

Wow.

The truth always gets out.

The truth is just as the Sea Lord stated.  NATO is struggling.  NATO is overstretched and its future is in doubt.

Remember a bridge too far?  This is a war too strenuous for an out of shape military alliance with delusions of grandeur.