UK’s Military Power Being Reduced
American and British Aircraft Carriers Are Used As Parts of Threats and Wars
We in the Living Church of God have long warned of the future decline of the military might of the Anglo-American nations.
The recent financial problems in the USA are expected to cause it to lose its military dominance (see LCG: What if We Can’t Afford the Military?).
But the United Kingdom has been experiencing this for decades, and even more in the past decade. Notice the following news item:
Exclusive: Cash strapped Navy cuts destroyer fleet
The Royal Navy has mothballed almost half of its remaining fleet of destroyers as it desperately attempts to save money in the face of a plunging budget.
The Fleet now has just five air defence warships left to protect vessels missile or aircraft attack at a time when other nations such as China, India and Iran are investing heavily in anti-ship warfare.
Three Type 42 destroyers – Exeter, Nottingham and Southampton – have been “parked up” in Portsmouth at “reduced readiness” up to two years before they were due to be decommissioned…
Britain’s force of destroyers and frigates has now been reduced from 35 to 22 in the last decade despite government promises it would not slip below 25.
It will be another two years before the first of six of the highly sophisticated Type 45 destroyers can be deployed on operations leaving a “gaping hole” in defences.
Pressures on the Navy’s budget are immense with cuts of 20 per cent predicted in the next decade reducing the ship building budget to by £4 billion to £14 billion.
Senior Navy commanders have told The Daily Telegraph that the nation is taking “serious risks” in protecting carrier groups or amphibious flotillas and have accused the Government of neglecting the Fleet that protects the 90 per cent of Britain’s imported trade.
It has already ditched the excellent air protection offered by Sea Harriers which were disbanded two years ago and at least two Type 42s have gone on operations with their advanced Sea Dart air defence missiles disabled to save cash.
Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary, said the Government was attempting to “castrate the Navy” by tying up ships in dock…
Richard Scott, Editor of Jane’s Navy International, said the Navy was taking “risk on risk” with its neglect of anti-air and anti-submarine warfare.
“Type 42 destroyers have crept over horizon without anyone noticing. We have lost a third of the fleet in the last 10 years. The question remains is where’s it all going to end up?”
With the Armed Forces so overstretched the Navy has been forced to provide sailors and Royal Marines to fight in land-locked Afghanistan where it will make up half the force of 8,000 British troops for the next six months. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/3131155/Exclusive-Cash-strapped-Navy-cuts-destroyer-fleet.html
The financial problems in both the UK and the USA will result in those nations asking and expecting the EU to fill in the gaps (which some within the EU are now hoping to do, see for example, France Wants Greater EU Military). And while the UK is in the EU, the European Union will still turn against it.
The Bible both predicted the rise and the fall of the Anglo-American powers. It also predicts the rise of a massive European power led by the King of the North that will have ties to an ecumenical form of religion claiming to be Christianity. More and more pieces needed for the fulfillment of future Bible prophecies are coming together.
Several articles of possibly related interest may include:
Anglo – America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel Are the Americans, Canadians, British, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Southern Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? Will God punish the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo nations? Why might God allow them to be punished first?
Who is the King of the North? Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic collapse will affect the United States?
Europa, the Beast, and Revelation Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about “the Beast”? What is ahead for Europe?
End of Mayan Calendar 2012–Might 2012 Mean Something? There is a Mayan calendar prediction for change in 2012. 2012 changes were also centuries ago predicted by the Hopi Native Americans (the Hindus may have some predictions for the next decade as well). Do these Mayan/Hindu/Hopi prophecies have any value? Why might Satan have inspired this date? Does the Dresden codex show destruction of the earth by flood? Can the great tribulation start before 2012?
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