La Gran Bretagna spende miliardi in più della Francia per la difesa, quindi perché l’esercito francese è superiore?

It really depends on what aspect of military capability you’re looking at and where current investments are focused on really.

Comparing raw troop numbers or number of ships is one thing, but both militaries have been focused on totally different things (post cold war) and both are going to have to undergo some very significant changes to be ready for a near-peer conflict in the future.

Because France develops the majority of it in house and handles their own business and buys from French companies?

Britain getting fleeced by American arms companies? Looking at the Ajax and General Dynamics there.

The article isn’t that convincing. It tries to underplay the french successes and say that British failures are not that bad, overlooking the abysmal performance of the conservatives tenure on the military. The UK military has a problem with procurement, and maintenance, and recruitment, that is a direct result of weak compromises from successive governments and compounds to the results today.

The article says that France only has one aircraft carrier and chances are that it would be in dry docks. What about the 4 helicopter carriers ? What about the fact that the UK still only has 1 ship available when France had 80% of its fleet ready to set sail ?

It also says that France gets a 1,3e return on military spending, like it’s an afterthought. It’s really really hard to do. It’s decades of continuous political and military cooperation. It can’t be overlooked if the UK or Europe wants to move away from vassal status to the US

When Macron said NATO was brain dead this is exactly the kind of things he was alluding to.

Britain buys over priced weapons from the USA.

Shitty procurement is my guess. The military knows what it wants and needs, but the civil service manages the procurement.

In theory, it’s supposed to lead to efficiencies since the civil service has the experience with sourcing suppliers and negotiating contracts.

But evidently it’s not worked well and, as with everything else the government does, ends up over budget and under delivered.

Thats what you get when you actually developed matured state-owned or state-sponsored arms industry, duh. And for reason I cannot understand, France seems to be able to recruit more people into the armed forces.

The UK should be looking at France and taking learnings from them in both the military, and the energy sectors.

Instead, we love selling ourselves out for pennies on the pound to US and EU conglomerates.

It’s fucking sickening and should’ve been stopped 25 years ago.

France has better civil servants