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I was fairly jaw-dropped when I did the 'windshield tour' of Fort Bragg with my then 1 star, shortly before 9-11. Never seen so many vanilla C-130's in one place.
The point made by the base commander that they could accommodate and airlift the entire Airborne Division within 24 hours was staggering. No, we don't have that kind of capability.
But arguably, we don't need it.
The fact that the British Army has been hollowed out by successive arrseholes in HMG is now well-established.
But any nation which disposes of four SSBN's is hardly ' disarmed'
But you do, because you now have to be able to deploy to Poland in Cold War Part Deuce. Then have some sort of contingency force for another potential flare up in parts unknown. Nukes are the last ditch effort, which only assures mutual destruction.