tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886189736013458052.post8557240729490737898..comments2023-06-29T12:54:27.214+01:00Comments on The Home of The Green Arrow: Prince Harry, cocktails and killers.The Green Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08068638909478130288noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886189736013458052.post-53675684732301920762007-04-30T08:43:00.000+01:002007-04-30T08:43:00.000+01:00It feels like a lifetime ago that I helped write t...It feels like a lifetime ago that I helped write the software that made the rapier missiles sitting on top of the mountain ridges in the falklands do the job they were designed for in the hands of those holding the trigger. <BR/><BR/>Over a decade later I worked alongside a demobbed former marine who was out there at the time and had good reason to be grateful they worked. In the course of drinking the several beers he bought me to say thanks he passed on a few insights into what went on out there. <BR/><BR/>And I thanked god I was a civilian installer and not someone out there knowing there were guys intent on filling me with lead.<BR/><BR/>At the end of the day someone, somewhere, with military training and a cool head for cold logic and even colder numbers has to take a view as to whether sending Prince Harry's unit into the theatre of war is a good idea, and then use the same cold logic to decide whether he should go with them.<BR/> <BR/>It is said Harry will be bitterly disappointed if he's not "leading his men", and I do not doubt it. <BR/><BR/>However, I would hope his officer training would given him at least some insight into the cold logic I refer to above.<BR/><BR/>I don't know if it would be a bad military decision to have him in the thick of it. <BR/><BR/>I do know this isn't about glory and it's not about courage. It's about working out whether or not every gun toting moslem will have their resolve to fight reinvigorated by the chance of getting HIS head on a pole at the gates of Sadr City. <BR/><BR/>Do I need to read Sun Tzu to form an opinion on that ? I don't think so. But again, I'm not a trained military commander. <BR/><BR/>However, I am perhaps experienced enough to understand that it's not HARRY'S fault every gun-carrying moslem will redouble their efforts to get his head on a spiked pole. <BR/><BR/>Doubtless some cheap journalist will jump up and down demanding that whole flocks of white chickens be plucked when the inevitable decision is taken to remove Harry from the front line. <BR/><BR/>Now if anone were to propose throwing such journalists into the White Tower and throwing away the key, they'd have MY vote on thursday.<BR/><BR/>regards JOGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com