Leading The Charge: Twice As Many Horses As Tanks In British Army

[Pete]

Leading The Charge: Twice As Many Horses As Tanks In British Army

http://forces.tv/00092683

"Amid ongoing changes to the British Army under the banner of austerity, the bemusing statistic of four legged firepower outweighing the heavy metal variety persists...."

Sad to say I thought it best to put this story in The Comedy Zone.

[Team Sergeant]

Twice As Many Horses As Tanks In British Army

Actually makes great sense, England is a socialist country on the fast track to become a communist country.

Horses are great for population control in cities........

[craigepo]

At one point in history, "the sun never sat" on the British Empire.

Western Civilization's greatest enemy is the breeding of a bunch of spoiled punks who do not realize that maintaining liberty is damned hard work.

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Twice As Many Horses As Tanks In British Army

Actually makes great sense, England is a socialist country on the fast track to become a communist country.

Horses are great for population control in cities........

More like on a fast track to become a muzzy country.

Originally Posted by Brush Okie

You just don't see the forward thinking genius of this. We are going to run out of oil any day now and will need every horse we can find for comfort(SIC). Long live the cavelry.

[craigepo]

Originally Posted by Broadsword2004

As an interesting side note, in WWII (yes II) 80% of the German army was horse-drawn. The image of the Wehrmacht as being this ultra-modern, fully-mechanized war machine was mostly propaganda on the part of the Nazis. It actually looked like a 19th century army.

I think that were would be a bunch of Sherman crewmen that would beg to differ.