what are your opinion on the armed forces?

Question

im doing a project at school and i need to have some people opinions on the armed forces and what you think about them, what they are doing, if you could every join the forces and if you respect so and why. so it would be much help if you would help me :P

Answer 1

Yes I will help you :)

My opinion is that they have done and are doing what they are supposed to.

In the middle east tyranny has been stopped multiple times and yes maybe our motives are questionable, but at least it has made the lives of the peoples in the countries we are in better as they are no longer subjected to unjust medieval style punishment and new governments have been set up to lead these countries into the modern age.



Many people focus on the current main conflict in Afghanistan forgetting the Royal Navy who stop pirates around Africa or the Royal Airforce who do search and rescue aswell as flying aid missions. We also have the troops at home who help out on emergencies or even generally where they are needed, in major floods they help and in other instances where there isn't enough manpower they muscle in, there is also how we have all sorts of military displays often viewed for free by the public.



I respect our military as without them we would probably be a lot worse off than we are with them, they put thier lives on the line for relatively low pay allot of the time thier own motives as member of the armed forces is to protect thier country, which I highly commend.

Combining military forces is hard as countries have different goals and motives often making it impossible to do so, I mean we could try to ally with Iran but that would in turn destroy relationships with other allies, so we may as well stand where we are in these terms.



As for a certain unnamed comment highlighting how we apparently don't do polls and homework I find it odd that a 'top contributor' wouldn't know that we have categories for all of these, I never heard of any ruling against opinions and I rarely see an answer without and as for blogs this doesn't relate to the question anyway and it is near on impossible to blog on Yahoo answers.

Therefore your answer... Is an opinion! :o

Answer 2

i don't have a low opinion of HM Forces - I spent 15 years there. My son has done 8 years provider so a techniques, now on his fifth excursion and lost 4 associates KIA. he's already owed seventy seven days go away and may't take it by way of "operational & education commitments". He managed to get 18 days go away between June 2007 and being deployed back in may 2008. His tale is an same for most in the frontline regiments. What people have a tendency to forget is that those who make up our militia are not from now on a bottomless pit. There are extra resignations than volunteers. in the words of Sir Jock Stirrup - Head of the militia - "HM Forces at the instantaneous are stretched previous their capacity". those already serving are "warfare weary" HM Forces can be a intense up occupation - yet this warfare on terror seriously is not received with the manpower accessible. we had to deliver 2000 extra troops to Afghanistan merely to include the priority - we managed 230. the position may I ask, do people anticipate the manpower to win this warfare to go back from and how do they anticipate those now assisting save going without reinforcement???? the options are sparkling - nationwide provider/Conscription or deliver our troops domicile and forget the warfare on terror. As a footnote i will grant you with a touch tale which became immediately ahead position in the time of WW2. My previous guy became a RM Commando, interior his area were 2 cat burglars and a professional threat-free cracker all former inmates at Wormwood Scrubs whose objective became to covertly enter enemy homes and crack open the safes therein.

Answer 3

unfortunatly there politicians pawns witch most of us are well trained to be proud of regardless of how little we know about what they do. same goes for the army themselfs alot of them believe joining them army is a noble thing protecting there country an all that but its just what our governments want us to believe. theres nothing noble about invaiding a country getting rid of its government to set up an american led government just be its inriched with oil its a joke yet they come home to a heros welcome! i dont dislike the people of the army i actuly feel sorry for them there just doing what there told but there so blind to what there doing unfortunatly not all of them but most seem just as well trained an blind to the lies

Answer 4

A world without armies is like a world without police, people need to be kept in order to stop the bad rising to the top, good should always win even if it means wars, or conflicts.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Un-necessary today, if we are to establish any semblance of evolving as a species. Sadly, we won't do this, so things will remain the same. (Primitive, and highly un-evolved)