Does The Defence Secretary Stand Any Chance Of Doubling The Ta Numbers To 30,000?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/army-reserves-to-become-intelligence-and-cyber-security-specialists-under-sweeping-reforms-says-philip-hammond-8684012.html

[emmie]

probably, especially if they do their time in the UK. as opposed to many that have been deployed overseas.

[EcclesCake]

I can't see why not.

If they are looking to recruit particular skill sets then those people are likely to come for industries already working with the MoD. Those employers will benefit from having someone with first hand experience of front line Ops and will actively support and maybe encourage their staff.

[sp1814]

I have nothing to back this up, except gut feeling - but I suspect future wars will not just be about brute force. Because the whole world now relies so heavily on technology - I can see a time in the not too distant future, when technicians (especially those working in communications, IT and infrastructure support) are as key to the defence of this country as regular soldiers.

Imagine the chaos if a foreign nation were able to infiltrate our banking systems? As we saw a few years ago, it doesn't take that much to bring the financial services industry to the brink of disaster.

Will they be able to double the numbers to 30,000?

I don't know...sounds...ambitious.

[emmie]

not so much the banking system, as the national grid, once you kill that, almost everything is down...

[anotheoldgit]

/// I have nothing to back this up, except gut feeling - but I suspect future wars will not just be about brute force. Because the whole world now relies so heavily on technology ///

Perhaps they will be able to call our enemies names over the internet, hoping that they will go away? :0)

[emmie]

no they will place a device in electricity grid stations, that will bring us more or less to our knees, once the power goes off, so does everything...
back up generators aside, we need our electricity - hospitals, school, government, all shut down, lights off, mass looting, anarchy..

[youngmafbog]

Tut tut they are Reservists now not the TA!

And I dont see why not.

I see you are reading the independent AOG, going left in our old age are we?

[youngmafbog]

New Labour has already done it for them em by refusing to build adequate power generation and chasing the right-on dream of wind. Electricity supplies are dangerously low risking intermittent blackouts at the very least.

We were very lucky this did not happen during the Olympics it is that tight.

[sp1814]

em10

Actually, you're right - attacking power will have an immediate effect, but that's something that would involve someone being physically 'there' to do it.

The 'beauty' of cyber attack, is that it can be launched from anywhere in the world.

[anotheoldgit]

youngmafbog

/// I see you are reading the independent AOG, going left in our old age are
we? ///

Not a chance,



But always willing to see the other side of things, and it keeps the Anti-Daily Mail Brigade lost for words.

[youngmafbog]

Only pulling your leg AOG :-)

It certainly stops the Guardianistas from hijacking any post and turning it into an anti DM post

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

Yeah...like that would ever work.

DOWN WITH THE DAILY MAIL.

(See?)