John Forbes wrote:
Peter, we're now straying into military matters, which is a subject I don't claim to know anything about (sighs of relief all round). You have stimulated me to look at a few statistics, and I have to say I am astonished at the size and growth of China's armed forces and military spending. Is it because they fear their neighbours, or fear America?
More likely, being run by a bunch of paranoid psychopaths (where isn't, these days?) they fear their own people.
Turkey's army is surprisingly large. Are their eyes once more on Vienna? John

