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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 2890499" data-attributes="member: 5328">Then concrete bunkers are probably out of the question, as you say. But if you whack a bunch of infantry in a location and order them to set up field fortifications they ought all to have foxholes within twenty minutes, and rifle pits, mortar pits, shelter trenches etc. within two hours.Armies used to have vehicles thatt drove along about as fast as a tractor drawing a plough, that left a minefield behind them as they went. And they used to have air-deployable and artillery-deployable minefields. But i think that stuff has all be outlawed now, and it would take time to de-mothball it.The British are pretty used to the Army being used for counter-terrorist stuff: remember that they have been having trouble with terrorists letting off bombs in their cities etc. for over thirty years. Provided that the right orders come from Whitehall or from the Chief Constable of the county the police won't resist.I don't know either. But one thing that you have to take into account is that Britain is not empty enough to stick army camps in the remote sorts of places that the Americans and we Australians do. It seems to me when I was being driven around Salisbury that the army camps were in, or at least right next to, towns anyway.The British do have laws and traditions restricting the use of the Army in domestic affairs. I'm not sure what the formalities are now, but it used to be that the chief constable or the lord lieutenant of the county had to appeal to the Home Secretary before Whitehall could send in troops, and the magistrates had to read the Riot Act etc. What they don't have is the jigsaw-puzzle of rival jurisdictions and independent, democratically-elected county and state officials with law-enforcement powers and jealous dispositions. If you have the clout to invoke the formalities at all, doing so is comparatively straightforward.</blockquote>

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