Din ce clicuri am facut eu pe feisbucul lui, nenea Ţuc si-a dat seama ca sunt fost militar care traieste in Irlanda de Nord si mi-a servit o reclama careia nu aveam cum sa-i rezist, reclama care m-a dus aici LINK
The Northern Ireland Veterans’ Health and Wellbeing Study (NIVHWS) is a unique large scale tri-service (Army, Navy, & RAF) research project funded by the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) and the Big Lottery Fund. The study is being conducted by Prof Chérie Armour and a team of researchers from the Psychology Research Institute at Ulster University in partnership with the NI Veterans Support Committee (NIVSC). It will run for a period of five years; completing in 2020.
N-am raspuns la chestionarul ala ca sa nu alterez datele finale, asadar nu stiu ce contine, dar cred ca o sa le fac o vizita celor de la Ulster University ca sa aflu ce intrebari au pus, cine stie, poate contactul cu Ulster University va fi la fel de placut ca cel cu pompierii din Belfast .
Daca aflu care-i treaba, voi posta aici.
Oricum ar fi, sunt cateva lucruri pe care vreau sa le remarc:
1. exista interes pentru subiect 2. interesul e al societatii civile, asta spune multe despre cum e locul asta, si implicit exista garantia solida ca datele nu vor fi coafate ca sa ofere imaginea unei realitati pe care o doreste cineva. 3. Loteria s-a implicat in proiect, de fapt, pentru mine asta nu e deloc o surpriza, spre deosebire de Romania, unde loteria a fost o vaca de muls pentru toate guvernarile, aici loteria are o extrem de pronuntata dimensiune sociala, e implicata intr-un milion de proiecte sociale si culturale, mai cu seama in chestii care privesc tinerii si copiii din zone defavorizate ale societatii, e suficient sa spun ca in Belfast sunt zeci de sali de box care nu ar supravietui fara ajutorul ei.
Cu cateva saptamani in urma intru la un targ de locuri de munca, aglomeratie la toate standurile cu o exceptie, la armata pustiu, nimeni, bai, dar nimeni! parca erau ciumati!!! Ma apropii de cei doi recrutori, ii salut, schimbam cateva glume, le pun repede stampila, baietii astia nu-s deloc soareci de birou, au vazut ceva actiune la viata lor, sunt un pic mai tineri decat mine, imbracati civil si e evident ca se straduiesc sa isi mentina conditia fizica, isi dau seama si ei ca-s fost militar, atmosfera se destinde, suntem intre profesionisti, de... "Bai, nu prea aveti de munca..." "Da, frate, nu mai vrea nimeni sa fie militar, si mai grav, multi dintre cei care vor nu mai trec de vizita medicala si de probele fizice! "
Observatia asta empirica a mea e confirmata de date statistice recent facute publice.
Britain faces an army recruitment crisis, with frontline combat units operating as much as 40% below strength, figures obtained by the Guardian reveal.
Data released by the Ministry of Defence under freedom of information laws shows the number of soldiers in the British army’s infantry regiments has declined steadily over the past five years. There are more than 2,500 fewer personnel in frontline units than 2015, and all 16 regular regiments have shortfalls. LINK
Adevarul e ca motivele pentru care se intampla asta sunt mai multe si realitatea e si ea un pic mai complexa, si ar fi gresit sa zicem ca de aia sau de ailalta se intampla, e o combinatie de factori care face ca lucrurile sa fie asa cum sunt.
La faptul ca stilul de viata si de alimentatie al britanicilor e, in general, unul nesanatos, cu implicatiile de rigoare asupra bazinului de recrutare, se adauga alti cativa factori:
- somaj mic in randul tinerilor LINK - includerea a din ce in ce mai multi tineri peste 18 ani intr-o forma de invatamant - populatie imbatranita - salarii mici in sectorul bugetar, e mult de discutat aici, dar o sa spun un singur lucru, stiu ce salarii au politistii din locul in care traiesc, stiu si la ce riscuri se expun, si eu, Parvu Florin de la Tatarani, n-as face munca lor nici pe dublul salariului lor - legat de punctul de mai sus, retentie scazuta, sunt multi cei care, dupa ce capata un pic de experienta in armata, se indreapta catre alte domenii, conexe sau mai putin - faptul ca armata britanica n-a mai fost implicata de ceva vreme intr-un conflict, e istoric demonstrat ca britanicii asalteaza centrele de recrutare cand incepe razboiul - tatuajele au devenit o moda, sunt o multime de tineri care au tatuaje pe fata si pe maini, asta ii face neeligibili pentru o cariera militara
Edit: ma intreb ce ar raspunde MApN daca ar fi intrebat chestii referitoare la gradul de incadrare cu personal al unitatilor combatante...
Intampinam si noi grave probleme in materie de recrutare insa la noi au cu totul alte cauze. In principal ma gandesc la o mentalitate invechita, inutila care se transpune practic in afise de promovare ce mie imi seamana cu afisele de la Teatru din 1980, ianbilitatea de a comunica si a cobori discursul la niveul celui care intreaba. Inabilitatea personalului recrutor de a relationa realmente cu un potential candidat. Greseli flagrante in comunicare si in procesul de recrutare care disperseaza ca sarja unei explozii potentiali candidati. Asta ar fi in sarcina ministerului. In sarcina societatii identific und dezinteres general in orice sector iar optiunea unei cariere militare se rezuma la acel "cat dai?". Cu toate acestea sectorul bugetar este la mare cautare insa doritorul de serviciu la stat cauta o balanta perfecta intre salarizare si lipsa de efort ceea ce exclude fundamental armata. In mod ciudat, ministerul de interene, politia in speta este la mare cautare.
Izolationismul din ce in ce mai accentuat al Statelor Unite sileste decidentii politici si militari britanici sa regandeasca strategia de aparare a Regatului Unit.
'Robot soldiers could make up quarter of British army by 2030s'
Thirty thousand “robot soldiers” could form an integral part of the British army in the 2030s, working alongside humans in and around the frontline, the head of the armed forces said in a television interview on Sunday.
Gen Sir Nick Carter said the armed forces needed “to think about how we measure effects in a different way” – and he called on the government to proceed with the previously promised five-year integrated defence review.
Speaking to Sky News on the morning of Remembrance Sunday, the chief of the defence staff suggested that “an armed forces that’s designed for the 2030s” could include large numbers of autonomous or remotely controlled machines.
“I mean, I suspect we could have an army of 120,000, of which 30,000 might be robots, who knows?” Carter said, although he stressed he was not setting any particular target in terms of future numbers.
Investment in robot warfare was to be at the heart of the planned integrated five-year defence review, whose future was thrown into doubt after the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, postponed the cross-government spending review to which it had been linked last month.
Carter said negotiations with Downing Street and the Treasury about salvaging the multi-year defence funding settlement were “going on in a very constructive way” – as he lobbied in public for a long-term financial deal.
“Clearly, from our perspective, we are going to argue for something like that [a multi-year budget] because we need long-term investment because long-term investment gives us the opportunity to have confidence in modernisation,” the general said.
The army has also struggled with recruitment for several years, with the current trained strength at 73,870, well below the nominal 82,050 target. The target had been expected to be cut further to 75,000 in the integrated review, with technology being used to plug some of the gaps.
All Britain’s armed forces have been engaged in a string of research projects involving small drones or remotely powered land or underwater vehicles, some of which are armed and others for reconnaissance.
The MoD says its policy is that only humans will be able to fire weapons, although there is growing concern about the potential danger of unrestricted robot warfare, led by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.
Technology under development includes the i9 drone, which is powered by six rotors and carries two shotguns. Remotely operated, it is intended to be used to storm buildings, typically an urban warfare situation that generates some of the highest casualties.
Carter also warned there remained a risk that the UK could be dragged into a deadly future war if “escalation led to miscalculation” in an existing regional conflict, as he argued that the world was “a very uncertain and anxious place”.
“We have to remember that history might not repeat itself but it has a rhythm and if you look back at the last century, before both world wars, I think it was unarguable that there was escalation which led to the miscalculation which ultimately led to war at a scale we would hopefully never see again,” the general said.
When pressed if he was predicting there could be another major world conflict, Carter said “I’m saying it’s a risk and we need to be conscious of those risks.”
LINK Boris Johnson has agreed a four-year £16.5bn surge in defence spending at a time when Britain’s public finances have been stretched by the pandemic and a day after it emerged that billions of pounds could be cut from the foreign aid budget.
Experts said the windfall represents the largest real-terms increase in the defence budget since Margaret Thatcher’s premiership and will be partly spent on a National Cyber Force of hackers and a new Space Command designed to protect orbiting satellites and launch its own rockets.
It comes weeks after ministers resisted spending extra money to fund free school meals in the holidays, and days after it emerged that the overseas aid budget is set to be cut by billions, from 0.7% of of gross national income to 0.5%, triggering criticism from senior Tories.
Johnson said he had taken the decision to boost spending on the armed forces “in the teeth of the pandemic” because “the defence of the realm must come first”. The prime minister is also keen to show new US president-elect Joe Biden that the UK wants a strong military capability after Brexit.
Insiders said the defence funding, which will be detailed by Johnson when he speaks to the House of Commons on Thursday, had been put together at breakneck speed as Downing Street seeks to reassert control after last week’s No 10 meltdown, which led to the departure of chief aide Dominic Cummings and his ally Lee Cain.
It will see £16.5bn extra being spent on defence over and above a commitment to increase the existing £41.5bn budget by 0.5 percentage points above inflation. Taken together, the increase amounts to £21.5bn until March 2025, and defence sources said it would mean the UK remained Europe’s biggest defence spender.
Aid experts said the announcement demonstrated there was no need to cut the aid budget. Simon Starling, a director at Bond, the UK network for organisations working in international development, said: “What today’s announcement shows is that when the government needs to find the money for certain areas, it can.”
A battle within Whitehall had been raging for about a month after Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, suddenly announced that a planned cross-government spending review would be abandoned because of the pandemic.
Ben Wallace, the defence secretary and a long-time ally of Johnson, pressed for a special multi-year deal to allow the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to negotiate long-term weapons and systems contracts, which would be more expensive if bought from year to year.
There had been speculation that the MoD had hoped for as much as £20bn extra but defence sources said the £16.5bn would allow for “modernisation without making painful cuts”, and claimed the final figure represented a victory for the defence secretary.
Some of the extra defence money will be spent on the creation of a long delayed National Cyber Force, a group of computer hackers who will conduct offensive operations; a Space Command which aims to be able to launch own rockets from 2022; and a new agency dedicated to artificial intelligence.
O evolutie ingrijoratoare a vremurilor in care traim o reprezinta acumularea din ce in ce mai sustinuta de capacitati ofensive de razboi cibernetic, cu atat mai mult cu cat nu exista o "Conventie de la Geneva" care sa stabileasca limite intr-un astfel de conflict. E usor de inchipuit ce inseamna un spital fara electricitate sau fara calculatoare, sau o centrala nucleara fara sisteme de protectie.
Although Wallace and Cummings frequently clashed, the ousted chief aide had been a supporter of a multi-year funding settlement. But Cummings had also been a fierce critic of MoD waste, writing in a blog post last March that the procurement process “has continued to squander billions of pounds, enriching some of the worst corporate looters and corrupting public life via the revolving door of officials/lobbyists”.
Romanii au o vorba care se potriveste perfect situatiei, gura pacatosului adevar graieste, avea dreptate cand zicea asta, dar nici el nu e deloc mai breaz, totul e doar o lupta pentru resurse, in care, de data asta, au invins producatorii de armament.
Malcolm Chalmers, of the Royal United Services Institute, said that the final outcome was “a much larger increase for defence than most analysts, including myself, had predicted. It is the largest real-terms increase in the defence budget since the early years of the Thatcher premiership, a rise of between 10 and 15% in real terms.”
Labour said the spending announcement signalled “a welcome and long overdue upgrade to Britain’s defences after a decade of decline”. The shadow defence secretary, John Healey, added that since 2010 “the size of the armed forces has been cut by a quarter, defence spending was cut by over £7bn”.
But Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, said that while “funding our military is a must … people will wonder if rightly our national security can get money, why is the government letting councils who offer child protection and social care go to the wall”.
The MoD already has a shortfall of £13bn in its equipment budget, according to the National Audit Office, and would have been forced to cut back on aircraft and lose the use of its own hospital ship unless the gap had been plugged.
The funding agreement had been intended to be linked to an integrated review of defence and foreign policy after Brexit but the delay in agreeing the financial settlement, coupled with the recent departure of Cummings, means the exercise has been pushed back to late January or early February.
The final review is expected to see cuts to the size of the British army and a reduction in its use of rarely deployed tanks, plus commitments to invest further in armed drones and upgrading the Trident nuclear weapon system.
On Wednesday the government was criticised for failing to extend the £20-a-week uplift to universal credit payments beyond April, despite the pandemic and rising child poverty. Extending the top-up would cost an estimated £9bn.
Anna Feuchtwang, chief executive of the National Children’s Bureau, said: “If the government can find significant extra funds for defence then surely they can find money for children in crisis. It’s appalling that hard-pressed families have to rely on food banks to get by, and that the services that might stop them spiralling into further crisis are being cut year-on-year with local authorities facing bankruptcy.
“We need the government to take seriously its responsibility to the next generation and have a proper strategy for investing in children.”
Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, told MPs that ministers were “delaying the semi-inevitable” by refusing to signal whether they would continue with the top-up, which was introduced last April as a 12-month boost for millions of struggling families. Failure to do so would be “madness,” Bell said.
Bell said much of the autumn had been spent debating the “relatively small issue” of providing food support for children on free school meals during school holidays – a campaign led by the footballer Marcus Rashford, on which the government eventually U-turned – rather than addressing the central issue of universal credit.
Eee, aici, in ultima parte, lucrurile se complica. Daca de taierea ajutorului pentru cele mai sarace tari de la 0.7% din buget la 0.5% nu vor fi foarte multi cei care se vor basica, faptul ca in plina pandemie s-au taiat bani de la asistenta sociala si ca bugetarii, cu exceptia celor care lucreaza in sanatate, nu vor mai primi cresterile salariale programate o sa enerveze multa lume, nu atat de multa si nu atat de mult incat sa vedem sute de mii de oameni in strada, dar stiti cum e, picatura cu picatura balta mare se aduna...
Cu cateva saptamani in urma intru la un targ de locuri de munca, aglomeratie la toate standurile cu o exceptie, la armata pustiu, nimeni, bai, dar nimeni! parca erau ciumati!!! Ma apropii de cei doi recrutori, ii salut, schimbam cateva glume, le pun repede stampila, baietii astia nu-s deloc soareci de birou, au vazut ceva actiune la viata lor, sunt un pic mai tineri decat mine, imbracati civil si e evident ca se straduiesc sa isi mentina conditia fizica, isi dau seama si ei ca-s fost militar, atmosfera se destinde, suntem intre profesionisti, de... "Bai, nu prea aveti de munca..." "Da, frate, nu mai vrea nimeni sa fie militar, si mai grav, multi dintre cei care vor nu mai trec de vizita medicala si de probele fizice! "
Observatia asta empirica a mea e confirmata de date statistice recent facute publice.
Britain faces an army recruitment crisis, with frontline combat units operating as much as 40% below strength, figures obtained by the Guardian reveal.
Data released by the Ministry of Defence under freedom of information laws shows the number of soldiers in the British army’s infantry regiments has declined steadily over the past five years. There are more than 2,500 fewer personnel in frontline units than 2015, and all 16 regular regiments have shortfalls. LINK
Adevarul e ca motivele pentru care se intampla asta sunt mai multe si realitatea e si ea un pic mai complexa, si ar fi gresit sa zicem ca de aia sau de ailalta se intampla, e o combinatie de factori care face ca lucrurile sa fie asa cum sunt.
La faptul ca stilul de viata si de alimentatie al britanicilor e, in general, unul nesanatos, cu implicatiile de rigoare asupra bazinului de recrutare, se adauga alti cativa factori:
- somaj mic in randul tinerilor LINK - includerea a din ce in ce mai multi tineri peste 18 ani intr-o forma de invatamant - populatie imbatranita - salarii mici in sectorul bugetar, e mult de discutat aici, dar o sa spun un singur lucru, stiu ce salarii au politistii din locul in care traiesc, stiu si la ce riscuri se expun, si eu, Parvu Florin de la Tatarani, n-as face munca lor nici pe dublul salariului lor - legat de punctul de mai sus, retentie scazuta, sunt multi cei care, dupa ce capata un pic de experienta in armata, se indreapta catre alte domenii, conexe sau mai putin - faptul ca armata britanica n-a mai fost implicata de ceva vreme intr-un conflict, e istoric demonstrat ca britanicii asalteaza centrele de recrutare cand incepe razboiul - tatuajele au devenit o moda, sunt o multime de tineri care au tatuaje pe fata si pe maini, asta ii face neeligibili pentru o cariera militara
Actualele timpuri de incertitudine economica combinate cu faptul ca s-a intamplat ceeea ce era logic sa se intample, si anume ca au fost coborate standardele fizice fac ca acest trend sa se inverseze.
Applications often rise during periods of economic weakness, and the army offers a secure career at a time when many other employment opportunities have been curtailed.
There were some pre-pandemic signs of recovery after the success of a controversial advertising campaign in 2019 encouraging “snowflakes” and “phone zombies” to sign up – coupled with a relaxation of health requirements that made it easier for overweight people to meet the recruitment criteria.
Si noi intampinam probleme insa majoritar le ignoram si asteptam urmatorul ocupant al functiei respective sa le rezolve. Asa un roman a inventat perpetum-mobile functional fara a fi necesar sistemul ideal visat de ingineri.
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