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Around 2200 GMT the United Kingdom declared war on the Netherlands provoking the general public to ask: What is going on? And some to shout "We should of attacked France!" *Facepalm*
As of yet there has been no Government announcements regarding the invasion, other than
Shedden setting the wrong attack order before the battle (Wheeey!) so I asked 
Solymir what is going on:
The UK declared war on the Netherlands last night, what is your goal during the invasion of the Netherlands? ie, entire wipe, strategic control ect.
Initially the aim was for us to take and hold Friesland-Flevoland (their high grain region), but after some talks withVerdan Meriati and
Brain_HacKeR the aim has been altered slightly.
What made you consider an attack on the Netherlands in the first place?
The UK economy has been stagnating recently, and what better stimulus than war? Looking at the options available to us, the Netherlands were the only real choice.
Is this a joint operation with other countries or is the UK invading on its own?
We will have the support of SIGMA and France.
Looking at the current battle (http://e-sim.org/battle.html?id=2695) it looks like the UK might not even be able to capture one region. What does this mean for the UK if it cannot break the Netherlands line of defence?
To use an oftquoted line, we may have lost the battle but we will win the war. The main reason we lost the battle was that we quite simply were not fighting hard in it. The main MU orders were not set for it until ~9am today (~10 game time).
As we all know, or we all bloomin should know by now,
Nathan Slater has taken over the British Army as MoD. With Jon873 stepping down from the helm due to unfortunate time zone differences.
With the dawn of the new MoD, Nathan has stated some changes he wished to impliment to the British Army to improve it's effectiveness by getting everyone in the BA works for BA companies, increased activity on IRC and forums, plus the segregation of the BA into two groups (Navy and RAF.)
Nathan's latest article released after take over was met with some criticism by one of the BA's outspoken member
JustAnotherFool which in turn was met some some apparent aggression.
I asked Nathan and
Shedden (DMoD) about the British Army and the plans for the near future:Nathan Slater
With the release of your latest article regarding the takeover of the BA you were met with an outcry of criticism namely being your article did not state exactly what was going to be changed and was seen as more of politician’s statement. - As well as debates in other areas.
So what is going to change for the members of the British Army and the MU as a whole?
There is going to be a number of stages for the BA within the coming week. As I began to mention in my 1st article, we're setting up a new and more friendly Forums for the members of the British Army. To couple this, myself and Shedden are splitting the British army internally into the Navy and RAF, same MU but a even split. We're doing this to create a bit of friendly competition and convey a bit of fun into the BA. I understand that this is a game and shouldn't always be about taking orders and receiving supplies but enjoying the aspects of being in a Military Unit, we are trying to promote these aspects through the use of the forums and IRC. We are also going to add some requirements to joining the British army. They aren't going to be too taxing I can assure you of that.
Shedden
You’re the DMoD, and there has been some large changes stated by yourself and Nathan but nothing really public as of yet. So what changes can we expect to see for the members of the British Army and the MU as a whole?
thats a great question quagmire the main things will be to increase the productivity of our members and the amount of damage that they do so tat the uk can be better defended we would like to get better supplies we just need our current member base at a higher level of activity and productiviity one thing we may be doing is having members compete with each other for most damage and there may be a few changes later in the future also
Obviously the MoD team are both reading of the same page, so it looks like they know what they're doing. As for the results we will just have to wait and see what happens as the changes stated cannot simply be achieved over night.
In addition: As of writing this this article the UK has become under attack by the Netherlands, retaliating for the invasion attacking Northeastern England and starting a resistance war in Shannon
This will be the first true test of the new MoD team.
Bonus recent events:
Shedden claims the UK is in a recession at the moment,
Researchers say "It's shedden's fault!
When asked to comment on the situation Shedden responded with: " Shedden is god of ecconomy \o/ the unbeleivers shall be punished MUAHAHAHAHAHA"
So if you want to see your products on the UK market, make sure you get in touch with him.
The DMoD was also charged for assault with a deadly handbag earlier today leaving
CastoriousBG bruised and somewhat kinky later 'putting his finger in a ring'..Thanks for reading folks,
I'll see you again next time.
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