The situation regarding our 15 UK servicemen has raised a lot of questions primarily "Where was HMS Cornwall" and "Didn't HMS Cornwall see the Iranians approaching?". There is an interesting article found here which examines the incident.

One thing I found interesting and also disheartening was the amount of defense cuts Brown has been imposing on our Naval forces (maybe they are not "meeting their targets") :

• Navy to cut fleet by half  05/01/2007
• 20,000 posts go in defense cuts 21/07/2004
• Half of Royal Navy's ships in mothballs 31/12/2006
• UK Royal Navy faces potential front line cuts 12/12/2006

I can understand defense cuts, but only if we reduce our commitments to operations such as those in Iraq, Afghanistan, NATO and the Balkans.