A Dinner Aboard HMS Victory

By VA Andy Burns RN

Message from the Editor

By the Editor – An illuminating dinner aboard HMS Victory leads to well-reasoned, but supremely challenging, considerations regarding the United Kingdom’s strategic posture and the Royal Navy’s contribution to future coalition building, highlighting the importance of the Indo-Pacific theatre and the role the RN has to play. A 15 minute read.

“The era of ideology is over; we are now in an era of geopolitics.” These were the opening words of a guest at a recent dinner aboard HMS Victory, convened to consider with a group of leading academics, “the implications for the Royal Navy’s strategy of the war in Europe set against the pacing threat from China in the Indo Asia-Pacific (IAP). Should recent events cause us to reconsider what the balance of our commitments should look like?” Our Royal Navy units are capable of having an effect anywhere across the globe, but they are finite in number; so where would our limited resources ha…

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