I am grateful for the opportunity to provide a follow up to my article in the last edition of the Naval Review. Now some nine months into my tenure as First Sea Lord I am enormously excited by the opportunities we have ahead of us as a Service. As is ever the case, we have amazing people across Navy Command and in the wider Service – whether in uniform, or as civil servants or contractors – and very clear direction from the government, best encapsulated in the Prime Minister’s challenge to once again become the foremost naval power in Europe. (Of course, many NR readers will be quick to remark…
