By the Editor: This article, based on a seminar the author delivered at King’s College London in January 2019, discusses the development of British maritime strategy from the late 1990s, through to the present. It focuses on the impact of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the development of the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers, the resurgent Russian threat and the implications for the future of British maritime strategy. The first two decades of the 21st century have seen significant shifts in the global strategic environment. This has been characterised by the respective transitio…
