By the Editor – Just history or relevant example? Regrettably, the world doesn’t seem to learn and 40 years later we have yet another example of autocrats pursuing regional kleptocracy. So read and digest what follows as a fighting navy must be grown over time and with repeated and exacting practice – ‘we fight tonight’ principle of readiness is a reality today, as it was in the Falklands War, as events routinely unfold rapidly with precious little time to adapt or build. Forty years ago, in early 1982, when the world was locked into the Cold War, and Margaret Thatcher was in the second year o…
