By the Editor – Based on the understanding that the junior naval staff course (ICSC(M)) is to become a predominantly virtual, part time and more extended process of study, the author questions whether the pandemic has highlighted the rights lessons. Uttered publicly by the current Second Sea Lord, at this year’s 1SL Seapower Conference, the unequivocable statement, “I see no future in staff skills”, perhaps puts a cold shiver down the spines of those who have spent years making the case for better staff training and through life education in the Royal Navy. But those initial reactions might be…
