By the Editor: The following is drawn from a speech given at the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power conference at the Royal United Services Institute in May 2019. It is too easy to get locked into a mind-set and not observe what might already be apparent. As Sun Tzu said, “When I let go of what I am, I become what I may be.” The author of this article lifts one’s eyes to a much broader perspective of what may already be, if only we would recognise it. The quip that “predictions are hard, particularly about the future” is sufficiently pithy to have been attributed to everyone from Mark Twain to the Dan…
