[By the editor] Last November Second Sea Lord, and long-standing member of the NR, spoke at the Pickle night at the New York Yacht Club to an international audience of Allied military and diplomats. Since then we have had the announcement he is to succeed as 1SL/CNS later in 2019. I thought, therefore, it was timely to publish an abridged (by me) transcript of that speech, as initially recommended to me by the naval historian RAdm Joseph F. Callo USN (rtd). And why, you might ask, have I placed it in the ‘Addressing Current Realities’ section of this edition? Read on and I trust it will become…
