Good strategy requires leaders who are willing and able to say no to a wide variety of actions and interests. Strategy is at least as much about what an organisation does not do as it is about what it does. —Richard Rumelt 1 For the Modernising Defence Programme,2 an ambitious maritime vision was proposed which sought to satisfy multiple, potentially conflicting demands, in particular those of maintaining an adequate NATO and Euro-Atlantic commitment simultaneously with an enhanced, post-Brexit global presence. The former assumes the regeneration of large- scale warfighting capability, while t…
