The external and internal requirements of the Royal Navy for regeneration

By Lt Cdr Kit Perry RN

Message from the Editor

The Naval Staff Research author contends that the current warfare transformation demonstrates a systemic technological model favouring the defensive or, in naval terms, sea denial. How should the RN, which must act offensively to achieve policy objectives, adapt?

A 10 minute read.

Recent maritime conflict – from the Black and Red Seas to the Persian Gulf – suggests that the character of naval warfare is undergoing rapid change. In the Black Sea, Ukraine, without a Navy, has defanged the Russian Black Sea Fleet. In the Red Sea, Houthi anti-ship missiles and drones have imposed a global cost imposition on commercial shipping that two US Carrier Strike Groups, and countless Air Force sorties, struggled to remove entirely. However, in the Persian Gulf, the same US forces have “taken out more than 60 Iranian ships,” 1Riley Ceder, ‘US Has Destroyed Entire Class of Iranian War…

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