By the Editor – Time to learn lessons – not just the Russian Navy, but in the West can we say our Navies haven’t tended towards complacency since we were last fully exposed during Op CORPORATE (Falkland’s War) four decades ago? The author argues capability must be tested on, and judged against, the anvil of real conflict, and the nuances that proffers, rather than be based on more theoretical risk assessment consequent of, as he terms it, ‘fighting in the lab’ Fig 1. The stricken RFS Moskva shortly before sinking 14 April 2022 the Moskva sinking now ‘old news’ and the maritime component of the…
