By the Editor: With much in the recent press regarding the UK Carrier Strike Group Exercise JOINT WARRIOR it is opportune the author here provides an appreciation of what it takes, from a staff officer – coal face perspective, to deploy that Group. And in doing so proffers lessons for his successors deploying from the UK. As I reach the end of a full appointment on the staff of Commander United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group (COMUKCSG), which I will refer to as the ‘CSG Staff’, I thought it worthwhile to commit to paper some reflections on my experience as a PWO-qualified Lt Cdr on the CSG Staff…
