Letter to the Editor: Offering Solutions

Letter to the Editor: Offering Solutions

29 Feb 24
Posted by: WatchOnStopOn
13 minutes, 51 seconds read
Message from the Editor

Increasing challenges to the Rules-Based International System require a back-to-basics approach and renewed public support for the Services. Focusing on quantity and capability, the author argues that restocking critical munitions, and building new Minor War Vessels, is an essential foundation for the future credibility of the Royal Navy.

With an ongoing war in Ukraine, the Middle East boiling over once again, and a resurgent China increasingly pushing the boundaries of the Rules-Based International System, it has become frighteningly clear that the Royal Navy, and by extension the United Kingdom, is wandering the strategic wasteland without direction. Many have long bemoaned a lack of ‘grand strategy’ within UK domestic and foreign policy, and many lay the blame in different areas: Britain’s managed post-imperial decline, political short-termism, the rise of populism, Brexit, a long-held naïve belief in the West that the rules…

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