...while we have inadequate SEAD, recce, tankers, strategic lift and only four AD squadrons, investing in two CVFs is lunacy.
But if we're always going to be working in a coalition they can do this for us can't they? Of course it depends who is in the coalition they might not have those capabilities either.
I'd take issue with the statement that Maritime Power Projection is of no longer of any consequence. As we now have an LPH, two LPDs and four things that look like LPDs but are called something else (Bay Class LSL to replace Sir Galahad et al) I'd say Maritime Power Projection is alive and well. Park that lot off someone's coast, full of Marines and you could certainly influence events, of course you'd want some form of organic air defence to protect these assets...