Agreed, but we have a bigger challenge or management opportunity depending upon your appetite for yukspeak...
Most of the UK's modern military (on land and at sea) has operated with air (and space) supremacy since 1990, on land at divisional or brigade level, no higher.
SDSR18 - The elephant in the room. What is the UK's capability and intent to execute operations against a near-peer competitor at scale?
From my humble perspective we are in a new 'fiddling while Rome burns moment' when most actors in Middle East view their adversaries as existential threats. Western democracies are 28 years into the next 100-year war but their politicians (US-exempt) do not have that view
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