Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
Everything else they are doing for heavens sake - the FI, the Gulf, watching the N sea and the Channel..............
all these would have to go by the board because we need to send two carriers out - and note sending them out doesn't mean they'd actually fight - it might be a Blairite "Tanks to Heathrow " moment rather than the outbreak of WW3
It's called prioritising, something that happens all the time. Come the day that we need to deploy two carriers concurrently, Fleet planners will look at the likely length of the deployment, look at the commitments, prioritise them, see whether some can be covered by allies and make a decision on what (if anything) gets gapped and for how long. Deploying some CVR(T) to Heathrow is hardly equivalent to deploying a 2 CVBG force.
What you're suggesting is a bit like saying we wouldn't beef up the DCA/OCA force on Akrotiri if threatened, because we had a RF deployment, or a BALTAP mission, or a Far East det ongoing.