Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Surely the biggest headache for the British Navy will be that to maintain " an agile, well-defended carrier task group" they're going to have to concentrate a very large portion of the whole fighting fleet around each carrier - or depend on other nations to help out.
This may well work in Small Wars but if it comes to peer-to-peer or even near-per conflicts it may be impossible to get the assistance from your friends as they will have their own interests to look after
Probably right. But on the other hand....fighting a "near peer" of the UK is going to involve a fight with a very significant military power. Such a fight is unlikely to involve just the UK and that hypothetical opponent. Indeed it will likely (certainly?) involve nations allied with the UK under NATO and other treaties. In other words, a UK fight with a near peer is almost certainly going to be an existential fight. I'm confident the UK has treaties with other nations precisely for such a fight.