"So are you saying that because of the carriers, the RN has no ships committed to NATO, none in home water for Fleet Ready Escort, and none in the Middle East? How was HMS Kent rapidly generated and deployed in response to recent events?"
Would you care to say how many ships are committed to NATO, how many are Fleet Ready Escort and how many are in the ME? And how many occur in more than 1 category??
On July 22nd the total active RN destroyer frigate force available world-wide was 9 vessels - those of us who are unconvinced by the carrier argument believe the RN could have had a larger, and more useful, force of other warships.
You profoundly disagree - that's your privilege
As etudiant says there is a total lack of any sort of clear strategy - just a constant chipping away at numbers and continued stretch of the what remains