Originally Posted by
Mogwi
Who cares? We won and the world (especially the USSR) was amazed.
mog
You're quite right, of course, Mog.
The reason I respond to this is not, as might be thought, because of a desire to unthinkingly defend the light blue but because the last time this playground-level nonsense came up, it was seen within certain political circles as an unofficial, plausibly-deniable effort by the RN to 'win' the forthcoming defence review. And rather than help the RN, it caused the service some damage (source, university-era friend who er... was in a position to know how the government was thinking). This was why Admiral Zambellas invited those pushing these sorts of stories to shut up prior to the 2015 review.