Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Is that a double negative? I understand that we (or rather HMG) have to choose - that means changing the current list of priorities
Protecting the Carriers will be considered more important than some of the tasks currently carried out by the RN - we gain a concentrated battle force at the cost of a presence (s) somewhere else - agreed?
The single ship deployment examples
you quoted as national security priorities were all filled by ships that would not normally be on the TG deployment. You're now trying to give that a stiff ignoring and invent a list of non-specified tasks that would hypothetically be backheeled to allow a CSG deployment.