NATO and/or the 'Indo Pacific Shift'?

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Originally Posted by WE Branch Fanatic

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/stat...47481361793041


HMS Trent (OPV) to be Gibraltar based

One Bay class LSD(A) to be turned into a Littoral Support Ship

Hunt and Sandown classes withdrawn slowly

Possibly more F-35Bs

Two Type 23s to go - presumably this means Monmouth (has been languishing and waiting for refit - and an FTRS skeleton crew) and one of the older non 2087/Merlin ones

20 frigates and destroyers by the end of the decade - does that mean running on other T23s longer to achieve the 24 the Prime Minister spoke of last week, which has slipped to 'early in the next decade'?

NATO commitments continue, with Russia named as the main hostile state threat. Continued commitments to CASD and carrier operations.

Dumb question, was there a theme to this pudding?

I'm a New Yorker, Navy League lifer and often cannot understand the logic of the procurement decisions of the US Navy.
But HMGs defence strategies and decisions are in another realm.
Could someone maybe help put it into a coherent framework?