Originally Posted by
cynicalint
Single Service rivalries rears its ugly head once more.
As it's a paywall, here is the article.
As ever, we are one step behind. The view a couple of decades ago was that air power would do everything in an inland battle space. There would be no more need for feet on the ground. Now we have a war where air power is severely hampered by air defence and a war that is being won or lost on the ground. Ukraine and Russia are back to trench warfare.
No one foresaw that 20 or 30 years ago. All the investment in maritime instead of land forces is just mad. Completely and absolutely mad in the context of the war in Ukraine. Can't even get a single grey funnel jobbie into the Black Sea. They're f**k all use wherever they are. As they carry the F-35s that also makes them f**k all use as well.