Where Albion required more than 300 personnel, ES aspires to operate with a core crew of around 100, leveraging advanced platform management systems, automated firefighting and connected monitoring technology.
My usual reaction to this is "what happens when the darkenss hoovers stop working just after someone shouts Incoming!?
Having a slack handful [at best] of the latest gucci whizz-bang kit that is increasing in complexity at an exponential rate is great until something goes wrong or the power goes out then at best you are left with an incredibly expnsive anchor or trip-hazard. At least with a large number of Matelot/Marine/Squaddie or Brylcreem Model Mark 1 on hand they can throw rocks at at the opposition or do any other number of generally useful things. Humans are infinitely more flexible and ultimately more cost-effective than the toys we're wasting squillions on.
As Asturias56 alludes to, before we do anything else, we need to have more bodies available. It might be a scandalous and frightening concept, but maybe if we had a bigger number in the armed forces, if anyone was spare they could collectively be used to improve the national infrastructure as well and save HMG some of our hard earned taxes.
EndRant.