Biggus:
I won't speak for the current Royal Navy, but when I was in the Sixth Fleet (80's) it was roughly a five day transit from The Straits to the Eastern Med, assuming a 15 knot SOA, depending upon the various exercises and ops we needed to do along the way.
Originally Posted by Recc
Seems, on the face of it, fairly humiliating for the admin
Maybe in your eyes, but they have demonstrated, time and again, that they don't care when it comes to optics.
I'll get back to you on the War Powers thing, the Congress was supposed to do something yesterday...