UK has global interests and commitments
Please list those where a local or an adjacent national airfield is not available. Please define the proposed external threat that could be quelled by a single CVS plus escorts without any collateral ground based EW, AEW, AAR, Recce or C2 support. Justify the cost of maintaining a naval force capable of defeating the supposed threat through the next 40 years against the opposition's possible equipment purchases, including air and surface launched missiles.
Last edited by ORAC; 5th September 2004 at 09:48.