Only if the need to maintain the NFZ stretches
way into the future might it make some sense for HMG to make even a partial climb down over SDSR by re-activating Harriers, perhaps to fly from HMS Illustrious. More likely we would offer Lusty to relieve the USS Kearsage or other carriers as a base from which to operate Spanish/Italian/USMC Harriers. The latter would also depend on how long the US wants to remain involved.
Anyway, we all know that is not going to happen
Interesting aside now is that Joe Public is starting to ask where all the money has been found to take on this additional military commitment. And all this taking place just before the Budget
