UK Carrier Enabled Power Projection fits a familiar profile:
1. The government fund's to Premier Inn levels and the military is tasked with delivering Claridge's standard.
2. Somewhere between the thought and the deed, the cost of the equipment rises to Claridge's plus anyway.
3. Everyone then sweats their danglies off to paper over the cracks and make it work the best they can.
Was it ever any different? Or am I just being a typical cynical Brit?
LF