Please don't tell me that the Royal Navy did not see something like this coming...
ISTR "Jointery" being the big buzz word in the mid 90's, with CAS booming the term out at one function I attended, accompanied by row of top table nodding donkeys frantically trying to out do each other in demonstrating enthusiastic approval.
I felt physically ill, since I feared the Junior Service was going to be heading toward the end of the 100 year experiment.
Not just yet it would appear.