The British Navy: A Sea Strategy
With the chance of renewed political will to fund the Navy, possibly to the detriment of the Army, Nick Hewitt wonders if British defence policy is reverting to type.
Does the new Secretary of State for Defence, Dr Liam Fox, favour a strong Royal Navy as the basis for cost-effective, versatile defence? The media seems to think so. On February 6th, 2010, the Daily Telegraph reported him stating that ‘we must not be sea blind, we are a maritime nation’, a point he reiterated again for the Portsmouth News as recently as August 3rd:
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