For all but the biggest countries, this century is going to be one of hard choices. Britain’s armed forces face fundamental questions, but the most crucial is: Can the United Kingdom continue to possess “full-spectrum” military capability? Can it undertake every kind of military operation, on land, in the air, and at sea, and do so if necessary independent of any other nation? Unfortunately, the answer is no. It should be to the United Kingdom’s embarrassment that allies can see this. The U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Carlos Del Toro, recently told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute
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