We didn’t need to fight in Korea, or Malaya, or Kenya, or Aden
Exactly – we didn’t.
Which is precisely the strong point of carriers… the ability to flexibly respond to whatever comes up
…and as I said that’s a list of infinite possibilities. Britain can’t afford to equip for every imaginable contingency. Far better (and affordable) to equip for the key risks. No point in funding carriers to conduct squabbles around the world when we have to leave the UK without any credible defence at all. But that’s precisely what Fox is going to achieve.
the moment the contracts where signed they where going to be built in one form or another as it is more expensive to cut them than to build them
…and what you fail to grasp is that the cost of operating them (and purchasing/operating the air assets on them) is out of all proportion to the cost of buying them or cancelling them. Britain would save a fortune by simply writing-off the carriers.
By the same logic, Britain didnt NEED to fight in WW2. Germany didnt attack Britain, they attacked Poland. Hitler did NOT want a war with England. However, Britain did the right thing and declared war.
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