The last thing I want to do is to come here and get into an argument with my third post, but in my view work has started. I found this quote from six months ago:

"The Aircraft Carrier Alliance has now placed sub-contracts for almost 40% of the total value of the materials and equipment required to ...

Thanks for the replies. I too am concerned about the trend to ever decreasing size of the forces. Although everything may be getting that much better, I guess there's only so much you can do with fewer ships etc. Whilst the two new carriers look far superior on paper to the 3 Invincible class ones ...

Hello.

I was intrigued by a review of a book by Allan Mallinson - the Making of the British Army - in which it was quoted:

The British Army has become one of only two armies in the world of today that are capable of mounting independent operations of any scale overseas.

I was pleased to see that ...