The RUSI Journal is the leading publication of the Institute. First published in 1857, it is now an internationally-recognized authority on defence and security issues.Issue: Aug 1997, Vol. 142, No. 4
A joint maritime-based expeditionary capability
The Royal Navy, along with many other, has had to adapt both emphasis and
operational patterns to a more general remit of long reach tasks of uncertain
nature in a climate of cuts in both budgets and force levels. A number of major
platform decisions are now in the offing, the chief of which is that on future
carriers (and thus aircraft) to come on-line in twenty years time.
Richard Cobbold