The Royal Navy's can-do strength and weakness

What are the Royal Navy's greatest strength and greatest weakness?

Its trained, adaptable people are the strength, while their repeated success makes dangerous under-resourcing look sustainable.

Training and resilience are identified as the Royal Navy's strongest qualities. Crews repeatedly adapt and find ways to complete demanding tasks with reduced resources. That success can hide the damage caused by cuts and encourage another reduction. A suggested test adds twenty percent casualties to a plan that appears workable with everyone present. Staffing without spare capacity is also vulnerable to ordinary absences such as illness and parental leave.