The concluding comparison finds few genuinely new lessons, only old ones made visible again. A state can choose whether to maintain a capability, but it cannot opt into trained officers, NCOs, ships, logistics, or supporting infrastructure overnight. Procurement and force-structure decisions therefore determine what is actually available when deterrence fails, regardless of what plans or paper inventories imply. Continuous funding matters because a professional cadre and its supporting institutions take years to build and cannot be purchased at the moment of crisis.
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Military capability cannot be improvised after the crisis
Falklands and Ukraine repeat the lesson that ships, trained cadres, support infrastructure, and force structure must be funded before they are needed.