Edwardian and modern navies face political and personnel pressure

Are there useful similarities between the Edwardian Royal Navy and the modern US Navy?

Both face heavy political pressure and must turn a broad volunteer population into a service community defined by willingness and professional standards.

The panel begins with politics as the clearest similarity between the two institutions. It then warns that public arguments often project social disputes onto a navy that must recruit from the population actually willing to serve. Volunteer forces cannot casually exclude capable groups while also complaining about personnel shortages. Naval and marine organizations instead tend to build an internal identity around meeting service standards, making membership in the institution more important than many civilian distinctions.