What is your view of recent government statements about Royal Navy landing-platform dock readiness?
Short answerThe proposal is unsound because it treats a long-lived amphibious capability as a short-term budget problem instead of planning for the fleet future governments will need.
NotesThe contemporary proposal is another short-term decision imposed on a service whose ships and capabilities must last for decades. The oak-tree analogy defines responsible force planning as investment whose full benefit may arrive after today's decision-makers have left office. Amphibious capacity therefore cannot be judged only by near-term budgets without considering the strategic options that disappear when hulls and trained organizations are lost.