A commenter's difficulty with naval-government relations leads to a reference to Yes Minister. Its institutional exchanges offer an intuitive model of the conversations that Royal Navy officials and ministers must have. The comedy provides an analogy rather than a documentary account. Naval strategy and force decisions emerge through civil-military negotiation as well as professional judgment.
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Yes Minister and naval civil-military dialogue
A brief aside uses Yes Minister to underline that naval policy is shaped through real conversations between service officials and political leaders.