What Littoral Response Groups can realistically deliver

What do you think of the Royal Navy's new Littoral Response Groups?

Forward basing is useful, but removing the LPDs weakens the groups and leaves uncertainty about how their amphibious role will be supported.

The concept places reinforced companies and supporting logistics in strategically useful locations, with Oman raised in the question. Sierra Leone supplies an example of the sort of rapid intervention that a relatively small force can perform. Retiring the intended LPDs leaves uncertainty over the ships supporting these groups in the December 2024 discussion, with landing ships expected to carry more of the burden. The preferred alternative in this answer is a battalion-equivalent formation with engineering, reconnaissance, communications, and headquarters support sufficient for independent operations. The concern is that an intended two-company force could in practice shrink to one company.