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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
As a result of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review and emerging geopolitical considerations, the UK's armed forces will look a lot like those envisaged by the 1998 Strategic Defence Review - with a return to an expeditionary, primarily maritime-based strategy. As such, the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, despite a chaotic procurement programme and the reversion to the F-35B Lightning II variant, are likely to prove valuable instruments of state power - not necessarily, or as originally intended, as 'strike' platforms, but as multi-purpose, highly adaptable and widely employable assets, capable of projecting high-impact military power, both at sea and from the sea.
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