The head of the Royal Navy has rightly underlined why warfighting capability and warships at sea do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. Testifying before the British Parliament’s defense committee last week, Sir Ben Key defended a balance of naval deployments with holding other warships in port at high readiness.

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