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With the end of the Iron Curtain, the armed forces of Great Britain have lost their former semi-static roles as part of NATO's counterbalance to the Warsaw Pact. The more recent involvement in NATO and US-lead brushfire wars such as Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, have highlighted the change needed from massive counter-armour formations to a far more mobile and all-services approach. Regrettably, the Army and Royal Air Force have been most unwilling to act as part of a multi-service scenario, so their weapons procurement has not melded with the abilities of each other. The only service which historically has had combined services capability and the willingness to integrate with it is the Senior Service, the Royal Navy.
The Royal Marine Commando is the Royal Navy's Army, even as the Fleet Air Arm should be the Royal Naval Air Service. The Royal Navy, in its carriers, cruisers, logistics train and amphibious capability, is literally the only service that can deploy worldwide and operate without airstrips and depots elsewhere in the world. Furthermore, it already has control of the UK nuclear deterrent and provides the heart of national defence.
This post proposes :-
Expansion of the Royal Marines to Divisional strength as a rapid deployment force.
Replacement of the RAF with a Royal Naval Air Service based at a handful of shore bases and on several carriers.
Expansion of the Royal Navy to provide two balanced task forces around major carriers and an amphibious force for the Marines.
Reduction of the Army to a Home Defence Reserve based on a core cadre of professional officers and trained Nation Service reservists.
Replacement of the civil service departments of the RAF and Army with a single and more compact Admiralty (Combined Armed Services Ministry) under a single permanent Inner Cabinet Minister of Defence.
This could be headed 'The Day the Generals Screamed', but I thought the title more apt.