{"id":3519,"date":"2018-05-17T22:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2018-05-17T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:00:44","slug":"defence-committee-queen-elizabeth-class-aircraft-carriers-can-not-take-place-of-amphibious-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/17\/defence-committee-queen-elizabeth-class-aircraft-carriers-can-not-take-place-of-amphibious-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"DEFENCE COMMITTEE: QUEEN ELIZABETH CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS CAN NOT TAKE PLACE OF AMPHIBIOUS VESSELS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: UK Defence Journal<\/p>\n

Following the initiation of the National Security Capability Review in 2017, reports began emerging that substantial cuts in the Royal Marines and the disposal of both of the Royal Navy\u2019s specialist amphibious assault ships fifteen years early were being considered by the Government as part of the review.<\/p>\n

The Defence Committee resolved to inquire into amphibious forces and their importance to UK Defence. The Committee\u2019s report, published in February 2018, concluded that such reductions would be \u201cmilitarily illiterate\u201d and \u201ctotally at odds with strategic reality\u201d.<\/p>\n

It emphasised that the UK\u2019s amphibious capability is a military specialism of the highest value in current and future operations, and that further cuts to an already reduced force would end its status as one of the UK\u2019s leading strategic assets.<\/p>\n

Read more at: https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/queen-elizabeth-class-aircraft-carriers-cannot-take-the-place-of-specialised-amphibious-vessels-say-defence-committe\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: UK Defence Journal Following the initiation of the National Security Capability Review in 2017, reports began emerging that substantial cuts in the Royal Marines and the disposal of both of the Royal Navy\u2019s specialist amphibious assault ships fifteen years early were being considered by the Government as part of the review. The Defence Committee… Continue reading DEFENCE COMMITTEE: QUEEN ELIZABETH CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS CAN NOT TAKE PLACE OF AMPHIBIOUS VESSELS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1863],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-defence-committee","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}