This is a great article. Sorry I missed it when published.
Even greater clarity can be seen in it now.
Adrian Smith
4 years ago
The biggest impact on armed forces globally has been that their relatively young and fit workforces have been redeployed to help their countrys’ with the internal battles against the virus. Most of the problems that get talked about endlessly at daily briefings are due to civilian organisations not having the ability to reorganise themselves quickly to deal with the scale of the challenges. This is a capability inherent in armed forces that basically adapt quickly to changing and uncertain circumstance for a living.
As far as BBQs go I have had several in my household. Ships and submarines are just big single households. It makes sense to try to screen all members of a household before you lock it up in close confinement, especially if you then want it to do complex things (like flying aircraft from a relatively small and moving deck) which require everyone to be at peak performance. Getting the logistics of that screening programme in place when the same resources are needed in so many other areas is a challenge. The fact that that only caused a 2 week delay is testament our Navy’s ability to adapt and overcome. As far as NATO is concerned, it often struggles to get all members to move in the same direction at the same time, more often due to a lack of political cohesion rather than a lack of military leadership.
This is a great article. Sorry I missed it when published.
Even greater clarity can be seen in it now.
The biggest impact on armed forces globally has been that their relatively young and fit workforces have been redeployed to help their countrys’ with the internal battles against the virus. Most of the problems that get talked about endlessly at daily briefings are due to civilian organisations not having the ability to reorganise themselves quickly to deal with the scale of the challenges. This is a capability inherent in armed forces that basically adapt quickly to changing and uncertain circumstance for a living.
As far as BBQs go I have had several in my household. Ships and submarines are just big single households. It makes sense to try to screen all members of a household before you lock it up in close confinement, especially if you then want it to do complex things (like flying aircraft from a relatively small and moving deck) which require everyone to be at peak performance. Getting the logistics of that screening programme in place when the same resources are needed in so many other areas is a challenge. The fact that that only caused a 2 week delay is testament our Navy’s ability to adapt and overcome. As far as NATO is concerned, it often struggles to get all members to move in the same direction at the same time, more often due to a lack of political cohesion rather than a lack of military leadership.