By Andrew Latham*
The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class carriers were written off not long ago as symbols of strategic confusion: too large for a modest middle power, too dependent on American F-35Bs to generate sorties at scale, and too vulnerable in an age of hypersonics, drones, and precision strike. (From: The National Security Journal.)
Yet something curious has happened over the past year. HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales are suddenly busy again.
