Contemplating the Naval

From the Crimean War through Afghanistan, the Somme, Operation Market Garden, and more Afghanistan, the British military mind has been notable for the efficiency and rapidity of its informational processing; and its response to the newly initiated Persian Crusade appears to be no exception. Hostile drone activity around Cyprus has induced the Ministry for Wog-Bombing to consider the possibility of sending a destroyer, or possibly a different destroyer, to see about things; which has induced a former defence attaché to comment: "That the UK is now 'considering' sending a destroyer to the eastern Mediterranean is a clear indication one should have been there already." In fairness, there have been comparatively few military build-ups recently to indicate that the Trumpster and his head-tribble might be less than whole-heartedly oriented towards regional tranquillity. Besides, it's hardly as if Cyprus or the Mediterranean Sea were near enough to the Levant, viz. the Middle East, for any reasonable grown-up to anticipate that an assault on Iran, which sponsors Hezbollah, which operates in Lebanon, which is an hour and a quarter's flight from Cyprus, might lead to a bit of trouble there. If the struggle for independence from the Strasbrussels yoke has taught any lesson at all, it is that islands owned by the master race are not prey to the whims of nearby continents. But hindsight is a wonderful thing.