Al Murray

Has taken action to see that through by his involvement in the cat push.

So you've got to take your rose-tinted spectacles off about Raider.

Yeah.

But it's interesting, isn't he, that he is clever and he is super involved in the Navy, but he doesn't... Physical judgment questionable.

Yeah, exactly.

And is actually tactical judgment, which leads to strategic judgment, not brilliant either.

Because of course he does.

He wants some big toys to play with.

Let's just be honest here.

This is a tale as old as time.

I want the biggest, snazziest ships I can possibly have under my command.

Yep.

or I'm no kind of admiral.

Status and fleets, national status, imperial status, and the size of your fleet, the size of your ships, are completely inextricably linked.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nor, in contrast to, say, America, the slack labor in its economy.

that you can have the vision all you like, but you don't have the, you know, the Americans- You should have a dream.

Exactly.

The Americans are able to chuck up shipping yards just like that because they've slacked labor, because they're such an enormous labor force.