On Nato, It’s Time to Take the Maverick from ‘Top Gun’ Approach: ‘Don’t Think, Just Do’

As Argentina threatened the Falklands in 1982, Sir Henry Leach, chief of the naval staff, told Prime Minister Thatcher, “I can put together a task force of destroyers, frigates, landing craft and support vessels. It will be led by the aircraft carriers HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible. It can be...