Royal Navy will fail without reform, says outgoing deputy chief

Nick Hine laments ‘rose-tinted view of tradition’ and ‘spurious belief’ risk can be avoided

The Royal Navy will fail unless it transforms and “we will lose”, the outgoing deputy of the service has said in a farewell message to personnel and civil servants in which he bemoaned what he saw as an inadequate status quo.

V Adm Nick Hine posted a candidly worded letter on Twitter in which he said change had to happen, and that he had sometimes despaired at the type of thinking around him.

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