From the perspective of the Imperial Navy, the main focus of the third round of military reform can be described with a single idiom.
Back to basics.
As mentioned earlier, after the end of the Global War, the Imperial Navy, having defeated all its opponents, was once lost in the glory of dominating the world. It wasn't until they suffered setbacks in the Boi War that the Imperial Navy undertook the heavy responsibility of "covering the retreat" and had to move against the tide.
For decades, the Imperial Navy had been going in circles.
The most typical example was the tactical system centered around aircraft carriers.
According to Zhou Yongtao, changing the carrier battle group into a carrier strike group was not progress, but regression, a misunderstanding of the Navy's value.
The key question is: what is an aircraft carrier?
Undoubtedly, from the day it was born, the aircraft carrier was not an isolated existence but a core part of a complete maritime combat system.
