How the RN sees Itself
The 136 page handbook of the Royal Navy: A Global Force in 2012 is available online. (for free you leeches!)
The Chapters on Combating Piracy (page 49) Counter-narcotics Operations (Page 51) are good. Of course the fact that the RN is increasingly a Coast Guard force without teeth and is still threatened with a looming Falklands War Redux, a resurgent Russia, and having to protect Commonwealth allies around the world do not seem to be able to coincide.
