Boat names evoke the pastoral activity of fishing and the landscape of the sea; the paraphernalia of
naval warfare describes a bucolic idyll expressed as if a shaded garden temple; instruments of revolution and agriculture - a gun, a drum, a guillotine blade, a hoe, a spade - similarly harness the language of the seasonal metamorphosis in which a garden, like society, is ordered and celebrated through themes suggested by the French Revolution.
Captain Jerry Kyd, the Royal Navy officer in charge of HMS Queen Elizabeth,
described naval drone
warfare as an «absolute inevitability» for his ship, and the British armed forces as a whole «in the near future.»