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We now have a very competent Amphibious fleet.
We will soon make a decision about acquiring the aircraft carriers necessary to provide air-cover for our amphibious fleet in these far-flung reaches.
We just about have enough nuclear submarines to make naval interdiction by enemy forces a very risky proposition, though not enough for industrial survival.

However, we lack Treasury commitment Naval strategy in two key areas:
1) Escorts for Carrier and Amphibious task-forces.
A new generation of twelve Anti-Submarine-Warfare Frigates is needs to protect the fleet after the T23's are paid-off in 2020.
A commitment to build enough of the T45 Anti-Air-Warfare Destroyers. We are have committed only to four when we need eight at a minimum.
2) In recognition of the Royal Navy's persisting global role in an era of a shrinking navy due to spiraling technology costs, we must realise that it is not tenable to send flotillas of specialist Royal Navy vessels all over the world. We must re-invent the Cruiser, a vessel large enough to provide self-protection and force-projection on its own, in isolation. A minimum of eight would be required.

The above suggestion would provide 30 of the required 32 capital warships specified in the Strategic Defence Review, at a time when the Royal Navy is down to less than 26 because of Treasury enforced cost-cutting.