The resulting study can be found online (United Kingdom Minelaying Capability) and is helpful in that it starts by reviewing wider mining plans. This might help change the balance of advantage in favour of offensive minelaying as a controllable mine could be used within a strategy of graduated response. The next difficulty the minelaying plans would have encountered is that of time. The reality is that offensive mining was great on paper and fell apart the moment it hit the NATO policy space. The RN mining plans called for activities that would occur on a very tightly scripted timeline, often at odds with the wider war book measures.