Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East 1919-1939: Planning for by Andrew Field

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By Andrew Field

among the finishing of the nice struggle and the beginning of the second one international battle in 1939, the Royal army remained the most important on the planet. yet with the League of countries seeming to supply an answer to all destiny conflicts, a rustic weary of warfare and with no an noticeable enemy there appeared little need for a wide battlefleet. The strategic concentration shifted eastwards, to Japan, with its transforming into battlefleet because the new chance to the British Empire and to the Royal Navy's supremacy.

From 1924 a strategic plan, conflict Memorandum (Eastern), was once written and sophisticated. The plan referred to as for the Royal military, nonetheless the most important on the planet, even after the Washington Naval Treaties, to maneuver eastwards to a defended base at Singapore, bring to an end Japan and strength her battlefleet right into a decisive fleet battle.

As a technique battle Memorandum (Eastern) had many flaws. Its actual value lay within the incontrovertible fact that it supplied a justification for the Royal army to keep up its major place on this planet and to be within the vanguard of the advance of latest tactical pondering. via making plans for a warfare with Japan the Royal military used to be capable of try its readiness for a destiny warfare. a number of the classes learnt in this interval have been finally positioned to stable use opposed to a unique foe in 1939.

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