Between the ending of the Great War and the start of the Second
World War in 1939, the Royal Navy remained the largest in the
world. But with the League of Nations seeming to offer a solution
to all future conflicts, a country weary of war and without an
obvious enemy there seemed no need for a large battlefleet. The
strategic focus shifted eastwards, to Japan, with its growing
battlefleet as the new threat to the British Empire and to the
Royal Navy's supremacy. From 1924 a strategic plan, War Memorandum
(Eastern), was written and refined. The plan called for the Royal
Navy, still the largest in the world, even after the Washington
Naval Treaties, to move eastwards to a defended base at Singapore,
cut off Japan and force her battlefleet into a decisive fleet
battle. As a strategy War Memorandum (Eastern) had many flaws. Its
real importance lay in the fact that it provided a justification
for the Royal Navy to maintain its leading position in the world
and to be in the forefront of the development of new tactical
thinking. Through planning for a war with Japan the Royal Navy was
able to test its readiness for a future war. Many of the lessons
learnt during this period were ultimately put to good use against a
different foe in 1939.
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