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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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Japan took its commitment to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance seriously in the Great War, participating in the hunt for Graf Spee's squadron, escorting convoys, seizing German colonies in China and the Pacific and even putting down a mutiny in Singapore.

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Title Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East 1919-1939: Planning for War Against Japan
Author Andrew Field
Binding Hardcover
Edition annotated editio
Pages 288
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Date 2004-05-20
Features Annotated, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780714653211 / 0714653217
Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
Dimensions 9.46 x 6.42 x 0.84 in (24.03 x 16.31 x 2.13 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Foreign relations - 1936-1945, Great Britain - History, Naval - 20th century
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003055412
Dewey Decimal Code 359.030

About the author

Andrew Field gained an MPhil at the University of Leeds on the subject of the Royal Navy during the 1920s and 1930s. He is trained as a teacher and has run history departments in Suffolk schools since 1977.

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