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This essay summarizes the work of Joseph Moretz, which focuses on the Royal Navy's battleships during the interwar period. The author argues that the navy's operational experience and assumptions about future naval wars were more important in keeping the battleships afloat than conservatism.
Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much about British naval policy and planning of the time. Drawing heavily on official Admiralty records and private papers of leading officers, the author examines the navy's operational experience and the evolution of its tactical doctrine during the interwar period. He argues that operational experience, combined with assumptions about the nature of a future naval war, were more important in keeping the battleship afloat than conservatism in Navy.
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