Centre for Maritime Historical Studies
Derek Law Bibliography
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FIELD, Andrew. Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 1919-1939: Preparing for War against Japan (Cass Series on Naval Policy and History, 22). xiv, 273p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cass, 2004.ISBN: 0714653217From 1924 on, a strategic plan, War Memorandum (Eastern), was refined. This called for the Royal Navy, still the largest in the world even after the 1922 Washington Naval Treaties, to move eastwards to a defended base in Singapore and cut off Japan and force its battlefleet into a decisive battle.
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