The Personal and Operational Consequences of Global Forward Basing and Officer Rotation in the Interwar Royal Navy

Royal Navy officers appointed to command warships around the world played a key role in maintenance of British Empire and implementation its foreign policy. This study will demonstrate that personal experiences operational consequences how those were managed has long been significantly underappreciated. While functional, Admiralty’s system for selecting, preparing managing commanding struggled keep up with evolving requirements modern peacetime naval operations. By exploring over 500 posted world, 1919-35, this article add new human dimension our understanding power functioned interwar international relations.