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that was to consist of 8 cruisers, 17 destroyers, 15 submarines, 12 motor torpedo boats, and two minelayers for the protection of the trade routes and for the defense of
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Singapore with more forces to go east if necessary. A memo stated: "Drax favored relying on small, mobile forces to deter the
Japanese from interfering and overrunning British interests in the Far East. Drax felt that a "flying squadron" of two battleships or battlecruisers, an aircraft carrier, a cruiser squadron, and a destroyer flotilla would be ideal for this purpose".
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Singapore. Drax argued that the defenses of
Singapore had to be strengthened to prevent the "direct approach" while in the case of the "step-by-step approach", British aircraft, submarines and light vessels should try to interdict Japanese ships in the South China Sea. Finally, Drax argued that the battleships of the "flying squadron" should be of the modern
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Department of Manning. In a 1929 memo, he argued that there were three aspects to a naval battle, namely "geometry" (the movements of ships), "tactics" (the use of weapons to sink the enemy warships) and "morale" (the spirt of the crew). Drax argued that morale was the most important
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Singapore strategy. Backhouse's plans to execute the Singapore strategy had called for sending a force of five or four battleships to Singapore, but Drax changed the Singapore strategy by calling for a "flying squadron" to be sent to
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what to see happen in battle, namely a war game where the captain of a cruiser came within sight of the fleet playing the "enemy" who waited for orders to engage the "enemy" and another war game where the commander of a destroyer flotilla again waited for orders to engage the ships playing the
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instead of taking the first flight to Moscow. Drax claimed to Maisky that he needed a ship because of all the excess baggage he was bringing with him to Moscow, an explanation that Maisky did not find very believable. In fact, Drax had been ordered to go as slowly as possible to Moscow.
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first before turning east to focus on Japan. Drax noted that the location of Italy in the central Mediterranean required any British naval forces going east to enter the Suez canal on the way to Singapore to first sail past Italy, which led him to argue that the
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1926:The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories
2263:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
2116:The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth
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649:Naval Mobilisation Department
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1728:Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
1701:Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
1250:Boulby, Chris (8 May 2009).
837:Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
669:Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
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2066:The Curse of the Wise Woman
1974:Over the Hills and Far Away
1919:The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
1905:Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
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598:Distinguished Service Order
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1877:The Last Book of Wonder
1721:Sir Studholme Brownrigg
1550:Macintyre, Ben (2008).
1513:Nightmare at Scapa Flow
1309:. Seaforth Publishing.
1048:The Diplomats 1919–1939
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2243:People from Marylebone
2223:Younger sons of barons
2059:The Charwoman's Shadow
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1465:Bouverie, Tim (2019).
1031:. London: Frank Cass.
1027:Field, Andrew (2004).
894:Battle of the Atlantic
2130:Idle Days on the Yann
1995:The Collected Jorkens
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154:Years of service
1601:The Moon's a Balloon
1142:The Northern Mariner
1022:. Ivan Dee: Chicago.
1008:from 2010 to 2024.
984:Mutiny on the Bounty
974:The Moon's a Balloon
785:Ernst von Weizsäcker
760:on a slow voyage to
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1753:Sir Roger Backhouse
1511:Weaver, HJ (1980).
1469:(1 ed.). New York:
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781:Herbert von Dirksen
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342:, President of the
296:, Dorset (Oct 1941)
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1863:The Book of Wonder
1835:The Gods of Pegāna
1694:Sir Eric Fullerton
1667:Sir Vernon Haggard
1552:For Your Eyes Only
1515:. Birlinn Origin.
1284:The London Gazette
1236:The London Gazette
899:Alongside Admiral
886:British Home Guard
821:Edward Rydz-Śmigły
813:Vyacheslav Molotov
754:Kliment Voroshilov
690:Singapore strategy
589:. He was promoted
514:Battle of Tsushima
408:Peerage of Ireland
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1988:Time and the Gods
1856:A Dreamer's Tales
1842:Time and the Gods
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1560:978-0-7475-9527-4
1522:978-1-912476-62-6
1479:978-0-451-49984-4
1316:978-1-84832-100-7
998:Robert Rothschild
971:'s autobiography
958:Churchill College
903:and Vice-Admiral
734:Mission to Moscow
707:Mediterranean Sea
593:on 30 June 1916.
546:Winston Churchill
432:Charborough House
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