Churchill is described as a micromanager who respected people willing to argue back. Jellicoe and Gordon Moore were prepared to challenge him, while Charles Briggs had a different temperament despite his strong technical ability. Good decisions required opponents to possess enough information to make the strongest case against a proposal. Warship design therefore depended on technical options and on whether senior naval leaders could test those options forcefully inside the Admiralty.
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Admiralty arguments behind the design
A leadership digression explains why strong Admiralty debate mattered when Churchill pressed into design questions.