A shortage of senior admirals able to handle political pressure is presented as another Admiralty problem. Experienced officers are described as having died or exhausted themselves just when Churchill returned. Fisher supplies the comparison with a naval leader willing to push back against him. Without that resistance, Churchill is portrayed as more likely to interpret silence as agreement. The argument concerns a particular relationship between political leadership and naval advice.
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The Admiralty's loss of officers able to challenge Churchill
The discussion connects a change in senior naval personnel with weaker resistance to political intervention.