Would the war effort have been easier if the Air Ministry had been less troublesome for the Royal Navy?
Short answerSome naval problems would ease, but the Air Ministry was also trying to correct costly interwar bomber-first choices by investing urgently in fighters and radar.
NotesThe Air Ministry's policy must be distinguished from the RAF as a whole. Interwar planning concentrated heavily on bombers and the belief that the bomber would get through. The emergence of capable fighters and radar made that approach harder to defend. Resources then had to repair the resulting fighter and air-defence gaps, even when this created genuine problems for naval aviation.