Obtaining enough Army engineers for amphibious operations remained a recurring naval problem. Later commando engineering and logistics units combined Army and Royal Marine experience and were integrated into the brigade so essential support could not easily be detached. Those arrangements are traced most directly to the Second World War, with earlier attempts to organize mobile naval bases in the 1920s and 1930s drawing on First World War experience. They address a similar problem to Cartagena without implying a direct, uninterrupted institutional line from 1741. British amphibious practice is also judged substantially better by the 1780s, while retaining the caveat that improvement was uneven.
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Amphibious engineering becomes an integrated capability
Later British amphibious forces integrated engineers and logistics more tightly so essential specialists could not be casually separated from the brigade.