Taking money from the Navy to strengthen the Army assumes that land forces can still perform their tasks with less naval support. That assumption is challenged through the history of the Royal Navy rescuing or supporting the Army. British Somaliland in 1940, during the fighting against Italy, is named as one example. The campaign is invoked briefly without an account of the operation.
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British Somaliland and the danger of treating service budgets as separable
A brief 1940 example supports the argument that land operations can depend on maritime capacity even when budgets invite rivalry.