The planned G3 programme is presented as affordable within the scale of the British government's interwar budget. Warship orders would also have supported employment, yards, and industrial activity alongside their direct cost. The wider comparison emphasizes that Britain supplied arms during the First World War and did not suffer the physical devastation imposed on continental Europe, even though it endured debt, casualties, and economic damage. Treaty restraint was therefore a political and strategic spending choice. Immediate national bankruptcy did not compel it.
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Britain's postwar economy and battleship affordability
The case for British treaty restraint is separated from the claim that Britain was simply too impoverished to build its planned capital ships.