The Admiralty concentrated its political effort on the Fleet Air Arm because it already funded most of its people and equipment and could make a direct ownership case. Coastal Area was too small to shape naval plans, yet the Air Ministry held its budget and ranked maritime patrol below strategic bombing. No official who treated anti-submarine aviation as a primary requirement controlled the money needed to expand it. The arrangement preserved clear service authority while separating operational demand from procurement power. That institutional mismatch is the video's central explanation for the interwar capability gap, rather than collective amnesia about the First World War.
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The budget holder did not own the maritime problem
Coastal Area remained weak because the institution responsible for its budget prioritized strategic bombing, while the Navy that valued maritime patrol controlled neither the money nor the aircraft.