Tribal-class destroyers were increasingly trusted with independent and high-profile diplomatic missions. Their development required crews, training, and support suited to those duties as well as better weapons and metallurgy. First World War destroyers had learned to operate independently and in coordinated groups against larger targets, and interwar navies tried to preserve that experience through professional training. Over twenty years, teaching aids and useful examples could harden into unquestioned doctrine. Changing how the ships fought then required changes to the institutional practices around them.
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Destroyers become independent diplomatic and combat assets
Interwar destroyer development depended on crews, training, support, and doctrine as much as metallurgy and weapons, while increasingly capable ships took on independent missions.