The different recommendations to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are interpreted in light of their strategic positions: battleships for Canada and battlecruisers for the Pacific Dominions. A further proposed motive is that Dominion Indefatigables helped Britain justify buying more powerful ships for its own navy. That motive remains an interpretation of the procurement choice. Against an enduring cruiser threat, Indefatigable made sense. Looking ahead to larger opponents favoured Lion as the more adaptable purchase.
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Matching Dominion ships to future threats
A cruiser threat justified Indefatigable, while the prospect of enemy battlecruisers strengthened the case for Lion.