Dominion capital ships would demand local naval infrastructure

With their own capital ships, Australia and New Zealand would rely less on distant imperial forces for reassurance. The ships would become a focus for modernization and growth in each Dominion navy. Expanding the navies to support them would be difficult and would require sustained infrastructure investment throughout the 1920s and 1930s. If the Second World War still developed as it did historically, that preparation would leave both navies materially different from their historical counterparts.