For a long period, the Navy's chief of staff was a prince who also headed the Fleet Faction. That faction was the side most associated with the danger of internal naval violence. As a prince of the blood, however, its leader was unusually secure from becoming a target himself. The institutional position helps explain how political violence could coexist with continuity at the top of naval command.
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Why a Fleet Faction prince was insulated from assassination
The prince who led the Fleet Faction combined doctrinal influence with dynastic protection that made him an unlikely target of his own faction's violence.