Why the interwar Royal Navy inherited the Army's weakness narrative

Was the modern image of a weak interwar Royal Navy constructed to support the Army during the Cold War?

Not deliberately, but heavy emphasis on the Army's interwar troubles encouraged those problems to be projected onto the wider armed forces, obscuring the Navy's distinct circumstances.

The weak-interwar-Navy narrative is better explained by Army-centered Cold War history than by a deliberate effort to support the Army. Emphasis on the Army encouraged its problems to be transposed onto the other services. The Invergordon pay crisis illustrates a distinct naval failure: administrators tried to simplify pay scales by moving personnel onto the lowest scale. That approach ignored the education, accumulated skill, professional standing, and pay expectations of experienced ratings and petty officers.