What does a fleet designed to preserve peace look like?

Can a historical navy be described as designed to maintain peace rather than create it?

The Imperial Japanese Navy is a borderline case because it sought to make war unattractive despite lacking the industry for a prolonged conflict with Britain or the United States.

Risk-fleet logic aims to deter a stronger opponent by making war costly. The Imperial Japanese Navy is offered as a borderline example because Japan lacked the industry and infrastructure for a prolonged conflict with Britain or the United States. Its fleet was expected to create conditions in which those powers would avoid war. The warning is that risk fleets have performed poorly when deterrence failed and they had to fight the conflict they were not built to sustain.