Reading Jellicoe's imperial fleet proposal skeptically

What fleet did Jellicoe really want for imperial defence after the First World War?

Probably about 24-27 capital ships overall, not the 48 produced by adding every regional headline request literally.

Taking every regional request literally produces a navy larger than the wartime Grand Fleet. That result suggests the figures were bargaining positions or overlapping requirements rather than simultaneous deployments. A more plausible reconstruction gives roughly nineteen battleships and eight battlecruisers divided among the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Planning documents need to be tested against institutional and material reality.