The wartime naval appreciation quoted from Andrew Boyd's work on British naval intelligence opened with four strategic goals. These were protecting sea communications for British and Allied armies, especially in France, eliminating enemy trade to weaken military capacity and the will to fight, protecting Allied commerce, and preventing invasion or raids on the United Kingdom. The goals gave cabinet a concise framework for interpreting naval operations. Lloyd George's preference for recurring departmental explanations supplies a model for monthly papers in peacetime. Appointing him First Lord with a reforming mandate in 1905 would bring that practice into the Admiralty earlier.
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Four strategic goals make naval policy legible to cabinet
Lloyd George's wartime naval appreciation defined two offensive and two defensive goals, providing a model for concise monthly Admiralty papers in peacetime.