Madden chaired a 1924 committee on Royal Marines functions and training. He favored a brigade structure less dependent on individual ship detachments and tied it to mobile naval-basing forces. Counterfactually, fuller adoption might have put a Marine division alongside expeditionary base organizations and changed the resources available in crises such as Crete. The proposed force would have been more heavily organized than the light brigade used in the comparison.
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Madden proposed brigade-scale Royal Marines for mobile bases
Madden proposed brigade-based Royal Marines formations to protect mobile naval bases, with wider possibilities for expeditionary operations.