The German escape at Jutland gave night-fighting reform emotional urgency, while the professional case rested on the skill's strategic value. A shorter battle removes that dramatic spur and may reduce the intensity with which the Royal Navy pursues the subject. The service would probably reach a similar requirement because night action remained useful in the conflicts it anticipated after 1918. The counterfactual changes emphasis and timing more plausibly than it removes the doctrine altogether.
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Night-fighting doctrine probably survives a shorter Jutland
Missing Jutland's night action might reduce the emotional urgency of reform, but the Royal Navy would still see night fighting as strategically valuable for a future war.