In this reading of military institutions, a committee investigates a capability while a training centre or doctrine school signals a commitment to using it. Landing-craft development followed that move toward an operational organisation. The Royal Navy continued to fund the boats because they could support mobile naval basing and put Royal Marines formations ashore. Cooperation with the Army remained difficult because tight Army budgets encouraged requirements that the Navy would have to finance. Naval uses for the craft helped sustain development while that funding dispute continued.
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Amphibious training and mobile basing sustained naval interest in landing craft
Mobile naval basing and Royal Marines requirements gave the Navy reasons to keep funding landing craft as committee work developed into formal training.