Scapa Flow may be valuable as an emergency anchorage in wartime without being a good permanent base. The objection concerns keeping personnel stationed there continuously in peacetime. That distinction makes basing policy a question of daily service conditions as well as geography. A strategically useful location can still impose an unattractive long-term posting.
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Scapa Flow's wartime value and permanent basing are separate questions
Restoring Scapa Flow would turn a useful wartime emergency base into a permanent duty station, with continuing demands on the people assigned there.