Reserve fittings and machinery require confidence that mobilization time will be available. In this interpretation, navies avoided some of those preparations because they did not truly believe the ten-year peace assumption behind contemporary planning. Governments therefore restricted fleets in the name of lasting peace while behaving as if another crisis could arrive sooner. That contradiction amounted to a failure of national-security leadership rather than a narrow technical choice.
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The ten-year peace assumption nobody trusted
The navies accepted treaty restraint and a ten-year planning rule while declining preparations that only made sense if they believed peace would last.