The Royal Navy stood the War College down in 1914, a revealing decision that released its students and staff just when a major war made trained staff work most valuable. After the conflict, courses and papers resumed even though the War College became less distinct from the ordinary Greenwich establishment. The Third Sea Lord's office used its studies to forecast future requirements and to test or support procurement cases; aircraft carriers provide one example of this connection. Greenwich was close enough to Whitehall and the City for ready consultation while remaining far enough away to give officers some intellectual separation from daily Admiralty business. The college became both a classroom and a source of institutional research for fleet development.
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War College studies connect Greenwich to Admiralty procurement
The War College survived its wartime suspension by becoming closely integrated with Greenwich and supplying studies that helped the Admiralty test future-force arguments.