Warships after London is another strong guide to treaty-era shipbuilding. Changes in Italian cruiser design show how speed could be exchanged for protection and fleet utility. A design may follow an intelligible strategic logic and still fail in war. The comparisons also separate navies building for their own operational needs from those caught in a narrow cycle of answering a rival's latest ship. The ships' statistics make more sense once their strategic assumptions are visible.
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Warships after London and the logic behind designs
John Jordan's London-treaty volume follows the reasoning behind cruiser designs and the compromises between speed and protection.