Britain's mass army dominates much later memory of World War I, although political leaders also understood the conflict as a global maritime war. Moving imperial resources and trade depended on naval strength and strategic mobility. Postwar commitments were more geographically diffuse than the confrontation with Germany had been. A hypothetical deployment places the heavily protected N3s with the Home or Mediterranean fleets and the faster G3s in the Indian Ocean or Far East. This connects capital-ship characteristics to the worldwide system the Royal Navy expected the fleet to sustain.
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World War I's maritime lesson shaped global fleet roles
Britain's wartime movement of imperial resources and trade supported a postwar fleet plan in which N3s guarded nearer theatres and fast G3s served distant stations.