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In the late 40s the royal navy had to decide how to deal with the emerging Soviet threat, in particular their hundreds strong submarine fleet in the European theater. The basic options were offensive with carrier and amphibious attacks on the sub bases or defensive with a large fleet of escorts for convoy defense. With the u boat happy times fresh in the minds the escort route was chosen and the RN gave priority to keeping its escort fleet up to date, well manned and at high readiness. So for about 6 or 7 years to about 1955-6 the carrier and amphibious fleet were at a lower priority for building and operating funds and manpower allocation.

WI the RN chose an offensive strategy in 1948-9 and put carriers and amphibians first on the priority list? I think Suez would have been very different for starters.
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