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HMS Repulse leads her sister ship HMS Renown and other Royal
Navy capital ships during manoeuvres in the 1920s Era 1919–1942
Battlespace Sea  The Singapore strategy was a naval defence
policy of the British Empire that evolved in a series of war
plans from 1919 to 1941. It aimed to deter aggression by the
Empire of Japan by basing a fleet of the Royal Navy in the Far
East, able to intercept and defeat a Japanese force heading
south towards India or Australia. To be effective it required a
well-equipped base; Singapore, at the eastern end of the Strait
of Malacca, was chosen as the most suitable location in 1919;
work continued on a naval base and its defences over the next
two decades.  The planners envisaged that a war with Japan would
have three phases: while the garrison of Singapore defended the
fortress, the fleet wo