A handful of modern light cruisers and a new class of destroyers were also constructed during the interwar years to serve as a small Fleet-in-Being in the East Indies, as well as to support the actions of the navy's submarines. Battleships were too expensive to build and maintain, so after World War I, there was significant investment in submarine development and construction. In the late 19th and early 20th century, a combination of coastal defence for the homeland and fleet defence for the East Indies became the established naval strategy for the Royal Dutch Navy and set the template for the world wars. It is also available in PDF and ePUB formats. Noppen and illustrated by Paul Wright, this 48-page softcover book is catalogued as ISBN 9781472841919 and with Osprey's Short code NVG 285. The Royal Netherlands Navy of World War II is a new book from Osprey Publishing LTD, the 285th title of the New Vanguard series. The Dutch navy was designed and built to defend the Dutch East Indies, and yet less than three months after the Pacific war began, few Dutch major ships were above the waves anywhere in the world. The Dutch colonies in the Pacific fueled their economy. Before storm clouds of World War Two gathered, in 1930 the Netherlands GDP per capita was the highest in Europe, and second only to America. Holland was a dominate naval and economic power for centuries, mainly due to her maritime trade. Java Sea 1942 Japan's conquest of the Netherlands East Indies The Royal Netherlands Navy of World War II
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