ABSTRACT
British naval policy during the 1960s and early 1970s From the mid-1960s onwards, Britain’s global military role contracted rapidly. In 1964, Defence Secretary Denis Healey announced that Britain did not intend to carry out a major amphibious landing without the support of allies, and in particular not without the U.S. Navy.4 By 1971, Britain had largely pulled back west of Suez, but retained significant naval and amphibious forces left over from the days of East of Suez-not least two new Landing Platform Dock (LPD) assault ships-that were given a new maritime area in which to work, the Mediterranean, as part of the Southern Flank of NATO.
