

As rearmament became a concern during the 1930s, Stanley Baldwin created the position of Minister for Co-ordination of Defence. The formation of a united ministry of defence was rejected by David Lloyd George's coalition government in 1921 but the Chiefs of Staff Committee was formed in 1923, for the purposes of inter-service co-ordination.


6 Governance and departmental organisationĭuring the 1920s and 1930s, British civil servants and politicians, looking back at the performance of the state during the First World War, concluded that there was a need for greater co-ordination between the three services that made up the armed forces of the United Kingdom-the Royal Navy, the British Army and the Royal Air Force.
