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Just to add context, granting Dominion status to White Settler Colonies was partially driven over fear of another American Revolution. Whitehall thought "just let them have a measure of autonomy and they won't go throwing tea in harbours." However, the idea of Imperial Federation could have...

Really though? A defence budget of 4% or 5% of gdp would have done the trick in peacetime for so massive an empire. Perhaps that way the British Army might have the size and equipment it needs to not flee the beaches of Dunkirk with tail between legs. Of course, this hypothetical force wouldn't...

Britain maintains the large and powerful military it actually needed as one of the world's hegemons instead of slashing it half to death (defence cuts are never a good idea in hindsight, and whichever dumb motherfucker thought the Washington Treaty was a good idea should have a lit firework...