BLUE-WATER RATIONALE. The Naval Defence of New Zealand 1914-1942. 446 page hard cover, d/jacket, indexed, published 1981 - its in exc condition. B&W photographs, maps. For twenty years the strategic basis of NZ's defence policy was ..."the main fleet to Singapore" strategy - the theory of a properly defended Singapore Naval Base to which adequate British naval forces would be sent to defend the Empire East of Suez. This book is a study of why NZ placed such reliance on an unsatisfactory strategy- which was always admitted to be second best to a permanent battlefleet based in the Pacific. A study in Anglo-NZ relations in the broad field of Naval defence.