Subjects include: the current situation (in 1942), particularly relating to losses of merchant shipping, British naval weakness and the need to regain control of communications at sea; future naval building; the function of the aircraft carrier; the need to discredit the Nazis in the eyes of Germans; past and future strategy; concerns about Operation Torch [the Allied invasion of North Africa]; shortages of aircraft carriers; co-operation with shore-based aircraft; strategy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans; fighter protection for the Navy; oceanic air bases; future shipbuilding policy; shortcomings in British warships; aircraft torpedo attacks; the loss of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, Dec 1941; dominion status for India.