Philip’s post-mortem targeted heterogeneous fleet, short-range guns, and divided command

Evidence

All that winter Philip’s pen probed at the mistakes he had allowed himself to make: the heterogeneous fleet – next time the ships must be better, and up to some uniform standard; the lack of long-range guns – more culverins and demi-culverins, next time; the divided command, the bad co-ordination, the lack of a deep-water port, even the question of how to dominate Dutch coastal waters, the crucial question which somehow Parma had neglected and allowed everyone else to neglect. — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 883

Categorization

• XREF: Directly explains why the English Armada the next year faced a different Spanish fleet; feeds the reader’s narrative spine from Cadiz raid to retaliation. — connects to: Philip committed immediately to rebuilding a stronger fleet after the defeat — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 877
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 883

Library Connections

• Philip committed immediately to rebuilding a stronger fleet after the defeat #complicates (0.75) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 877