 Promoted to captain, Richmond commanded from 1909 to 1911, then, in 1911–12, the Torpedo School, training ships and .In 1912 he founded the "Naval Review" in order to promote innovative thought within the Royal Navy.In 1913 Richmond became assistant director of operations on the Admiralty's Naval Staff, where his frequent memoranda about deficiencies in naval strategy drew the disdain of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill and Grand Fleet CIC Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and when events proved him right, he was shoveled off as a liaison officer to the Italian Fleet in April 1915, returning from Taranto in September 1915.