 Richmond , in a 1942 article in The Fortnightly Review , charged that the loss of Singapore illustrated " the folly of not providing adequately for the command of the sea in a two @-@ ocean war " . He now argued that the Singapore strategy had been totally unrealistic . Privately he blamed politicians who had allowed Britain 's sea power to be run down . The resources provided for the defence of Malaya were inadequate to hold Singapore , and the manner in which those resources were employed was frequently wasteful , inefficient and ineffective . 
