Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887–1918
Autor Shawn T. Grimesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 feb 2012
Faced by a perceived Franco-Russian naval threat, the Admiralty adopted an offensive strategy from 1888 to 1905 based on observational blockade and combined operations. This strategy was modified after 1905 for war with Wilhelmine Germany. The book shows how specific war plans aimed at Germany's naval and economic assets in the Baltic were drawn up between 1906 and 1908 and that the strategy of primary distant blockade, formulated between 1897 and 1907, became a reality in late 1912 and not July 1914 as previously thought. The book argues that the Naval Intelligence Department, which took a lead in devising these plans, was the Navy's de facto staff. Overall, it is clear that there was a continuity underpinning British thinking about how to wage a naval war.
SHAWN GRIMES received his PhD in history from the University of London and has been a Lecturer in European History at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781843836988
ISBN-10: 184383698X
Pagini: 278
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: BOYDELL PRESS
ISBN-10: 184383698X
Pagini: 278
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: BOYDELL PRESS
Notă biografică
Shawn T. Grimes
Cuprins
Introduction The Naval Intelligence Department, Naval History, and Admiralty War Planning, 1887-1904 Early Planning Against Germany, 1902-1906 The Scandinavian Dimension and War Planning, 1906-1907 War Planning, 1908-1909 Probes into Admiralty Planning, 1908-1909 The Solidification of Dual Strategies, 1911-1914 Offensive Planning and Operational Realities, 1914-1918 Conclusion Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography
Descriere
Overturns existing thinking to show that the Royal Navy engaged professionally in war planning in the years before the First World War.