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Planning and Profits - British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941 (Hardcover)
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Planning and Profits - British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941 (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Maritime History, 53
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In a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential
businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial
mobilisation as advisers to the Principal Supply Officers
Committee. They provided the state with priceless advice, but, as
“insiders” utilised their access to information to build a
business empire at a fraction of the normal costs. Outsiders, in
contrast, lacked influence and were forced together into a
defensive “ring” – or cartel – which effectively fixed
prices for British warships. By the 1930s, the cartel grew into one
of the most sophisticated profiteering groups of its day. This book
examines the relationship between the private naval armaments
industry, businessmen, and the British government defence planners
between the wars. It reassesses the concept of the
military-industrial complex through the impact of disarmament upon
private industry, the role of leading industrialists in supply and
procurement policy, and the successes and failings of government
organisation. It blends together political, naval, and business
history in new ways, and, by situating the business activities of
industrialists alongside their work as government advisors, sheds
new light on the operation of the British state. This is the story
of how these men profited while effectively saving the National
Government from itself.
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