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Britain's War At Sea, 1914-1918 - The war they thought and the war they fought (Hardcover, New edition)
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Britain's War At Sea, 1914-1918 - The war they thought and the war they fought (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series
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In Britain, memory of the First World War remains dominated by the
trench warfare of the Western Front. Yet, in 1914 when the country
declared war, the overwhelming expectation was that Britain's
efforts would be primarily focussed on the sea. As such, this
volume is a welcome corrective to what is arguably an historical
neglect of the naval aspect of the Great War. As well as
reassessing Britain's war at sea between 1914 and 1918, underlining
the oft neglected contribution of the blockade of the Central
Powers to the ending of the war, the book also offers a case study
in ideas about military planning for 'the next war'. Questions
about how next wars are thought about, planned for and
conceptualised, and then how reality actually influences that
thinking, have long been - and remain - key concerns for
governments and military strategists. The essays in this volume
show what 'realities' there are to think about and how significant
or not the change from pre-war to war was. This is important not
only for historians trying to understand events in the past, but
also has lessons for contemporary strategic thinkers who are
responsible for planning and preparing for possible future
conflict. Britain's pre-war naval planning provides a perfect
example of just how complex and uncertain that process is. Building
upon and advancing recent scholarship concerning the role of the
navy in the First World War, this collection brings to full light
the dominance of the maritime environment, for Britain, in that war
and the lessons that has for historians and military planners.
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