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Defeating the U-Boat - Inventing Antisubmarine Warfare: Naval War College Newport Papers 36 (Paperback)
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Defeating the U-Boat - Inventing Antisubmarine Warfare: Naval War College Newport Papers 36 (Paperback)
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The emergence of operationally effective submarines in the decade
or so preceding the outbreak of World War I revolutionized naval
warfare. The pace of change in naval technologies generally in the
late nineteenth century was unprecedented, but the submarine
represented a true revolution in the nature of war at sea,
comparable only to the emergence of naval aviation in the period
following the First World War or of ballistic missiles and the
atomic bomb following the Second. It is therefore not altogether
surprising that the full promise and threat of this novel weapon
were not immediately apparent to observers at the time. Even after
submarines had proved their effectiveness in the early months of
the war, navies were slow to react to the new strategic and
operational environment created by them. The Royal Navy in
particular failed to foresee the vulnerability of British maritime
commerce to the German U-boat, especially after the Germans
determined on a campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare-attack
without warning on neutral as well as enemy merchant shipping-in
1917. In Defeating the U-boat: Inventing Antisubmarine Warfare,
Newport Paper 36, Jan S. Breemer tells the story of the British
response to the German submarine threat. His account of Germany's
"asymmetric" challenge (to use the contemporary term) to Britain's
naval mastery holds important lessons for the United States today,
the U.S. Navy in particular. The Royal Navy's obstinate refusal to
consider seriously the option of convoying merchant vessels, which
turned out to be the key to the solution of the Uboat problem,
demonstrates the extent to which professional military cultures can
thwart technical and operational innovation even in circumstances
of existential threat. Although historical controversy continues to
cloud this issue, Breemer concludes that the convoying option was
embraced by the Royal Navy only under the pressure of civilian
authority. Breemer ends his lively and informative study with some
general reflections on military innovation and the requirements for
fostering it.
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