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Preparing for Blockade 1885-1914 - Naval Contingency for Economic Warfare (Paperback)
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Preparing for Blockade 1885-1914 - Naval Contingency for Economic Warfare (Paperback)
Series: Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series
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Today, the First World War is remembered chiefly for the carnage of
the Western Front, but at the time the Royal Navy's blockade of
Germany was a more frequent source of debate. For, even at a time
of war, there were influential voices in Britain who baulked at a
concept of economic warfare that hindered the free passage of goods
on the high seas, and brought German society to the brink of
famine. To further our understanding of these issues, this book
looks at the background to the blockade, and the effects of its
implementation in 1914. It argues that there was a widely shared,
but largely unwritten, strategic culture within British naval
circles which accepted that in a war with a major maritime power
the British response would be to attack enemy trade. This is
demonstrated by the fact that from at least the late 1880s the
Royal Navy planned for the use of armed merchantmen to enforce an
economic blockade of an enemy. This it did by entering into
detailed arrangements with major British shipping companies for the
design and subsidy of liners with the potential for use as merchant
cruisers, and stockpiling their prospective armament. In line with
the contemporary, Corbettian, view that seapower depends upon free
communications, the book concludes by asserting that the primary
role of the Grand Fleet in the First World War was to guarantee the
ability of the merchant cruisers on the Northern Patrol to
interdict German seaborne trade, rather than to engage in large
set-piece battles.
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