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Failing to Prepare for the Great War? The Absence of Grand Strategy in British War Planning before 1914.
- Source :
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War in History . Nov2017, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p414-437. 24p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- It is a commonplace that the Royal Navy entered the Great War intending to strangle the German economy through a strategy of blockade. This was not so. Prior to 1912 blockade was mainly seen as a means of attaining operational intelligence; economic warfare was secondary. For legal reasons blockade had to be abandoned in 1912. Thereafter, only contraband control remained as a means of waging economic warfare, and this was seen purely as a way of luring the Germans to battle. In 1914 the Royal Navy had no grand strategy, a fact that explains its hesitant performance in the war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09683445
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- War in History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 126234596
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0968344516638383