عنوان

Preparing for blockade, 1885-1914 :

شابک

1138248584

شابک

1409434192

شابک

9781138248588

شابک

9781409434191

شماره

b557573

عنوان اصلي

Preparing for blockade, 1885-1914 :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

naval contingency for economic warfare

نام نخستين پديدآور

Stephen Cobb.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

London ; New York

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Routledge

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016. ©2013

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xxiv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

عنوان فروست

Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies series.

متن يادداشت

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

متن يادداشت

Strategy, planning and culture --;The naval intelligence department --;Economic warfare --;Cruiser warfare --;Professional debate --;The provision of armed merchant cruisers, 1876-1900 --;The provision of armed merchant cruisers, 1900-1905 --;The 1906 'grand manoeuvres' --;The provision of armed merchant cruisers, 1906-1914 --;How did the experience of 1914-1918 bear out pre-war planning? --;Appendixes.

متن يادداشت

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.

موضوع مستند نشده

Great Britain. -- Admiralty -- History -- 19th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Great Britain. -- Admiralty -- History -- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Great Britain. -- Admiralty.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Stephen Cobb.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Stephen Cobb

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y