Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918

Overturns existing thinking to show that the Royal Navy engaged professionally in war planning in the years before the First World War.

List of contents

Introduction
The Naval Intelligence Department, Naval History, and Admiralty War Planning, 1887-1904
Early Planning Against Germany, 1902-1906
The Scandinavian Dimension and War Planning, 1906-1907
War Planning, 1908-1909
Probes into Admiralty Planning, 1908-1909
The Solidification of Dual Strategies, 1911-1914
Offensive Planning and Operational Realities, 1914-1918
Conclusion
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography

About the author

Shawn T. Grimes

Summary

Overturns existing thinking to show that the Royal Navy engaged professionally in war planning in the years before the First World War.

Product details

• Authors: Shawn T Grimes, Shawn T. Grimes, Shawn T. (Royalty Account) Grimes
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.02.2012
• EAN: 9781843836988
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-698-8
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 577 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Military / World War I, Erster Weltkrieg (1914 bis 1918), HISTORY / Military / Naval, History - Military / War, HISTORY / Military / Strategy