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A carregar... Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution (1999)por Nicholas A. Lambert
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Read Chapters 4 and 6 as assigned reading during Week 4 of the fall/winter elective War at Sea in the Age of Steam while at the NWC. I honestly do not remember much of what I read. This was a very dull and boring read for me at the time. These assigned chapters covered the years leading up to WWI and the reforms and strategic planning going on in the Navy at that time. Fascinating book!! If you have any interest in the British Navy in the pre-WWI period, or of naval strategy in that same period this is the book for you. I learned a great deal about the politics of the British government and the Navy establishment from this book. Jacky Fisher was his own man during this period. He had a vision of what the Grand Fleet should be in the next war. Most pre-war volumes deal with the naval arms race bewteen Britian and Germany as a concious effort. However, this book argues differently (at least initially). Without giving too much away, the issues come down to submarines and destroyers vs battleships, and flotilla defense vs fleet actions. The final decision was.....well the First World War intervened and the rest is history. Read the book, it is one the best on this subject I have come across. If you are interested, you should also read 'Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy' either before or after reading this book. It is a biography of Admiral Tirpitz, but it is very much related to the book reviewed here. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Pertence a SérieStudies in Maritime History (1999)
For most of the 20th century, historians have thought that British naval policy was driven by the Anglo-German arms race. After examining a quantity of primary sources, Lambert concludes that Admiralty decision-making was in fact driven by factors unrelated to the German building programme. This volume explores the intrigue and negotiations between the Admiralty and leading domestic politicians and social reformer of the day, such as Herbert H. Asquith, David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Lambert also explains how Britain's naval leaders responded to these non-military, cultural chanllenges under the direction of Adimiral Sir John Fisher, the service head of the Admiralty from 1904 to 1910, who believed in a radically new approach to navel defence. For mainly political reasons, however, Fisher concealed his military technological revolution and worked surreptitiously to create a new model fleet capable of protecting all of Britain's imperial interests across the globe. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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