The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period: An Operational PerspectiveRoutledge, 6 déc. 2012 - 324 pages Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much about British naval policy and planning of the time. Drawing heavily on official Admiralty records and private papers of leading officers, the author examines the navy's operational experience and the evolution of its tactical doctrine during the interwar period. He argues that operational experience, combined with assumptions about the nature of a future naval war, were more important in keeping the battleship afloat than conservatism in Navy. |
Table des matières
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2 Imperial Naval Policy and the Capital Ship Controversy | 32 |
3 The Influence of Arms Control and the Treasury on the Interwar Royal Navy | 65 |
4 The Evolution of the Capital Ship | 103 |
5 British Interwar Naval Strategy | 150 |
6 The Operational Employment of the Capital Ship | 179 |
7 The Development of Battlefleet Tactics | 211 |
8 Reconsideration | 252 |
Bibliography | 267 |
Index | 283 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Abyssinian Crisis Admiral Sir Admiralty Air Arm Air Ministry aircraft carriers Atlantic Fleet attack battle cruisers Battle Instructions Battle Squadron battlefleet battleships Beatty Papers bombing Britain British naval capital ship capital ship controversy Captain Chatfield command Commander-in-Chief Committee of Imperial destroyers enemy engagement exercise fire Five Power Treaty fleet action Fleet Air Arm German Grand Fleet Greenwich Gunnery heavy ships High Sea Fleet Hood Ibid Imperial Defence Imperial War Museum interwar period issue Japanese Journal entry Jutland letter limited London main armament Main Fleet maritime Mediterranean Fleet memorandum military minute Naval Air naval aviation naval forces Naval Policy naval power Naval Staff naval strategy Navy's offensive officers operations programme Ranft range Rear Admiral reconnaissance Report Repulse Richmond Roskill Royal Air Force Royal Navy Sea Lord secondary armament Service Service's shell ship's Singapore submarine Tactical Division target threat tion tons torpedo turrets United vessels warship weapons