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The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars

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  1. Christopher M. Bell

    1. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

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Part of the book series: Studies in Military and Strategic History (SMSH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. The Politics of Seapower: the ‘One-Power Standard’ and British Maritime Security

    • Christopher M. Bell
    Pages 1-48

  3. ‘Main Fleet to Bermuda’: Naval Strategy for an Anglo-American War

    • Christopher M. Bell
    Pages 49-57

  4. Far Eastern War Plans and the Myth of the Singapore Strategy

    • Christopher M. Bell
    Pages 59-98

  5. ‘The Ultimate Potential Enemy’: Nazi Germany and British Defense Dilemmas

    • Christopher M. Bell
    Pages 99-116

  6. The Search for the ‘Knockout Blow’: War Plans against Italy

    • Christopher M. Bell
    Pages 117-125

  7. Neither Corbett nor Mahan: British Naval Strategy and War Planning

    • Christopher M. Bell
    Pages 126-137

  8. ‘Showing the Flag’: Deterrence, and the Naval Armaments Industry

    • Christopher M. Bell
    Pages 138-161

  9. ‘Something Very Sordid’: Naval Propaganda and the British Public

    • Christopher M. Bell
    Pages 162-179

  10. Conclusion

    • Christopher M. Bell
    Pages 180-189

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 190-232
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About this book

This revisionist study shows how the Royal Navy's ideas about the meaning and application of seapower shaped its policies during the years between the wars. It examines the navy's ongoing struggle with the Treasury for funds, the real meaning of the 'one power standard', naval strategies for war with the United States, Japan, Germany and Italy, the influence of Mahan, the role of the navy in peacetime, and the use of propaganda to influence the British public.

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'When history popularizes military strategy, it is a safe bet that strategies implemented in wartime will monopolize the reader's attention. For the true student of strategy - be it air, naval, or land - there will always be a need to review what political, economic, and diplomatic considerations were active in the minds of decision-makers in times of relative peace. Christopher Bell...carries this off in bold fashion...' - David Rudd, Toronto, Ontario, The Northern Mariner

Authors and Affiliations

  • Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

    Christopher M. Bell

About the author

Christopher M. Bell is Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of Churchill and the Dardanelles (2017) and Churchill and Sea Power (2012), and co-editor of At the Crossroads between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference of 1930 (2014) and Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (2003). 

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