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The Challenges of Command: The Royal Navy’s Executive Branch Officers, 1880-1919
March 9, 2021
The Challenges of Command surveys the executive branch officer corps of the Royal Navy from the last part of the Nineteenth Century through the close of the First World War. In the process, Robert Davison focuses his analysis on the broader societal and technological setting of the period that acted upon the Royal Navy and … CONTINUE READING ❯
The Development of Mobile Logistic Support in Anglo-American Naval Policy, 1900-1953
January 15, 2015
Field Marshal the Earl Wavell is reputed to have said, “Amateurs talk strategy whilst professionals talk logistics.” The general soundness of this view is amply displayed in The Development of Mobile Logistics Support in Anglo-American Naval Policy, 1900-1953, a well researched and well written survey of how two navies were required by force of circumstances … CONTINUE READING ❯
At War in Distant Waters: British Colonial Defense in the Great War
January 15, 2015
Though the historiography of naval operations during the First World War is fulsome, rather less attention has been paid to its governing naval strategies, and it is this that Phillip Pattee addresses with regard to the Royal Navy in At War in Distant Waters. Specifically, the focus is on the evolving strategic environment Great Britain … CONTINUE READING ❯