British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914–1930
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- Author: Donald J. Lisio, Coe College, Iowa
- Date Published: October 2014
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During World War I, British naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building “a navy second to none,” one so powerful that Great Britain could not again successfully challenge America's vital economic interests. This book reveals that when the United States offered to substitute naval equality for its emerging naval supremacy, the British, nonetheless, used the resulting two major international arms-control conferences of the 1920s to ensure its continued naval dominance.
Read more- Sheds new light on the underlying military objectives of arms-control diplomacy during the 1920s
- Reveals the secret reasons why the Admiralty felt compelled to mislead both the British Cabinet and American leaders prior to the 1927 Geneva Naval Conference
- Details the successful British diplomatic sleight of hand at the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–2 that ensured its continued naval supremacy
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"This book will open many eyes as to the reality of Anglo-American naval antagonism in the first half of the twentieth century and deserves a wide readership."
Navy NewsSee more reviews"… superb addition to the scholarship of an important subdiscipline of naval history. This study is a masterpiece of context, where the history of diplomacy, naval strategy, party politics, media relations, naval technology, and, of course, leadership collide to produce a fresh narrative."
Colonel John Abbatiello, US Naval Institute Proceedings'Based on its extensive review of underutilized military records and the archives of military advisors such as Beatty, British Naval Supremacy should be of interest to historians with specializations in fields such as military, diplomatic, and international history, as well as scholars focused on the interwar years, Anglo–American relations, and arms control.' Alan M. Anderson, US Military History Review
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- Date Published: October 2014
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781316121474
- contains: 14 b/w illus.
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Clashing world interests
2. Washington conference legacy
3. Beatty's Japanese war plan
4. Churchill's challenge
5. Beatty embraces arms control
6. The general boards' new hope
7. American arms-control politics
8. Beatty takes control
9. Combat equivalency
10. Beatty's new strategies
11. Conference shocks
12. Hardening positions
13. The failure of the Anglo-Japanese Accord
14. Cabinet crisis
15. Final efforts
16. Breakdown and recriminations
17. Conclusion.
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