Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategy by Roch Legault

Author:Roch Legault
Language: eng
Format: epub

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The Royal Navy And The Defense

Of The British Empire, 1914-1918

David French

The existence of the Empire depends on our sea power.'

By mid-1918 most British policymakers expected that the war would not end until 1919 or even 1920. Britain's manpower resources were stretched to their limit and the War Cabinet took the momentous decision to allow the British army in France to shrink from its present strength of over fifty divisions to a force of little more than thirty divisions. Britain's partners were most unhappy, and ministers were compelled to justify their decision by reference to Britain's other contributions to the entente alliance's war effort. In August, Lord Milner, one of Lloyd George's closest associates in the War Cabinet, asserted that Britain's maritime effort

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