Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution

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For most of the twentieth century, historians have thought that British naval policy was driven by the Anglo-German arms race. After examining a prodigious quantity of primary sources, Nicholas A. Lambert concludes that Admiralty decision-making was in fact driven by factors unrelated to the German building program. Winner of the Society for Military History's 2000 Distinguished Book Award, Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution explores the intrigue and negotiations between the Admiralty and leading domestic politicians and social reformers of the day, such as Herbert H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill. Lambert also explains how Great Britain's naval leaders responded to these non-military, cultural challenges under the direction of Admiral Sir John Fisher, the service head of the Admiralty from 1904 to 1910, who believed in a radically new approach to naval defense. For mainly political reasons, however, Fisher concealed his military technological revolution and worked surreptitiously to create a new model fleet capable of protecting all of Britain's imperial interests across the globe Title Page Copyright Contents List of Illustrations and Maps Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Chapter 1 The_Price of Naval Supremacy Chapter 2. Complexity and Duplicity Chapter 3 Radical Jack Fisher 1899-1904 Part II Chapter_4_Necessary_Reforms_1904-1905 Chapter_5_Defending_British_Naval_Supremacy_1905-1908 Chapter_6_Illusions_and_Realities_Naval_Strategic_Planning_1905-1909 Part III Chapter_7_Aberrations_The_Grand_Fleet_of_Battle_1910-1912 Chapter_8_The_Churchill_Administration_1911-1913 Chapter_9_The_Revolution_1913-1914 Appendices Notes Selected_Bibliography Index