British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914–1930
Cambridge University Press, 10/27/2014
EAN 9781107056954, ISBN10: 1107056950
Hardcover, 344 pages, 23.5 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
During World War I, Britain's 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.
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.