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- Title
Sir John Fisher and the Policy of Strategic Deterrence, 1904–1908.
- Authors
Dunley, Richard
- Abstract
This article shows how Sir John Fisher, together with Edward VII, sought to use Britain’s naval strength as a tool of deterrence against Germany. By highlighting the Royal Navy’s strength and German vulnerability, they tried to convince policymakers in Berlin that war was not in German interests. This attitude underpinned much of Fisher’s naval policy and helps to explain some of his more extreme statements and actions, which have been the source of certain contradictions within the current historiography.
- Subjects
20TH century British naval history; FISHER, John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron, 1841-1920; NAVAL strategy; GERMANY-Great Britain relations; DETERRENCE (Military strategy); EDWARD VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
War in History, 2015, Vol 22, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
0968-3445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0968344514521126