The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Page 571
... force from which attack is to be expected . The traditional role of the Royal Navy is not to act on the defensive , but to prepare to attack the force which threatens - in other word to assume the offensive.1 It must have been with ...
... force from which attack is to be expected . The traditional role of the Royal Navy is not to act on the defensive , but to prepare to attack the force which threatens - in other word to assume the offensive.1 It must have been with ...
Page 584
... force was two - fold : " to compel any hostile power which may attempt invasion , to send a force so large that its transports could not evade our own fleet and flotillas ; and to free the Regular Army from the necessity of remaining in ...
... force was two - fold : " to compel any hostile power which may attempt invasion , to send a force so large that its transports could not evade our own fleet and flotillas ; and to free the Regular Army from the necessity of remaining in ...
Page 601
... FORCE WEAKNESSES 601 lacunae " in the work of the Committee of Imperial Defence , namely lack of arrangements for expansion of the Army , the control of man- power and the control of industry , 1 the chief defect of the Committee was ...
... FORCE WEAKNESSES 601 lacunae " in the work of the Committee of Imperial Defence , namely lack of arrangements for expansion of the Army , the control of man- power and the control of industry , 1 the chief defect of the Committee was ...
Contents
Dual character of the Empire by 1870 | 5 |
The Commonwealth of the 1920s as the project of a worldstate | 11 |
Lord Kimberley | 31 |
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