The Collective Naval Defence of the Empire, 1900-1940

This collection of papers charts the development of a collective system of naval defence for the British Empire from the dying days of the nineteenth century up to its greatest test following the outbreak of the Second World War. It is the story of attempts to reconcile two mutually exclusive imperatives, the one the perceived strategic need for unity of control and freedom of movement of naval assets, the other the political reality of a growing willingness of the constituent members of the Emp