Christopher M. Bell is Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of Churchill and the Dardanelles (2017) and Churchill and Sea Power (2012), and co-editor of At the Crossroads between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference of 1930 (2014) and Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (2003).

'When history popularizes military strategy, it is a safe bet that strategies implemented in wartime will monopolize the reader's attention. For the true student of strategy - be it air, naval, or land - there will always be a need to review what political, economic, and diplomatic considerations were active in the minds of decision-makers in times of relative peace. Christopher Bell...carries this off in bold fashion...' - David Rudd, Toronto, Ontario, The Northern Mariner

• List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Politics of Seapower: the 'One Power Standard' and British Maritime Security 'Main Fleet to Bermuda': British Naval Strategy for an Anglo-American War Far Eastern War Plans and the Myth of the Singapore Strategy 'The Ultimate Potential Enemy': Nazi Germany and British Defence Dilemmas The Search for the 'Knock-Out Blow': War Plans against Italy Neither Corbett nor Mahan: British Naval Strategy and War Planning 'Showing the Flag', Deterrence, and the Shipbuilding Industry 'Something Very Sordid': Naval Propaganda and the British Public Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

Christopher M. Bell is Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of Churchill and the Dardanelles (2017) and Churchill and Sea Power (2012), and co-editor of At the Crossroads between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference of 1930 (2014) and Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (2003).

'When history popularizes military strategy, it is a safe bet that strategies implemented in wartime will monopolize the reader's attention. For the true student of strategy - be it air, naval, or land - there will always be a need to review what political, economic, and diplomatic considerations were active in the minds of decision-makers in times of relative peace. Christopher Bell...carries this off in bold fashion...' - David Rudd, Toronto, Ontario, The Northern Mariner

• List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Politics of Seapower: the 'One Power Standard' and British Maritime Security 'Main Fleet to Bermuda': British Naval Strategy for an Anglo-American War Far Eastern War Plans and the Myth of the Singapore Strategy 'The Ultimate Potential Enemy': Nazi Germany and British Defence Dilemmas The Search for the 'Knock-Out Blow': War Plans against Italy Neither Corbett nor Mahan: British Naval Strategy and War Planning 'Showing the Flag', Deterrence, and the Shipbuilding Industry 'Something Very Sordid': Naval Propaganda and the British Public Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

Christopher M. Bell is Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of Churchill and the Dardanelles (2017) and Churchill and Sea Power (2012), and co-editor of At the Crossroads between Peace and War: The London Naval Conference of 1930 (2014) and Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (2003).

'When history popularizes military strategy, it is a safe bet that strategies implemented in wartime will monopolize the reader's attention. For the true student of strategy - be it air, naval, or land - there will always be a need to review what political, economic, and diplomatic considerations were active in the minds of decision-makers in times of relative peace. Christopher Bell...carries this off in bold fashion...' - David Rudd, Toronto, Ontario, The Northern Mariner

• List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Politics of Seapower: the 'One Power Standard' and British Maritime Security 'Main Fleet to Bermuda': British Naval Strategy for an Anglo-American War Far Eastern War Plans and the Myth of the Singapore Strategy 'The Ultimate Potential Enemy': Nazi Germany and British Defence Dilemmas The Search for the 'Knock-Out Blow': War Plans against Italy Neither Corbett nor Mahan: British Naval Strategy and War Planning 'Showing the Flag', Deterrence, and the Shipbuilding Industry 'Something Very Sordid': Naval Propaganda and the British Public Conclusion Select Bibliography Index