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Article: The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period: An Operational Perspective
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- Naval War College Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Moretz, Joseph. The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period: An Operational Perspective. London: Frank Cass, 2002. 292pp. $57.50
The Royal Navy is often held up as an example of a military organization that failed to innovate in peacetime. Its critics maintain that naval officers spent the interwar years preparing to refight the Battle of Jutland when they should have been thinking about the new operational challenges presented by aircraft carriers and U-boats. At the root of the problem, these critics argue, was an increasingly irrational devotion to the capital ship (a term that encompasses both the battleship and the battle cruiser). In recent years, however, historians ...