![]() | Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War Subjects: World War 1914–1918 -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain; Sea power -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Economic policy -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Military policy; Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system. Lambert Nicholas A. : Nicholas A. Lambert is Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall, London. His first book, Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution, won the Distinguished Book Prize from the Society for Military History. |
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