 For this purpose it is not absolutely necessary that the German fleet should be as strong as that of the greatest Sea Power, because, generally, a great Sea Power will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces against us.  The Quarterly Review - Page 218edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1902 - 916 pages
...Fleet should be as strong as that of the greatest naval Power, because generally a great sea Power will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces against us. But even if it should succeed in meeting us in superior force, the enemy would be so much weakened in overcoming the resistance of a... | |
 | Military art and science - 1904 - 816 pages
...fleet of Great Britain, but she is building it on the assumption that "generally a great sea power will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces against us." Her watchword is "Concentration/' and that, too, was the watchword of Admiral Togo. He recognized that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1912 - 640 pages
...a fleet of such strength that even for the mightiest naval power a war with her would involve such risks as to jeopardise its own supremacy. For this...strong German fleet that, notwithstanding a victory gamed, the enemy's supremacy would not at first be secured any longer by a sufficient fleet.' It would... | |
 | Sir Archibald Spicey Hurd - Great Britain - 1912 - 292 pages
...Fleet should be as strong as that of the greatest sea-power because, generally, a gnat tea-power will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces...first be secured any longer by a sufficient fleet.— Explanatory Note to German Nary Act of 1900. IN order to appreciate the significance of the latest... | |
 | Archibald Hurd - Great Britain - 1912 - 288 pages
...sea-power because, generally, a gnat tern-power will not be la a position to concentrate all It* force* against us. But even if it should succeed in confronting...first be secured any longer by a sufficient fleet.— Explanatory Note to German Nary Act of WOO. IN order to appreciate the significance of the latest German... | |
 | Archibald Hurd - Germany - 1912 - 290 pages
...Fleet should be as strong as that of the greatest sea Power because generally a great sea Power will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces against us. The British Fleet has world-wide duties because the British Empire is world-wide. If our naval strength... | |
 | Sir Robert Laird Borden - 1912 - 42 pages
...should be as strong as that of the greatest "naval power, for, as a rule, a great naval power will not be "in a position to concentrate all its forces against us." 6. It is now necessary to look forward to the situation in 1915. IN HOME WATERS. In the Spring of the... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - Great Britain - 1913 - 188 pages
...fleet should be as strong as that of the greatest naval Power, for, as a rule, a great naval Power will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces against us." I am not concerned in any way with the political aspects of this memorable declaration. But its bearing... | |
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