US Naval Plans for War with the United Kingdom in the 1890s: A Compromise between Pragmatism and Theory
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: En 1890, Alfred Thayer Mahan a élaboré un plan de guerre en cas d'hostilités envers les Britanniques; pour leur part, les classes du Naval War College des États-Unis ont mis sur pied des plans semblables en 1894 et 1895.Ces plans portaient notamment sur le nord-est des États-Unis et sa frontière avec le Canada.Faisant partie des premiers exercices formels de planification de mesures de guerre de la marine américaine, ces plans représentent un compromis entre la nouvelle vision stratégique de la profession navale américaine et une conception pragmatique des limites de la flotte américaine.In 1890, a small group of US naval professionals drew up plans for war in case of hostilities with the United Kingdom, and a few years later the Naval War College classes of 1894 and 1895, as their Problem in the Art of War, a new annual exercise, elaborated plans for war with the British. 1 The plans that resulted from these efforts, 1 Versions of this essay were delivered at "From Enemies to Allies: An International Conference on the War of 1812 and Its Aftermath," Annapolis, Maryland, 14 June 2013, and the 83rd annual meeting of the Society for Military History, in Ottawa, Ontario, 16 April 2016.
Author: Michael J. Crawford
Institution: Naval War College
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4211059078