 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 - Pagina 218geredigeerd door - 1912Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1902 - 916 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1904 - 816 pagina’s
...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 - 1912 - 640 pagina’s
...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 - 1912 - 292 pagina’s
...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 - 1912 - 288 pagina’s
...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 - 1912 - 290 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charles Edward Traquair Stuart-Linton - 1912 - 260 pagina’s
...that of the greatest Sea Power," but a fleet which would be powerful enough, as that Empire " will not be in a position to concentrate all its forces against us," to enable them to so frustrate that Empire as to "jeopardise its own supremacy." Now the traditional... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - 1913 - 188 pagina’s
...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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