The 1946 contents turn recent experience into a program of historical assessment and future planning. Essays address lessons of the war, restoration of British shipping, the postwar French Navy, Japanese strategy, and the air war at sea. Other contributions examine aircraft in naval warfare, the Royal Naval Air Service from 1911 to 1917, operational planning, and ships lost during the conflict. The selection records how quickly wartime events entered institutional memory, professional debate, and policy guidance.
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The 1946 annual turns wartime experience into lessons
The first postwar contents revisit shipping recovery, the French Navy, Japanese strategy, naval aviation, operational planning, and wartime losses.