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Mahan argues that the Monroe Doctrine is an expansive promise whose credibility depends on an adequate navy measured against both current balances and declared rival building plans.
From The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More ·
Continued British construction challenges the assumption that a German naval programme could develop against a stationary opponent.
From The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More ·
American merchant operators could reduce dependence on British coaling stations by combining longer range with oil bought at home in dollars.
From The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More ·
Mahan and the theorists he cites reject a fleet plan divorced from foreign relations, national resources, and an integrated political-military strategy.
From The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More ·
British writers could argue over capabilities and strategy within an accepted maritime system, while American writers repeatedly had to prove that a standing navy was necessary at all.
From The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More ·
Operation Regenbogen aimed to deny German submarines to the Allies, but scuttling at sea left crews facing a dangerous Atlantic raft journey.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Nazi Germany murdered people it was exploiting for forced labour, an economic contradiction alongside the Holocaust's overwhelming moral and ethical wrongs.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
German retreat routes toward Norway became predictable, while decoded communications helped Allied escorts meet the boats on their way.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
A wartime submarine-versus-submarine attack required an underwater firing solution without modern computers or a homing torpedo.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Concentrating German construction on submarines from 1937 would have triggered faster British escort production and weakened the surface force needed to seize Norway.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Germany's approximate remaining U-boat total conceals boats in training, working up, under repair or permanently unfit for sea.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
The May scuttling chronology shows how rapidly boats were destroyed while Allied surrender terms required Germany to hand over its naval forces intact.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Four named boats took exceptional routes beyond the main surrender ports, with two scuttled off Portugal and two interned in Argentina.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Most German-scuttled submarines were home boats, and destroying them reduced the number the Allies would otherwise have had to secure and remove.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Crews at sea had strong reasons to keep their boats afloat and reach Norway, where they hoped German-held ports could support negotiations.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
German officers treated intact submarines and orderly surrender as bargaining assets, while years of propaganda made crews fear the Allied forces receiving them.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Depicting Gurkhas as terrifying mercenaries helped create the fear that British imagery could then exploit.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
The glut of redundant ships and military equipment after the Second World War depressed the value of another submarine's recyclable metal.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
The German scuttling total included some submarines built outside Germany.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
The distribution of surrendered boats across German and Norwegian ports reveals which submarines were home-based, working up, fleeing Germany, or returning from operations.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Norway's attraction lay less in distance from Soviet forces than in ports still controlled by a substantial German organization.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
British disposal planning is tentatively dated to April 1945, while German Regenbogen planning is placed more firmly in that month.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Opening a U-boat's hatches and flooding paths lets water enter quickly, although making the boat irrecoverable is a harder task.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Rapid speed changes, salt water and uncertain combat demands justify servicing warship equipment well before its nominal maintenance limit.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Some crews resisted scuttling by leaving with their boats and trying to escape.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
The home-based U-boat inventory included failed prefabricated boats, so its total did not measure serviceable strength.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Submarine bases need depth for diving tests and protected movement, with recovery equipment and traffic separation to reduce accidents.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
The surrendered U-boat U-234 illustrates Germany's late-war attempt to move strategic cargo, including uranium oxide, to Japan by submarine.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Type VII boats dominate the British surrender lists and reveal how strongly German operations still depended on established designs.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
The boats that reached Argentina surrendered in July and August 1945 and later became targets in American weapons trials.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Emerging distrust of the Soviet Union complicated disposal negotiations, but the limited appeal of Type VII boats helped the Allies agree on destruction.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Polish participation reassured the Allies for different reasons while contributing experienced anti-submarine crews.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Deadlight records vary in detail, and some sinkings were followed by refloating to examine damage before final destruction.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Recovery proposals face expense and shared Allied responsibility, alongside the original fear of creating Nazi shrines.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Removing boats from Germany and testing how to sink them had to be balanced with the need to release naval resources quickly.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Boats prepared to flood were sunk with naval gunfire, while a parted tow could force an escort to use every available gun.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
British and Polish destroyers disposed of Type XXIII boats in quick succession on 27 and 28 November 1945.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
HMS Onslow and ORP Piorun carried out the sinkings, prompting a joke that the destroyers would not let battleships near the action.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
The Type XXIII's coastal role made it especially suited to attacking convoys and supply routes across the Channel.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Familiarity with British U- and V-class boats informed concern about the comparable Type XXIII.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Missing descriptions of Type VII sinkings prompt an inference about secret weapons testing, without identifying a weapon for any particular boat.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Pacific-war commitments, surrender duties and concern about Soviet movements competed for Allied naval resources during disposal planning.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Navies still have to manage and deter one another in international waters when governments are no longer fighting.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Once British analysts recognized that U-boats entered convoy columns to evade outer escorts, they placed an escort among the merchant ships to turn the German tactic into a trap.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
The final Deadlight sinking used Squid, depth charges and gunfire, while other boats provided targets for torpedoes and air attack.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Openly recorded Squid attacks complicate the hypothesis that missing sinking details conceal trials of secret weapons.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
U-760's disposal entry follows a Type VIIC boat from Spanish internment to a recorded tow and sinking in December 1945.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·
Similar surrendered hulls offered opportunities for comparative weapons tests, with a proposed connection to later Cold War attack tactics.
From Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live) ·