The 1946 contents begin with a review of the previous year, lessons of war, a naval chronicle, and surveys of foreign navies. Their postwar agenda includes restoration of British shipping, the French Navy after the war, Japanese strategy, and the place of aircraft in naval warfare. A historical study of the Royal Naval Air Service from 1911 to 1917 sits alongside wartime invasion planning and a record of naval losses. Opening the video here shows how a reference annual could move rapidly from immediate operational accounting to institutional memory and arguments about future naval power.
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What the 1946 annual asked navies to learn from war
The 1946 contents turn recent wartime experience into studies of shipping recovery, Japan, air power at sea, amphibious planning, and naval losses.