The Royal Navy And Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-49 (Cass Series: Naval Policy And History)

An essential newaccountof how anti-submarine warfare is conducted,with a focus on both historic and present-day operations. This new bookshows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for movement and charging their batteries. This pattern was repeated in WWII until Allied anti-submarine countermeasures had forced the Germans to modify their existing U-boats with the schnorkel. Countermeasures along also pushed the development of high-speed U-boats capable of continuously submerged operations. This study shows how these improved submarines became benchmark of the post-war Russian submarine challenge. Royal Navy doctrine was developed by professional anti-submarine officers, and based on the well-tried combination of defensive and offensive anti-submarine measures that had stood the press of time since 1917, notwithstanding considerable technological change. This consistent and holistic view of anti-submarine warfare has not been understood by most of the subsequent historians of these anti-submarine campaigns, and this book provides an essential and new insight into how Cold War, and indeed modern, anti-submarine warfare is conducted.

• • Author: Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Aug 15, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 240 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1138010421
• • ISBN-13: 9781138010420