Postwar Fleet

Stocker, Jeremy (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1739296419 / ISBN 13: 9781739296414

Published by The Navy Records Society, 2024

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Synopsis:

Begins in January 1944, when thought started to be given to the size and shape of the future Navy. Postwar retrenchment meant the Admiralty needed to reduce spending on the Fleet and release manpower for the civilian economy, but also to adjust to the appearance of nuclear weapons and the incipient Cold War with the Soviet Union. The volume concludes with the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, which upset many previous planning assumptions.

About the Author: Dr Jeremy Stocker is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He served as a Warfare Officer in the Royal Navy for 20 years, specialising in air defence, before transferring to the Royal Naval Reserve in 1996. Captain Stocker has seen active service in the Persian Gulf (1990) and in Afghanistan (2006). He retired in 2016. Jeremy's PhD was awarded by the University of Hull in 2003 for a thesis on British policy towards ballistic missile defence. His second book, Architects of Continental Seapower: Comparing Tirpitz and Gorshkov was published in 2021.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Postwar Fleet
Publisher: The Navy Records Society
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New