British Naval Strategy in the First Months of the Great War - Phillip Pattee

Phillip Pattee, PhD in Military and Diplomatic History (Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.) is a retired U.S. Navy Commander, currently serving as an associate professor in the Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.

Dr. Pattee looks at how British naval strategy handled fleet dispositions, technology and tactics, control and intelligence, enemy objectives and capabilities, the nature of the war and what is to be achieved, during the first months of World War I and how British and associated Allied strategy defeated that of the Central naval powers.

Presented November 8, 2014 as part of the National World War I Museum and United States World War I Centennial Commission 2014 Symposium, "1914: Global War & American Neutrality."

The Symposium was held in association with The Western Front Association East Coast Branch and the World War I Historical Association. Sponsored by Colonel J's, the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund and Verlag Militaria.

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