Lord Fisher, the Baltic and the battle for British Grand Strategy 1914-15
This talk by Professor Andrew Lambert was delivered 'live' to an online audience.
In this presentation Professor Lambert talks about Admiral Sir Jacky Fisher's Baltic plans, which were far more complex, and sophisticated than the parody that Churchill published.
Fisher's resignation in April 1915 was driven by his anxiety to restore national strategy to the appropriate British maritime basis. Sir Julian Corbett, the official historian of the war, not only wrote the Cabinet paper on this plan, which Fisher published in 1919, but it would have been the capstone of Naval Operations, the Official History of British Grand Strategy had he not died in 1922.
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