1st Edition
From East of Suez to the Eastern Atlantic British Naval Policy 1964-70
By Edward Hampshire
Copyright 2013
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Exploring British naval policy during the first two governments of Harold Wilson (1964-70), this book analyses how the Navy Department of the Ministry of Defence and the Navy's professional leadership dealt with six years of defence reviews, retrenchment and strategic re-orientation. This period witnessed a dramatic blow to the service's self image and self confidence as a result of the... Read more
List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Royal Navy in 1964; Chapter 2 Emerging from Mountbatten’s Shadow; Chapter 3 The Navy Alone; Chapter 4 The Cancellation of CVA-01; Chapter 5 The Navy and the Defence Expenditure Studies; Chapter 6 The Mediterranean Strategy; Chapter 7 Building a New Fleet; Chapter 8 Conclusion;
Biography
Edward Hampshire was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and King’s College, London. After ten years at the Public Record Office and National Archives, latterly as Principal Records Specialist with responsibility for diplomatic, colonial and intelligence records, he is now a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst specialising in defence and foreign policy. Dr Hampshire has written on naval, defence, end of empire and intelligence history, as well as on archives policy. He is also an Associate Editor for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office historians.
'Where Hampshire brings something new to the sorry tale of CVA-01 is in his extensive use of material from the National Archives and elsewhere, much of which was not available to earlier writers.' The Naval Review 'This crisis has been studied before but never with full access to the documents. Edward Hampshire has now filled this gap with an excellent study...' Navy News
