First World War

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The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate the extent to which the Allied success in overcoming German submarine warfare and land invasions in the first world war can be attributed to Britain’s military tactics and resources. The method in this investigation is to first explain what Britain had that could have led it to contribute to Allied success. This includes an evaluation of different British tactical procedures such as ship camouflage, cartography and early naval operations in particular events from the war. Then, Britain’s contribution will be compared against an economic and military viewpoint of the success of the Allies in World War One. This investigation will not discuss all of Germany’s land invasions during the war nor will it discuss the situation of all of Britain’s allies. Instead, Britain’s contribution to the war will be compared with that of the United States.
The two sources that will be evaluated for their origins, purposes, limitations and values are Jon Tetsuro Sumida British Naval Operational Logistics, 1914-1918 and Mark Harrison’s Why The Rich Won: Economic Mobilization and Economic Development in Two World Wars.

Summary of Evidence
Following the declaration of war, Britain took measures with its navy and Royal Geographical Society (RGS) in an attempt to gain a military advantage against future attacks. The RGS began to work on two projects. One project was to create an index of strategic locations on the large scale maps of Belgium and France which were already at hand and issued to officers in the British forces (Heffernan 508) and the second project was to produce a new skeletal wall map of Britain showing its “railways, principal towns, rivers and county boundaries” (Heffernan 508). After b...

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...rsity of Warwick working paper, 2005. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/ fac/soc/economics/staff/academic/harrison/public/whytherichwon.pdf
Heffernan, Michael. “Geography, Cartography and Military Intelligence: The Royal
Geographical Society and the First World War.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Vol. 21, No. 3 (1996), pp. 504-533. http://www.jstor.org/stable/622594
Keylor, William. “World War 1.” Encarta. 2001. http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/WWI/ encarta.htm
Shimshoni, Jonathan. "Technology, Military Advantage, and World War I: A Case for Military
Entrepreneurship." International Security. Vol. 15, No. 3 (1990) pages 187-215. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2538911 Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. “British Naval Operational Logistics, 1914 -1918.” The Journal of Military
History. Vol. 57, No. 3 (Jul., 1993), pp. 447-480. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2943988

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