Titlebook: Britain and the Mine, 1900–1915; Culture, Strategy an Richard Dunley Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 First W

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,Development and Institutionalisation: Offensive Mining 1906–1909,trategic circumstances changed and how the attempts to keep British mining developments secret impacted on the influence of the technology. It goes on to show how the gradual lifting of this veil of secrecy allowed mining to become institutionalised within the fleet.

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The Test of Conflict, Liberal government in response to failures of economic warfare, in the face of strong cultural opposition from within the Royal Navy. Following the return of Lord Fisher to the Admiralty mining was once again at the heart of British naval strategy and in May 1915 Fisher was pursuing his ‘Baltic Pro

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War, Law and Diplomacy,nelaying was seen in Britain as a breach of basic norms of warfare, and was the justification for retaliatory British measures to restrict neutral use of the seas. This escalatory spiral soon resulted in the German use of submarines against merchant vessels, with its resultant impact on diplomatic r

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Conclusion,the nature of warfare. It explores why mining represented such a contested issue in Britain in the decade following its emergence as a technology in the Russo-Japanese War, and how changing perceptions of what was acceptable in conflict meant it lost this place in the spring of 1915.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6137-0this in greater detail. It highlights how the technology itself was a key weapon in the First World War at sea, but beyond this, how the contested views over the weapon meant that it lay at the centre of overlapping issues of strategy, culture and international law.

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Ellen K. Longmire,Steven L. Andersonjects to be discussed there. Through exploring firstly why Britain attempted to ban mines at The Hague and secondly, why those attempts failed, it is possible to see how the competing issues of international law and military necessity interacted in this period.