The British Way in Warfare

Maritime strategists attributed the victory to sea power and economic warfare. Many in Britain after the war thought this was how the war had been won. It was, after all, an interpretation confirmed by the German army itself which argued that it was still fighting on French soil when support for the war had collapsed at home. Both sides in the First World War were ready to use revolution for strategic purposes. The German Revolution of 1918 and the Kaiser's abdication consolidated the thought that revolution could be a tool with which to wage war in the democratic age. By 1939, sea power was losing its primacy as the engine to ferment in erection. Independent air forces were developed to take the war directly