What does it mean to have truly global strategic outlook? Given the somewhat myopic discourse in today’s press in the UK, perhaps we have lost that geo-strategic perspective that was so essential to our survival in the first half of the 20th century. Based on his transcript of a lecture given at the Naval Historians Annual Dinner at the Reform Club late last year, the author reminds us of the complexity of thought and decisions required at the time – did those in power get it right? Indeed, today, do historians properly reflect the exercise of sea power by the UK in the eastern waters of WWII?…
