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Book 2018ost difficult strategic problem. Richard Dunley explores the contested position occupied by the mine in the attitudes of British policy makers, and in doing so sheds new light on the overlapping worlds of culture, strategy and international law.  

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Book 2018allenges and opportunities for Britain in the years before the First World War. The mine represented the antithesis of British maritime culture in material form, and attempts were made to limit its use under international law. At the same time, mine warfare offered the Royal Navy a solution to its m

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Mining in a Cultural Context,dentity in the early twentieth century. It goes on to consider Royal Navy organisational culture, particularly the perceptions of how the service could and should fight the next war, and how this framed the debate on the technologies it was willing to deploy. This understanding of the cultural envir

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British Attitudes to Mining Before 1904,half of the nineteenth century. It explores the differences between controlled and independent mining and shows how the Royal Navy’s organisational culture led it to embrace controlled mining and disregard independent mining.

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Mine Warfare in the Russo-Japanese War: The Royal Navy Perspective,ew on the conflict as presented by their naval attachés. It shows what information was sent back to London and how this was shaped by the assumptions of the attachés. This gives insight into the cultural attitudes of these naval officers. The chapter concludes by looking at how the attachés’ reports

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Mining and International Law: Britain and the Hague Conference,jects 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.