Introduction, Greg Kennedy

1. The British strategic assessment of the United States as a maritime power: 1900?1917, Greg Kennedy

2. ‘The work of the F.O. is nauseous in war time ? a mess of questions of contraband & kindred subjects that don’t exist in time of peace and are a disagreeable brood spawned by war’: the foreign office and maritime war, 1914?1915, Keith Neilson

3. ‘Allah is great and the NOT is his prophet’: sea power, diplomacy and economic warfare. The case of the Netherlands, 1900?1918, T. G. Otte

4. Solvitur Ambulando : the Admiralty administration reacts to war, 1914?1918, C. I. Hamilton

5. Pragmatic hegemony and British economic warfare, 1900?1918: preparations and practice, John Ferris

6. ‘In the shadow of the Alabama’: Royal Navy appreciations of he role of armed merchant cruisers, 1900?1918, Stephen Cobb

7. How it worked: understanding the interaction of some environmental and technological realities of naval operations in the opening years of the First World War, 1914?1916, James Goldrick

8. The legacy of Jutland: expectation, reality and learning from the experience of battle in the Royal Navy, 1913?1939, Joseph Moretz

9. ‘The sea is all one’: the dominion perspective, 1909?1914, David Stevens

10. Royal Navy concepts of air power in the maritime environment 1900?1918, David Jordan

11. Not in quiet English fields: the Royal Navy and combined operations, Joseph Moretz