Chapter I
Maritime War and Maritime Strategy

Footnotes

1. J. S. Corbett. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (1918), p. 11.

2. J. S. Corbett, op. cit., p. 93.

3. Radar was the American name for this device. It was first known in this country as R.D.F., which letters stood for Radio Direction Finding. As with many other developments of importance the title adopted had, in order to assist security, little relation to its true function. In these volumes the term radar, though not officially adopted by the British Services until much later, will always be used.

4. J. S. Corbett, op. cit., p. 114.

5. A. T. Mahan. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 (Little, Brown, Boston, 1905), p. 316.

6. The term 'battle force' is defined by the Admiralty as an 'expression used to denote the main naval concentration of force in an area'. In a modern context it will plainly include maritime air strength.