In 1906 Britain launched a new, more-advanced warship, HMS Dreadnought, triggering a naval arms race.
The naval arms race between the United Kingdom and Germany was an especially obvious manifestation of this phenomenon.
A naval arms race between Great Britain and the German Empire made conflict on the high seas almost inevitable.
Citing the waste, social discord, and international tension caused by the naval arms race he made several overtures to Germany in hopes of ending it.
As countries race to erect drilling rigs and send oil exploration vessels to comb the seabed, conflicting maritime claims are helping to fuel a naval arms race.
The naval arms race that helped precipitate the war climaxed when the British and German fleets clashed in the North Sea off Jutland.
A naval arms race between Germany and Britain worried pacifists, but there were few professional spies, no air forces, and limited state involvement in industrial relations or welfare.
The naval arms race between Germany and Britain that followed was both catastrophic and avoidable.The understanding of sea power has since evolved, yet Mahan is now hugely admired in Asia's two most populous powers.
After the war, the Washington Conference (1921 22)—before adjourning early reached disarmament, arms-limitation, and arms-control agreements aimed at halting the naval arms race between the world's leading powers.
Rivalry is helping drive a build-up of naval arms: three new aircraft-carriers for India; new destroyers, submarines and hints of an aircraft-carrier programme for China.Mercifully, it is not all preordained to end in a rerun of 1914.
Washington Conference, also called Washington Naval Conference, byname of International Conference On Naval Limitation, (1921 22), international conference called by the United States to limit the naval arms race and to work out security agreements in the Pacific area.
