Austro-Hungarian_Naval_Policy_1904-1914.pdf

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN NAVAL POLICY

1904–14

To my wife Victoria

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN

NAVAL POLICY

1904–14

MILAN N.VEGO

Professor of Operations

US Naval War College

Newport, Rhode Island

FRANK CASS

LONDON • PORTLAND, OR

First Published 1996 in Great Britain by

FRANK CASS & Co. LTD.

Newbury House, 900 Eastern Avenue

London IG2 7HH

and in the United States of America by

FRANK CASS

c/o ISBS, 5804 N.E. Hassalo Street,

Portland, Oregon 97213–3644

British Library Cataloguing in Publication data

Vego, Milan N.

Austro-Hungarian naval policy, 1904–14.—(Cass series.

Naval history; 1)

1. Sea-power—Austria—History—20th century 2. World

War, 1914–18—Naval operations, Austrian 3. Austria—

History, Naval

I. Title

359’.009436

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data

Vego, Milan N.

Austro-Hungarian naval policy, 1904–14/Milan N.Vego.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7146-4678-4 (hbk).—ISBN 0-7146-4209-6 (pbk)

1. Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Kriegsmarine—History.

2. Sea-power—Austria—History—20th century.

3. Sea-power—Hungary—History—20th century. 4. Austria—

History, Naval. 5. Hungary—History, Naval. I. Title.

VA473.V54 1966

359’.009436’09041–dc20

95–53166

CIP

ISBN 0 7146 4678 4 (cloth)

ISBN 0 7146 4209 6 (paper)

reproduced in any form, or by any means, electronic,

mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without

the prior permission of Frank Cass and Company Limited.

Printed in Great Britain by

Bookcraft (Bath) Ltd, Midsomer Norton, Avon

Contents

List of illustrations

List of maps and figures

vii

List of appendices

viii

Glossary of geographic names

Preface

xiii

Framework

Foundations

Launching the modern navy, 1904–7

The Bosnian crisis of 1908–9

Naval build-up intensifies, 1909–11

The Mediterranean problems, 1911–12

The naval convention of 1913

114

The Balkan Wars and the Adriatic, 1912–13

134

The road to war

158

Summary and conclusions

181

Appendices

197

Sources and selected bibliography

203

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