HIST 387 Chapter Notes - Chapter 214-222: Economic Warfare
19 Oct 2018
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Economic warfare was a means of exercising maritime supremacy against the continental coalition. Britain was more vulnerable to economic pressure than germany. Germany"s agriculture was protected from foreign competition by tariffs. If britain were neutral, in 1909 the declaration of london served the country"s interests as a trading nation. Britain refused to ratify the declaration of. London but the divisions in its counsels reveled the practical objection to a blockade. Germany would be able to go around this by importing through neutral powers on its borders. Maurice hankey - the secretary of the committee of imperial defence established a war book which spelled out the legal steps and financial initiatives to put economic warfare in place. The effects of the blockade were slow. The long term nature of the blockade frustrated british soldiers and allies because they did not know if they had a future.
