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7. “Trenches in the Ocean”: Geography and the Russian Defense of the Baltic Sea, 1912–1917

verfasst von : Michael B. Barrett

Erschienen in: Military Geoscience

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

As World War I approached, the Russians faced seemingly intractable problems in defending their capital, St. Petersburg, from a German naval or amphibious assault. The Japanese had sunk the mainstay of defense, the Baltic Fleet, at Tsushima in 1906, and while the Russians embarked upon a fleet construction program, progress was slow owing to political considerations, and the higher priority accorded the army’s reconstruction. With no chance of matching the Germans in a naval engagement, the Russian naval staff came up with an ingenious scheme using a combination of minefields and long-range coastal artillery located on strategic islands in the Gulf of Finland, turning the narrow gulf into a gantlet that stymied the Germans.

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Metadaten
Titel
“Trenches in the Ocean”: Geography and the Russian Defense of the Baltic Sea, 1912–1917
verfasst von
Michael B. Barrett
Copyright-Jahr
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32173-4_7