Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/News/February 2017/Op-ed


 * It's rather unfair to accuse the Royal Navy of a 'lack of foresight'. As I believe I've mentioned before, the Navy appointed a standing committee in 1910 to specifically investigate ways of defending against and destroying submarines. It repeatedly sank a number of early submarines and worked closely with the submarine service in order to ascertain their weak points both as regards materiel and tactics. This was in addition to the attention being given to countering submarines in the fleet. There was certainly no lack of awareness or effort. If any other Navy in the world was paying as much attention to the submarine menace then I'd be very interested in knowing details. &mdash;Simon Harley (Talk | Library). 10:01, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

I agree. The RN was one of the first naval services to pioneer ASW. As such, credit should be given where credit is due. Respectfully, Jak474 (talk) 18:19, 1 May 2017 (UTC)