Strat. & Tact. Quarterly 12: Dreadnoughts: Essentials:
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Few weapons have come and gone so precipitously as the modern battleship. HMS Dreadnought, launched in 1906, was on paper only an evolutionary change from its predecessors, but its combination of armor, speed, and above all big guns, instantly made every other battleship obsolete. Though only a single major dreadnought battle was ever fought, at Jutland in 1916, the race continued after the Great War.
The sheer expense drove the leading naval powers to the conference table to limit the size of ships and fleets, providing an opening for pariah nations, the soon-to-be Axis, to leap ahead in battleship design, only to be overtaken by greater Allied shipbuilding capacity and the maturation of the aircraft carrier. Carl O. Schuster presents the story of the majestic ships that ruled the world's waves for a generation.