The Energy of Empire 14. World War I - Prolonging the Agony?

Whatever effect the naval blockade ultimately had on the outcome of the war, it of course did not succeed in bringing it to a swift conclusion the way people believed and Churchill implied it might. Gerry Docherty and Jim McGregor contend this was because it was deliberately porous on the level of bureaucracy. They describe this as a conflict between the Admiralty, who wanted to institute an effective blockade, and the Foreign Office, who did not.   Notes Harry Patch: Anti War Hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d26IVqVivE   Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War, by Gerry Docherty and James MacGregor: https://tinyurl.com/4pdt37sj   Robert A. Doughty: Pyrrhic Victory French Strategy and Operations in the Great War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WmmaZ-iHVM   Thank The Universe Podcast - Hidden History: Secret Origins of the First World War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKXrUcN8sJ8   Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics & the New World Order, by F. William Engdahl: https://tinyurl.com/4v7da7sd   The World War One Conspiracy, documentary by James Corbett https://www.corbettreport.com/wwi/