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The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters is a good book, but it is not a discussion of RN operations in the Indian Ocean and Pacific from 1935-1942. Rather, it’s a well-constructed and convincing argument that the Indian Ocean, necessary for communication with India and Australia, was always a high priority in British war planning, and that Britain planned for and largely, other than for a short window (in no small part due to heavy losses in December 1941 in the Mediterranean and the Far East), was able to provide a credible defence for the area (with US support in other theatres).The book does examine, in some detail, the near-encounter between the British and Japanese fleets during Operation C in April 1942, but by-and-large the discussion covers pre-war construction and planning, early war planning, strategic factors, intelligence and liaison with the US, then actual deployment to the Indian Ocean and Far East in the lead-up to and after the outbreak of war with Japan.It is generally very well-researched and well-written, with only a few minor typos. Remarkably easy to read for a work that spends most of its time talking about plans and various committees, which is a credit to the author.The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters is explicitly written as a ‘counterpoint’ to a ‘declinist’ school of thought on British and Royal Navy capabilities and intentions in the interwar period and during WW2. It’s up-front about this in the introduction, and makes numerous references to this throughout the text, and so is best seen as part of a broader discussion on the subject. It is at its best when discussing the elements of Admiralty and British war planning (which is most of the book). It’s still solid, but not as strong, when it comes to discussing the pros and cons of Somerville’s and Nagumo’s behaviour in the Indian Ocean, with in this reader’s opinion not respecting the impact of the ‘fog of war’ on decision-making.The book is generally very well balanced (unlike the blurb on Amazon, the book itself is far more honest about the chance of Somerville making a successful night strike on Nagumo’s force). However, on a few occasions Boyd does lean towards overcompensating for the mistakes made by the declinists, particularly (but not only) in the first chapter describing the RN’s rearmament program. Serious errors of judgement by the RN, like not requiring dual-purpose main armament for destroyers, are only mentioned briefly. On the other hand, the author (in this readers’ view) overstates the relative capability of HACS relative to the Mk 37 (although it is understandable that the author pushed this, given the hatchet-job done on RN AA fire control in WW2 in some works).Because of its focus on planning and priorities, it’s not for everyone (although the quality of writing and discussion is high and accessible), but for those interested in a deeper understanding of British and RN strategy in the Far East (or more broadly) in the first half of WW2, and the importance of the Indian Ocean, it provides an interesting and well-argued perspective.
Mr. Boyd makes a series of bold claims that the British eastern fleet in the Indian Ocean was crucial to the overall maintenance of the Allied position at sea in WWII and further asserts that despite a couple of serious mistakes (Tom Phillips, Prince of Wales and Repulse, anyone?) the fleet fulfilled its function as designed and as pre-war planned. The Indian Ocean raids of April 1942 prove this is not the case as does Japanese submarine operations off Madagascar. In other words, it was the Japanese and not the British who decided not to press their advantages, due to their own choices.To add to this failure in scholarship and understanding (logistics at sea for example), Mr. Boyd compounds his scholarly sins by being a dull and boring writer.If one wants a better perspective on the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean in WW II try: Black, Jeremy (2009). "Midway and the Indian Ocean". Naval War College Review.
A very insightful, thorough book that looks at British naval strategy in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. It starts pre-war and explains the British naval strategy as well as the factors that impacted the strategy. It runs through 1942, explaining how that strategy changed, played out, and was influenced by key events during this period - the sinking of Force Z, the loss of Singapore, and Nagumo's raid on Ceylon.If you are looking for a narrative history of the Royal Navy during this period, you will probably be disappointed, but if you are looking for a book that addresses strategy, you will really appreciate this book.
I picked this book up at the recommendation of someone well acquainted with British operations in India during the pre-war and WWII years. I bought it hoping it would deliver useful insights into effective grand strategy formulation and implementation. I was very disappointed.Royal Navy in Eastern Waters is well-researched, and the author has clearly done a great amount of work delving into the archives of British joint committees. However, the book fails to live up to its argument that the Royal Navy served as a "linchpin of victory" for the Allies. Written in a defensive tone that seeks to exculpate the British Empire from having made any significant strategic mistakes, the book fails to show how the many "sensible and logical" strategies outlined in British Naval staff papers actually manifested themselves usefully in actual conflict in the Pacific or the Middle East. This defensive, revisionist effort to defend the Royal Navy from criticism unfortunately makes it extremely difficult to separate useful analysis--of which this book does possess--from the far greater amount of chaff.Indeed, the book's argument is undercut by the author's continued defensiveness regarding any decision popularly viewed as a "mistake" in the conflict, a tendency which creates contradictions throughout. At one point the author defends Admiral Pound, effectively head of the Royal Navy, from charges from critics that he did not stand up to Churchill on key issues effectively, by arguing instead that Pound's "indirect" approach of avoiding direct conflict was actually a wise one. Fast forward to a chapter later, where the author is arguing the Admiralty should have stood up to Churchill and confronted him about Singapore. Similarly the author spends a great amount of time arguing the British intelligence had by and large correctly assessed the threat posed by Japan, and the Admiralty was cognizant of this. Yet in the very last chapter he then describes the Royal Navy as willing to deploy as willing to deploy an understrength, unbalanced fleet to the Indian Ocean, one which he explicitly says they would never have contemplated sending to the Mediterranean to face what was objectively an inferior Italian threat.While the author continually defends British procurement and deployment in pre-war years as being "sensible" choices given information available at the time, he ignores the fact that planners are supposed to anticipate future conflicts--something the Royal Navy, by pursuing a force which could not defend all it's interests, and aircraft carriers which carried 1/3-2/3 fewer planes than U.S./Japaense counterparts (a point he often glosses over), did not achieve.He fails to make the case the Royal Navy served as a linchpin to victory. The Royal Navy did not deploy sufficient forces to deter Japanese or effectively fight Japanese aggression in the Far East, and the author glosses over this failure by failing to discuss in any depth the fall of Singapore, Japan's effective conquest of Southeast Asia, and even their raids on Australia. He argues the Royal Navy had as chief objectives in the Far East of defending Australia and India from conquest. Yet the RN failed to prevent a large Japanese raid in the Indian Ocean, barely avoided being annihilated, and inflicted negligible losses on the Japanese force. Yet because the RN could have, with luck, launched an attack on these Japanese raiders, this somehow translates into a demonstrated military capability. The author also completely fails to mention how Royal Navy setbacks undercut its position in the Far East, in the notable case of responsibility for defending Australia largely devolving to the United States.Indeed, the sense I get from reading this book is that contrary to the author's argument, the British employed a fairly simple strategy of dedicating their maximum resources toward holding what they could--first in the Middle East, and then in the Indian Ocean. The author makes a big deal of the British Empire being willing to redeploy 3/4 of its units to the Indian Ocean, but two factors go largely unmentioned by him--that by this point in 1942 the threat from both the Axis in the Eastern Med as well as the threat of invasion of the British Isles had decreased appreciably to allow deployment without substantial risk; and secondly, that the U.S. victory at Midway largely obviated the need for this deployment, which never did manifest as a result.I do not doubt the author has some merit in debating the conventional views of the Royal Navy's role in this part of World War 2, but his argument that the Royal Navy served with success by preventing the Axis from achieving their maximalist goals is questionable. He argues that RN helped prevent Germany from advancing into Iran, and Japan occupying the Indian Ocean, but these were never objectives realistically pursued by either country. The Royal Navy could have done nothing but hold their positions in either theater, and the result would have likely been the same. Indeed, for all the talk about Royal Navy's importance, there are remarkably few examples given of the Royal Navy actually being an effective force successfully engaging the Japanese during this time.For those interested in an unbiased, evenhanded look at the performance of the Royal Navy in the Far East and South Asia during this time, I would not recommend this book.
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