Translation for "kanonenbootpolitik" to english
Translation examples
Die Entsendung von Kreuzergeschwadern an entlegene Stationen erachtete der Erste Lord als Vorstufe einer Kanonenbootpolitik, welche er ablehnte. Um solche Einsätze zu verhindern, mußte man die Anzahl verfügbarer Flaggschiffe verringern, und genau diesem Weg war Janacek gefolgt. Als Grund für seine Entscheidung hatte er die höheren Baukosten eines Crusaders angegeben.
the People's Republic, and he'd regarded the deployment of cruiser squadrons to distant stations as the precursor to the gunboat diplomacy he rejected. One way to hamstring such deployments was to cut down on the number of available flagships, which was precisely what he'd done, although he'd been careful to make the Crusaders' higher cost per unit his official reason.
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