Discussing Maritime Defence Programmes during the Interwar Period: Argentine Navy Officers and the Lessons of the First World War (1919-1924)

Abstract

This article focuses on the Argentine Navy’s situation during the years after the Great War. It explores some of the issues discussed within the institution and their connection to the national and international political context of the time. The technological backwardness and material obsolescence of the Navy was the focus of criticisms and claims made by some of its officers. The experience of the First World War was a prevailing element in these discussions and in designing projects to modernize the Argentine naval forces.