By the time the Cabinet Office was created in December 1916, the great fleet battles at Dogger Bank and Jutland had passed. However, the government now had to cope with a new form of conflict - unrestricted submarine warfare.
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Further reading
- Terraine, J., Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945 (Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 1999)
- Hough, R., The Great War at Sea 1914-1918 (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd, 2000)
- Newbolt, H., History of the Great War: Naval Operations, vols. IV & V (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1931)
- Marder, A.J., From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, vols. IV & V (London: OUP, 1961-1970)
- Offer, A., The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)
