Dominions’ Military Relationship to Great Britain 1902-1914 (British Dominions) : Dominions’ Military Relationship to Great Britain 1902-1914 (British Dominions)

• Main Author: Marti, Steve
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: BSB - Bavarian State Library 2015
• Subjects: o.P. Dominion; Großbritannien; Militär; o.P. Commonwealth countries > Armed Forces; Great Britain; Canada; New Zealand; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.10635; http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/dominions_military_relationship_to_great_britain_1902-1914_british_dominions/2015-04-30

The dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and South Africa shared an ambiguous constitutional relationship with Britain. The self-governing dominions were free to implement their own policies in matters of defence, but their limited resources and reliance on British protection, particularly the security provided by the Royal Navy, necessitated a degree of imperial cooperation. Popular sentiment and external threats encouraged dominion integration in imperial defence, but integration was complicated by differing priorities based on each dominion’s domestic concerns. The competing interests of imperial sentiment and rising nationalism was the crux of each dominion’s military relationship with Great Britain. : 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War : 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War