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Italy and Germany began significant naval build ups that soon posed a major threat to French interests, and the French Navy began to plan for the possibility of a naval confrontation with either power. Both powers were revanchist to the core and resented France’s position as the dominant land power in Europe and a major player in the Mediterranean. Fascist Italy was now generally hostile and slowly moved into the orbit of the newly revitalized German State under the National Socialist regime. ![]() ![]() The 1930’s dramatically shifted the strategic situation. The war concluded without French shores having faced a danger greater than that posed by the German U-boat campaign - a form of warfare that posed a threat to France’s connections with its large overseas empire but less to its home provinces. By the late nineteenth century the traditional naval threat from the British Empire had waned but this old concern in the had been replaced by both the rapidly expanding Germany Imperial Navy, the Kaiserliche Marine, and the growing Italian Royal Navy in the Mediterranean.įortunately for France, Italy was an ally in the First World War which left France with only the dying Ottoman Empire’s navy and the small Austro-Hungarian flotilla to deal with in the Med. Since it became a relatively cohesive nation in the late Middle Ages, France has faced threats from land and from sea on multiple fronts. French Naval Requirements - Homeland Defense in Two Seas
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