Download or read book The Challenges of Command written by Robert L. Davison and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways that the Edwardian naval arms race forced the Royal Navy to address deep-seated structural problems caused by rapidly changing technology. It charts how an institution organised for three hundred years around sailing ships, faced the challenge of steel and steam, and what that meant for an officer class recruited largely on the basis of its social class rather than technical expertise.