It certainly wasn't WW2 tactics, but it looks like a fitting strategy at the height of the British Emprire, maintaining image is important when you are the domi

It certainly wasn't WW2 tactics, but it looks like a fitting strategy at the height of the British Emprire, maintaining image is important when you are the dominant superpower: > Harold G. Marcus described the action as "one of the most expensive affairs of honour in history. Allowing an unpopular and weakly defended emperor hold hostages to ransom could set a dangerous precedent no?