The Fixed Maritime Defence within the Romanian Sector of the Black Sea during the Interwar Period
The Fixed Maritime Defence within the Romanian Sector of the Black Sea during the Interwar Period

Summary/Abstract: During the interwar period, the political and military decision-making factors in Bucharest made a series of decisions in order to enhance the combative strength of the Romanian Armed Forces, in general, and especially of the War Navy or, since 1931, the Royal Navy. The economic, political and geostrategic context generated by the end of the Great War and the signing of the peace arrangements within the Paris Conference, which took place between 1919 and 1920, were not meant to ensure Romania with the necessary peace needed for consolidating the National Unitary State. The revisionist diplomacies of Hungary, Bulgaria and, especially, the Soviet Union led the Romanian political and military decision-makers to adopt a cautious attitude in the relations with neighbouring states that continuously emitted territorial claims over Romania. Regarding the Romanian maritime coastline defence, although the sums allocated were insufficient, the taken actions temporarily covered the needs of the Maritime Fixed Defence in order to organise a series of coastal batteries which had the role of both protecting the mine fields in front of the Constanța Port and repelling any attempt of enemy troops landing.

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