A Naval Law Review article, ` A Juridical Examination of the Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty, " published in 1986, concluded that the crew members of the Israeli torpedo boats ` violated their duty under the Maritime Convention and the customary law of war recognized by the post-World War II war crimes trials to adequately care for survivors of battles at sea, and they committed a grave breach of the Maritime Convention by intentionally and wantonly destroying the ship's life rafts ."
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:: I don't think the tensions really started to heat up until a decade or more afterwards, when Germany built up its navy ( see German Naval Laws, High Seas Fleet, Tirpitz Plan etc . ), which was really kind of a stupid move in the grand strategic context ( since for Germany, a large navy was more of a consideration of international prestige, while Britain was not self-sufficient in basic food production, so that the UK government was grimly determined to spend however much it took to match Germany dreadnought-for-dreadnought in order to stave off the threat of starvation of its population ).
