{{Short description|Royal Navy Vice Admiral (1898–1983)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = Vice-Admiral |name = Eric Longley-Cook |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB|CBE|DSO}} |image= |caption= |birth_date= {{birth date|1898|10|06|df=yes}} |death_date= {{death date and age|1983|04|20|1898|10|06|df=yes}} |birth_place= |death_place= |burial_place= |nickname= |allegiance= {{flag|United Kingdom}} |branch= {{navy|United Kingdom}} |service_years= 1914–1951 |rank= Vice-Admiral |unit= |commands= Director of Naval Intelligence (1948–51)<br/>{{HMS|Argonaut|61|6}} (1942–43)<br/>{{HMS|Caradoc|D60|6}} (1939–40) |battles= First World War<br/>Second World War * North African campaign * Allied invasion of Sicily * Normandy landings |awards= Companion of the Order of the Bath<br/>Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br/>Distinguished Service Order<br/>Mentioned in Despatches (3)<br/>Legion of Honour (France) |relations= |other_work= }} Vice-Admiral '''Eric William Longley-Cook''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB|CBE|DSO}} (6 October 1898 – 20 April 1983) was a Royal Navy officer.
==Naval career== Longley-Cook joined the Royal Navy as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and was mobilised at the start of the First World War.<ref name=iwm>{{cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030004075|title=Private Papers of Vice Admiral E W Longley-Cook CB CBE DSO|publisher=Imperial War Museum|access-date=14 November 2015}}</ref> He saw action in the battleship {{HMS|Prince of Wales|1902|6}} in the British Adriatic Squadron.<ref name=iwm/>
He served in the Second World War as commanding officer of the cruiser {{HMS|Caradoc|D60|6}} from July 1939,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf |title=Captains commanding Royal Navy warships |access-date=14 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714184102/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/ROYAL%20NAVY%20WARSHIPS.pdf |archive-date=14 July 2015 }}</ref> as deputy director of Training and Staff Duties from October 1940 and as deputy director of Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare from July 1941.<ref name=senior>{{cite web|url=https://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201865-.pdf|title=Senior Royal Navy appointments|access-date=14 November 2015}}</ref> He went on to be commanding officer of the cruiser {{HMS|Argonaut|61|6}} from April 1942, Captain of the Fleet for the Mediterranean Fleet in January 1943 and Captain of the Fleet for the East Indies Fleet in January 1945.<ref name=senior/>
After the war he became Chief of Staff for the Home Fleet in November 1946 and Director of Naval Intelligence in May 1948.<ref name=senior/> In that capacity he warned the British Government that the United States "was set to bomb Russia first" and that "all-out war against the Soviet Union was not only inevitable but imminent".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jun/16/humanities.highereducation|title=US 'was set to bomb Russia first'|work=The Guardian|date=16 June 2001|access-date=14 November 2015}}</ref>
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