The Royal Navy And Maritime Power In The Twentieth Century

Author : Ian Speller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134269811
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century written by Ian Speller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adopts an innovative new approach to examine the role of maritime power and the utility of navies. It uses a number of case studies based upon key Royal Navy operations in the twentieth century to draw out enduring principles about maritime power and to examine the strengths and limitations of maritime forces as instruments of national policy. Individual chapters focus on campaigns and operations from both World Wars and a series of post-1945 crises and conflicts from the Palestine Patrol in the 1940s to Royal Navy operations in support of British policy in the 1990s. Each case study demonstrates critical features of maritime power including: operations during the transition to war; fleet operations in narrow seas; logistics; submarine operations; the impact of air power on maritime operations; blockade; maritime power projection; amphibious warfare; jurisdictional disputes and the law of the sea; and, peace support operations. The contributors to this book all have considerable experience lecturing on these issues at the United Kingdom Joint Services Command and Staff College, where maritime campaign analysis is used to teach the principles of maritime power to officers of the Royal Navy. The book combines an authoritative examination of critical Royal Navy operations during the twentieth century with a sophisticated analysis of the nature of maritime power. As such it is of both historical interest and contemporary relevance and will prove equally valuable to academic historians, military professionals and the general reader.

Author : N.A.M. Rodger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349138606
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Power in the Twentieth Century written by N.A.M. Rodger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a century since Mahan and his disciples taught the world that a battlefleet was indispensable to a great power. Great and not so great powers still keep powerful navies today, but we have no generally-accepted principles to explain why. In this book historians and naval officers from Britain, the United States and other countries study the use of naval power over a century, and ask what it is for, and what it can do. It will be essential reading for modern historians, policy-makers and strategists.

Author : David Stevens
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781864487367
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century written by David Stevens and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of essays giving an historical description of how Australia, Australia's allies and the Royal Australian Navy in particular have contributed to maintaining security in the oceans around Australia.

Author : John B Hattendorf
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349093920
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Strategy And The Balance Of Power written by John B Hattendorf and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-10-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on British and American maritime relationships in the 20th century together with details on the British organization of warfare, Anglo-American maritime theory, their rivalries and coalitions and their plans for dealing with a future war in the nuclear age.

Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : Random House UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standard of Power written by Dan Van der Vat and published by Random House UK. This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Royal Navy through two World Wars and countless minor conflicts.

Author : Margarette Lincoln
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351904094
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing the Royal Navy written by Margarette Lincoln and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid 18th century up till after memories of the Napoleonic wars and the glories of 'Nelson's navy' had faded, the Royal Navy was the bulwark of Britain's defence and the safeguard of trade and imperial expansion. While there have been political and military histories of the Navy in this period, looking at battles and personalities, and studies of its administration and the life below decks, this book is the first study of the Navy in a cultural context, exploring contemporary attitudes to war and peace and to ideologies of race and gender. As well as literary sources, Dr Lincoln draws on the vast collections of the National Maritime Museum, in paintings, cartoons, and ceramics, amongst others, to focus attention on material that has hitherto been little used - even research into the general culture of the late-Georgian age has, curiously, neglected perceptions of the Navy, which was one of its major institutions. Individual chapters discuss the attitudes of particular groups towards the Navy - merchants, politicians, churchmen, women, scientists, and the seamen themselves - and how these attitudes changed over the course of the period.

Author : Antony Preston
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Royal Navy in the 20th Century written by Antony Preston and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phillips Payson O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136335609
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond written by Phillips Payson O'Brien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines how the navies of Great Britain, the USA, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, France and Italy confronted the various technological changes posed during different periods in the 20th century.

Author : C. Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599230
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars written by C. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revisionist study shows how the Royal Navy's ideas about the meaning and application of seapower shaped its policies during the years between the wars. It examines the navy's ongoing struggle with the Treasury for funds, the real meaning of the 'one power standard', naval strategies for war with the United States, Japan, Germany and Italy, the influence of Mahan, the role of the navy in peacetime, and the use of propaganda to influence the British public.

Author : Christopher Martin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137012374
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The UK as a Medium Maritime Power in the 21st Century written by Christopher Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the UK, as a post-modern globalised state, will require means to have influence over events and opponents that threaten the UK's interests in the 21st century, and that its means is the Royal Navy. However, unlike other studies, this research emphasizes the role of logistics, especially afloat support logistics and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. In doing so, the author rejects the current theory underpinning military operations at distance, that distance degrades capability, and posits an alternative theory, that time is the key factor, for maritime-based forces. The UK must reengage with its maritime status and maintain a maritime-based capability to protect its interests in the new maritime century as a leader within the international community. The book will be of use to scholars and researchers interested in naval history and defence policy.