British Naval Strategy East of Suez, 1900-2000: Influences and Actions

ISBN-13: 9780415646260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015

Greg Kennedy

Opis

British naval strategy east of Suez is shown to have had an enormous impact on overall British naval planning during the 20th century. These essays marshall new evidence, fresh approaches & map out avenues for future research in this field of study.

Spis treści

1 . "Wee-ah-wee"?: Britain at Weihaiwei, 1898-1930 2. The Idea of Naval Imperialism: The China squadron and the Boxer uprising 3. 'Unbroken Thread': Japan, maritime power and British imperial defence, 1920-1932 4. What Worth the Americans?:The British strategic foreign policy making elite's view of American maritime power in the Far East, 1933-1941 5. 'Looking skyward from below the waves': Admiral Tom Phillips and the loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse 6. 'Light Two Lanterns, The British Are Coming By Sea': Royal Navy participation in the Pacific 1944-1945 7. The Royal Navy in Korea: Replenishment and sustainability 8. The Royal Navy, Expeditionary Operations and The End of Empire, 1956-1975 9. The Royal Navy and Confrontation, 1963-66 10. The British Naval Role East of Suez: An Australian perspective 11. The Return to Globalism: The Royal Navy east of Suez, 1975-2003

O autorze

Greg Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Watchfield, UK. He is the author of Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939 (Cass, 2002), which won the 2002 Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize, as well as several other edited and co-edited volumes. He has published widely in the areas of British and US strategic foreign policy relations and naval strategy.