Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare

ISBN-13: 9780415724289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 242 str.

Bruce A. Elleman; S. C. M. Paine

Opis

This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory.

Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a secondary theatre accessible to them by sea and difficult for their enemies to reach by land, giving the sea power and its expeditionary forces the advantage. The technical term for these theatres is peripheral operations. The subject of peripheral campaigns in naval expeditionary warfare is central to the British, the US, and the Australian way of war in the past and in the future. All three are reluctant to engage large land forces because of the high human and economic costs. Instead, they rely as much as possible on sea and air power, and the latter is most often in the form of carrier-based aviation. In order to exert pressure on their enemies, they have often opened additional theaters in on-going, regional, and civil wars.

This book contains thirteen case studies by some of the foremost naval historians from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia whose collected case studies examine the most important peripheral operations of the last two centuries.

This book will be of much interest to students of naval warfare, military history, strategic studies and security studies.

Spis treści

Foreword John B. Hattendorf  1. Introduction Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine  2. Legal Issues in Expeditionary Campaigns Eric T. Jensen  3. Festering the Spanish Ulcer: The Royal Navy and the Peninsular War, 1808-1814 Michael Duffy  4. The Royal Navy’s White Sea Campaign of 1854 Andrew D. Lambert  5. Gallipoli as a Combined and Joint Operation Robin Prior  6. The British Mesopotamia Campaign, 1914-1918 Paul G. Halpern  7. Pearl Harbor and Beyond: Japan’s Peripheral Strategy to Defeat China S.C.M. Paine  8. A Pivotal Campaign in a Peripheral Theatre: Guadalcanal and World War II in the Pacific Bradford A. Lee  9. The New Guinea Campaign during World War II David Stevens  10. Amphibious Assault as Decisive Maneuver in Korea Donald Chisholm  11. Naval Operations in Peripheral Conflicts: The Malayan Emergency (1948-60) and Confrontation (1962-66) Jeffrey Grey  12. China’s 1974 Naval Expedition to the Paracel Islands Bruce A. Elleman  13. Always Expect the Unexpected: The Falklands/Malvinas Maritime Conflict 1982 Eric Grove  14. The Maritime Campaign in Iraq Peter Jones  15. U.S. Naval Operations and Contemporary Geopolitics: The War on Terror and the New Great Game in the Early 21^st Century John Reeve  16. Conclusions: Naval Expeditionary Warfare and the Future of Seapower Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine