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.
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 st...
This edition contains documents from the seventeenth century to the Second World War. There is additional material to complement NRS Volume 116 from the Commission of Enquiry in 1608, an account of the Earl of Warwick's voyage to the Mediterranean in 1627 and documents relating to the management of the Royal Dockyards between 1672 and 1678. There is an account of Benbow's last battle and ensuing court martial in 1702, orders and correspondence relating to landings on the French coast in 1758, papers relating to operations in the Leeward Islands during the Seven Years War, letters from a...
This edition contains documents from the seventeenth century to the Second World War. There is additional material to complement NRS Volume 116 from t...