Sea Power

Author : Admiral James Stavridis, USN
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780735220607

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Sea Power by Admiral James Stavridis, USN Pdf

From one of the most admired admirals of his generation -- and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO -- comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To an extent that is often underappreciated, it still does. No one understands this better than Admiral Jim Stavridis. In Sea Power, Admiral Stavridis takes us with him on a tour of the world’s oceans from the admiral’s chair, showing us how the geography of the oceans has shaped the destiny of nations, and how naval power has in a real sense made the world we live in today, and will shape the world we live in tomorrow. Not least, Sea Power is marvelous naval history, giving us fresh insight into great naval engagements from the battles of Salamis and Lepanto through to Trafalgar, the Battle of the Atlantic, and submarine conflicts of the Cold War. It is also a keen-eyed reckoning with the likely sites of our next major naval conflicts, particularly the Arctic Ocean, Eastern Mediterranean, and the South China Sea. Finally, Sea Power steps back to take a holistic view of the plagues to our oceans that are best seen that way, from piracy to pollution. When most of us look at a globe, we focus on the shape of the of the seven continents. Admiral Stavridis sees the shapes of the seven seas. After reading Sea Power, you will too. Not since Alfred Thayer Mahan’s legendary The Influence of Sea Power upon History have we had such a powerful reckoning with this vital subject.

Author : Geoffrey Till
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317219279

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Seapower by Geoffrey Till Pdf

This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States’ maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us that the sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and as a means of transportation, information-exchange and strategic dominion. It has provided the basis for mankind's prosperity and security, and this is even more true in the early twenty-first century, with the emergence of an increasingly globalised world trading system. Navies have always provided a way of policing, and sometimes exploiting, the system. In contemporary conditions, navies, and other forms of maritime power, are having to adapt, in order to exert the maximum power ashore in the company of others and to expand the range of their interests, activities and responsibilities. While these new tasks are developing fast, traditional ones still predominate. Deterrence remains the first duty of today’s navies, backed up by the need to ‘fight and win’ if necessary. How navies and their states balance these two imperatives will tell us a great deal about our future in this increasingly maritime century. This book investigates the consequences of all this for the developing nature, composition and functions of all the world's significant navies, and provides a guide for anyone interested in the changing and crucial role of seapower in the twenty-first century. Seapower is essential reading for all students of naval power, maritime security and naval history, and highly recommended for students of strategic studies, international security and international relations.

Author : Sam Willis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393248838

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The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution by Sam Willis Pdf

A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans—to say nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other war were so many large-scale fleet battles fought, one of which was the most strategically significant naval battle in all of British, French, and American history. Simultaneous naval campaigns were fought in the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, off South Africa, in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the North Sea and, of course, off the eastern seaboard of America. Not until the Second World War would any nation actively fight in so many different theaters. In The Struggle for Sea Power, Sam Willis traces every key military event in the path to American independence from a naval perspective, and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic, political, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. In doing so Willis offers valuable new insights into American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian history. This unique account of the American Revolution gives us a new understanding of the influence of sea power upon history, of the American path to independence, and of the rise and fall of the British Empire.

Author : Antony Preston,Louis S. Casey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Battleships
ISBN : NWU:35556036946457

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Sea Power by Antony Preston,Louis S. Casey Pdf

An illustrated presentation of naval military history and evolution.

Author : S.G. Gorshkov
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483285467

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The Sea Power of the State by S.G. Gorshkov Pdf

Admiral Gorshkov has transformed the Soviet fleet into a world sea power for the first time in Russian history. He is Russia's most brilliant naval strategist of all time. He has created the modern Soviet navy. His book examines the main components of sea power among which attention is focused on the naval fleet of the present day, capable of conducting operations and solving strategic tasks in different regions of the world's oceans, together with other branches of the armed forces and independently

Author : Eric Grove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367711184

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The Future of Sea Power by Eric Grove Pdf

This book, first published in 1990, presents a fundamental reassessment of maritime strategy. It looks at the evolving uses of the seas, both economic and military, and sets sea power against the developing world environment, political, legal and economic.

Author : M. B. Synge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781625581679

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The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge Pdf

The Struggle for Sea Power is the fourth book in M. B. Synge's engaging Story of the Worlds series. This edition focuses on the age of European Empires and world colonization in America, Australia, South Africa, and India. Synge also covers the American and French Revolutions, as well as the campaigns of Napoleon. This volume makes history come alive for your child.

Author : Andrew Lambert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300240900

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Seapower States by Andrew Lambert Pdf

“A fascinating geopolitical chronicle . . . A superb survey of the perennial opportunities and risks in what Herman Melville called ‘the watery part of the world.’” —The Wall Street Journal In this volume, one of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states. Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812—winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal—turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as “seapowers” informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size. Lambert demonstrates how creating maritime identities made these states more dynamic, open, and inclusive than their lumbering continental rivals. Only when they forgot this aspect of their identity did these nations begin to decline. Recognizing that the United States and China are modern naval powers—rather than seapowers—is essential to understanding current affairs, as well as the long-term trends in world history. This volume is a highly original “big think” analysis of five states whose success—and eventual failure—is a subject of enduring interest, by a scholar at the top of his game. “An intriguing series of stories of communities thinking seriously about how to stand their own ground when outpowered, how to do so in ways that are consistent with their values, and sometimes how to negotiate the descent from being a great power when the cards just aren’t in their favor any more. These are timely questions.” —Times Higher Education Supplement “Lambert is, without a doubt, the most insightful naval historian writing today.” —The Times

Author : George W. Baer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0804727945

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One Hundred Years of Sea Power by George W. Baer Pdf

A navy is a state's main instrument of maritime force. What it should do, what doctrine it holds, what ships it deploys, and how it fights are determined by practical political and military choices in relation to national needs. Choices are made according to the state's goals, perceived threat, maritime opportunity, technological capabilities, practical experience, and, not the least, the way the sea service defines itself and its way of war. This book is a history of the modern U.S. Navy. It explains how the Navy, in the century after 1890, was formed and reformed in the interaction of purpose, experience, and doctrine.

Author : E. B Potter
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612517674

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Sea Power by E. B Potter Pdf

A classic work covering over 2,000 years of naval history, from Greek and Roman galley warfare to Vietnam.

Author : David C. Gompert
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833078933

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Sea Power and American Interests in the Western Pacific by David C. Gompert Pdf

This book examines the strategic choices that American and Chinese decisionmakers face regarding sea power in the Western Pacific, shaped by geography, history, technology, and politics. In particular, the author explores the potential for cooperation on maritime security in the Western Pacific, and how the United States might pursue such cooperation as part of a broader strategy to advance its interests in the region.

Author : Eric Grove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000371130

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The Future of Sea Power by Eric Grove Pdf

This book, first published in 1990, presents a fundamental reassessment of maritime strategy. It analyses the lessons of twentieth-century naval warfare and examines in detail the changing face of naval warfare, both in terms of the weapons used and the platforms from which they are launched and controlled. It looks at the evolving uses of the seas, both economic and military, and sets sea power against the developing world environment, political, legal and economic, discussing those factors that stimulate nations to exert power at sea and those that limit their naval capabilities. It also develops a theoretical framework for future thinking about maritime strategy and forces, revises and updates Mahan’s classical analysis of the foundations of sea power, and discusses thinking about naval tasks.

Author : Ryan D. Wadle
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806164199

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Selling Sea Power by Ryan D. Wadle Pdf

The accepted narrative of the interwar U.S. Navy is one of transformation from a battle-centric force into a force that could fight on the “three planes” of war: in the skies, on the water, and under the waves. The political and cultural tumult that accompanied this transformation is another story. Ryan D. Wadle’s Selling Sea Power explores this little-known but critically important aspect of naval history. After World War I, the U.S. Navy faced numerous challenges: a call for naval arms limitation, the ascendancy of air power, and budgetary constraints exacerbated by the Great Depression. Selling Sea Power tells the story of how the navy met these challenges by engaging in protracted public relations campaigns at a time when the means and methods of reaching the American public were undergoing dramatic shifts. While printed media continued to thrive, the rapidly growing film and radio industries presented new means by which the navy could connect with politicians and the public. Deftly capturing the institutional nuances and the personalities in play, Wadle tracks the U.S. Navy’s at first awkward but ultimately successful manipulation of mass media. At the same time, he analyzes what the public could actually see of the service in the variety of media available to them, including visual examples from progressively more sophisticated—and effective—public relations campaigns. Integrating military policy and strategy with the history of American culture and politics, Selling Sea Power offers a unique look at the complex links between the evolution of the art and industry of persuasion and the growth of the modern U.S. Navy, as well as the connections between the workings of communications and public relations and the command of military and political power.

Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547022879

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The Influence of Sea Power upon History by Alfred Thayer Mahan Pdf

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History is a work by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the history of maritime conflict while examining the numerous aspects required to support and attain sea power.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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the inluence of sea power on the history of the british people by Anonim Pdf