Seapower

Author : Geoffrey Till
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317219279

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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 : Admiral James Stavridis, USN
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Psychology Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0714646040

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Seapower by Geoffrey Till Pdf

This volume explains the evolution of maritime strategy through the twentieth century, and concludes with some speculations about its future in the next century. The forms and practices of navies and maritime strategy are analysed through the development of eight historical and contemporary topics drawn from the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War and post-Cold War period .

Author : Bruce A. Elleman,S.C.M. Paine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134257287

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Naval Blockades and Seapower by Bruce A. Elleman,S.C.M. Paine Pdf

This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant naval blockades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here the reader can find Napoleon’s Continental Blockade of England, the Anglo-American War of 1812, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the first Sino-Japanese War 1894-95, the Spanish-American War, the First World War, the second Sino-Japanese War 1937-45, the Second World War in Europe and Asia, the Nationalist attempt to blockade the PRC, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the British blockade of Rhodesia, the Falklands War, the Persian Gulf interdiction program, the PRC "missile" blockade of Taiwan in 1996, and finally Australia's recent "reverse" blockade to keep illegal aliens out of the country. The authors of each chapter address the causes of the blockade in question, its long and short-term repercussions, and the course of the blockade itself. More generally, they address the state of the literature, taking advantage of new research and new methodologies to provide something of value to both the specialist and non-specialist reader. Taken as a whole, this volume presents fresh insights into issues such as what a blockade is, why countries might choose them, which navies can and cannot make use of them, what responses lead to satisfactory or unsatisfactory conclusions, and how far-reaching their consequences tend to be. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies, military history and maritime studies in particular.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015040594007

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Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1991: Land warfare, seapower, tactical air power by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense Pdf

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of Andrew Lambert's Seapower States by Milkyway Media Pdf

Get the Summary of Andrew Lambert's Seapower States in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Seapower States" explores the historical development and strategic significance of maritime powers in the context of global politics and commerce. The book traces the origins of seapower to ancient coastal communities that relied on the sea for trade, leading to the creation of inclusive governments and naval forces to protect economic interests. Maritime societies like Athens and Carthage prioritized exploration and commerce over territorial conquest, contrasting with land empires...

Author : Joel J. Sokolsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000263091

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Seapower in the Nuclear Age by Joel J. Sokolsky Pdf

This book, first published in 1991, provides a major analysis of the prelude to the US’s Cold War maritime strategy, showing how NATO’s maritime forces were organised in the period. It examines how the United States Navy and allied navies, particularly the Royal Navy, were incorporated into the Alliance’s nuclear and conventional deterrent forces. It looks at the structure of the main naval commands, the growth of Soviet maritime forces and the impact of the flexible response strategy on NATO’s naval posture in the 1970s. Drawing upon many declassified documents, this account fills an important gap in postwar literature on American seapower and its relation to European security. It also addresses important aspects of NATO strategy and organisation.

Author : Palmira Johnson Brummett
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791417026

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Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery by Palmira Johnson Brummett Pdf

This work reframes sixteenth-century history , incorporating the Ottoman empire more thoroughly into European, Asian and world history. It analyzes the Ottoman Empire’s expansion eastward in the contexts of claims to universal sovereignty, Levantine power politics, and the struggle for control of the oriental trade. Challenging the notion that the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire was merely a reactive economic entity driven by the impulse to territorial conquest, Brummett portrays it as inheritor of Euro-Asian trading networks and participant in the contest for commercial hegemony from Genoa and Venice to the Indian Ocean. Brummett shows that the development of seapower was crucial to this endeavor, enabling the Ottomans to subordinate both Venice and the Mamluk kingdom to dependency relationships and providing the Ottoman ruling class access to commercial investment and wealth.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Sea-power
ISBN : UCSD:31822038367231

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The Future of Seapower by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces Pdf

Author : Andrew Lambert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Eric Grove
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000371048

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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 : Geoffrey Till
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714655420

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Seapower by Geoffrey Till Pdf

At the beginning of the 21st century much has remained the same in naval terms but much has changed. Geoffrey Till's study is an exploration of how change will impact upon the world's navies.

Author : S.G. Gorshkov
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Colin S. Gray,Roger W. Barnett
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:35007004198192

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Seapower and Strategy by Colin S. Gray,Roger W. Barnett Pdf

Individual essays provide general theories of maritime strategy, histories of seapower in action from the Peloponnesian wars onward, and contemporary views of the strategic uses of navies in both the West and East.

Author : Sam Willis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,7 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.