Naval Power in the Twentieth Century
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,...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
1996, 1996
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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 |
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Physical Description: | XIV, 273 p online resource |
ISBN: | 9781349138609 |