[PDF] The Royal Navy And Maritime Power In The Twentieth Century eBook

Author : Ian Speller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134269811

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This book adopts an innovative new approach to examine the role of maritime power and the utility of navies. It uses a number of case studies based upon key Royal Navy operations in the twentieth century to draw out enduring principles about maritime power and to examine the strengths and limitations of maritime forces as instruments of national policy. Individual chapters focus on campaigns and operations from both World Wars and a series of post-1945 crises and conflicts from the Palestine Patrol in the 1940s to Royal Navy operations in support of British policy in the 1990s. Each case study demonstrates critical features of maritime power including: operations during the transition to war; fleet operations in narrow seas; logistics; submarine operations; the impact of air power on maritime operations; blockade; maritime power projection; amphibious warfare; jurisdictional disputes and the law of the sea; and, peace support operations. The contributors to this book all have considerable experience lecturing on these issues at the United Kingdom Joint Services Command and Staff College, where maritime campaign analysis is used to teach the principles of maritime power to officers of the Royal Navy. The book combines an authoritative examination of critical Royal Navy operations during the twentieth century with a sophisticated analysis of the nature of maritime power. As such it is of both historical interest and contemporary relevance and will prove equally valuable to academic historians, military professionals and the general reader.

Author : N.A.M. Rodger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349138606

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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.

Author : John B Hattendorf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 1989-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349093920

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A collection of essays on British and American maritime relationships in the 20th century together with details on the British organization of warfare, Anglo-American maritime theory, their rivalries and coalitions and their plans for dealing with a future war in the nuclear age.

Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : Random House UK
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :

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The story of the Royal Navy through two World Wars and countless minor conflicts.

Author : David Stevens
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781864487367

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A book of essays giving an historical description of how Australia, Australia's allies and the Royal Australian Navy in particular have contributed to maintaining security in the oceans around Australia.

Author : Phillips O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 1998-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0313370346

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U.S. and British naval power developed in quite different ways in the early 20th century before the Second World War. This study compares, contrasts, and evaluates both British and American naval power as well as the politics that led to the development of each. Naval power was the single greatest manifestation of national power for both countries. Their armies were small and their air forces only existed for part of the period covered. For Great Britain, naval power was vital to her very existence, and for the U.S., naval power was far and away the most effective tool the country could use to exercise armed influence around the world. Therefore, the decisions made about the relative strengths of the two navies were in many ways the most important strategic choices the British and American governments ever made. An important book for military historians and those interested in the exercise and the extension of power.

Author : Charles Owen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1317387597

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This book, originally published in 1975 and authored by an ex-Naval officer, assesses the performance and management of the Royal Navy in the twentieth century. It examines the nature and tasks of the twentieth century Navy, by tracing the fortunes of it under successive First Sea Lords. It examines how the higher echelons of the service have altered and how and why naval policy has changed. Among other issues the book discusses the actions of Beresford and Fisher, Beaty and Jellifcoe, Chatfield, Pound and Mountbatten. It appraises Churchill, the Invergordon Mutiny and the strains fo the 1930s; discusses the Navy’s role in two World Wars and post-war disarmament.

Author : Phillips Payson O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1136335609

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This work examines how the navies of Great Britain, the USA, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, France and Italy confronted the various technological changes posed during different periods in the 20th century.

Author : Andrew Boyd
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526736624

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This is the first comprehensive account of how intelligence influenced and sustained British naval power from the mid nineteenth century, when the Admiralty first created a dedicated intelligence department, through to the end of the Cold War. It brings a critical new dimension to our understanding of British naval history in this period while setting naval intelligence in a wider context and emphasising the many parts of the British state that contributed to naval requirements. It is also a fascinating study of how naval needs and personalities shaped the British intelligence community that exists today and the concepts and values that underpin it. The author explains why and how intelligence was collected and assesses its real impact on policy and operations. It confirms that naval intelligence was critical to Britain’s survival and ultimate victory in the two World Wars but significantly reappraises its role, highlighting the importance of communications intelligence to an effective blockade in the First, and according Ultra less dominance compared to other sources in the Second. It reveals that coverage of Germany before 1914 and of the three Axis powers in the interwar period was more comprehensive and effective than previously suggested; and while British power declined rapidly after 1945, the book shows how intelligence helped the Royal Navy to remain a significant global force for the rest of the twentieth century, and in submarine warfare, especially in the second half of the Cold War, to achieve influence and impact for Britain far exceeding resources expended. This compelling new history will have wide appeal to all readers interested in intelligence and its crucial impact on naval policy and operations.