This book analyses China's maritime strategy for the 21st century, integrating strategic planning, policy thinking and strategic prediction. This bookexplains the construction and application of China's military, political, economic and diplomatic means for building maritime pow…
This title overturns existing thinking to show that the Royal Navy engaged professionally in war planning in the years before the First World War.
It has been widely accepted that British naval war planning from the late nineteenth century to the First World War was amateur and driven by personal political agenda. But Shawn T. Grimes argues that this was far from the case. His extensive original research shows that, in fac…
The book demonstrates how France and Russia were originally seen as the potential enemies, with the focus changing to Germany in the early years of the twentieth century. Throughout the period, the book argues, Britain had a consistent, well-developed strategy.
"This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the 21st 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 remind…
"Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett (1854-1922) brought a new level of logic, advocacy, and intellectual precision to the development of strategy. Corbett skillfully integrated classical strategic theory, British histor…
Now moving into its second decade, The Seaforth World Naval Review 2020 provides an affordable yet authoritative summary of global naval developments over the past twelve months. Regional surveys of fleet evolution and procurement by editor Conrad Waters are supplemented by in-d…
"For over a decade this annual has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, combining regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest war…
