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1. Twenty-First Century Seapower

   Cooperation and conflict at sea

   Edited by Peter Dutton, Robert Ross, Øystein Tunsjø

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order. Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Educating the Royal Navy

   18th and 19th Century Education for Officers

   By Harry W. Dickinson

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Maritime Private Security

   Market responses to piracy, terrorism and waterborne security risks in the 21st century

   Edited by Patrick Cullen, Claude Berube

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This book examines the evolution, function, problems and prospects of private security companies in the maritime sector. The private security industry continues to evolve after its renaissance over the past few decades, first in Africa, and later in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite this, little...

   Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I

   British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats

   By John Abbatiello

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider history of the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service invested heavily in aircraft of all...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
5. Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific

   The Triumph of Neptune?

   Edited by Geoffrey Till, Patrick Bratton

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   With particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the rise and fall of sea powers. In the Asia-Pacific region there has been significant expansion of sea-based economies together with burgeoning naval power. Many claim that these processes will transform the world’s future...

   Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
6. Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars

   Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare

   Edited by Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory. Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a...

   Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
7. Operational Warfare at Sea

   Theory and Practice

   By Milan Vego

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This new volume provides a comprehensive analysis of both the theory and practice of operational warfare at sea. The book is unique in using diverse sources and examples to present a comprehensive topical description and analysis of the key components of operational warfare at sea today. It opens...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
8. Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century

   By James R. Holmes, Andrew C. Winner, Toshi Yoshihara

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This is the first academic study of India's emerging maritime strategy, and offers a systematic analysis of the interplay between Western military thought and Indian maritime traditions. By a quirk of historical fate, Europe embarked on its Age of Discovery just as the main Asian powers were...

   Published April 7th 2010 by Routledge
9. The Pacific Campaign in World War II

   From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal

   By William Bruce Johnson

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unpublished photographs, interviews with veterans, newly commissioned maps and new translations of Japanese sources, this book freshly examines the key...

   Published March 18th 2010 by Routledge
10. Naval Coalition Warfare

    From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom

    Edited by Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine

    Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

    This is the first scholarly book examining naval coalition warfare over the past two centuries from a multi-national perspective. Containing case studies by some of the foremost naval historians from the US, Great Britain, and Australia, it also examines the impact of international law on...

    Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge