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War, Peace and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History, 2nd Edition
By Colin S. Gray
This new edition of Colin Gray's textbook explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context. War, Peace and International Relations serves as an excellent introduction to the international history of the past two hundred years, showing how those ...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-59487-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Technology and the Mid-Victorian Royal Navy: Ironclads and Naval Innovation
By Howard J. Fuller
A revealing new examination of Palmerstonian diplomacy during the pivotal decade of the 1860s, the evolution of the modern capital ship and the real nature of ‘empire’, ‘technology’ and ‘seapower’. In contrast to the standard image of the mid-Victorian Royal navy as all-powerful, Howard Fuller...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-37004-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific: The Triumph of Neptune
Edited by Geoffrey Till, Patrick Bratton
This volume examines the rise and fall of sea powers, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region. The chapters analyse what seapower means, and has meant, and its role, both historic and contemporary, in the rise and fall of great powers. The book focuses on the Asia-Pacific region,...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-60934-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare
Edited by Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine
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...
December 2010 | 978-0-415-54608-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Operational Warfare at Sea: Theory and Practice
By Milan Vego
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...
June 2010 | 978-0-415-59577-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power: Between Rising Naval Powers
Edited by Sam Bateman, Joshua Ho
This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries both...
April 2010 | 978-0-415-55955-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century
By James R. Holmes, Andrew C. Winner, Toshi Yoshihara
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...
April 2010 | 978-0-415-58600-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Pacific Campaign in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
By William Bruce Johnson
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...
March 2010 | 978-0-415-58714-3 | Paperback (Routledge)