1st Edition

British Naval Strategy East of Suez, 1900-2000 Influences and Actions

Edited By Greg Kennedy Copyright 2004
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

This new collection of essays by a panel of established international scholars sheds new light on what some of those influences were and what actions were taken as a result of Britain's Far Eastern commitments. Not only are new evidence and approaches to those issues addressed presented, but new avenues for further research are clearly outlined. This new study shows how the use of the sea as a... Read more
1 . "Wee-ah-wee"?: Britain at Weihaiwei, 1898-1930 2. The Idea of Naval Imperialism: The China squadron and the Boxer uprising 3. 'Unbroken Thread': Japan, maritime power and British imperial defence, 1920-1932 4. What Worth the Americans?:The British strategic foreign policy making elite's view of American maritime power in the Far East, 1933-1941 5. 'Looking skyward from below the waves': Admiral Tom Phillips and the loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse 6. 'Light Two Lanterns, The British Are Coming By Sea': Royal Navy participation in the Pacific 1944-1945 7. The Royal Navy in Korea: Replenishment and sustainability 8. The Royal Navy, Expeditionary Operations and The End of Empire, 1956-1975 9. The Royal Navy and Confrontation, 1963-66 10. The British Naval Role East of Suez: An Australian perspective 11. The Return to Globalism: The Royal Navy east of Suez, 1975-2003

Biography

Greg Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Watchfield, UK. He is the author of Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939 (Cass, 2002), which won the 2002 Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize, as well as several other edited and co-edited volumes. He has published widely in the areas of British and US strategic foreign policy relations and naval strategy.