Böcker i Cass Series: Naval Policy and History-serien

Based on extensive work in Russian archives, this book investigates how strategy, organizational rivalry and cultural factors came to shape naval development in the Soviet Union up to the invasion of 1941. The Soviet Navy's weak position among the armed services made a joint approach to military planning hard to achieve.

This study revises the definition of maritime power through a more comprehensive understanding and appreciation for the roles played by the merchant marine of a nation.

Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called nineteenth-century evangelist of sea power. Chinese analysts invoke Mahan's writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy. This book aims to test the interplay between Western military thought and Chinese strategic traditions. It examines how Mahanian thought shaped China's encounters on high seas.

Explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy. This book argues that SSTR operations are challenging because they create new missions and basing modes, and signal a return to traditional naval methods of operation.

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of multipolarity grappled with similar challenges.

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.

A study of India's maritime strategy.

This book examines British naval diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, showing how the mid-Victorian Royal Navy suffered serious challenges during the period. Many recent works have attempted to depict the mid-Victorian Royal Navy as all-powerful, innovative, and even self-assured. In contrast, this work argues that it suffered serious challenges in the form of expanding imperial commitments, national security concerns, precarious diplomatic relations with European Powers and the United States, and technological advancements associated with the armoured warship at the height of the so-called 'Pax Britannica'. Utilising a wealth of international archival sources, this volume explores the introduction of the monitor form of ironclad during the American Civil War, which deliberately forfeited long-range power-projection for local, coastal command of the sea. It looks at the ways in which the Royal Navy responded to this new technology and uses a wealth of international primary and secondary sources to ascertain how decision-making at Whitehall affected that at Westminster. The result is a better-balanced understanding of Palmerstonian diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, the early evolution of the modern capital ship (including the catastrophic loss of the experimental sail-and-turret ironclad H.M.S. Captain), naval power-projection, and the nature of 'empire', 'technology', and 'seapower'. This book will be of great interest to all students of the Royal Navy, and of maritime and strategic studies in general.

Provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book is for students of naval history and naval education, and of interest to professional military colleges studying the development of naval training.

These studies show how the British Empire used its maritime supremacy to construct and maintain a worldwide defence for its imperial interests.

This study explores Northeast Asia's maritime peace and stability, and examines in depth strategic, military and political issues that underpin any effort to develop maritime cooperation in the region.

An account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on its operations, from historic times. This book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft, and demonstrates how the improved submarines became benchmark of the post-war Russian submarine challenge.

Reviews the studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era. This book provides accounts of the Dreyer/Pollen controversy, and of gunnery at Jutland. It outlines the German fire control system, and offers an assessment of Beatty's tactics throughout the Battle of Jutland.