Naval Power in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 1 Parameters of Power: The US Navy in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 2 Luxury Fleet? The Sea Power of (Soviet) Russia

Chapter 3 Imperial Germany and the Importance of Sea Power

Chapter 4 The Opportunities of Technology: British and French Naval Strategies in the Pacific,1905–1909

Chapter 5 French Naval Strategy: A Naval Power in a Continental Environment

Chapter 6 The Indispensable Navy: Italy as a Great Power, 1911–43

Chapter 7 Japan and Sea Power

Chapter 8 German Naval Power in First and Second World Wars

Chapter 9 Confusions and Constraints: The Navy and British Defence Planning, 1919–39

Chapter 10 The Influence of History upon Sea Power: The Royal Navy in the Second World War

Chapter 11 Wings over the Sea: The Interaction of Air and Sea Power in the Mediterranean, 1940–42

Chapter 12 Seizing the Initiative: The Arctic Convoys 1944–45

Chapter 13 Blockade and the Royal Navy

Chapter 14 Decolonisation and Coastal Operations in the East Indies, 1945–50

Chapter 15 The Canadian Experience of Sea Power

Chapter 16 Imperial Jetsam or National Guardians? The Navies of the Indian Sub-continent 1947–72

Chapter 17 British Naval Planning Post-1945

Chapter 18 Partnership Spurned: The Royal Navy’s Search for a Joint Maritime-Air Strategy East of Suez, 1961–63

Chapter 19 American Naval Strategy in the Era of the Third World War: An Inquiry into the Structure and Process of General War at Sea, 1945–90