ISBN: 9780804727945 - one hundred years of sea power: the u. s. navy, 1890-1990 (13 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 568 pages. This powerfully argued, objective history of the modern U.S. Navy explains how t he Navy defined its purpose in the century after 1890. It relates in detail how the Navy formed and reformed its doctrine of naval force and operations around a concept articulated by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan - a concept of offensive sea control by a battleship fleet, and, new to America, the need to build and maint ain an offensive battle fleet in peacetime. However, there were many years, nota bly in the 1920's and after World War II, when there was no enemy at sea, when t he country turned inward, when the Navy could not count on support for an expens ive peacetime battle fleet. After 1945, especially, the inappropriateness of Mah anian principles strained a service that had taken them for granted, as did the centralization of the military establishment and the introduction of new weapons . What, then, did the Navy do? It shrewdly adapted old ideas to new technology. To reclaim its position in a general war, and avoid being transformed into a mer e transport service, the Navy (with the Marine Corps) proved it was capable of p ower projection onto the land through seaborne bombers armed with nuclear weapon s and by building a ballistic missile-launching submarine force. The growth of a Soviet sea force in the 1970's and 1980's revived the moribund sea power doctri ne, but the Navy's bid for strategic leadership failed in the face of the war-av oidance policy of the Cold War. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Na vy finally retired Mahan's doctrine that the defeat of the enemy fleet was the N avy's primary objective. Having proven itself in the course of the century as ev er adaptable, the service movedback from sea control to a doctrine of expedition.…

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Zustand: New. This is a history of how the Navy responded--in doctrine, strategy, operations, preparedness, self-awareness, and force structure--to radical changes in political circumstance, technological innovation, and national needs and expectations. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTM; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 36. Weight in Grams: 824. . 1996. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. One Hundred Years of Sea Power | The U. S. Navy, 1890-1990 | George W Baer | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 1996 | Stanford University Press | EAN 9780804727945 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu. …

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