Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century
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Aircraft Carrier HMS
Albanian Shore
Amphibious Operations
amphibious warfare operations
Armilla Patrol
Attack Merchant Shipping
Carrier HMS
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control
diplomacy
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fleet
forces
French Fleet
Frigate HMS
Greek Territorial Waters
gunfire
Gustav Line
Hm Ship
HMS Ark Royal
HMS Bulwark
HMS Victorious
italian
Italian Campaign
law of the sea disputes
Maritime Forces
maritime security studies
mediterranean
military logistics analysis
Mine Clearance
NATO's Deployment
NATO’s Deployment
naval
Naval Diplomacy
Naval Forces
naval strategy
Palestine Patrol
peace support missions
Peace Support Operations
Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Navy
sea
support
Territorial Sea
twentieth century naval case studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780415350044
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book adopts an innovative new approach to examine the role of maritime power and the utility of navies. It uses a number of case studies based upon key Royal Navy operations in the twentieth century to draw out enduring principles about maritime power and to examine the strengths and limitations of maritime forces as instruments of national policy.
Individual chapters focus on campaigns and operations from both World Wars and a series of post-1945 crises and conflicts from the Palestine Patrol in the 1940s to Royal Navy operations in support of British policy in the 1990s. Each case study demonstrates critical features of maritime power including: operations during the transition to war; fleet operations in narrow seas; logistics; submarine operations; the impact of air power on maritime operations; blockade; maritime power projection; amphibious warfare; jurisdictional disputes and the law of the sea; and, peace support operations.
The contributors to this book all have considerable experience lecturing on these issues at the United Kingdom Joint Services Command and Staff College, where maritime campaign analysis is used to teach the principles of maritime power to officers of the Royal Navy. The book combines an authoritative examination of critical Royal Navy operations during the twentieth century with a sophisticated analysis of the nature of maritime power. As such it is of both historical interest and contemporary relevance and will prove equally valuable to academic historians, military professionals and the general reader.
Ian Speller is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Modern History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research interests include maritime strategy and military history, with a particular emphasis on expeditionary operations.
He is the author of The Role of Amphibious Warfare in British Defence Policy, 1945-1956 (Palgrave, 2001)
