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Naval power and expeditionary wars : peripheral campaigns and new theatres of naval warfare / edited by Bruce Elleman and Sarah Paine.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
- Cass series. Navy policy and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sea-power.
- Naval strategy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory.Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a secondary theatre accessible to them by sea and difficult for their enemies to reach by land, giving the sea power and its expeditionary forces the advantage. The technical term for these theatres is 'peripheral operations.' The subject of peripheral campaigns in naval expeditionary warfare
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Legal issues in expeditionary campaigns; 3 Festering the Spanish ulcer: The Royal Navy and the Peninsular War, 1808-1814; 4 The Royal Navy's White Sea campaign of 1854; 5 Gallipoli as a combined and joint operation; 6 The British Mesopotamia campaign, 1914-1918; 7 Pearl Harbor and beyond: Japan's peripheral strategy to defeat China; 8 A pivotal campaign in a peripheral theatre: Guadalcanal and World War II in the Pacific; 9 The New Guinea campaign during World War II
- 10 Amphibious assault as decisive maneuver in Korea11 Naval operations in peripheral conflicts: The Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) and Confrontation (1962-1966); 12 China's 1974 naval expedition to the Paracel Islands; 13 "Always expect the unexpected": The Falklands/Malvinas war of 1982; 14 The maritime campaign in Iraq; 15 U.S. naval operations and contemporary geopolitics: The War on Terror and the New Great Game in the early-twenty-first century; 16 Conclusions: Naval expeditionary warfare and the future of sea power; Selected bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-84168-7
- 1-136-84169-5
- 1-283-04135-9
- 9786613041357
- 0-203-83321-X
- 9780203833216
- 020383321X
- OCLC:
- 701703830
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