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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811214703321

Autore

McCranie Kevin D.

Titolo

Mahan, Corbett, and the foundations of naval strategic thought / / Kevin D. McCranie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-68247-575-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Studies in Naval History and Sea Power

Disciplina

359.03

Soggetti

Naval strategy - History - 19th century

Sea-power - History - 19th century

Naval historians - United States

Naval historians - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Grand Strategic Foundations -- The Use of History and the Development of Theory -- War, Policy, and Civil-Military Relations -- Introduction to Naval Strategy -- Commerce, the Sea Lines of Communication, and Naval Power -- Command of the Sea -- Reconciling the Offense and the Defense -- Concentration: The Primary Force and the Ulterior Effort -- Sea Denial: Disputing Command of the Sea and Secondary Operations -- Obtaining Strategic Effects through the Control of Maritime Commerce -- Joint, Expeditionary Warfare -- Mahan's Way of War -- Corbett's Way of War.

Sommario/riassunto

McCranie takes the reader from their grand strategic foundations of sea power and maritime strategy, through their ideas about naval warfare and strategy, to how Mahan and Corbett thought a navy should integrate with other instruments of national power, and finally, to how they thought states with powerful navies win wars.