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Seapower : a guide for the twenty-first century.
Publication details: New York, NY : Routledge, c2013.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xvii, 412 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780415622622
- 041562262X
- V 25 .T55 2013
Contents:
1.1. Introduction: the maritime case --
1.2. Explaining success: the four attributes of the sea --
1.3. Defining seapower --
2.1. Introduction: seapower and globalisation --
2.2. The modern navy --
2.3. The post-modern navy --
2.4. Enablers and choices --
2.5. Modern/post-modern compromises --
3.1. The value of theory in maritime operations --
3.2. On types of theory --
3.3. The early development of theory --
3.4. Mahan and the bluewater tendency --
3.5. Corbett and the maritime tradition --
3.6. Alternative visions in maritime strategy --
3.7. Operational art and modern maritime theory --
3.8. Present and future challenges --
4.1. Introduction --
4.2. Identifying the constituents of seapower --
4.3. Maritime people, society and government --
4.4. Maritime geography --
4.5. Resources --
4.6.A maritime economy --
4.7. Seapower by other means --
4.8. Understanding --
5.1. Introduction --
5.2. Classifying navies --
5.3. Estimating relative effectiveness --
5.4. Navies and technology: an introduction --
5.5. Platforms --
5.6. Systems, weapons and sensors --
5.7. An information revolution? --
5.8. The challenge of transformational technology --
5.9.A strategy for innovation --
5.10. Navies and technology: summary and conclusions --
6.1. Evolution of a traditional concept --
6.2. Limits and qualifications --
6.3. Pursuing command in moderation --
6.4.Command of the sea yields to sea control --
6.5. Sea denial --
6.6. Contemporary angles --
7.1. Securing command of the sea: the operational approach --
7.2. Decisive battle --
7.3. Forms and styles of decisive battle --
7.4. How to achieve a decisive victory --
7.5. Contemporary forms and concepts of battle --
7.6. Operational alternatives to battle --
7.7. The fleet-in-being approach --
7.8. The fleet blockade --
8.1. Maritime power projection: definitions --
8.2. Maritime power projection: aims --
8.3. Amphibious operations --
8.4. Operational manoeuvre from the sea --
8.5. Sea-based strategic missile attack of the shore --
8.6. Defence against maritime power projection --
9.1. The attack of maritime communications --
9.2. The defence of maritime communications --
9.3. Contemporary relevance? --
10.1. Coverage of naval diplomacy in the literature: who said what? --
10.2. The diplomatic value of naval power --
10.3. The range and extent of naval diplomacy --
10.4. Naval presence --
10.5. Naval picture building --
10.6. Naval coercion --
10.7. Collaborative naval diplomacy and coalition building --
10.8. Naval diplomacy: implications for strategy makers --
11.1. Origins and background --
11.2. Definitions --
11.3. Expeditionary operations: the political dimension --
11.4. Expeditionary operations: the urban dimension --
11.5. Expeditionary operations: the maritime dimension --
11.6. Staging a sea-based expedition: the maritime requirements --
11.7. Conclusion --
11.8. HADR: a humanitarian postscript --
12.1. Introduction: a renaming of pants? --
12.2. Good order at sea and maritime security --
12.3. Navies and coastguards in defence of the sea as a stock resource --
12.4. Navies and coastguards in defence of the sea as a means of transportation allow resource --
12.5. Navies and coastguards in the defence of the sea as an environment --
12.6. Navies and coastguards, and the defence of the sea as an area of sovereignty and dominion --
12.7. Good order at sea: general requirements --
12.8. Good order at sea: implications for navies --
13.1. The South China Sea as a stock resource --
13.2. The South China Sea as allow resource --
13.3. The South China Sea as a physical environment --
13.4. The South China Sea: the need for good order --
13.5. The South China Sea as an area of sovereignty --
13.6. The South China Sea as a medium for dominion --
13.7. So what? --
14.1.Competitive and collaborative trends in naval development are all-important but impossible to predict --
14.2. The relative importance of the sea and seapower will tend to rise in the twenty-first century --
14.3. Shifting attitudes to the global commons --
14.4. Debating the littorals --
14.5. The range and diversity of naval tasks are likely to increase --
14.6. There are no easy answers.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.1. Introduction: the maritime case --
1.2. Explaining success: the four attributes of the sea --
1.3. Defining seapower --
2.1. Introduction: seapower and globalisation --
2.2. The modern navy --
2.3. The post-modern navy --
2.4. Enablers and choices --
2.5. Modern/post-modern compromises --
3.1. The value of theory in maritime operations --
3.2. On types of theory --
3.3. The early development of theory --
3.4. Mahan and the bluewater tendency --
3.5. Corbett and the maritime tradition --
3.6. Alternative visions in maritime strategy --
3.7. Operational art and modern maritime theory --
3.8. Present and future challenges --
4.1. Introduction --
4.2. Identifying the constituents of seapower --
4.3. Maritime people, society and government --
4.4. Maritime geography --
4.5. Resources --
4.6.A maritime economy --
4.7. Seapower by other means --
4.8. Understanding --
5.1. Introduction --
5.2. Classifying navies --
5.3. Estimating relative effectiveness --
5.4. Navies and technology: an introduction --
5.5. Platforms --
5.6. Systems, weapons and sensors --
5.7. An information revolution? --
5.8. The challenge of transformational technology --
5.9.A strategy for innovation --
5.10. Navies and technology: summary and conclusions --
6.1. Evolution of a traditional concept --
6.2. Limits and qualifications --
6.3. Pursuing command in moderation --
6.4.Command of the sea yields to sea control --
6.5. Sea denial --
6.6. Contemporary angles --
7.1. Securing command of the sea: the operational approach --
7.2. Decisive battle --
7.3. Forms and styles of decisive battle --
7.4. How to achieve a decisive victory --
7.5. Contemporary forms and concepts of battle --
7.6. Operational alternatives to battle --
7.7. The fleet-in-being approach --
7.8. The fleet blockade --
8.1. Maritime power projection: definitions --
8.2. Maritime power projection: aims --
8.3. Amphibious operations --
8.4. Operational manoeuvre from the sea --
8.5. Sea-based strategic missile attack of the shore --
8.6. Defence against maritime power projection --
9.1. The attack of maritime communications --
9.2. The defence of maritime communications --
9.3. Contemporary relevance? --
10.1. Coverage of naval diplomacy in the literature: who said what? --
10.2. The diplomatic value of naval power --
10.3. The range and extent of naval diplomacy --
10.4. Naval presence --
10.5. Naval picture building --
10.6. Naval coercion --
10.7. Collaborative naval diplomacy and coalition building --
10.8. Naval diplomacy: implications for strategy makers --
11.1. Origins and background --
11.2. Definitions --
11.3. Expeditionary operations: the political dimension --
11.4. Expeditionary operations: the urban dimension --
11.5. Expeditionary operations: the maritime dimension --
11.6. Staging a sea-based expedition: the maritime requirements --
11.7. Conclusion --
11.8. HADR: a humanitarian postscript --
12.1. Introduction: a renaming of pants? --
12.2. Good order at sea and maritime security --
12.3. Navies and coastguards in defence of the sea as a stock resource --
12.4. Navies and coastguards in defence of the sea as a means of transportation allow resource --
12.5. Navies and coastguards in the defence of the sea as an environment --
12.6. Navies and coastguards, and the defence of the sea as an area of sovereignty and dominion --
12.7. Good order at sea: general requirements --
12.8. Good order at sea: implications for navies --
13.1. The South China Sea as a stock resource --
13.2. The South China Sea as allow resource --
13.3. The South China Sea as a physical environment --
13.4. The South China Sea: the need for good order --
13.5. The South China Sea as an area of sovereignty --
13.6. The South China Sea as a medium for dominion --
13.7. So what? --
14.1.Competitive and collaborative trends in naval development are all-important but impossible to predict --
14.2. The relative importance of the sea and seapower will tend to rise in the twenty-first century --
14.3. Shifting attitudes to the global commons --
14.4. Debating the littorals --
14.5. The range and diversity of naval tasks are likely to increase --
14.6. There are no easy answers.
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