Admiral Mahan, a hundred years ago, published his "The Influence of Seapower on History". Seapower was conceived primarily as the influence navies had over maritime trade, and Mahan believed that it was decisive in international affairs. Since then hundreds of historians and social scientists have written about episodes in the history of economic warfare, making it possible to reach more sophisticated judgements. The First World War saw the most highly developed effort ever made to use naval forces, and bureaucratic control ...
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Admiral Mahan, a hundred years ago, published his "The Influence of Seapower on History". Seapower was conceived primarily as the influence navies had over maritime trade, and Mahan believed that it was decisive in international affairs. Since then hundreds of historians and social scientists have written about episodes in the history of economic warfare, making it possible to reach more sophisticated judgements. The First World War saw the most highly developed effort ever made to use naval forces, and bureaucratic control, to deny supplies to the enemy, Germany. Anglo-American relations between the wars were never easy so long as it was believed that naval power conferred world power. In the Second World War, however, British strategy focussed on the need to ensure supply, and German attacks on British marine communications were primarily useful as a brake on British offensive operations. This book reviews the motives for attack on maritime trade over five centuries, and assesses the strategic utility of that form of naval action. Mahan was as much wrong as right.
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Near Fine. Near Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 277. 277 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Near fine dust jacket. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
