A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy

A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy
Author: James Holmes
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1682473821

A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy is a deliberately compact introductory work aimed at junior seafarers, those who make decisions affecting the sea services, and those who educate seafarers and decision-makers. It introduces readers to the main theoretical ideas that shape how statesmen and commanders make and execute maritime strategy in times of peace and war. Following in the spirit of Bernard Brodie's Layman's Guide to Naval Strategy, a World War II-era book whose title makes its purpose plain, it will be a companion volume to such works as Geoffrey Till's Seapower and Wayne Hughes's Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat, the classic treatise that explains how to handle navies in fleet actions. It takes the mystery out of maritime strategy, which should not be an arcane art for practitioners or policy-makers, and will help the next generation think about strategy.

Toward a New Maritime Strategy

Toward a New Maritime Strategy
Author: Peter Haynes
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612518648

Toward a New Maritime Strategy examines the evolution of American naval thinking in the post-Cold War era. It recounts the development of the U.S. Navy’s key strategic documents from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the release in 2007 of the U.S. Navy’s maritime strategy, A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower. This penetrating intellectual history critically analyzes the Navy’s ideas and recounts how they interacted with those that govern U.S. strategy to shape the course of U.S. naval strategy. The book explains how the Navy arrived at its current strategic outlook and why it took nearly two decades to develop a new maritime strategy. Haynes criticizes the Navy’s leaders for their narrow worldview and failure to understand the virtues and contributions of American sea power, particularly in an era of globalization. This provocative study tests institutional wisdom and will surely provoke debate in the Navy, the Pentagon, and U.S. and international naval and defense circles.

Maritime Strategy and Naval Innovation

Maritime Strategy and Naval Innovation
Author: Alessio Patalano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9781682475256

"Acknowledging that 21st-century navies face significant technological, operational, and administrative challenges, this book explores the organizational and bureaucratic factors affecting naval innovation, addresses the impact of new tactics and technologies on war at sea, and explores the ways in which naval innovation in an interconnected world can engage with the challenges of operating with partners"--

Mahan, Corbett, and the Foundations of Naval Strategic Thought

Mahan, Corbett, and the Foundations of Naval Strategic Thought
Author: Kevin D McCranie
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1682475751

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Stafford Corbett emerged as foundational thinkers on naval strategy and maritime power. Important in their lifetimes, their writings remain relevant in the contemporary environment. The significance of Corbett and Mahan to modern naval strategy seems beyond question, but too often their theories are simplified or used without a real understanding of their fundamental bases.Labeling a strategy, operation, or even a navy “Mahanian” or “Corbettian” tells very little. Mahan, Corbett, and the Foundations of Naval Strategic Thought provides an in-depth introduction and a means to stimulate discussion about the theories of Mahan and Corbett. Although there is no substitute for opening the actual writings of Mahan and Corbett, this requires time, not just to read but most importantly to understand how states exploit the sea in the strategic sense. Mahan, Corbett, and the Foundations of Naval Strategic Thought 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. This window into naval strategy provides twenty-first-century readers an understanding of what navies can and perhaps more importantly cannot do in the international environment.

Some Principles of Maritime Strategy

Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
Author: Julian Stafford Corbett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3734026652

Reproduction of the original: Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian Stafford Corbett

Understanding Naval Warfare

Understanding Naval Warfare
Author: Ian Speller
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2023-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000954412

This updated new edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates, set within the context of relevant history. The third edition explains traditional concepts and explores current and emerging ideas concerning the theory and practice of naval warfare, relating these to recent events including Sino-American naval competition and the Russian-Ukraine War. Navies operate in an environment that most people do not understand and that many avoid. They are equipped with a bewildering range of ships, craft and other vessels and types of equipment, the purpose of which is often unclear. Writings on naval warfare are usually replete with references to esoteric concepts explained in specialist language that can serve as a barrier to understanding. This book cuts through the obscure and the arcane to offer a clear, coherent and accessible guide to the key features of naval warfare which will equip the reader with the knowledge and understanding necessary for a sophisticated engagement with the subject. The new edition is divided into two key parts. The first focuses on concepts of naval warfare and introduces readers to the ideas associated with the theory and practice of naval operations and includes a chapter where the history of the last century of naval warfare is explored in order to illustrate the key concepts. The second part focuses on the conduct of war at sea and on peacetime roles for contemporary navies and now includes new material on hybrid warfare and grey zone operations and on joint warfare, multi-domain operations and integrated deterrence within the context of evolving great power rivalry at sea. This textbook will be essential reading for students of naval warfare, sea power and maritime security and is highly recommended for those studying military history, strategic studies and security studies in general.

Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia

Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia
Author: Adam J. Young
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2007-03-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 981230407X

This book explores contemporary maritime piracy in Southeast Asia, demonstrating the utility of using historical context in developing policy approaches that will address the roots of this resurgent phenomenon. The depth and breadth of historical piracy help highlight causative factors of contemporary piracy, which are immersed in the socio-cultural matrix of maritime-oriented peoples to whom piracy is still a "thinkable" option. The threats to life and property posed by piracy are relatively low, but significant given the strategic nature of these waterways that link the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and because piracy is emblematic of broader issues of weak state control in the littoral states of the region. Maritime piracy will never be completely eliminated, but with a progressive economic and political agenda aimed at changing the environment from which piracy is emerging, it could once again become the exception rather than the rule.

Asian Maritime Power in the 21st Century

Asian Maritime Power in the 21st Century
Author: Vijay Sakhuja
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 981431109X

Maritime power has been a key defining parameter of economic vitality and geostrategic power of nations. This book explores how the first decade of the 21st century has witnessed the rise of China and India as confident economic powers pivoting on high growth rates, exponential expansion of science, technology and industrial growth.

The Direction of War

The Direction of War
Author: Hew Strachan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107047854

A major contribution to our understanding of contemporary warfare and strategy by one of the world's leading military historians.