British Naval Strategy East of Suez, 1900-2000 (eBook, ePUB)

Influences and Actions
Redaktion: Kennedy, Greg

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Britain's strategic position east of Suez in the twentieth century was a dominant area of interest and had an enormous impact in the overall construction of Great Britain's naval strategic posture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135769666
• Artikelnr.: 47892890

Autorenporträt

Greg Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Watchfield, UK. He is the author of Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939 (Cass, 2002), which won the 2002 Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize, as well as several other edited and co-edited volumes. He has published widely in the areas of British and US strategic foreign policy relations and naval strategy.

Inhaltsangabe

1 . "Wee-ah-wee"?: Britain at Weihaiwei, 1898-1930 2. The Idea of Naval
Imperialism: The China squadron and the Boxer uprising 3. 'Unbroken
Thread': Japan, maritime power and British imperial defence, 1920-1932 4.
What Worth the Americans?:The British strategic foreign policy making
elite's view of American maritime power in the Far East, 1933-1941 5.
'Looking skyward from below the waves': Admiral Tom Phillips and the loss
of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse 6. 'Light Two Lanterns, The British
Are Coming By Sea': Royal Navy participation in the Pacific 1944-1945 7.
The Royal Navy in Korea: Replenishment and sustainability 8. The Royal
Navy, Expeditionary Operations and The End of Empire, 1956-1975 9. The
Royal Navy and Confrontation, 1963-66 10. The British Naval Role East of
Suez: An Australian perspective 11. The Return to Globalism: The Royal Navy
east of Suez, 1975-2003