Agents of Innovation

by Kuehn, John T.

• ISBN13: 9781591144489
• ISBN10: 1591144485
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr

Summary

"This book examines the influence of the General Board of the U.S. Navy as agents of innovation during the period between World Wars I and II. The General Board, a formal body established by the Secretary of the Navy to advise him on both strategic matters with respect to the fleet, served as the organizational nexus for the interaction between fleet design and the naval limitations imposed on the Navy by international treaty during the period between the two world wars."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
List of Acronyms	p. xviii
Introduction: The Navy, Treaties, and Innovation	p. 1
The General Board	p. 8
U.S. Sea Power and the Washington Conference	p. 23
The General Board and the Treaty System	p. 40
Battleship Modernization	p. 63
Naval Aviation and the Fortification Clause	p. 88
Strategic Innovation in the Interwar U.S. Navy	p. 125
Perspectives from Great Britain, Japan, and Germany	p. 144
Conclusion	p. 162
The Washington Naval Treaty	p. 188
U.S. Naval Policy, 1922	p. 198
Bureau Recommendations for Battleship Modernization	p. 206
Comparison Chart for Cruiser Designs	p. 208
Excerpt from the Mobile Base Project	p. 210
Notes	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 249
Index	p. 257
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