The American Naval Heritage

by Coletta, Paolo E.

• ISBN13: 9780761808077
• ISBN10: 0761808078
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-06
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

U.S. naval history should not be studied merely as a record of battles lost and won but as a part of a nation's exercise of power. In this work, major events are fleshed out with relevant material from such areas as military power, economic warfare, diplomacy, and propaganda. The reader can thus gain an appreciation of the influence of sea power as one of the agencies that nations use in conducting their international relations. The book offers examples of how naval officers gained control of the seas as armaments evolved. The influence of sea power upon history is stressed along with emphasis on strategic decision-making, the characteristics of successful leadership, and the evolution of naval weapons, tactics, amphibious doctrine, and administration.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of charts and maps
Acknowledgments
Preface
Concepts and Definitions	p. 1
A Century of Wars, 1689-1763	p. 5
Sea Power in the War of the American Revolution	p. 15
A Chip on the European War Table, 1783-1815	p. 25
The U.S. Navy at Peace and War, 1815-1861	p. 47
Naval Power in the American Civil War, 1861-1865	p. 73
The Post-Civil War Denoument and the Rise of the New Navy, 1865-1898	p. 95
The Spanish-American War	p. 105
The U.S. Navy Comes of Age, 1898-1914	p. 121
Naval Power and the World War, 1914-1917	p. 135
The U.S. Navy in World War I, 1917-1919	p. 149
Naval Disarmament and Rearmament, 1918-1941	p. 167
The Coming of World War II	p. 185
World War II in European Waters	p. 193
The U.S. Navy in World War II: Atlantic Theater	p. 213
World War II in the Pacific, Part I. Japanese Expansion: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal	p. 235
World War II in the Pacific, Part II: The Campaign Against Rabaul	p. 255
World War II in the Pacific, Part III: The Dual Advance and the End of the Japanese Empire	p. 281
The Cold War and American Defense Reorganization, 1945-1950	p. 317
Korea and Continued Communist Containment, 1950-1961	p. 339
Kennedy, Johnson, and Sea Power in the 1960s and 1970s	p. 375
The Challenge of the Soviet Navy	p. 397
Sea Power for the 1980s	p. 419
Reagan, the Rearming of America, and the Maritime Strategy	p. 439
Reagan and Nuclear Weapons: SDI, START, and SALT without SALT	p. 459
The Administrations of George Bush and William J. Clinton, 1989-1997	p. 473
Index	p. 497
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