Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

by O'Brien,Phillips Payson

• ISBN13: 9780415449366
• ISBN10: 0415449367
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This work examines how the navies of Great Britain, the USA, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, France and Italy confronted the various technological changes posed during different periods in the 20th century.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preparing for the First World War: Italian warship construction and maritime strategy, 1873-1915, Brian R. Sullivan; Japanese naval construction, 1878-1918, David C. Evans; the French Navy, 1880-1914, Paul Halpern; technology, shipbuilding and future combat in Germany, 1880-1914, Michael Epkenhans; Admiral Sir John Fisher and the concept of flotilla defence, 1904-9, Nicholas A. Lambert. Part 2 Preparing for the Second World War: Japanese naval construction, 1919-41, Mark R. Peattie; German naval strategy and armament, 1919-39, Werner Rahn; British naval procurement and technological change, 1919-39, Jon T. Sumida; politics, arms control and US naval development in the interwar period, Phillips Payson O'Brien. Part 3 Preparing for the Cold War: the Russian Navy in the Gorshkov era, Evan Mawdsley; the Royal Navy, 1945-90, Eric Grove; purposes and platforms in the US Navy, 1945-90, George W. Baer. Part 4 Preparing for the next war: the Royal Navy in a new world, 1990-2020, Geoffrey Till; the transformation of the US Navy, Norman Friedman; technology, shipbuilding and future combat beyond 2020, David Andrews.