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Bruce A. Elleman
This concise but exhaustive treatment of sea powers examines the strengths and weaknesses of maritime power, including chapters on mutiny, blockades, coalitions, expeditionary warfare, piracy, commerce raiding, and soft power…
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Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine
Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. The authors focus especially on China’s culture, warfare, and immediate…
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Naval War College Press
Excerpt from the introduction: In the late nineteenth century, the French Jeune cole, or new school, of naval thinking promoted a commerce-raiding strategy for the weaker naval power to defeat…
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Excerpt from the introduction: In the late nineteenth century, the French Jeune Ecole, or new school, of naval thinking promoted a commerce-raiding strategy for the weaker naval power to defeat…
Edited collection of scholarly essays on historical cases of the use of navies in nonmilitary situations.
