ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SEA POWER

Author: George W Baer

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Year published: 1994

Pagination: 536pp, maps

Condition: Very good in d/w

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The history of the United States Navy, 1890-1990. The author looks at its development into the most powerful navy in the world, and how its objectives and strategy developed around offensive control based on the battleship. He examines the requirement to build an offensive fleet, and the impact of new technologies that required radical re-organisation and changes to fleet composition