Books in the Cass Series: Naval Policy and History series

A collection of articles analyzing the role played by the secondary navies of north European states within the balance of power, from 1721-2000.

This edited volume critically examines the concept of 'security dilemma' and its effects on India-China maritime competition.

Based on extensive work in Russian archives, this book investigates how strategy, organizational rivalry and cultural factors came to shape naval development in the Soviet Union up to the invasion of 1941. The Soviet Navy's weak position among the armed services made a joint approach to military planning hard to achieve.

This study revises the definition of maritime power through a more comprehensive understanding and appreciation for the roles played by the merchant marine of a nation.

Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called nineteenth-century evangelist of sea power. Chinese analysts invoke Mahan's writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy. This book aims to test the interplay between Western military thought and Chinese strategic traditions. It examines how Mahanian thought shaped China's encounters on high seas.

Explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy. This book argues that SSTR operations are challenging because they create new missions and basing modes, and signal a return to traditional naval methods of operation.

Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much about British naval policy and planning of the time.

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.

A study of India's maritime strategy.

Provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book is for students of naval history and naval education, and of interest to professional military colleges studying the development of naval training.

These studies show how the British Empire used its maritime supremacy to construct and maintain a worldwide defence for its imperial interests.

This study explores Northeast Asia's maritime peace and stability, and examines in depth strategic, military and political issues that underpin any effort to develop maritime cooperation in the region.

An account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on its operations, from historic times. This book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft, and demonstrates how the improved submarines became benchmark of the post-war Russian submarine challenge.

Reviews the studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era. This book provides accounts of the Dreyer/Pollen controversy, and of gunnery at Jutland. It outlines the German fire control system, and offers an assessment of Beatty's tactics throughout the Battle of Jutland.

This book explores innovation within the Royal Navy from the financial constraints of the 1930s through to the refocusing of the Royal Navy after 1990.

A collection of articles analyzing the role played by the secondary navies of north European states within the balance of power, from 1721-2000.

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of multipolarity grappled with similar challenges.

An account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. It is suitable for students and scholars of Military History, and those with a general interest in World War II, particularly in the conflicts of the Pacific, Pearl Harbor and Guadalcanal.

This volume contends that nations embroiled in Continental wars have historically had poor maritime strategies, developing the argument that navies involved in such wars have made poor contributions to politial objectives.

Bringing together Britain's naval historians and analysts, this book investigates British naval thinking, and what has made it distinctive over three centuries, since the sailing ship era. It also describes the beginnings of formalized thought about the conduct of naval operations, its transformation, and its application in the two World Wars.

Presents an investigation of British naval thinking and what makes it so distinctive. This book describes the beginnings of formalized thought about the conduct of naval operations in the 18th Century, its transformation through the impact of industrialization in the 19th Century and its application in the two World Wars of the twentieth.

Through planning for a war against Japan the Royal Navy was able to test its readiness for a future war and many lessons learnt during this period were ultimately put to good use against a different foe in 1939.

Ola Tunander's revelations make it clear that the United States and Britain ran a "secret war" in Swedish waters.

This book traces the evolution of all the various parts of Britain's anti-submarine capability and examines the development of the specialist anti-submarine and submarine-detector branches.

Britain's strategic position east of Suez in the twentieth century was a dominant area of interest and had an enormous impact in the overall construction of Great Britain's naval strategic posture.

Examines naval coalition warfare from a multi-national perspective.

This is a naval history of Greece in the 1910s, a decade when the geographic importance of the country and its naval capabilities both increased considerably.

This unique account describes the interplay of factors in the emergence of the Austro-Hungarian Navy from a coastal defence force in 1904 to a respectable battle force by the eve of World War I.