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This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory.
List of contents
Foreword John B. Hattendorf 1. Introduction Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine 2. Legal Issues in Expeditionary Campaigns Eric T. Jensen 3. Festering the Spanish Ulcer: The Royal Navy and the Peninsular War, 1808-1814 Michael Duffy 4. The Royal Navy’s White Sea Campaign of 1854 Andrew D. Lambert 5. Gallipoli as a Combined and Joint Operation Robin Prior 6. The British Mesopotamia Campaign, 1914-1918 Paul G. Halpern 7. Pearl Harbor and Beyond: Japan’s Peripheral Strategy to Defeat China S.C.M. Paine 8. A Pivotal Campaign in a Peripheral Theatre: Guadalcanal and World War II in the Pacific Bradford A. Lee 9. The New Guinea Campaign during World War II David Stevens 10. Amphibious Assault as Decisive Maneuver in Korea Donald Chisholm 11. Naval Operations in Peripheral Conflicts: The Malayan Emergency (1948-60) and Confrontation (1962-66) Jeffrey Grey 12. China’s 1974 Naval Expedition to the Paracel Islands Bruce A. Elleman 13. Always Expect the Unexpected: The Falklands/Malvinas Maritime Conflict 1982 Eric Grove 14. The Maritime Campaign in Iraq Peter Jones 15. U.S. Naval Operations and Contemporary Geopolitics: The War on Terror and the New Great Game in the Early 21st Century John Reeve 16. Conclusions: Naval Expeditionary Warfare and the Future of Seapower Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine
About the author
Bruce A. Elleman is Research Professor in the Maritime History Department at the U.S. Naval War College.
S.C.M. Paine is a Professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the U.S. Naval War College.
Summary
This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory.
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"Unsurprisingly, the essays are of a high overall quality; most of them are of a fairly modest length, but they are thought provoking and well written. Overall, Naval Power and ExpeditionaryWarfareis a very strong work - and, giventhe recent NATO war against Libya, an especially timely one. It should be of much intereste to readers interested in the history of peripheralcampaigns and those considering how U.S. military power should be used in future." - C. Dale Walton, Comparative Strategy
"While general students of naval history will find much here of interest, Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars holds special appeal for those professionals in strategic and security studies" - Spencer C. Tucker, International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, Dec 2011
