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• Introduction: sound military conclusions
• America and its place in the world
• Readiness in the past, present, and future
• Management, administration, and naval leadership
• Globalization and the fleet
• The political development of naval strategy
• Training of officers and sailors
• Leadership and command
• History and conventional wisdom
• Conclusion: The use and abuse of Alfred Thayer Mahan.

"Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Seapower upon History is well known to students of naval history and strategy, but his other writings are often dismissed as irrelevant to today's problems. This collection of five of Mahan's essays, along with Benjamin Armstrong's informative introductions, illustrates why Mahan's work remains relevant to the 21st century and how it can help develop our strategic thinking"-- Provided by publisher.

During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least-known stories of the Cold War.

"Sailing Upwind is more than just another memoir of a distinguished former naval officer's highly diverse career. This book by Admiral James "Sandy" Winnefeld is also intended to offer useful reflections regarding how he accepted and managed risk along the way, as well as a concise description of the qualities one must develop to become a successful leader"-- Provided by publisher
"Sailing Upwind is more than just another memoir of a distinguished former naval officer's highly diverse career. This book by Admiral James "Sandy" Winnefeld is also intended to offer useful reflections regarding how he accepted and managed risk along the way, as well as a concise description of the qualities one must develop to become a successful leader. Winnefeld began his career as an F-14 fighter pilot and TOPGUN instructor, commanded an aircraft carrier, and then served in a variety of flag officer billets on the way to becoming the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This book describes in an entertaining and humble manner how that journey unfolded and the lessons he attaches to it. The reader learns what it is like to become a Navy fighter pilot, and to fly, fight, and takeoff and land from an aircraft carrier - including a harrowing description of ejecting from an F-14 at night far from land. Winnefeld describes the culture of excellence at the real TOPGUN and the Navy's nuclear propulsion program. He recounts how he learned to lead the men and women who operate at every level of Navy operational command, from squadron to ship to fleet. Finally, the author presents a behind-the-scenes look at how decisions are made at the highest levels of government regarding whether and how those forces will be used, and how they are acquired. In the process, Winnefeld provides descriptions of how, by challenging existing assumptions and processes and through relentless creativity, he was able to lead change. He reflects on how the risk associated with such changes should be accepted and managed. The title Sailing Upwind-in which a sailboat must be operated against a prevailing force field to make progress in the right direction-is an apt metaphor for the bent for pushing against the system Winnefeld describes throughout the book."-- Provided by publisher

"The ability of the United States Navy to fight and win a protracted war in the Pacific was not solely the result of technology, tactics, or leadership. Naval aviation maintenance played a major role in the U.S. victory over Japan in the second World War. The naval war against Japan did not achieve sustained success until enough aircraft technicians were available to support the high tempo of aviation operations that fast carrier task force doctrine demanded. When the United States realized war was imminent and ordered a drastic increase in the size of its aviation fleet, the Navy was forced to reconsider its earlier practices and develop new policies in maintenance, supply, and technical training. Not only did a shortage of technicians plague the Navy, but the scarcity of aviation supply and repair facilities in the Pacific soon caused panic in Washington. While the surface navy's modernization of at-sea replenishment was beneficial, it did not solve the problems of sustaining war-time aircraft readiness levels sufficient to a winning a naval air war. Fisher outlines the drastic institutional changes that accompanied an increase in aviation maintenance personnel from fewer than 10,000 to nearly 250,000 bluejackets, the complete restructuring of the naval aviation technical educational system, and the development of a highly skilled labor force. The first comprehensive study on the importance of aircraft maintenance and the aircraft technician in the age of the aircraft carrier, Sustaining the Carrier War, provides the missing link to our understanding of Great Power conflict at sea."-- Provided by publisher

• Préface. Pour la France, par les mers, nous combattons
• 1. Appareillage
• Section - Il y a plus de deux siècles, à l'ère de la marine à voile
• Aux Indes avec monsieur de Suffren
• Premier acte, Sadras, 12°31'N - 080°10'E, le 17 février 1782
• Dernier acte, Gondelour, 11°44'N - 079°46'E, juin 1783
• Section - Il y a bientôt un siècle, à l'ère du canon. - À Koh-Chang avec le capitaine de vaisseau Bérenger
• Golfe du Siam, 11°55' N - 102°22'E, le 17 janvier 1941
• Section - Aujourd'hui, à l'ère du missile. - Dans le chaudron des Malouines avec l'amiral Woodward et l'équipage du HMS Glamorgan
• Au large, à l'est des Malouines, 53°S - 056°W, le 4 mai 1982
• Devant la côte est des Malouines, entre Port Stanley et Fitzroy, le 12 juin 1982
• Section - Le combat naval à travers le temps : ruptures et continuités
• Tu ne peux pas descendre deux fois dans le même fleuve
• "La guerre est un caméléons
• 2. De quoi s'agit-il ? la tactique navale dans son contexte
• Section - De la mer et de ses conséquences sur l'action tactique navale
• Hostilité
• Globalité
• Un milieu lisse et fluide
• Un milieu multidimensionnel
• Immensité
• L'exception qui confirme la règle : la singularité littorale
• Section - De la place de la tactique navale dans l'art de la guerre
• Les niveaux décisionnels en opérations
• Place de la tactique dans les niveaux décisionnels de la guerre
• Section - La finalité de l'action tactique navale. - Quelques repères
• Conquête, maîtrise et exploitation de l'espace aéromaritime
• En mer ou depuis la mer
• Compléments stratégiques
• Section - Des acteurs de l'action tactique navale
• À propos des acteurs du combat naval
• Les acteurs basés en mer
• Les acteurs basés à terre
• Les acteurs basés dans l'espace
• Section - Composants élémentaires de la tactique navale. – Tentative de classification
• Les deux piliers de la tactique navale
• Composants du pilier de tactique navale générale. Domaine des principes
• Composants des tactiques de forces navales. Domaine des procédés
• Section - Particules élémentaires de l'action tactique navale
• Le triptyque de l'action tactique navale
• Les actions tactiques navales cinétiques
• Les actions tactiques navales non cinétiques
• Le cas particulier des actions amphibies
• Les qualificatifs d'une action tactique navale
• 3. La fin et les moyens : tactique navale et technologie
• Section - La tactique au défi de l'évolution technologique
• La course technologique
• À la poursuite de la "surprise technologique"
• À la recherche de la "flotte idéale"
• Articuler technologie et tactique
• Section - Les écueils du "mirage technologique"
• Le risque de l'arme nouvelle
• Le risque de la surestimation des performances de ses équipements
• L'écueil de l'écrasement de la tactique par la technique
• Section - Dix amers sûrs pour le tacticien naval
• 4. Quelques amers : les principes de la tactique navale
• Section - Au-delà des procédés, les principes
• Premières difficultés
• Quelques limites
• Section - Une boussole : la spécificité du combat naval
• Rapide, destructeur, décisif
• Des campagnes d'attrition, des engagements pulsatiles
• À propos de supériorité et d'infériorité
• Conclusions pratiques
• Section - Une première dialectique fondamentale : les rapports de l'offensive et de la défensive en mer
• Offensive en mer
• Défensive en mer
• Cohabitation des deux aspects
• Avantages comparatifs
• Principes tactiques
• Section - L'oméga du combat naval : la délivrance du feu
• Un impératif catégorique : engager effectivement et de manière décisive en premier
• Considérations complémentaires sur la délivrance du feu
• Principes tactiques
• Section - L'alpha : la construction de l'image tactique
• Le problème des moyens
• Un effort orienté vers une finalité tactique : l'engagement
• Amis et neutres
• Principes
• Section - La force vitale du combat naval : la manœuvre
• Place de la manœuvre dans la tactique navale
• La question de la vitesse
• Un cas particulier : la manœuvre face à la masse terrestre
• Principes
• Section Une seconde dialectique fondamentale : concentration ou dispersion
• Concentrer, masser et disperser les forces, la force ou les efforts : quelles nuances
• Approche historique d'un dilemme tactique
• Bilan à l'ère du missile
• Principes
• Section - Sûreté et surprise
• La sûreté, âme de la liberté d'action et antidote contre la surprise
• Une forme particulière de sûreté : les réserves
• Sûreté et dispersion
• La surprise : s'en prémunir, mais surtout la produire
• Principes
• Section - Commandement et contrôle (C2) : quels principes ?
• Au cœur du C2, le rapport au temps
• La question du contrôle
• Principes
• Annexe. - Les grands principes de la guerre
• 5. Quelques corrections de Cap : les tendances de la tactique navale
• Section - Quelques tendances contextuelles
• Une tendance aux allures de constante : l'hybridité
• Une tendance bien réelle mais à nuancer : les espaces contestés
• Une double tendance juridique et morale : le droit comme levier et l'asymétrie des référentiels éthiques
• Une double tendance liée à l'accélération du monde
• Section - Les tendances du combat naval
• Plus loin, plus vite, plus létal : quelles conséquences ?
• Face à la transparence du corps, l'opacité du cœur
• Pleins phares dans le brouillard : enjeux autour d'une bascule cognitive
• La symbiose des milieux et des champs : enjeux autour du décloisonnement du champ de bataille naval
• Le combat collaboratif : la nouvelle organisation du travail au sein d'une force navale
• Plus de machines et moins d'hommes : les conséquences de l'âge de la robotique
• Dépendance technologique et 41 effet falaise. : quand le plus devient "moins
• Section - Quels facteurs de supériorité pour vaincre en mer au XXIe siècle ?
• À la fois lion et renard : faire sauter les freins mentaux, sans sacrifier les moyens à la fin
• Concilier décentralisation et centralisation : l'enjeu de la confiance
• Tin Can Sailor and Silicon Chip Warriar : l'enjeu de la résilience
• Garder "les pieds sur mer o : l'enjeu du pragmatisme
• L'homme au centre : l'enjeu de l'intelligence
• 4. Dans le chaudron du combat : planifier et conduire l'action tactique navale
• Section - La conception tactique, un acte de l'esprit en trois temps
• À propos de planification tactique
• Dispositions pour bien planifier : notions et état d'esprit
• Au commencement, apprécier la situation
• Au cœur de la conception tactique, la construction des options
• Enfin, décider
• La planification lorsque le temps manque
• Section - Commander et contrôler, le cœur de l'action tactique navale
• L'organisation du commandement, clé de voûte du C2 de force navale
• Le mission command, souvent invoqué, rarement compris
• La fabrique des ordres
• Section - La conduite de l'action tactique navale ou l'épreuve du feu
• Annexe. - Liste d'effets pouvant être produits dans le combat naval
• 7.

• Les membrures de la victoire : doctrine, entraînement et forces morales
• Section - L'esprit, ou la doctrine comme condition nécessaire, mais non suffisante, de la victoire
• La doctrine : ce qu'elle est, ce qu'elle n'est pas
• Sans doctrine, point de victoire tactique possible
• Une bonne doctrine est d'abord une doctrine saine
• Les écueils classiques de la doctrine
• Section - Le corps ou l'entraînement comme facteur de surclassement
• Pourquoi s'entraîner
• Comment s'entraîner
• S'entraîner au cinquième âge du combat naval
• Section - L'âme ou les forces morales
• Le rôle tactique des forces morales
• Le carburant des forces morales
• Conclusion au cinquième âge du combat naval
• 8. Commander : le leadership tactique en mer
• Section - Le rôle déterminant du chef tactique
• Vis-à-vis de l'action tactique
• Vis-à-vis de ses subordonnés
• Vis-à-vis de l'adversaire
• Les écueils à éviter
• Section - Les qualités du chef tactique naval
• Section - Du commandement par l'intention et l'exemple
• Commander au combat au XXIe siècle
• Promouvoir la liberté d'action
• En 2022, ce que nous dit la guerre en Ukraine
• De la vocation d'une marine de combat.

"Après des décennies d'apparente accalmie, l'hypothèse du combat naval est de nouveau plausible. Si le XXe siècle s'est achevé par une domination sans partage de la puissance navale occidentale, le XXIe siècle s'ouvre sur une contestation des équilibres anciens, en particulier dans les "espaces communs" dont la mer fait partie. La rivalité entre forces navales, qu'on aurait pu croire dépassée, fait donc son retour, soulevant dans son sillage de nombreuses interrogations sur les moyens de s'imposer en mer. Ce livre comble un vide : il n'existe pas de synthèse historique et prospective sur les forces navales au combat. Or, le besoin de réflexion dans ce domaine n'a jamais été aussi pressant, vital. C'est à cette tâche que deux officiers de marine s'attellent dans Vaincre en mer au XXIe siecle. Convoquant nombre d'épisodes souvent tombés dans l'oubli, ils démêlent les invariants et les inflexions de la guerre sur mer, analysent les conditions de ta victoire et rendent l'histoire navale palpitante. Aussi identifient-ils un cinquième âge de la conflictualité navale, plus létal, rapide et technologique, où la volonté, le courage et l'intelligence de l'homme seront plus que jamais la clé du succès. Un âge qui succède, sans les effacer totalement, aux âges de la voile, du canon, de l'avion et du missile. Cet ouvrage de tactique navale générale destiné au grand public est une immersion pleine d'embruns au cœur des combats navals qui nous attendent, à la lumière d'affrontements historiques dont les enseignements s'avèrent étonnants d'actualité."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: Something new in the world
• The lucky bag
• Mastering power
• The two hats
• Richover made us do it
• Another Dreyfus case?
• Underway on nuclear power
• Atoms for peace
• Nautilus 90 North
• Education and freedom
• A different kind of man
• The chair with the short legs
• The Crusade
• Ships and horse turds
• The longest-serving officer
• Epilogue: like falling in love
• Acknowledgements
• Notes

A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial "Father of the Nuclear Navy" "Marc Wortman delivers a 17-gun salute to this short, profane spitfire who pulled a reluctant Navy into the atomic era. . . . Wortman opens a window into the life of an intellectual titan disdainful of nearly everything except scientific honesty, his adopted nation, and the power of the atom."-Jonathan W. Jordan, Wall Street Journal Known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy, " Admiral Hyman George Rickover (1899-1986) remains an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A brilliant engineer with a ferocious will and combative personality, he oversaw the invention of the world's first practical nuclear power reactor. As important as the transition from sail to steam, his development of nuclear-propelled submarines and ships transformed naval power and Cold War strategy. They still influence world affairs today. His disdain for naval regulations, indifference to the chain of command, and harsh, insulting language earned him enemies in the navy, but his achievements won him powerful friends in Congress and the White House. A Jew born in a Polish shtetl, Rickover ultimately became the longest-serving U.S. military officer in history. In this exciting new biography, historian Marc Wortman explores the constant conflict Rickover faced and provoked, tracing how he revolutionized the navy and Cold War strategy.
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A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial "Father of the Nuclear Navy" "Marc Wortman delivers a 17-gun salute to this short, profane spitfire who pulled a reluctant Navy into the atomic era. . . . Wortman opens a window into the life of an intellectual titan disdainful of nearly everything except scientific honesty, his adopted nation, and the power of the atom."-Jonathan W. Jordan, Wall Street Journal Known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy, " Admiral Hyman George Rickover (1899-1986) remains an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A brilliant engineer with a ferocious will and combative personality, he oversaw the invention of the world's first practical nuclear power reactor. As important as the transition from sail to steam, his development of nuclear-propelled submarines and ships transformed naval power and Cold War strategy. They still influence world affairs today. His disdain for naval regulations, indifference to the chain of command, and harsh, insulting language earned him enemies in the navy, but his achievements won him powerful friends in Congress and the White House. A Jew born in a Polish shtetl, Rickover ultimately became the longest-serving U.S. military officer in history. In this exciting new biography, historian Marc Wortman explores the constant conflict Rickover faced and provoked, tracing how he revolutionized the navy and Cold War strategy.
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In 1972, the US Navy installed a base for nuclear submarines in the Archipelago of La Maddalena off the northeastern shore of Sardinia, Italy. In response, Italy established a radiation surveillance program to monitor the impact of the base on the environment and public health. In the first systematic study of nuclear expertise in Italy, Davide Orsini focuses on the ensuing technopolitical disputes concerning the role and safety of US nuclear submarines in the Mediterranean Sea from the Cold War period to the closure of the naval base in 2008. His book follows the struggles of different groups--including local residents of the archipelago, US Navy personnel, local administrators, Italian experts, and politicians--to define nuclear submarines as either imperceptible threats, much like radiocontamination, or as efficient machines at the service of liberty and freedom. Unlike inland nuclear power plants, vividly present and visible with their tall cooling towers and reactor containers, the mobility and invisibility of submarines contributed to an ambivalence about their nature, perpetuating the idea of nuclear exceptionalism. In Italy, they symbolized objects in constant motion, easily removable at the first sign of potential harm. Orsini demonstrates how these mobile sources of hazard posed special challenges for both expert assessments and public understandings of risk, and in contexts outside the Anglo-Saxon world, where unique social power dynamics held sway over the outcome of technopolitical controversies.
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This is the story of Admiral Sir John Balchen, his life and career, and HMS _Victory_, the largest, finest ship-of-the-line in the Royal Navy at the time, which he commanded when both were lost, along with more than 1,000 crew, in an October storm in the English Channel in 1744\. This is not the _Victory_ of Trafalgar fame, however, but the First Rate built some thirty years earlier, the last Royal Navy three-decker to carry bronze cannons, and a ship whose poor design may well have contributed to her loss. It is also the story of Admiral John Balchen, a courageous, if not heroic, naval officer who saw major engagements and whose legacy in naval development deserves greater recognition. Indeed, the story of both the ship and her commander, their individual and remarkably parallel lives, can now be revealed as fundamental catalysts to the revolutionary reforms in naval shipbuilding, design and dockyard administration that transformed the Royal Navy after 1745\. They were indeed major foundation stones for a navy that delivered the glorious achievements of Nelson, Anson, Howe, Hood, Rodney, Boscawen and many more in the great pantheon of British naval history that followed their loss. The exciting discovery of the wreck of HMS _Victory_ in 2008, the subsequent and continuing public and political wrangling over possible salvage, and the 2019 display at Portsmouth of a mighty 42-pounder bronze gun retrieved from the wreck, have been the catalyst for this history of the admiral and his ship, and anyone with an interest in naval or maritime history, whether academic or popular, will be fascinated by the facts about the hitherto virtually unknown predecessor of Nelson's great flagship. This glorious man-and-ship odyssey, whose intrinsic importance to naval history can now be recognised, is richly and compelling told in this important new book.
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• Introduction: A History of English and French Naval Interaction 1.
• Senior Admiralty 2.
• Naval Administration 3.
• Funding the Fleet 4.
• Warship Design and Experimentation 5.
• Royal and Private Armed Sea Forces 6.
• Navies Transformed Appendices Bibliography Index.
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This book traces the advances and deterioration of the early modern English and French sea forces and relates these changes to concurrent developments within the respective states. Based on extensive original research in correspondence and memoirs, official reports and accounts, receipts of the exchequer and inventories in both France, where the sources are disparate and dispersed, and England, the book explores the rise of both kingdoms' naval resources from the early sixteenth to the mid seventeenth centuries. As a comparative study, it shows that, in sharing the Channel and with both countries increasing their involvement in maritime affairs, English and French naval expansion was intertwined. Directly and indirectly, the two kingdoms influenced their neighbours' sea programmes. The book first examines the administrative transformations of both navies, then goes on to discuss fiscal and technological change, and finally assesses the material expansion of the respective fleets. In so doing it demonstrates the close relationship between naval power and state strength in early modern Europe. One important argument challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England.
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• Acknowledgments Vietnam Vet by Elaine Kiesling Whitehouse Preface Introduction
• 1. Why Join the Navy?
• 2. A Life Changing Event
• 3. Midshipman Tough
• 4. Catastrophes of 1968
• 5. Graduate, Marry and Join the Fleet
• 6. Classmates Lost
• 7. Deployment to Westpac
• 8. Driving Ships and Yankee Station
• 9. Ensign John Norton and the Evans
• 10. DASH Ops and Bangkok
• 11. Naval Gunfire Support and the Rodent Incident
• 12. Hong Kong Mary, the China Fleet Club, and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
• 13. A Possible Kraken and Okinawa Legacy
• 14. Wardroom Changes and Another Friend Lost
• 15. Back to Vietnam
• 16. Subic Bay and Olongapo
• 17. Saving John Wayne and the Fight
• 18. Project 100,000 and Typhoon Joan
• 19. Homeward Bound
• 20. Patrol Gunboats
• 21. East Coast Here We Come
• 22. Guantanamo Bay
• 23. The Loss of a Best Friend
• 24. Getting to Norway
• 25. Welcome to the Norwegian Navy
• 26. Deploying to the Arctic
• 27. Life in the Far North
• 28. The Lost Ship
• 29. Not Visiting Leningrad
• 30. The Shetlands, Back North, Sailing Subs
• 31. The Sami
• 32. The Turn
• 33. Riding Norwegian Gunboats
• 34. A Change of Course Appendix: Soviet Socialism and Its Influences Today Author's Service Record Bibliography Index.
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As a U.S. Navy officer, Jack Whitehouse served aboard a World War II-era destroyer at the peak of the Vietnam War, ran special operations on a patrol boat out of Guantanamo Bay during the Cuban Missile Crisis and deployed with the Royal Norwegian Navy to counter Soviet threats north of the Arctic Circle. His detailed memoir recounts American efforts to win the Cold War from the perspective of a young lieutenant on the front lines 1964-1975 and the personal struggles and perseverance of sailors fighting an existential enemy at sea.
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• "...Bytʹ matematicheskikh i navigat͡skikh, to estʹ morekhodnykh khitrostno nauk uchenii͡u..."
• "...Chtitʹ pami͡atʹ zashchitnikov Otechestva..."
• Velikoe nasledie nashego Otechestva
• Shkola flotovodt͡sev

• "...Быть математических и навигацких, то есть мореходных хитростно наук учению..."
• "...Чтить память защитников Отечества..."
• Великое наследие нашего Отечества
• Школа флотоводцев.

• Préambule. Piraterie et histoire navale
• Introduction
• Un océan agité
• Des sources incommodes
• 1. Les navires
• 2. L'artillerie
• Les armes à feu en mer
• Des progrès imparfaits
• Une "révolution militaire" en mer !
• 3. Les hommes à bord
• Des navires et des hommes
• Un équipage en fonctionnement
• 4. Vers le combat
• Organiser le navire
• Répartir l'équipage
• Préparer les hommes
• 5. Manœuvrer
• Tenir la flotte
• L'avantage du vent
• Formations de combat
• 6. (Essayer de) combattre de loin
• L'allongement incertain des distances
• Tirer au canon, ou la tâche impossible
• 7. Le contact
• Retenir son feu
• Le déferlement du premier contact
• La panoplie du combat rapproché
• 8. Aborder
• Lieux et angles
• Prendre pied sur le pont ennemi
• 9. Le cœur du combat
• La confusion de la mêlée
• Garder un équipage fonctionnel
• 10. Se maintenir
• Blessures et dégâts
• Le capitaine au cœur du combat
• 11. Terminer le combat
• La temporalité de la bataille
• L'annihilation
• Arrêter le combat
• L'après-combat.

"Rendre compte au plus près des navires et des hommes, "au ras du pont", de la réalité du combat sur mer entre le début du XVIe et le milieu du XVIIe siècle, tel est le pari de ce livre profondément original et novateur. En cette époque de transition, le combat naval s'accomplit encore aussi bien "par le fer" des armes blanches que "par le feu" d'une artillerie variée. C'est le temps de l'évolution entre le progrès technique des navires et de l'artillerie et des pratiques toujours tournées vers l'abordage. On ne peut comprendre l'un sans l'autre, l'abordage restant l'acmé de l'engagement sur mer, moment de l'affrontement face à face où la mort revêt un visage que la destruction à distance par l'artillerie ne saurait présenter. Pour témoigner du vécu des hommes avant, pendant et après le combat, Alexandre Jubelin a puisé aux rares sources disponibles tant en France qu'en Angleterre ou en Espagne. Il offre ainsi un récit vivant et sensible de ce que furent les réalités du combat sur mer, embrassant pour la première fois aussi bien les questions techniques et que les enjeux humains."--Page 4 of cover.

How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914-but shaped Britain's success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett (1854-1922) brought a new level of logic, advocacy, and intellectual precision to the development of strategy. Corbett skillfully integrated classical strategic theory, British history, and emerging trends in technology, geopolitics, and conflict to prepare the British state for war. He emphasized that strategy is a unique national construct, rather than a set of universal principles, and recognized the importance of domestic social reform and the evolving British Commonwealth. Corbett's concept of a maritime strategy, dominated by the control of global communications and economic war, survived the debacle of 1914-18, when Britain used the German "way of war" at unprecedented cost in lives and resources. It proved critical in the Second World War, shaping Churchill's conduct of the conflict from the Fall of France to D-Day. And as Lambert shows, Corbett's ideas continue to influence British thinking.
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• Introduction
• A Plundering People
• Renegades and Reprisals
• Risks and Rewards
• Piracy and Empire
• Sailors and the Company-State
• Englishness Abroad
• Sailors and the State
• Epilogue

A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a reputation for ruthlessness. Peace in 1603 forced these predatory seamen to adapt to a radically changed world, one in which they were expected to risk their lives for merchants' gain, not plunder. Merchant trading companies expected sailors to relinquish their unruly ways and to help convince overseas rulers and trading partners that the English were a courteous and trustworthy "nation." Some sailors rebelled, becoming pirates and renegades; others demanded and often received concessions and shares in new trading opportunities. Treated gently by a state that was anxious to promote seafaring in order to man the navy, these determined sailors helped to keep the sea a viable and attractive trade for Englishmen.
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• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction 1. Fourth industrial revolution technologies
• 2. Maritime commercial operations
• 3. Navies and fourth industrial revolution
• 4. 4IR in western navies
• 5. Asian navies and 4IR technologies
• 6. 4IR and Indian navy
• 7. 4IR and blue economy
• 8. 4IR, ethics and international law
• 9. Conclusion
• Appendix
• Selected bibliography
• Index