Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
About the Book Series
This series consists primarily of original manuscripts by research scholars in the general area of naval policy and history, without national or chronological limitations.
Continental Powers and Naval Development: Strategy Coherence, Threat Diffusion and Success at Sea
1st Edition
By Brian C. Chao
October 16, 2025
This book considers how continental great powers have attempted to develop and wield strong navies from 1801 onwards. Continental Powers and Naval Development argues that a continental great power’s ability to build and effectively use a strong navy are greatly affected by two factors: a naval ...
Airborne Maritime Surveillance in the North Atlantic: Norwegian and Allied Patrols, 1945 to the Present-day
1st Edition
By John O. Birkeland
July 17, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive examination of historical Norwegian and allied airborne maritime surveillance operations in the North Atlantic, after World War II until the present. Russia’s resurgent naval and submarine activity in the High North needs to be closely observed. Norway, together ...
Maritime Insurance, Risk, and Seafarer Security: Navigating Piracy in the Indian Ocean
1st Edition
By Jessica Kate Simonds
May 27, 2025
This book explores the complex interplay between maritime insurance and piracy in the Indian Ocean, a crucial global trade route. Drawing on rich oral histories, this work delves into the lives of seafarers and insurance experts who confront the harsh realities of Somali piracy. Through a series of...
Recovering Naval Power: Henry Maydman and the Revival of the Royal Navy
1st Edition
Edited
By John Hattendorf, Geoffrey Till
May 06, 2025
This book offers a new edition of Henry Maydman’s work Naval Speculations with a detailed commentary by two leading experts on its importance to the naval issues of the 21st century. Written at a revolutionary and troubling time, Maydman’s 1691 book offers an analysis of the state of the Royal Navy...
The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition: Looking Beyond the Western Pacific
1st Edition
By James J. Wirtz, Jeffrey E. Kline, James A. Russell
April 14, 2025
This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs. A mix of original and previously published material, this volume describes how the 21st-century great power competition is changing the face of naval operations in general, and U.S. Navy ...
African Navies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy Stapleton
May 27, 2024
This edited volume focuses on aspects of the understudied theme of African sea-power, including African navies and the engagement of non-African navies with the continent. Africa possesses 48,000 kilometers of coastline, comprising 38 out of 54 of the continent’s states and several strategic choke...
Maritime Gray Zone Operations: Challenges and Countermeasures in the Indo-Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew S Erickson
May 27, 2024
This book addresses the issues raised by Chinese and North Korean maritime ‘gray zone’ activities in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. For years, China has been harassing its neighbors in South China Sea and East China Sea, employing both coast guard and maritime militia forces, in the name of ...
Naval Constabulary Operations and Fisheries Governance: An Integrated Approach for the Australian Maritime Domain
1st Edition
By Sean A. G. Andrews
May 07, 2024
This book offers an analysis of naval constabulary operations, in particular Australian fisheries patrols, and challenges the widely accepted Anglo-American school of maritime thought. In the Indo-Pacific, fisheries and the activities of fishing boats are of increasing strategic importance in ...
How to Grow a Navy: The Development of Maritime Power
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Till
September 02, 2022
This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view. Navies have never been more important than they are now, in a century becoming, as widely expected, increasingly and profoundly maritime. The growing ...
Navies in Multipolar Worlds: From the Age of Sail to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Kennedy, Evan Wilson
May 06, 2022
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. The book follows the theme of multipolarity by analysing a wide range of historical and ...
Exercising Control of the Sea: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Milan Vego
April 29, 2022
This book explains both the strategic and the operational aspects of exercising control of the sea. The struggle for sea control consists of three mutually related and overlapping phases: obtaining, maintaining and exercising sea control. It is in the phase of exercising sea control when one’s ...
Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century
4th Edition
By Geoffrey Till
June 29, 2018
This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States’ maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us ...