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.
Piracy in Southeast Asia: Trends, Hot Spots and Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolin Liss, Ted Biggs
June 28, 2018
This book combines multi-disciplinary ethnographic and theoretical approaches to examine piracy in Southeast Asia and the regional and international responses to this threat. During the piracy boom of the early to mid-2000s, the issue of piracy in Southeast Asia received substantial academic ...
India's Naval Strategy and Asian Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Anit Mukherjee, C. Raja Mohan
July 13, 2017
This book examines India’s naval strategy within the context of Asian regional security. Amidst the intensifying geopolitical contestation in the waters of Asia, this book investigates the growing strategic salience of the Indian Navy. Delhi’s expanding economic and military strength has generated ...
Maritime Strategy and Sea Control: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Milan Vego
May 25, 2017
This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control. During times of war, sea control, or the ability of combatants to enjoy naval dominance, plays a crucial role in that side’s ability to attain overall victory. This book explains and analyzes in much ...
Naval Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations: Stability from the Sea
1st Edition
Edited
By James J. Wirtz, Jeffrey A. Larsen
December 18, 2015
This edited volume explores stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations (SSTR), highlighting the challenges and opportunities they create for the US Navy. The book argues that SSTR operations are challenging because they create new missions and basing modes, and signal a return ...
Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century: Drivers and Challenges
1st Edition
By Christian Le Mière
September 16, 2015
This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era. Maritime diplomacy encompasses a spectrum of activities, from co-operative measures such as port visits, exercises and humanitarian assistance to persuasive deployment and coercion. It is an activity no longer confined to just ...
The Royal Navy and Nuclear Weapons
1st Edition
By Richard Moore
August 07, 2015
This work examines British thinking about nuclear weapons in the period up to about 1970, looking at the subject through the eyes of the Royal Navy, in the belief that this can offer new insights in this field. The author argues that the Navy was always sceptical about nuclear weapons, both on ...
British Naval Strategy East of Suez, 1900-2000: Influences and Actions
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg Kennedy
July 20, 2015
This new collection of essays by a panel of established international scholars sheds new light on what some of those influences were and what actions were taken as a result of Britain's Far Eastern commitments. Not only are new evidence and approaches to those issues addressed presented, but new ...
Britain's Anti-submarine Capability 1919-1939
1st Edition
By George Franklin
March 31, 2015
Britain's Anti-Submarine Capability, 1919-1939 is the first unified study of the development of Britain's anti-submarine capability between the armistice in 1919 and the onset of the second world German submarine attack on Britain's maritime trade in 1939. Well researched and yet accessibly written...
Imperial Defence, 1868-1887
1st Edition
Edited
By John Beeler
March 31, 2015
The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for administrators from the 1830s onwards. The switch from sail to steam required the creation of a system of defended coaling stations and a greater infrastructure....
The Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Speller
February 05, 2015
This book adopts an innovative new approach to examine the role of maritime power and the utility of navies. It uses a number of case studies based upon key Royal Navy operations in the twentieth century to draw out enduring principles about maritime power and to examine the strengths and ...
Chinese Grand Strategy and Maritime Power
1st Edition
By Thomas M. Kane
December 22, 2014
This challenging new book argues that the People's Republic of China is pursuing a long-term strategy to extend its national power by sea....
Navies of South-East Asia: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By James Goldrick, Jack McCaffrie
September 11, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South-East Asia since the end of World War II. The navies of South-East Asia have rarely been the subject of systematic attention but, as the maritime strategic balance within Asia becomes more complex ...