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.
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 ...
The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period: An Operational Perspective
1st Edition
By Joseph Moretz
September 11, 2014
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. Drawing heavily on official Admiralty records and private papers of ...
The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-49
1st Edition
By Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones
August 12, 2014
An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations. This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for movement and ...
Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programs, 1935-53
1st Edition
By Mikhail Monakov, Jurgen Rohwer
July 17, 2014
A study of the development of strategic concepts in Stalin's Navy, in the context of his foreign/defence policy, using original archival documents translated from the Russian....
Twenty-First Century Seapower: Cooperation and Conflict at Sea
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Dutton, Robert Ross, Øystein Tunsjø
March 07, 2014
This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order. Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced ...
Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919
1st Edition
By Eric W. Osborne
February 14, 2014
Great Britain's economic blockade of Germany in World War I was one of the key elements to the victory of the Entente. Though Britain had been the leading exponent of blockades for two centuries, the World War I blockade was not effective at the outbreak of hostilities. Pre-war changes had led to...