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.
Empire, Technology and Seapower: Royal Navy crisis in the age of Palmerston
1st Edition
By Howard J. Fuller
December 21, 2013
This book examines British naval diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, showing how the mid-Victorian Royal Navy suffered serious challenges during the period. Many recent works have attempted to depict the mid-Victorian Royal Navy as all-powerful, innovative, and ...
Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919 -1939: Grand Strategy and Failure
1st Edition
By Donald Stoker
November 07, 2013
The strategy of the British and French prior to World War II was to preserve the status quo after the disaster of World War I. Donald Stoker's book examines British and French involvement from 1919 to 1939 in the creation and development of the naval forces of Poland, Finland and the three Baltic ...
The Road to Oran: Anglo-French Naval Relations, September 1939-July 1940
1st Edition
By David Brown
October 23, 2013
On 3 July 1940, soon after the collapse of the French front and France's request for an armistice, a reluctant Royal Navy commander opened fire on the French Navy squadron at Mers-el-Kebir. Some 1,300 French sailors lost their lives. The late David Brown's detailed account finally conveys an ...
Maritime Private Security: Market Responses to Piracy, Terrorism and Waterborne Security Risks in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Cullen, Claude Berube
October 03, 2013
This book examines the evolution, function, problems and prospects of private security companies in the maritime sector. The private security industry continues to evolve after its renaissance over the past few decades, first in Africa, and later in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite this, little ...
Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine
October 03, 2013
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. Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a ...
Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific: The Triumph of Neptune?
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Till, Patrick Bratton
October 03, 2013
With particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the rise and fall of sea powers. In the Asia-Pacific region there has been significant expansion of sea-based economies together with burgeoning naval power. Many claim that these processes will transform the world’s future ...
Naval Modernisation in South-East Asia: Nature, Causes and Consequences
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Till, Jane Chan
August 01, 2013
This edited volume analyses the naval arms race in South-East Asia, and reviews the content, purposes and consequences of the naval policies and development of the main countries of the region. The rise of naval capability in the countries of the Asia-Pacific Region is increasingly recognised as a...
Greek Naval Strategy and Policy 1910-1919
1st Edition
By Zisis Fotakis
November 28, 2012
A sharp analysis of Greek naval history in the 1910s, a time when the importance of its geographic position and its navy increased greatly. It explains the causes of these developments and their consequences for Greek national aims, the Mediterranean naval situation ...
German Naval Strategy, 1856-1888: Forerunners to Tirpitz
1st Edition
By David H. Olivier
July 27, 2012
This book is a comparative study of the evolution of the German navy in the second half of the nineteenth century. It examines the development of strategy, especially commerce-raiding, in comparison to what other navies were doing in this era of rapid technological change. It is not an insular ...
Educating the Royal Navy: 18th and 19th Century Education for Officers
1st Edition
By Harry W. Dickinson
March 21, 2012
This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational ...
Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I: British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats
1st Edition
By John Abbatiello
December 12, 2011
Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider history of the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service invested heavily in aircraft of all ...
Indian Naval Strategy in the Twenty-first Century
1st Edition
By James R. Holmes, Andrew C. Winner, Toshi Yoshihara
April 08, 2010
This is the first academic study of India's emerging maritime strategy, and offers a systematic analysis of the interplay between Western military thought and Indian maritime traditions. By a quirk of historical fate, Europe embarked on its Age of Discovery just as the main Asian powers were ...