Command of the Sea: The History and Strategy of Maritime Empires

Front Cover......Page 1
Cover Sheet
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Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 8
MAPS......Page 11
The Ancient World
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The Mediterranean
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The Bottleneck of Europe
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The European Peninsula
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The Periphery of Asia
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American Sea Lanes
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BOOK ONE - 
Command of the Sea—and the Alternatives......Page 19
EMPIRES, NAVIES AND STRATEGY......Page 21
STRATEGIC HISTORY......Page 28
STRATEGIC APPLICATIONS OF NAVAL POWER......Page 31
BOOK TWO - The Early Thalassocracies......Page 37
PRIMITIVE MAN......Page 38
THE EARLY RIVER CIVILIZATIONS......Page 39
SHIPS AND SEAFARING......Page 43
EGYPT AND THE MINOANS......Page 46
PHOENICIANS AND GREEKS......Page 51
ATHENS AND SPARTA......Page 60
ALEXANDER THE GREAT......Page 66
2 - Pax Romana - 400 B.C.—A.D. 600......Page 75
THE IMPERIAL AND CIVIL WARS......Page 85
THE EMPIRE......Page 96
THE BYZANTINE AND ARAB EMPIRES......Page 105
VIKINGS AND OTHER NORTHMEN......Page 110
THE RELIGIOUS WARS......Page 117
THE FAR EAST......Page 127
BOOK THREE - The Oceanic Age......Page 134
SHIPS AND SEAFARING......Page 135
VENICE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE......Page 141
MEDITERRANEAN STALEMATE......Page 145
THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE OVERSEAS EMPIRES......Page 153
THE FAR EAST......Page 164
THE PROTESTANT CHALLENGE: THE ARMADA......Page 166
HOLLAND UPON THE SEA......Page 178
BALTIC BATTLEGROUND......Page 186
NETHERLANDS EAST AND WEST INDIES......Page 191
THIRTY YEARS WAR......Page 197
THE BALANCE OF POWER......Page 208
ANGLO-DUTCH WARS......Page 216
THE FRENCH SEABORNE CHALLENGE......Page 228
ENGLISH VICTORY AND RUSSIA......Page 238
BOOK FOUR - British Empire and the World Wars......Page 250
SHIPS AND SEAFARING......Page 254
NAVAL TACTICS......Page 259
RUSSIA AND THE BALANCE OF POWER......Page 262
MARITIME WARS OF THE 1740s......Page 267
THE SYSTEM OF PITT......Page 276
YEARS OF BRITISH VICTORY......Page 283
RUSSIA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN......Page 290
CHALLENGES TO BRITISH EMPIRE......Page 296
THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE......Page 303
THE NEW BRITISH EMPIRE......Page 321
RUSSIAN NAVAL WARS......Page 326
FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS......Page 335
NAPOLEON......Page 351
BOOK FIVE - Pax Britannica......Page 368
SHIPS AND SEAFARING......Page 372
THE STRATEGY OF EMPIRE......Page 377
MEDITERRANEAN BATTLEGROUND......Page 381
REOPENING THE ORIENT......Page 394
THE TURBULENT 1850s......Page 398
LATIN AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE......Page 406
THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES......Page 415
THE MEXICAN WAR......Page 421
NAVAL STRATEGY, NORTH AND SOUTH......Page 428
INSHORE WARFARE, COASTS AND RIVERS......Page 435
THE GRAND CAMPAIGN OF 1864-65......Page 442
ENFORCING THE MONROE DOCTRINE......Page 447
THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIAL STRATEGY......Page 452
THE NEW IMPERIALISM AND HISTORICAL STRATEGY......Page 466
NAVAL ALLIANCE SYSTEMS......Page 481
BOOK SIX - Era of the Total Wars......Page 491
SHIPS AND SEAFARING......Page 495
BRITISH AND GERMAN STRATEGY......Page 500
THE MEDITERRANEAN AND COMMERCE WARFARE......Page 510
ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMAND OF THE SEA......Page 518
THE POSTWAR BALANCE OF POWER......Page 531
THE INTERWAR NAVIES AND EMPIRES......Page 542
ANGLO-GERMAN WAR......Page 556
THE AXIS OFFENSIVE......Page 561
GLOBAL WAR......Page 572
ALLIED COUNTEROFFENSIVE......Page 585
ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMAND OF THE SEA......Page 592
BOOK SEVEN - Pax Americana......Page 607
IMPERIAL COLLAPSE AND COLD WAR......Page 615
NUCLEAR BALANCE AND CONFRONTATION......Page 626
RUSSO-AMERICAN NAVAL RIVALRY......Page 636
Epilogue - World War III......Page 652
Bibliography......Page 660
GENERAL WORKS and BOOK ONE. COMMAND OF THE SEA - AND THE ALTERNATIVES......Page 661
BOOK TWO. THE EARLY THALASSOCRACIES, 2000 B.C.-A.D.......Page 663
BOOK THREE. THE OCEANIC AGE, 1415-1730......Page 667
BOOK FOUR. BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE WORLD WARS, 1730-1815......Page 669
BOOK FIVE. PAX BRITANNICA, 1815-1914......Page 671
BOOK SIX. ERA OF THE TOTAL WARS, 1914-1945......Page 677
BOOK SEVEN. PAX AMERICANA. AND EPILOGUE: WORLD WAR III......Page 682