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The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945-1953 (Hardcover)
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The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945-1953 (Hardcover)
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After World War I, the U.S. Navy's brief alliance with the British
Royal Navy gave way to disagreements over disarmament, fleet size,
interpretations of freedom of the seas, and general economic
competition. This go-it-alone approach lasted until the next world
war, when the U.S. Navy found itself fighting alongside the
British, Canadian, Australian, and other Allied navies until the
surrender of Germany and Japan. In The U.S. Navy and Its Cold War
Alliances, 1945-1953, Corbin Williamson explores the transformation
this cooperation brought about in the U.S. Navy's engagement with
other naval forces during the Cold War. Like the onetime looming
danger of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, growing concerns about
the Soviet naval threat drew the U.S. Navy into tight relations
with the British, Canadian, and Australian navies. The U.S. Navy
and Its Cold War Alliances, 1945-1953, brings to light the
navy-to-navy links that political concerns have kept out of the
public sphere: a web of informal connections that included
personnel exchanges, standardization efforts in equipment and
doctrine, combined training and education, and joint planning for a
war with the Soviets. Using a 'history from the middle' approach,
Corbin Williamson draws upon the archives of all four nations,
including documents only recently declassified, to analyze the
actions of midlevel officials and officers who managed and
maintained these alliances on a day-to-day basis. His work
highlights the impact of domestic politics and security concerns on
navy-to-navy relations, even as it integrates American naval
history with those of Britain, Canada, and Australia. In doing so,
the book provides a valuable new perspective on the little-studied
but critical transformation of the U.S. Navy's peacetime alliances
during the Cold War.
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