This new book brings together Britain's leading naval historians
and analysts to present a comprehensive investigation of British
naval thinking and what has made it so distinctive over the last
three centuries, from the sailing ship era to the current day. This
new volume describes in depth the beginnings of formalized thought
about the conduct of naval operations in the 18th Century, its
transformation through the impact of industrialization in the 19th
Century and its application in the two World Wars of the twentieth.
This book concludes with a review of modern British naval thinking
and the appearance of naval doctrine against the uncertainties of
the loss of empire, the Cold War, nuclear weapons and the huge
changes facing us as we move in to the new millennium. How
perceptive and distinctive was British naval thinking? Where did
British ideas come from? Did they determine or merely follow
British experience? Do they explain British naval success ? The
contributors to this volume tackle these key questions in a book
that will be of considerable interest to the maritime community
around the English-speaking world. This book will be of great
interest to all students and professionals with an interest in the
history of the Royal Navy, contemporary British maritime operations
and strategic studies. This is a commemorative volume of the life
and work of the distinguished Professor Bryan Ranft.
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