Admiral Raoul Castex is France's most important modern naval
strategist. Military historian Eugenia Kiesling offers the essence
of Castex's original five volume study, Theories Strategiques, in a
useful one-volume abridgment and a very readable translation. It
emphasizes the admiral's method of strategic analysis while
omitting most of the historical narrative. Included are chapters
defining strategy and relating it to policy and geography,
analyzing the role of maritime forces and the significance of
command at sea, prescribing a theory of conduct of operations, and
introducing Castex's favorite themes: strategic manoeuvre,
strategie generale, and the theory of "perturbation." Two narrative
chapters on German operations in the North Sea from 1914 to 1916
remain as examples of the author's historical style. The
introduction places Castex's work in four distinct contexts: the
international debate among naval theorists on the nature and
importance of "command at sea," the controversy within France
between advocates of the "historical" and "material" schools of
naval strategy, the contemporary concern over coordinated naval
strategy for total war, and his contribution to the formulation of
French strategy between the world wars. In an era of expanding
global responsibilities and shrinking national economies, Castex's
balanced view of naval power offers many insights for today's new
generation of naval thinkers.
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