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'James Cable's book...has deservedly remained the classic work' -
Geoffrey Till, International Relations;When Gunboat Diplomacy was
first published in 1971, it broke new ground with its study of how,
in peacetime and in the twentieth century, governments used their
naval forces in international disputes. Now fully revised and
brought up to date after the collapse of the Soviet empire and the
end of the cold war, this third edition of a book that was already
a modern classic has a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Julian
Oswald.
'James Cable's book...has deservedly remained the classic work' -
Geoffrey Till, International Relations;When Gunboat Diplomacy was
first published in 1971, it broke new ground with its study of how,
in peacetime and in the twentieth century, governments used their
naval forces in international disputes. Now fully revised and
brought up to date after the collapse of the Soviet empire and the
end of the cold war, this third edition of a book that was already
a modern classic has a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Julian
Oswald.
In 1951, Britain's major overseas asset was Iranian oil,
discovered, produced and exported by a British company. This book
relates how Britain planned to use force in order to retain control
of the world's largest oil refinery at Abadan.
A study of the political utility of navies not only in past wars
and possible future wars but also in the "violent peace" of the
modern era. It looks at their use in gunboat diplomacy, showing the
flag, policing coastlines and tackling pirates and terrorists.
Naval arms control is also discussed.
A study of the political utility of navies, meant for war, but for
over 40 years used in the "violent peace" of the modern era. This
book considers what navies might yet do in total war and have
actually done in limited war, and it studies their use in gunboat
diplomacy, showing the flag, policing the coastal estate and
tackling pirates and terrorists. James Cable also looks at proxy
war at sea, naval arms control and the case for ocean-going navies.
James Cable has also written "Britain's Naval Future", "Diplomacy
at Sea", "The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina", "Gunboat
Diplomacy 1919-1979", "Political Institutions and Issues in
Britain" and "The Royal Navy and the Siege of Bilbao".
The Geneva Agreements of 1954 were widely welcomed. They ended a
seven-year war in Indochina; gave France a dignified exit; averted
wider conflict. In later years first Americans and Vietnamese, then
Russians, Chinese, Cambodians and even Laotians tried to force
Indochina into different patterns of their own devising. These new
wars triggered by rejection of the Geneva compromise lasted longer,
killed more people, did greater damage and achieved less - for
everybody. Perhaps Churchill was right: jaw-jaw is better than
war-war. Certainly this lively, first-hand, up-dated account of the
Geneva Conference of 1954 - that triumph of old-fashioned
diplomacy, which Britain initiated and France completed - offers a
better model for the twenty-first century to follow.
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