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Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is
in fact an immense and recent achievement -- but also an enormous
strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In
Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top
scholars offers historical perspectives and contemporary analysis
to explore the role of naval power and maritime trade in creating
the international system. The book begins in the early days of the
industrial revolution with the foundational role of maritime
strategy in building the British Empire. It continues into the era
of naval disorder surrounding the two world wars, through the
passing of the Pax Britannica and the rise of the Pax Americana,
and then examines present-day regional security in hot spots like
the South China Sea and Arctic Ocean. Additional chapters engage
with important related topics such as maritime law, resource
competition, warship evolution since the end of the Cold War, and
naval intelligence. A first-of-its-kind collection, Maritime
Strategy and Global Order offers scholars, practitioners, students,
and others with an interest in maritime history and strategic
issues an absorbing long view of the role of the sea in creating
the world we know.
Churchill's American Arsenal reveals how the technology, know-how,
and production power behind the victorious Allied partnership
during World War II extended beyond the battlefront and onto the
home-front. Many weapons and inventions were credited with winning
World War II, most famously in the assertion that the atomic bomb
"ended the war, but radar won the war." What is less well known is
that both airborne radar and the atomic bomb were invented in
British laboratories, but built by Americans. The same holds true
for many other American weapons credited with the Allied victory:
the P-51 Mustang fighter, the Liberty ship, the proximity fuze, the
Sherman tank, and even penicillin all began with British scientists
and planners, but were designed and mass-produced by American
engineers and factory workers. Churchill's American Arsenal
chronicles this vital but often fraught relationship between
British inventiveness and American technical might. At first,
leaders in each nation were deeply skeptical that such a
relationship could ever be successful. But despite initial
misunderstandings, petty jealousies, and continuing differences
over priorities, scientists and engineers on both sides of the
Atlantic found new and often ingenious ways to work together,
jointly creating the weapons that often became the decisive factor
in the strategy for victory that Churchill had laid out during the
earliest days of the conflict. While no single invention won the
war, without any one of them, the war could have been lost.
Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is
in fact an immense and recent achievement -- but also an enormous
strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In
Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top
scholars offers historical perspectives and contemporary analysis
to explore the role of naval power and maritime trade in creating
the international system. The book begins in the early days of the
industrial revolution with the foundational role of maritime
strategy in building the British Empire. It continues into the era
of naval disorder surrounding the two world wars, through the
passing of the Pax Britannica and the rise of the Pax Americana,
and then examines present-day regional security in hot spots like
the South China Sea and Arctic Ocean. Additional chapters engage
with important related topics such as maritime law, resource
competition, warship evolution since the end of the Cold War, and
naval intelligence. A first-of-its-kind collection, Maritime
Strategy and Global Order offers scholars, practitioners, students,
and others with an interest in maritime history and strategic
issues an absorbing long view of the role of the sea in creating
the world we know.
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