{"product_id":"one-hundred-years-of-sea-power-us-navy-18901990-the-u-s-navy-18901990-9780804727945","title":"One Hundred Years of Sea Power US Navy 18901990","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a history of how the Navy responded-in doctrine, strategy, operations, preparedness, self-awareness, and force structure-to radical changes in political circumstance, technological innovation, and national needs and expectations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fine book: meticulous, judicious, incisive. It is a book to which the conventional exaggerations—\"must\" reading, relevant, if you're only going to read one book on the subject, etc.—actually may be said to apply. . . . It is a study of the interactions of technology, bureaucracy, politics and culture, of how an institution adapts, or fails to adapt, to changing conditions. As such, the book belongs on a lot of desks at the Pentagon.\"—\u003ci\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Baer takes what could have been a dry topic—the political history of the modern U.S. Navy—and turns it into interesting reading.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is clearly one of the two or three most important works in American naval history published in the last decade; it has the potential to become a classic in the field. Well researched and carefully nuanced, it provides a distinctive perspective on the evolving historical relationship between national interest and national politics on the one hand and naval power on the other. Not only is this a significant contribution to scholarship—one that will critically influence how historians and political scientists think about American naval power—it is an enormously readable work. Baer writes beautifully, and he has organized his material effectively. The book is fully accessible to anyone interested in naval history.\"—Edward Rhodes, Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003e\"A valuable book that stimulates reflection, reconsideration, and debate.\"—\u003ci\u003eInternational History Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Policy makers will benefit greatly from reading Baer's erudite review of the navy's previous successes and failures in developing strategy. . . . In seeking to educate both the naval and the non-naval communities, Baer admirably fulfills the special obligation of a public historian to convey to several audiences his special understanding of the institution he serves.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Public Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Part I. On the Sea: 1. Sea power and the fleet Navy, 1890-1910  2. The new Navy, 1898-1913  3. Neutrality or readiness? 1913-1917  4. War without Mahan, 1917-1918  5. Parity and proportion, 1919-1922  6. Treaty Navy, 1922-1930  7. Adapt and innovate, 1931-1938  8. Are we ready? 1938-1940  9. Sea control, 1941-1942  10. Strategic offensives, 1943-1944  11. Victory drives, 1944-1945  Part II. From the Sea: 12. Why do we need a navy? 1945-1949  13. Naval strategy, 1950-1954  14. Containment and the Navy, 1952-1960  15. The McNamara years, 1961-1970  16. Disarray, 1970-1980  17. High tide, 1980-1990  Conclusion.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405512515927,"sku":"9780804727945","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804727945.jpg?v=1730492469","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/one-hundred-years-of-sea-power-us-navy-18901990-the-u-s-navy-18901990-9780804727945","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}