China’s shipbuilding industry has grown more rapidly than any other in modern history. Commercial shipbuilding output jumped thirteen-fold from 2002–12, ensuring that Beijing has largely reached its goal of becoming the world’s leading shipbuilder. Yet progress is uneven, with military shipbuilding leading overall but with significant weakness in propulsion and electronics for military and civilian applications. It has never been ...
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Chinese Naval Shipbuilding
An Ambitious and Uncertain Course
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Churchill and Fisher
Titans at the Admiralty
A vivid study in the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of the Admiralty and the aging Admiral Sir John “Jacky” Fisher as professional master and creator of HMS Dreadnought.
Churchill and Fisher exhibited vision, genius, and energy, but the war unfolded in unexpected ways. This ...
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The Japanese Navy in World War II
"In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers, Second Edition"
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First published in 1986 and lauded by historians and World War II buffs eager for the Japanese viewpoint, this collection of essays makes significant contributions to the field of World War II literature. In it, top-ranking Japanese officers offer their personal perspectives of the Pacific War ...
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Female Tars
Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail
“For a very long time now I have delighted in histories, letters, records, and memoirs to do with the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century; but Suzanne Stark’s book has told me many, many things I did not know, and I shall keep it on an honored shelf.”—Patrick O’Brian
The wives and female guests of commissioned ...
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21st Century Corbett
Maritime Strategy and Naval Policy for the Modern Era
21st Century Corbett is a collection of essays demonstrating the critical role Sir Julian Corbett played in the development of maritime strategy and sea power theory in the early twentieth century. His close connections with Mahan and Sims helped reinforce the trans-Atlantic axis of education and thinking on sea power. Corbett worked closely with First Sea Lord Admiral John Fisher ...
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