A Ceaseless Watch: Australia’s Third Party Naval Defense, 1919–1942 illustrates how Australia confronted the need to base its post–World War I defense planning around the security provided by a major naval power: in the first instance, Britain, and later the United States. Spanning the period leading up to Australia’s greatest security crisis—the military threat posed by Japan throughout the majority of 1942—the work takes the reader all ...
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A Ceaseless Watch
"Australia's Third-Party Naval Defense, 1919-1942"
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"Mahan, Corbett, and the Foundations of Naval Strategic Thought"
At the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Stafford Corbett emerged as foundational thinkers on naval strategy and maritime power. Important in their lifetimes, their writings remain relevant in the contemporary environment.
The significance of Corbett and Mahan to modern naval strategy seems beyond question, but too often their theories are simplified or used without a ...
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