TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCranie,Kevin D.
TI  - Mahan, Corbett, and the Foundations of Naval Strategic Thought
T2  - Studies in Naval History and Sea Power
SN  - 9781682475751
AV  - E182.M24 M33 2021 
U1  - 359.03 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - La Vergne
PB  - Naval Institute Press
KW  - Mahan, A. T.-(Alfred Thayer),-1840-1914-Influence
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - COVER -- TITLES IN THE SERIES -- STUDIES IN NAVAL HISTORY AND SEA POWER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE GRAND STRATEGIC FOUNDATIONS -- MAHAN AND THE SEA POWER THESIS -- THE WORKINGS OF SEA POWER -- MAHAN'S HISTORICAL MODELS AND THE UNITED STATES -- THE ELEMENTS OF SEA POWER -- CORBETT AND MARITIME STRATEGY -- MAJOR STRATEGY AND MINOR STRATEGY -- CHAPTER 2 THE USE OF HISTORY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEORY -- HISTORY: THE FOUNDATION OF THEORY -- INDUCTIVE CORBETT, DEDUCTIVE MAHAN -- THE ROLE OF THEORY AND THE INFLUENCE OF LAND WARFARE THEORISTS -- THE MATERIAL SCHOOL AND THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL -- CORBETT, CLAUSEWITZ, AND THEORY -- MAHAN: PRINCIPLES IN THE ABSTRACT -- MAHAN: PRINCIPLES IN APPLICATION -- CORBETT, PRINCIPLES, AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS -- DOGMAS AND MAXIMS -- CHAPTER 3 WAR, POLICY, AND CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS -- STRATEGY -- THE POLITICAL OBJECT -- CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS: MAHAN -- THE DEFLECTION OF STRATEGY BY POLITICS -- CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS: CORBETT -- CHAPTER 4 INTRODUCTION TO NAVAL STRATEGY -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE THEORIES OF LAND WARFARE AND NAVAL WARFARE -- THE NAVY'S ROLE IN NATIONAL STRATEGY: AN ENABLER OR THE DECISIVE INSTRUMENT? -- CHAPTER 5 COMMERCE, THE SEA LINES OF COMMUNICATION, AND NAVAL POWER -- ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL, AND FINANCIAL POWER -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MARITIME COMMERCE IN NAVAL WARFARE -- THE SEA LINES OF COMMUNICATION -- CHAPTER 6 COMMAND OF THE SEA -- OBTAINING COMMAND OF THE SEA: THE QUEST FOR BATTLE -- NAVAL BLOCKADES -- CHAPTER 7 RECONCILING THE OFFENSE AND THE DEFENSE -- MAHAN ON OFFENSE AND DEFENSE IN NAVAL STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS -- OFFENSE AND DEFENSE: CORBETT AND MAHAN COMPARED -- OFFENSE-DEFENSE AND COUNTERATTACKS -- MAHAN'S DEFENSIVE ELEMENT: BASES -- THE BLUE WATER SCHOOL; CORBETT, BASES, AND THE BLUE WATER SCHOOL -- PREFERRED COURSES OF ACTION -- CHAPTER 8 CONCENTRATION -- MAHAN AND CONCENTRATION OF FORCE -- CONCENTRATION IN EVOLUTION: MAHAN AND ELASTICITY -- CORBETT: ELASTIC CONCENTRATION REDEFINED -- ULTERIOR OBJECTS AND PRIMARY OBJECTS -- THE ULTERIOR OBJECT, CONCENTRATION, AND BATTLE -- CHAPTER 9 SEA DENIAL -- CONFRONTING TEMPORARY INFERIORITY: A FLEET IN BEING -- CONFRONTING PERMANENT INFERIORITY -- THE WEAKER BALANCED FLEET -- THE VASTLY INFERIOR NAVAL FORCE -- COMMERCE RAIDING AS A SECONDARY OPERATION -- THE LEGACY OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AND THE JEUNE ÉCOLE -- THEORY CONFRONTS PRACTICE -- CHAPTER 10 OBTAINING STRATEGIC EFFECTS THROUGH THE CONTROL OF MARITIME COMMERCE -- THE PROTECTION OF SHIPPING -- THE FLEET AND COMMERCE PREVENTION -- COMMERCIAL BLOCKADE -- THE STRATEGIC BLOCKADE OF TRADE ROUTES -- CHAPTER 11 JOINT, EXPEDITIONARY WARFARE -- CORBETT, EXPEDITIONS, AND THE DISPOSAL FORCE -- MAIN LINES OF EFFORT, DIVERSIONS, AND ECCENTRIC ATTACKS -- RELEVANCE -- MAHAN AND EXPEDITIONARY WARFARE -- GREAT EXPEDITIONS AND DIVERSIONS -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LAND AND NAVAL INSTRUMENTS -- CHAPTER 12 MAHAN'S WAY OF WAR -- SEA POWER, SECURITY, AND DETERRENCE IN PEACETIME -- THE DECISION FOR WAR -- THE WORKINGS OF SEA POWER IN WAR -- SEA POWER AND COALITIONS -- THE SECONDARY STATUS OF EXPEDITIONARY OPERATIONS -- WAR TERMINATION -- CHAPTER 13 CORBETT'S WAY OF WAR -- THE NAVAL INSTRUMENT -- LIMITED WAR -- DIPLOMATIC FACTORS -- THE PHASES OF LIMITED WAR -- APPLYING LIMITED WAR THEORY TO UNLIMITED WARS -- CRITIQUES OF LIMITED OPTIONS -- CONCLUSION
N2  - McCranie takes the reader from their grand strategic foundations of sea power and maritime strategy, through their ideas about naval warfare and strategy, to how Mahan and Corbett thought a navy should integrate with other instruments of national power, and finally, to how they thought states with powerful navies win wars
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