Power and Policy : America's First Steps to Superpower, 1889-1922.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Prologue. 1865-1889 - America Grows and Changes, As Do Its Foreign, Army and Naval Policies -- Chapter 2. Samoa 1889 - How a Hurricane Built US Battleships - and a Military-Industrial Complex -- Chapter 2 Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy Report 1889 -- Chapter 3. Hawaiian "Revolution" with an American Gunboat -- Chapter 3 Appendix. -- Chapter 4. Venezuela 1895 - Great Britain vs. the United States, with a Little Help from the Kaiser -- Chapter 5. Spanish-American War 1898 - How a War to Liberate Cuba Created a Worldwide Empire -- Pacific Operations -- Atlantic Operations -- Atlantic Land Operations -- Lessons -- Chapter 5 Appendix. 1898 Messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War -- Chapter 6. Philippines 1899-1902. America's First Overseas Guerrilla War and the Ideas that Won It -- Seminole War -- Mexican War -- American Civil War -- Indian Fighting -- Philippine-American War -- Phase I. Conventional War -- Phase II. Guerrilla Success -- Phase III. American Response -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Venezuela 1902-1903 - The Roosevelt Corollary, Big Stick or Big Bluff? -- The Roosevelt Corollary -- Chapter 8. Panama Revolution 1903 - Taking Panama or Taking Advantage in Panama? and Cuba Too -- Chapter 8. Appendix. Panamanian Incidents 1850-1902 -- Chapter 9. Japan 1904-1908 - The Rise of Japan and the Great White Fleet -- US Navy vs. the Japanese Navy? -- Chapter 9 Appendix A: The Great White Fleet -- Chapter 9 Appendix B: Capital Ships Japanese Fleet -- Chapter 9 Appendix C: Japanese Ships in Yokohama: -- Chapter 10. Nicaragua 1912 - Diplomacy: US Marines + US Business -- Chapter 11: Mexico 1914 - Moral (Oil?) Diplomacy -- Naval Blockade and Pancho Villa -- Chapter 11. Appendix Naval Landing force at Veracruz:.

Chapter 12: World War 1917-1918 - Fighting the Germans and the Allies-President Wilson's Surge that Worked -- Chapter 13. Naval Disarmament 1921 - Washington, DC, November 12, 1921: The Greatest Naval Battle of All Time -- Japan -- Chapter 13 Appendix A: Battleships Sunk by the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty -- Chapter 13 Appendix B: Major Naval Powers after the Washington Treaty -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Explanation of Naval Comparison Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index.

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