 NAVAL HISTORY AND MARITIME STRATEGY:
Collected Essays
by John B. Hattendorf
Orig. Ed. 2000 294 pp.
ISBN 1-57524-127-7 Cloth $32.50
In a series of 16 collected essays, John Hattendorf provides insight into the
interrelationship between naval history and maritime strategy, examining the intellectual history of its development, the use of history within navies as a means of understanding strategy, and the history of navies and their activities. This volume provides a foundation for further study in this field by combining past and recent research. The essays span a 25-year period of the author’s association with the U.S.Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island.“
....provides a welcome antidote to the sound-byte analysis and oblique political manipulation that frequently obscure the fundamentals of national security. At least in the area of naval power, he helps one to get back to basics. ”—RADM Joseph F. Callo, USNR (RET), SEA HISTORY, Autumn 2000“Always thoughtful, his views are balanced and not without criticism even of his own naval college.
Above all, they challenge US navy officers to rethink past concepts, to adjust to the new challenges of multinational allied interventions, and to remember that naval strategy is more than simply ordnance delivered on target.”—Holger H. Herwig, The International History Review, March 2001 |
