Seapower a guide for the twenty-first century

This is the third, revised and fully updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the 21st Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States' maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us th...

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Main Author:	Till, Geoffrey
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK Routledge 2013
Edition:	3rd ed.
Series:	Cass series: naval policy history
Subjects:	Sea-power Naval strategy
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Table of Contents:

1. In Search of Seapower
2. Seapower in a Globalising World: Two Competing Tendencies
3. Who Said What and Why it Matters
4. The Constituents of Maritime Power
5. Navies and Technology
6. Command of the Sea and Sea Control
7. Securing Command of the Sea
8. Exploiting Command of the Sea: Maritime Power Projection
9. Exploiting Command of the sea: The defence and attack of Trade
10. Naval Diplomacy
11. Expeditionary Operations
12. Good Order At Sea
13. The South China Sea: A Case Study
1.1. Introduction: the maritime case
1.2. Explaining success: the four attributes of the sea
1.3. Defining seapower
2.1. Introduction: seapower and globalisation
2.2. The modern navy
2.3. The post-modern navy
2.4. Enablers and choices
2.5. Modern/post-modern compromises
3.1. The value of theory in maritime operations
3.2. On types of theory
3.3. The early development of theory
3.4. Mahan and the bluewater tendency
3.5. Corbett and the maritime tradition
3.6. Alternative visions in maritime strategy
3.7. Operational art and modern maritime theory
3.8. Present and future challenges
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Identifying the constituents of seapower
4.3. Maritime people, society and government
4.4. Maritime geography
4.5. Resources
4.6. A maritime economy
4.7. Seapower by other means
4.8. Understanding
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Classifying navies
5.3. Estimating relative effectiveness
5.4. Navies and technology: an introduction
5.5. Platforms
5.6. Systems, weapons and sensors
5.7. An information revolution?
5.8. The challenge of transformational technology
5.9. A strategy for innovation
5.10. Navies and technology: summary and conclusions
6.1. Evolution of a traditional concept
6.2. Limits and qualifications
6.3. Pursuing command in moderation
6.4. Command of the sea yields to sea control
6.5. Sea denial
6.6. Contemporary angles
7.1. Securing command of the sea: the operational approach
7.2. Decisive battle
7.3. Forms and styles of decisive battle
7.4. How to achieve a decisive victory
7.5. Contemporary forms and concepts of battle
7.6. Operational alternatives to battle
7.7. The fleet-in-being approach
7.8. The fleet blockade
8.1. Maritime power projection: definitions
8.2. Maritime power projection: aims
8.3. Amphibious operations
8.4. Operational manoeuvre from the sea
8.5. Sea-based strategic missile attack of the shore
8.6. Defence against maritime power projection
9.1. The attack of maritime communications
9.2. The defence of maritime communications
9.3. Contemporary relevance?
10.1. Coverage of naval diplomacy in the literature: who said what?
10.2. The diplomatic value of naval power
10.3. The range and extent of naval diplomacy
10.4. Naval presence
10.5. Naval picture building
10.6. Naval coercion
10.7. Collaborative naval diplomacy and coalition building
10.8. Naval diplomacy: implications for strategy makers
11.1. Origins and background
11.2. Definitions
11.3. Expeditionary operations: the political dimension
11.4. Expeditionary operations: the urban dimension
11.5. Expeditionary operations: the maritime dimension
11.6. Staging a sea-based expedition: the maritime requirements
11.7. Conclusion
11.8. HADR: a humanitarian postscript
12.1. Introduction: a renaming of pants?
12.2. Good order at sea and maritime security
12.3. Navies and coastguards in defence of the sea as a stock resource
12.4. Navies and coastguards in defence of the sea as a means of transportation allow resource
12.5. Navies and coastguards in the defence of the sea as an environment
12.6. Navies and coastguards, and the defence of the sea as an area of sovereignty and dominion
12.7. Good order at sea: general requirements
12.8. Good order at sea: implications for navies
13.1. The South China Sea as a stock resource
13.2. The South China Sea as allow resource
13.3. The South China Sea as a physical environment
13.4. The South China Sea: the need for good order
13.5. The South China Sea as an area of sovereignty
13.6. The South China Sea as a medium for dominion
13.7. So what?
14.1. Competitive and collaborative trends in naval development are all-important but impossible to predict
14.2. The relative importance of the sea and seapower will tend to rise in the twenty-first century
14.3. Shifting attitudes to the global commons
14.4. Debating the littorals
14.5. The range and diversity of naval tasks are likely to increase
14.6. There are no easy answers.

Seapower a guide for the twenty-first century

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