... this is a case study of the process by which a strategy was developed and applied within the present American defense establishment ... bearing in mind the broad aspects involved in the rational development of a strategy through an understanding of national aims, technological and geographical constraints, and relative military abilities.
This volume is published to help begin that process of wider historical understanding and generalization for the subject of strategic thinking in the U.S. Navy during the last phases of the Cold War.
The Evolution of the U. S. Navy's Maritime Strategy, 1977-1986
Both of these volumes were also edited by John Hattendorf. A fourth volume, of documents on naval strategy from the 1950s and 1960s, will eventually round out this important and hitherto very imperfectly known history.
Edited by John B. Hattendorf, a distinguished naval historian and chairman of the Maritime History Department at the Naval War College, this volume is an indispensable supplement to Professor Hattendorf 's uniquely informed narrative of the ...
The first volume in this series, U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1990s: Selected Documents, Newport Paper 27, also edited by Professor Hattendorf, appeared in September 2006.
Origins of the Maritime Strategy: American Naval Strategy in the First Postwar Decade
This book examines US naval strategy and the role of American seapower over three decades, from the late 20th century to the early 21st century.
was the vice CNO, Adm. Jay L. Johnson (1996–2000). At age fifty, he was the second-youngest CNO after Zumwalt and the first aviator since Hayward. A 1968 Naval Academy graduate, Johnson was a fighter pilot with two combat tours in ...
Personal and professional papers of Swartz, From the Sea file, Washington, D.C. Diamond, Richard, Capt., USN (Ret.), to Capt. Peter M. Swartz, USN (Ret.). Email: Comments on Navy Policy Book, 7 July 2006. The personal and professional ...
These essays from the journal International Security cover aspects of past and present naval technologies and explore current disputes over American naval doctrine.