Sebastian Bruns

US Naval Strategy and National Security

The Evolution of American Maritime Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the evolution of US naval strategy and the role of American seapower over three decades, from the late 20th century to the early 21st century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781138651739
• ISBN-10: 1138651737
• Artikelnr.: 49269335

Autorenporträt

Sebastian Bruns heads the Center for Maritime Strategy & Security (CMSS) at the Institute for Security Policy, University of Kiel (ISPK). He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security (Routledge, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Seapower, Strategy, and the Particulars of the Maritime
Operating Environment 2. Strategy: Its setting 3. Prelude: 1945-1980, a
"naval baisse"? 4. A "Naval Renaissance" through "The Maritime Strategy"
(1981-1989) 5. Managing Strategic Change and Embracing a New World Order
(1989-2001) 6. A Sea Power Rationale for the 21st Century (2001-2008) 7.
Sea Change: American National Security and U.S. Seapower in an Increasingly
Chaotic World (2009-2016) 8. Conclusion

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1. Introduction: Seapower, Strategy, and the Particulars of the Maritime Operating Environment 2. Strategy: Its setting 3. Prelude: 1945-1980, a "naval baisse"? 4. A "Naval Renaissance" through "The Maritime Strategy" (1981-1989) 5. Managing Strategic Change and Embracing a New World Order (1989-2001) 6. A Sea Power Rationale for the 21^st Century (2001-2008) 7. Sea Change: American National Security and U.S. Seapower in an Increasingly Chaotic World (2009-2016) 8. Conclusion

Rezensionen

'This book is a most welcome addition to the library of understanding that surrounds strategy and seapower. Its academic credentials are robust and its observations and deductions, I found, most helpful.' -- Clive Johnstone, Commander, NATO Maritime Command, Northwood

'Current trends of American 'rebalancing' from Europe and the Middle East into the Asia-Pacific, with the simultaneous challenge of conventional Western military and in particular naval capabilities under pressure, could all too easily lure the strategically untrained mind to return to Halford Mackinder's heartland theory to try to grasp the fate of European security. This would deliberately omit the importance of American seapower. In fact, the relationship between American national security and the use of its Navy as a foreign policy tool and a geostrategic instrument has too often negated by academics, policy-makers, and even the military. This timely book offers a thorough investigation of the basic principles of American national security, naval strategy, the trajectory of U.S. maritime power since the 1980s. It shows how US Navy strategy and its fleet evolved, and where and when it was used in support of larger national (and in some cases international) security ends.' -- Wolfgang Peischel, Brigadier General, Austrian Armed Forces

'Bruns's book demands to be read. It reaches no conclusions about which direction is right for the Navy-that is for readers to decide. ... All USN officers, joint commanders, and national policy makers who are conscious of the sea's continuing importance, genuinely concerned about the decline of the Navy, and fearful for the service's future need to read this book and absorb its lessons.' - Martin N. Murphy, Naval War College Review, 71(3)