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Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare

Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare

Elleman, Bruce A.
Paine, S. C. M.

Paperback

Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

PhilosophyMilitary StrategyNaval History

ISBN10: 0415724287
ISBN13: 9780415724289
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 7 2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory.

Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a secondary theatre accessible to them by sea and difficult for their enemies to reach by land, giving the sea power and its expeditionary forces the advantage. The technical term for these theatres is 'peripheral operations.' The subject of peripheral campaigns in naval expeditionary warfare is central to the British, the US, and the Australian way of war in the past and in the future. All three are reluctant to engage large land forces because of the high human and economic costs. Instead, they rely as much as possible on sea and air power, and the latter is most often in the form of carrier-based aviation. In order to exert pressure on their enemies, they have often opened additional theaters in on-going, regional, and civil wars.

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