05917cam a2200841 a 4500 onehundredyearso0000baer CaSfIA 20250906192100.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 940103s1994 cau ob 001 0 eng 94002595 (OCoLC)925489456 DLC eng DLC BAKER NLGGC BTCTA YDXCP ZCU OCLCQ TULIB GBVCP OCLCF MUO OCLCQ OCLCO OCL J9U NJR AU@ STH OCLCQ OCLCA CaSfIA 0804722730 (alk. paper) 9780804722735 (alk. paper) 0804727945 9780804727945 n-us--- VA58 .B283 1994 359/.00973 20 15.85 bcl 7,26 ssgn 89.90 bcl Baer, George W. One hundred years of sea power : the U.S. Navy, 1890-1990 / George W. Baer. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994. 1 online resource (553 pages) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-541) and index. 1. Sea Power and the Fleet Navy, 1890-1910 -- 2. The New Navy, 1898-1913 -- 3. Neutrality or Readiness? 1913-1917 -- 4. War Without Mahan, 1917-1918 -- 5. Parity and Proportion, 1919-1922 -- 6. Treaty Navy, 1922-1930 -- 7. Adapt and Innovate, 1931-1938 -- 8. Are We Ready? 1938-1940 -- 9. Sea Control, 1941-1942 -- 10. Strategic Offensives, 1943-1944 -- 11. Victory Drives, 1944-1945 -- 12. Why Do We Need a Navy? 1945-1949 -- 13. Naval Strategy, 1950-1954 -- 14. Containment and the Navy, 1952-1960 -- 15. The McNamara Years, 1961-1970 -- 16. Disarray, 1970-1980 -- 17. High Tide, 1980-1990. This powerfully argued, objective history of the modern U.S. Navy explains how the Navy defined its purpose in the century after 1890. It relates in detail how the Navy formed and reformed its doctrine of naval force and operations around a concept articulated by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan - a concept of offensive sea control by a battleship fleet, and, new to America, the need to build and maintain an offensive battle fleet in peacetime. However, there were many years, notably in the 1920's and after World War II, when there was no enemy at sea, when the country turned inward, when the Navy could not count on support for an expensive peacetime battle fleet. After 1945, especially, the inappropriateness of Mahanian principles strained a service that had taken them for granted, as did the centralization of the military establishment and the introduction of new weapons. What, then, did the Navy do? It shrewdly adapted old ideas to new technology. To reclaim its position in a general war, and avoid being transformed into a mere transport service, the Navy (with the Marine Corps) proved it was capable of power projection onto the land through seaborne bombers armed with nuclear weapons and by building a ballistic missile-launching submarine force. The growth of a Soviet sea force in the 1970's and 1980's revived the moribund sea power doctrine, but the Navy's bid for strategic leadership failed in the face of the war-avoidance policy of the Cold War. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Navy finally retired Mahan's doctrine that the defeat of the enemy fleet was the Navy's primary objective. Having proven itself in the course of the century as ever adaptable, the service moved back from sea control to a doctrine of expeditionary littoral warfare. This volume, then, is a history of how a war-fighting organization responded - in doctrine, strategy, operations, preparedness, self-awareness, and force structure - to radical changes in political circumstance, technological innovation, and national needs and expectations. Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, 1996. United States. Navy History 19th century. United States. Navy History 20th century. United States. Navy. fast (OCoLC)fst00533204 United States. Navy. Sea-power United States History 19th century. Sea-power United States History 20th century. United States History, Naval. Sea-power. fast (OCoLC)fst01110196 United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 Zeemacht. gtt 1800-1999 fast Sea-power History 19th century United States Sea-power History 20th century United States United States History, Naval United States / Navy History 19th century United States / Navy History 20th century History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Naval history. fast (OCoLC)fst01411632 Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam027/94002595.html Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780804722735.pdf Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam026/94002595.html Available from ACLS Humanities: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.31560 Rutgers restricted https://archive.org/details/onehundredyearso0000baer Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1079279M Additional information and access via Open Library onehundredyearso0000baer ark:/13960/t2x44bm38