Description
This is a brilliant and penetrating study which revises a great deal our commonly accepted assumptions about Mahan's arguments on the influence of seapower and on naval strategy in general. It is certain to provoke great debate. -- Paul M. Kennedy, Dilworth Professor of History and Director, International Security Studies, Yale University
About the Author
Jon Tetsuro Sumida is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a professional musician. He is the author of In Defence of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology, and British Naval Policy, 1889-1914. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 1995-96.
Reviews
The book is one of the most important on Mahan and the nature of naval command and should be studied wherever naval command is studied. Lloyd's List Sumida casts new light on one of the most important strategic writers of this century. Journal of Military History Jon Sumida's masterful explication of Mahan's thought stands out for its superb analysis, clarity and elegance of prose, masterful synthesis of the admiral's entire work and its amazing compression. Hereafter, no one interested in American naval history, Mahan's ideas, or the strategic role of sea power can rightly go without reading Sumida's slim volume. In short, it is a masterpiece. -- Brian R. Sullivan Joint Force Quarterly
Book Information
ISBN 9780801863400
Author Jon Tetsuro Sumida
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 272g