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The U.S. Navy
Craig L. Symonds
其他書名
A Concise History
出版Oxford University Press, 2016
主題History / Military / GeneralHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / Wars & Conflicts / GeneralHistory / Military / Naval
ISBN01993949469780199394944
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fLmYCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"The United States Navy today is the greatest and most powerful sea force in the world. But it was not always so. In this book, Craig L. Symonds traces the uneven historical path that transformed the U.S. Navy from a handful of small sailing craft in the late eighteenth century into a world superpower. The Navy's story is not merely, or even essentially, one of simple increase over time from small beginnings to global behemoth, but rather the Navy's changing structure and varying missions were the product of a constantly shifting sense of America's proper role in the world. This extraordinary story, which so closely mirrors the path of the United States itself, was punctuated by highly critical moments pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones's attacks on the British in the Revolution, Stephen Decatur's bold heroics in the Mediterranean, David G. Farragut's victory at Mobile Bay in the Civil War, and the sweeping cataclysm of the battles for Leyte Gulf. In this ... narrative, Symonds describes the evolving culture of the Navy as an institution and the shifting debate among policy makers about what role, if any, an American navy should play in world affairs. He also illuminates how technological revolutions ushered the Navy through the age of steam and steel to the modern era of electronics and missiles. From the establishment of an American navy to the Cold War and beyond, this book shows how the U.S. Navy eventually became an instrument to impose and enforce a Pax Americana on the world, offering ... insights into America's own history and its perception of itself."--Jacket.