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Indlæser... From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United Statesaf Sadao Asada
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. The main topic of this book is strategic culture, as Asada examines how Alfred Thayer Mahan’s vision of the complementary nature of trade and strategic naval power influenced the Imperial Japanese Navy. The real meat of the book is period of managed naval armaments between the world wars, and the fissures this caused in the IJN. Asada’s biggest contribution is that he has ferreted out a fair amount of material on the personalities in conflict with each other, and turns the feuding members of the Japanese officer corps into personalities, as opposed to ciphers. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
major work by one of Japan's leading naval historians, this book traces Alfred Thayer Mahan's influence on Japan's rise as a sea power after the publication of his classic study, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History. Hailed by the British Admiralty, Theodore Roosevelt, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, the international bestseller also was endorsed by the Japanese Naval Ministry, who took it as a clarion call to enhance their own sea power. That power, of course, was eventually used against the United States. Sadao Asada opens his book with a discussion of Mahan's sea power doctrine and demonstra No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)359.00952Social sciences Public Administration, Military Science Navy; Naval Science Biography; History By Place Asia JapanLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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