Add to ORKGIn this essay I will look at the guiding concepts of the US and Japanese Navies and how these influenced their thinking, their armaments and their final confrontation in the Pacific War. Can the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN) line of action and eventual at the hands of the US fleet be explained by reference to the sea power theories of Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian Corbett.Master of Science (Strategic Studies
The U.S. Navy has never been comfortable with theory or doctrine at what is now known as the operati...
History credits Alfred Thayer Mahan for the United States’ modernization and expansion of its navy. ...
Less than two hours after Japanese planes first flew over the American naval base of Pearl Harbor on...
In this essay I will look at the guiding concepts of the US and Japanese Navies and how these influe...
By 1921, the Imperial Japanese Navy had come to view the United States of America as its "hypothetic...
The basic strategic problems confronting the U.S. Navy during the interwar years of the 1920s and 19...
This thesis presents an analysis and confrontation of the classical and current strategic naval thin...
The authors study the military potential of the Japanese Empire and its changes during the Pacific W...
The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) was a brief yet bloody conflict that featured large land battles an...
Today the series takes a slightly different turn as we examine how previously discussed theories an...
The final defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War Two has been most often attributed to th...
The late Colonel John Boyd, who knew a thing or two about strategic thought, was fond of declaring t...
Japan's decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point o...
In 1890, a profound shift occurred in the United States. A nation that had traditionally seen itself...
The aim of this article is to present events that took place near Guadalcanal Island during the batt...
The U.S. Navy has never been comfortable with theory or doctrine at what is now known as the operati...
History credits Alfred Thayer Mahan for the United States’ modernization and expansion of its navy. ...
Less than two hours after Japanese planes first flew over the American naval base of Pearl Harbor on...
In this essay I will look at the guiding concepts of the US and Japanese Navies and how these influe...
By 1921, the Imperial Japanese Navy had come to view the United States of America as its "hypothetic...
The basic strategic problems confronting the U.S. Navy during the interwar years of the 1920s and 19...
This thesis presents an analysis and confrontation of the classical and current strategic naval thin...
The authors study the military potential of the Japanese Empire and its changes during the Pacific W...
The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) was a brief yet bloody conflict that featured large land battles an...
Today the series takes a slightly different turn as we examine how previously discussed theories an...
The final defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War Two has been most often attributed to th...
The late Colonel John Boyd, who knew a thing or two about strategic thought, was fond of declaring t...
Japan's decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point o...
In 1890, a profound shift occurred in the United States. A nation that had traditionally seen itself...
The aim of this article is to present events that took place near Guadalcanal Island during the batt...
The U.S. Navy has never been comfortable with theory or doctrine at what is now known as the operati...
History credits Alfred Thayer Mahan for the United States’ modernization and expansion of its navy. ...
Less than two hours after Japanese planes first flew over the American naval base of Pearl Harbor on...