Maritime operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

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Maritime operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

Julian S. Corbett ; with an introduction by John B. Hattendorf and Donald M. Schurman

Published jointly by Naval Institute Press, Naval War College Press, 2015

  • v. 1 : pbk
  • v. 2 : pbk

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Originally published with introduction in hardcover: 1994

First Naval Institute Press paperback edition published in 2015

"This work first appeared in January 1914 as a confidential publication of the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty War Staff. This edition reproduces the copy held by the Library if the Royal Naval College, Greenwich"--T. p. verso

"Published jointly by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, Naval War College Press, Newport, Rhode Island"

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781591141976

Description

Sir Julian Corbett was regarded as one of the greatest naval historians of the early twentieth century. Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 was never available to the public during his lifetime. As noted in the introduction to Volume I, Corbett dealt not with "minute details and themes,...but a continuous narrative that demonstrated the interrelationship of land and sea events as they impinged on each other in conception, execution and results. Thus political objectives, geographic factors, and the machinery of government all could be seen working together as part of a whole." Corbett's work delineated the differences between maritime and land warfare, while also exploring their interaction. Published in hardcover by the Naval Institute Press in 1994, both volumes are now available in paperback for the first time.
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v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781591141983

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Unlike his contemporary American theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britain's eminent maritime strategist, Sir Julian Corbett, believed that victory in war did not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this had never been the case. Corbett's keen analysis of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 and his discussion of the pros and cons of limited conflict is still of great value to our understanding of today's limited wars. Based on intelligence reports provided by the Japanese government, this work on the Russo-Japanese naval war was written as an official study in the years just before World War I and classified "confidential" by the Royal Navy. The two-volume study demonstrates the lessons the war held for the future and shows the essential differences between maritime and continental warfare, while also exploring their interaction.

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