Strategic Basing and the Great Powers, 1200-2000 (Strategy and History)

✍ Scribed by Harkavy

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the first book to survey the evolution of the strategic basing systems of the great powers, covering an 800-year span of history, from the Mongol dynasty to the era of the US empire. Robert E. Harkavy details the progression of strategic basing systems and power projection, from its beginnings at a regional level to its current global reach, while emphasizing the interplay between political and international systemic factors (bipolar vs. multipolar systems), and technological factors. Analyzing the relationship between basing structures and national power, the book deals with such key questions as: the co-mingling of military and commercial functions for bases; sea power; geopolitical theory; imperial ‘pick-off’ during hegemonic wars; base acquisitions; continuity between basing structures; and long-term shifts in basing functions. Strategic Basing and the Great Powers, 1200-2000 will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, military history and international relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 14
2 The Mongols and the Mings: Naval basing during an earlier age of sail......Page 42
3 The Mediterranean basing competition and galley warfare: Venice, Genoa, Ottoman Empire, Spain, c.1200–1600......Page 45
4 Basing systems in the age of empire and sail......Page 57
5 The interwar period: A transitional era......Page 85
6 Bases during the Cold War: The bipolar base race......Page 107
7 After the Cold War: Basing in a unipolar system......Page 160
Appendices......Page 188
Notes......Page 266
Index......Page 284