Maritime Operations in the RussoJapanese War, 1904-1905
Maritime Operations in the RussoJapanese War, 1904-1905

Author: Julian S. Corbett

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2015-03-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1612518206

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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.

The Russo-Japanese War, Lessons Not Learned
The Russo-Japanese War, Lessons Not Learned

Author: Major James D. Sisemore

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2015-11-06

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1786256282

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Characterized by some authors as a rehearsal for the First World War, the Russo-Japanese War was arguably the world’s first modern war. During this war, the lethality of weapons on the 20th Century battlefield was clearly demonstrated. Recording the events of the Russo-Japanese War were military and civilian observers from every major power of the time. These observers wrote voluminous accounts of the war that clearly illustrated this new battlefield destructiveness. The research question of this thesis is what tactical lessons were available to the observer nations of the Russo-Japanese War that were not used in their preparations for World War I. This paper will look at both observer accounts of the war and professional journal articles written soon after the war to consider this question. To answer this question, the stationary Siege of Port Arthur and the maneuver Battle of Mukden are used as representative battles of this war. Reports from these two battles clearly demonstrate the lethality of modern warfare and foreshadow the combined effects of hand grenades, mortars, machineguns, and field artillery in World War I.

Reader's Guide to Military History
Reader's Guide to Military History

Author: Charles Messenger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 2817

ISBN-13: 1135959773

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This book contains some 600 entries on a range of topics from ancient Chinese warfare to late 20th-century intervention operations. Designed for a wide variety of users, it encompasses general reviews of aspects of military organization and science, as well as specific wars and conflicts. The book examines naval and air warfare, as well as significant individuals, including commanders, theorists, and war leaders. Each entry includes a listing of additional publications on the topic, accompanied by an article discussing these publications with reference to their particular emphases, strengths, and limitations.

Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
Some Principles of Maritime Strategy

Author: Julian Stafford Corbett

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 3734026652

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Reproduction of the original: Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian Stafford Corbett

Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 190
Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 190

Author: Julian S. Corbett

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2015-03-15

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1612518214

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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.

The British Way of War
The British Way of War

Author: Andrew Lambert

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 0300262426

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How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914—but shaped Britain’s success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett (1854–1922) brought a new level of logic, advocacy, and intellectual precision to the development of strategy. Corbett skillfully integrated classical strategic theory, British history, and emerging trends in technology, geopolitics, and conflict to prepare the British state for war. He emphasized that strategy is a unique national construct, rather than a set of universal principles, and recognized the importance of domestic social reform and the evolving British Commonwealth. Corbett's concept of a maritime strategy, dominated by the control of global communications and economic war, survived the debacle of 1914–18, when Britain used the German "way of war" at unprecedented cost in lives and resources. It proved critical in the Second World War, shaping Churchill’s conduct of the conflict from the Fall of France to D-Day. And as Lambert shows, Corbett’s ideas continue to influence British thinking.

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

Author: Sir Julian Stafford Corbett

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages:

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"This is the first public edition of a major work by an important naval historian. It makes clear the contrast that Corbett saw between the English tradition of the broad use of history in writing on issues of naval strategy and the 19th century German tradition of more detailed and technical records of military history. It is an important study of the joint strategic issues involved in limited naval warfare, all issues for modern sailors and scholars to contemplate"--Introduction.