In this book, Britain's leading naval historians and analysts have come together to produce an investigation of the development of British naval thinking over t

To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the

Overturns existing thinking to show that the Royal Navy engaged professionally in war planning in the years before the First World War.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Stafford Corbett emerged as foundational thinkers on naval strategy and maritime power. Imp