v. 3. A violent peace, 1946-2006 -- Grand strategy -- Going MAD: the nuclearization of sea power -- "Grey Diplomats:" the sixth and seventh fleets in the 1950s -- The A-frame fractor and other frustrations: Korea and Vietnam -- Crisis and consequence: Cuba, 1962 -- Red fleet rising -- Reversals of fortune -- Rocks and shoals -- Navy imperial.
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"[Volume 1] Traces the social issues, technological advances, and combative encounters of the international naval race from 1890 through WWI, as the largest industrial nations (U.S, Great Britain, Japan, and Germany) scrambled to secure global markets and empire, using their battleship navies as pawns of power politics"--Provided by publisher.
Power at sea.
Marine engineering-- Technological innovations-- Social aspects.