Strategic basing and the great powers, 1200-2000 /
[Book]
Robert E. Harkavy.
New York :
Routledge,
2007.
xi, 276 pages ;
24 cm.
Strategy and history ;
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. The Mongols and the Mings: Naval basing during an earlier age of Sail -- 3. The Mediterranean basing competition and galley warfare: Venice, Genoa, Ottoman Empire, Spain, circa 1200-1600 -- 4. Basing systems in the age of Empire and Sail -- 5. The interwar period: A transitional era -- 6. Bases during the Cold War: the bipolar base race -- 7. After the Cold War: Basing in a unipolar system.
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Examining the great powers' strategic basing networks, stressing the evolvement of basing structures as a function of changing technological determinants and of the changing nature of the international system, this book is useful for students and scholars of military and naval history, and strategic studies in general.