Seapower and strategy /

Editors Gray and Barnett have organized this volume around ten themes explaining the value and importance of maritime power in relation to land power. Following a historical development of war at sea from the Peloponnesian War through WW II, contemporary maritime strategy is analyzed with respect to Western defense, the Soviet maritime challenge, and the relation of the continental and maritime strategies. The editors and contributing authors are well known in the field and make an important contribution to an informed dialogue on the use of naval forces in support of national policy. Compare with Norman Friedman's The US Maritime Strategy (CH, Oct'88) or Naval Strategy and Maritime Security, ed. by Steven Miller and Stephen Van Evera (1988). Recommended for general readership at all levels. Outstanding bibliography, notes, index. -P. R. Schratz, Naval War College (U.S.)