Brown-, Green- and Blue-Water Fleets
Subtitle: The Influence of Geography on Naval Warfare, 1861 to the Present
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: November 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780275964863
Subjects: Naval forces & warfare; Oceanography (seas); Technology & Industrial Arts; Military; International Relations - Arms Control; Military - General; Military - Strategy; Military Science; History / Military / General; Military - Naval; 19th century; 20th century; Effect of geography on; History; Naval art and science
First sentence: An outsider, blissfully ignorant of the preoccupations of academic geography, would likely express both surprise and amusement when apprised of the tortured explanations given by advocates of the discipline in its justification.