from the american point of view the strategy of deterrence and the related priciple of limiting to tolerable proportions whatever conflicts become inevitable tend to spring from the premise that the favourable results of a total war can never be sufficient to justify its cost
The machine age came late to the navies of the world. When the nineteenth century was approaching its halfway mark, the capital ship that ruled the seas still differed very little from its predecessor of Cromwells time
When Japan struck at the American battle fleet at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, the immediate thought of the average American was that the Japanese had run completely amuck.
<p>The Word Politics in the title of this book is used in the broadest possible sense; on the whole it more often refers to the international than to the domestic variety.</p>
DAFTAR ISI: I. ORIGINS OF AIR STRATEGY II. NEW PROBLEMS AND NEW APPROACHES