Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy and Marine Corps: Forward Deployment, Crisis Response, and the Tyranny of History (Armstrong Benjamin)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the US Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar years from a new perspective.Rather than focusing on the technologies developed, the wargames conducted, or the results of the now famous Fleet Problems, this work analyses the global deployments of the rest of the US fleet. By examining the annual reports of the Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations, and Commandant of the Marine Corps over twenty years, the book traces the US ships, squadrons, and fleets conducting naval diplomacy and humanitarian missions, maritime security patrols, and deployments for deterrent effect across the world's oceans. Despite the common label of the interwar years as "isolationist," the deployments of the US Navy and Marine Corps in that period were anything but. The majority of the literature on the era has a narrow focus on preparation for combat and wartime, which
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