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1 Doing navy History Essays Toward Improvement Edited by John B. Hattendorf naval War college Press newport , Rhode Island 1995 Scanned and electronically published by American naval Records Society Bolton Landing, New York 2012 AS A WORK OF THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS PUBLICATION IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Doing naval History \ Edited by John B. Hattendorf Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History naval War college Doing naval History naval War college Historical Monograph Series No. 13 The Historical Monograph series are book-length studies of the History of naval warfare, edited historical documents, conference proceedings, and bibliographies. They are the products of the naval War college 's historical studies and are based, wholly or in part, on source materials in the college 's naval Historical Collection. Financial support for research projects, conference support and printing is provided by the naval War college Foundation.

2 Other volumes in the series are: No. 1. The Writings of Stephen B. Luce, edited by John D. Hayes and John B. Hattendorf (1975). No. 2. Charleston Blockade: The Journals of John B. Marchand, navy , 1861-1862, edited by Craig L. Symonds (1976). No. 3. Professors of War: The naval War college and the Development of the naval Profession, by Ronald Spector (1977). No. 4. The Blue Sword: The naval War college and the American Mission, 1919-1941, by Michael Vlahos (1980). No. 5. On His Majesty's Service: Observations of the British Home Fleet from the Diary, Reports, and Letters of Joseph H. Wettings, Assistant naval Attachi, London, 1940-41, edited by John B. Hattendorf (1983). No. 6. Angel on the Yardarm: The Beginnings of Fleet Radar Defense and the Kamikaze Threat, by John Monsarrat (1985). No. 7. A Bibliography of the Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan, compiled by John B.

3 Hattendorf and Lynn C. Hattendorf (1986). No. 8. The Fraternity of the Blue Uniform: Admiral Richard G. Colbert, , and Allied naval Cooperation, by Joel J. Sokolsky (1991). No. 9. The Influence of History on Mahan: The Proceedings of a Conference Marking the Centenary of Alfred Thayer Mahan's "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History , 1660-1783," edited by John B. Hattendorf (1991). No. 10. Mahan Is Not Enough: The Proceedings of a Conference on the Works of Sir Julian Corbett and Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, edited by James Goldrick and John B. Hattendorf(1993). No. 11. Ubi Sumus?: The State of naval and Maritime History , edited by John B. Hattendorf (1994). No. 12. The Queenstoum Patrol, 1917: The Journal of Commander Joseph Knefler Taussig, navy , edited by William N. Still, Jr. (1995). Doing naval History assays 1 ward Improvement Edited by John B.

4 Hattendorf Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History naval War college naval WAR college PRESS newport , Rhode Island 1995 The cover illustration is from the collections of the naval War college Museum, newport , Rhode Island, and taken from Davidson's "The President's Vacation Manoeuvres of the North Atlantic Squadron," Harper's Weekly, vol. XXVIII, no. 1446 (6 September 1884), pp. 582-83, illustrating a report that President Chester A. Arthur visited the naval Torpedo Station and observed fleet exercises at newport , Rhode Island, on 28 August 1884. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Doing naval History : essays toward improvement/edited by John B. Hattendorf. p. cm. ( naval War college historical monograph series; no. 13) "This volume had its origins in the papers presented at the Second Yale- naval War college Conference held at the Paul Mellon British Art Center in New Haven, Connecticut, 2-4 June 1994" Acknowledgments.

5 Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-884733-06-9 1. naval History , Modern 19th century Historiography Con gresses. 2. naval History , Modern 20th century Historiography Congresses. 3. naval art and science History Historiography Congresses. I. Hattendorf, John B. II. Yale naval War college Conference (2nd: 1994 : New Haven, Conn.) III. Series: naval War college historical monograph series; no. 13. 1995 95-21546 359\009 dc20 CIP Contents About the Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 John B. Hattendorf PART I: Bureaucracy and Technology 1. The Problems of Modern naval History 11 James Goldrick 2. Machines, Men, Manufacturing, Management and Money: The Study of Navies as Complex Organizations and the Transformation of Twentieth Century naval History 25 John Tetsuro Sumida and David Alan Rosenberg 3. Navies, Politics, and Political Science 41 Robert Jervis PART II: Domestic Politics 4.

6 Navies and Domestic Factors 53 Volker Berghahn 5. Domestic Factors, Regime Characteristics, and naval Forces .. 67 Robert S. Wood PART III: Comparative History 6. Comparative naval History 75 Paul G. Halpern 7. Some Mild and Radical Observations on Desiderata in Comparative naval History 93 William R. Thompson PART IV: General naval History 8. Considerations on Writing a General naval History 117 Rodger vi Contents 9. Toward a New naval History 129 Dennis E. Showalter PART V: Reflections 10. Context and Approach in naval History : Admiral Tirpitz and the Origin of Fascism 143 Paul M. Kennedy 11. Hitting the Target: Perspectives on Doing naval History 151 Mark R. Shulman About the Contributors Volker Berghahn is the Birkelund Professor of European History at Brown University. While he has also written on business History , his works in the field of military History include Der Stahlhelm (1966); Der Tirpitz Plan (1971); Militarism (1981) and, with Wilhelm Deist, an edition of documents on Wilhel-mian armaments policy (1988).

7 James Goldrick was born in 1958 and joined the Royal Australian navy in 1974. A Commander, he is currently Executive Officer of HMAS Perth. Other sea postings have included command of HMAS Cessnock and exchange service with the Royal navy . His publications include The King's Ships Were at Sea: The War in the North Sea, August 1914-February 1915 (1984) and co-editing Reflections on the Royal Australian navy (1991) and Mahan is Not Enough (1993). Paul G. Halpern is Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of The Mediterranean naval Situation, 1908-1914 (1971), The naval War in the Mediterranean, 1914-1918 (1987) and A naval History of World War I (1994). He has edited four volumes for the navy Records Society and has recently completed a biography of the Austrian naval commander, Admiral Anton Haus. John B. Hattendorf is the Ernest J.

8 King Professor of Maritime History and Director of the Advanced Research Department at the naval War college , newport , Rhode Island. Among his most recent publications, he has edited Ubi Sumus? The State of naval and Maritime History (1994) and Maritime History in the Age of Discovery: An Introduction (1995). He co-edited Mahan is Not Enough (1993) and British naval Documents, 1204-1960 (1993). Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations at Columbia University. Among his recent publications are The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (1989), which won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, and The Logic of Images in International Relations (1989). His Systems: Dynamics and Effects will be published by Princeton University Press in 1997. Paul M. Kennedy is Dilworth Professor of History and Director of Inter national Security Studies at Yale University.

9 He is the author or editor of thirteen works, including The Rise and Fall of British naval Mastery (1976), Strategy and Diplomacy (1983), The War Plans of the Great Powers (1979), The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987), Grand Strategies in War and Peace (1991), and Preparing for the Twenty-First Century (1993). Rodger is a former Assistant Keeper in the Public Record Office, and now Anderson Research Fellow of the National Maritime Museum, where he is working on a new naval History of Britain. He has already published The Wooden World, An Anatomy of the Georgian navy (1986) and The Insatiable Earl: A Life of John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1718-1792 (1993.) David A. Rosenberg is an associate professor of modern military and diplomatic History at Temple University, Philadelphia. He received his from American University (1970) and his (1971) and with Honors (1983) from the University of Chicago.

10 The author of dozens of essays, articles and short monographs on post-World War II naval and military History and the History of nuclear strategy, he was awarded a five-year John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur fellowship in 1988. He is an intelligence officer in the naval Reserve who served on active duty with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Operation Desert Storm. Dennis E. Showalter is Professor of History at The Colorado college . He has served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Air Force Academy, and is author of numerous books and articles in the field of military History , including Tannenberg: Clash of Empires (1991) and The Wars of Frederick the Great (1995). Mark R. Shulman is author of Navalism and the Emergence of American Sea Power, 1882-1893 (1995), editor of An Admiral's Yam: The Autobiography of Harris Laning and co-editor of The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (1994).