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U.S. Naval Strategy and National Security: The Evolution of American Maritime Power, by Sebastian Bruns. London: Routledge, 2018. 270 pages. $155. The past quarter century has not been a happy [...]

Overnight on February 26-27, 2014, Russian forces invaded the Ukrainian territory of Crimea. Twenty-eight days later they had completed the first forced transfer of territory to take place in Europe [...]

The Decline of European Naval Forces: Challenges to Sea Power in an Age of Fiscal Austerity and Political Uncertainty, by Jeremy Stohs. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2018. 290 pages. [...]

Geography gives strategy its context. Secure from land invasion, Great Britain and later the United States employed a distinctive form of sea power to defeat their adversaries. Both used their [...]

Wang Yilin, chairman of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), reportedly told an audience at CNOOC's headquarters in Beijing in May that large-scale deepwater rigs are 'our mobile national [...]

Kraska, James. Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. 464pp. $95'In the unrelenting struggle of peoples,' the historian Pete Padfield wrote, 'those ascendant [...]

Piracy off the coast of Somalia seized the world's imagination a couple of years back when it provided dramatic footage of a kind of criminal activity unfamiliar to many Westerners. [...]

The Free Sea: The American Fight for Freedom of Navigation, by James Kraska and Raul Pedrozo. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2018. 416 pages. $39.95. For most of its 235 [...]

On 12 October 2000, two men from an organization aligned with al-Qa'ida loaded a rigid raider (a small boat with glass-reinforced-plastic hull) with explosives and drove it into the side [...]

Strachan, Hew, and Sibylle Scheipers, eds. The Changing Character of War. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. 564pp. $110 Academic strategists have been agonizing over whether war is changing its [...]

Kleinen, John, and Manon Osseweijer, eds. Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Singapore and Leiden: ISEAS Press and International Institute for Asian Studies, 2010. 312pp. $74 [...]

Struett, Michael J., Jon D. Carlson, and Mark T. Nance, eds. Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance. New York: Routledge, 2013. 226pp. $29 Piracy presents an extraordinary set [...]

Berube, Claude, and Patrick Cullen, eds. Maritime Private Security: Market Responses to Piracy, Terrorism and Waterborne Security Risks in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge, 2012. 272pp. $135 In April [...]

It is the policy of the Chinese Communist Party that the country should become a great maritime power. In this article, Martin N Murphy and Peter Roberts provide an overview of what this means militarily, where China is laying down a challenge to the US and its regional neighbours, where it is falling short, and what this has to do with Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cann, John P. Brown Waters of Africa: Portuguese Riverine Warfare, 1961-1974. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Hailer, 2007. 248pp. $29.99 Counterinsurgency warfare is what used to be called 'colonial warfare.' Although the [...]