Product Description
by George W. Baer (Author)
This is a history of how the Navy responded-in doctrine, strategy, operations, preparedness, self-awareness, and force structure-to radical changes in political circumstance, technological innovation, and national needs and expectations.
Back Jacket
A fine book: meticulous, judicious, incisive. It is a book to which the conventional exaggerations--must" reading, relevant, if you're only going to read one book on the subject, etc.--actually may be said to apply. . . . It is a study of the interactions of technology, bureaucracy, politics and culture, of how an institution adapts, or fails to adapt, to changing conditions. As such, the book belongs on a lot of desks at the Pentagon."--Washington Times
"Baer takes what could have been a dry topic--the political history of the modern U.S. Navy--and turns it into interesting reading."--Library Journal
