This People's Navy

This book is intended as a comprehensive history of the United States Navy in peace and war. The book covers more than two centuries of naval history, tracing the evolution of the force and examining armaments, ship design, naval policy and the careers of leading naval personalities. The book argues that because the United States is a continental power, the Mahaian dictum of achieving command of the sea with line-of-battle ships (later aircraft carriers) has always been at variance with its strategic requirements.