Now playing
AudioSea-Power in the Pacific
About this film
LibriVox recording of Sea-Power in the Pacific by Hector Charles Bywater. Read in English by Alister During the three decades preceding the Pacific War, the United States placed no small amount of effort in gaming out what a such a conflict against Japan might look like. Ultimately, the Pacific War looked very little like the crystallization of these efforts expressed in War Plan Orange. The Americans and the Japanese were both heavily influenced by the theories of sea power and decisive battle of Alfred Thayer Mahan , despite the lacklustre absence of any such climactic decision at sea in the Great War. The Pacific War would bear even less resemblance to Naval War College preconceptions as battleships were sidelined by the carrier—initially out of necessity, though as planes improved, and the doctrine for their employment were clarified, the superior capability they provided to shape the battlespace would soon become as clear as daylight. Sea-Power in the Pacific , published in 1921, is military writer Hector Charles Bywater’s prediction which in some respects – together with his 1925 novel, The Great Pacific War – hits far closer to the mark than any actual naval war planning of…
Directors & creators
Hector Charles Bywater
Subjects
librivox; audiobooks;ships; wwii; pacific ocean; war in the pacific; world war 2
More from this pool