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The Political Influence of Naval Force in History

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As an avid naval strategy reader, I had much anticipated this work's release. However, after finishing it, I was mildly disappointed, as Cable sets overly rigorous standards in defining the allowable circumstances for true political impacts by naval events. For this reason it is often smaller naval incidents which are discussed, rather than most major naval actions.

Also, Cable virtually eliminates all ancient naval actions from consideration, as he views ancient naval activity as being ultimately dependent upon land-based military technology (such as the Roman corvus); this is due to the lack of true naval clash in the modern big-gun ship sense (characteristic only of the last few centuries).

This is not a bad book, but it will definitely appeal mainly to more academic types interested in squeezing analysis out of small, tightly-defined historical circumstances.