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This analysis will seek to demonstrate the relevance of Corbett to the changing nature and role of maritime power to tomorrow’s world of the twenty-first century. The contention here is that, while the theories of Alfred Thayer Mahan are all very well in their way, the work of Sir Julian Corbett provides a much more appropriate foundation for speculation about the future of sea power in the twenty-first century.1
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Quoted in Donald M. Schurman, Julian S. Corbett 1854–1922 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1981), p. 44.
J. S. Corbett, England in the Seven Years War, vol. 1 (London: Longmans Green, 1907), p. 5.
Cited in J. S. Corbett, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (Annapolis, Md.: USNI Press, 1988), p. 15.
Ibid., p. 58.
J. S. Corbett, Naval Operations (London: Longmans Green, 1920), vol. 2, pp. 41–2.
T. Smollett, History of England (London, 1760), p. 423.
Bruce George and Jonathan Mercus, ‘Change and Continuity in French Defence Policy’, R USI Joumal, vol. 129, no. 2, June 1984, pp. 13–19.
See James Cable, Gunboat Diplomacy: Application of Limited Naval Force, 2nd edn (London: Chatto & Windus, 1981), and Ken Booth, Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea (London: Allen & Unwin, 1985).
Cited in A. Lambert, The Last Sailing Battlefleet (London: Conway, 1991), p. 38.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (London: Penguin, 1978), p. 51.
Eyre Crowe cited in N. Tracy, Attack on Maritime Trade (London: Mac-millan, 1991), pp. 101–2.
B. H. Liddell Hart, Strategy: The lndirect Approach (London: Faber, 1967), p. 335.
See Sir Basil Liddell Hart, The British Way in Warfare (London: Penguin, 1942); and David French, The British Way in Warfare 1688–2000 (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990).
Corbett (1988), op. cit., p. 67.
United States Department of the Navy, Forward… From the Sea (Wash-ington, DC: Department of the Navy, 1993).
Corbett (1988), op. cit., pp. 15–16.
J. S. Corbett, Drake and the TudorNavy, vol. 1 (London: Longmans Green, 1916), p. 6.
Cited in P. M. Kennedy, Strategy and Diplomacy 1870–1945 (London: Fontana, 1983), pp. 62–3.
Arthur J. Marder, From the Dardanelles to Oran (London: Oxford Univer-sity Press, 1974), p.1.
Corbett (1920), op. cit., vol. 2, pp. 105–6.
David A. Baugh, ‘British Strategy during the First World War in the Con-text of Four Centuries’, in Daniel M. Masterton (ed.), Naval History: The Sixth Symposium, (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1987), p. 100.
Corbett (1988), op. cit., p. 66.
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Till, G. (1999). Sir Julian Corbett and the Twenty-First Century: Ten Maritime Commandments. In: Dorman, A., Smith, M.L., Uttley, M.R.H. (eds) The Changing Face of Maritime Power. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509610_3
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