Dr. Paul Kennedy- Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order

The Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, and the Bush School of Government and Public Service present Dr. Paul Kennedy discussing his newest book, Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order (Yale University Press, 2022).
In this engaging narrative, brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshall’s beautiful full‑color paintings, historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World War-the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan-Kennedy tells a story of naval battles, maritime campaigns, convoys, amphibious landings, and strikes from the sea. From the elimination of the Italian, German, and Japanese fleets and almost all of the French fleet, to the end of the era of the big‑gunned surface vessel, the advent of the atomic bomb, and the rise of an American economic and military power larger than anything the world had ever seen, Kennedy shows how the strategic landscape for naval affairs was completely altered between 1936 and 1946.
Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, Director of International Security Studies at Yale, and Distinguished Fellow of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, coordinates the ISS programs funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation. He is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic, and strategic issues. He is the author of Grand Strategies in War and Peace, From War to Peace, and Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War.
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