The Price of Prestige

54 chapter two In contrast, peacekeeping forces have proven to be a poor test of sta­ tus because they do not impose significant ...

chapter three The Aircraft Carrier Club A German fleet is a luxury not a national necessity. — Winston Churchill^1 It is well kn ...

56 chapter three Like Zam Zammah, a cannon too large for actual war, or the Ratte, a tank too heavy for any terrain, the Vasa of ...

the aircraft carrier club 57 In order to analyze this dilemma, we must first understand the qualities that make the aircraft car ...

58 chapter three University of National Defense has estimated that the cost of the life cycle of one Nimitz- class carrier “is e ...

the aircraft carrier club 59 Britain and Germany in the years leading up to World War I offers an- other striking example that c ...

60 chapter three Despite the proven wartime effectiveness of small ships, by the end of the war we do not find a “different defi ...

the aircraft carrier club 61 When the inevitable naval arms race between Britain and Germany accelerated, the Germans indeed fol ...

62 chapter three When signal selection trumps natural selection, we end up with the Vasa and the Bismarck. Moreover, the British ...

the aircraft carrier club 63 still plays an integral part in international affairs. According to Cable ( 1989 , 44 – 45 ), 1944 ...

64 chapter three excess, the potential disconnect between actual capabilities and symbolic value grew further, enabling and enco ...

the aircraft carrier club 65 Italy was forced to divert resources away from essential components of na- val power in order to ke ...

66 chapter three types of goods challenges traditional explanations of procurement. Most existing theories ignore the dimension ...

the aircraft carrier club 67 those are really needed. Hence, we should expect models that emphasize material functionalism to wo ...

68 chapter three The discussion so far has generated several hypotheses that should en- able us to differentiate between the con ...

the aircraft carrier club 69 purchase naval units when they can afford them, not solely when they need them. While statistical a ...

70 chapter three resembles conventional takeoff and landing. The catapults in particular are expensive, large, and difficult to ...

the aircraft carrier club 71 much larger than a cruiser. The United States is the only country to op- erate supercarriers, which ...

72 chapter three The purchase of the São Paulo came at a time of great financial dif- ficulties for the Brazilian armed forces. ...

the aircraft carrier club 73 as a considerable threat to any of Brazil’s most immediate regional com- petitors, would have any e ...