Asia Looks Seaward
the Japanese government’s foreign policy and is an object which it will always unflinchingly uphold.’’^3 Two years later, the Br ...
cousins.^7 The growth of Japanese and American power during the Great War, compounded by clashing interests in China in the inte ...
On the other hand, there was an Imperial aspect of the case, which Britain and the Dominions were bound to consider, in relation ...
The British did explore the possibility of a tripartite treaty among Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In June 1 ...
with the United States, so planning against the U.S. Navy was unnecessary. The only remaining possible naval threat was Japan. B ...
The Admiralty seems to be misconceiving the problem which is before them. That prob- lem is to keep a Navy in being which over a ...
present junction arise very largely from the insecurity of our naval bases at Hong Kong and Singapore.’’ The main problem was th ...
Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, after her second marriage ended. Baldwin and the Cabinet refused to assent to the match, a ...
We consider it to be a cardinal requirement of our national and Imperial security that our Foreign Policy should be so conducted ...
As first lord of the Admiralty during the early days of World War II, Churchill continued to deprecate the likelihood of war bet ...
foe, and they never managed to acquire the United States as a partner until the actual outbreak of war in the region. This luck ...
Finally, it is worth noting that the inability of the British to avoid war with Japan in no way guarantees that the United State ...
CHAPTER 4 CLIPPER SHIPS TO CARRIERS: U.S. MARITIME STRATEGY IN ASIA Bernard D. Cole The United States enters the twenty-first ce ...
the greater task of preparing for a classic naval war against Japan, as that erstwhile ally became the most challenging competit ...
U.S. naval forces were not formal participants in the First Opium War, but Washington was quick to take full advantage of Beijin ...
Tattnall had been dispatched to the Far East in 1858 to deliver William Reed as U.S. minister to China. He then joined British a ...
America’s Rise as a Pacific Power: Theory Although U.S. naval and merchant vessels were sailing Asian waters by the 1830s, Ameri ...
Geographic position: maritime geography, colonies Physical conformation: coastline, borders Extent of territory: harbors, lengt ...
The islands also drove American diplomacy for much of the first half of the twentieth century, which worked to the detriment of ...
as a vehicle for national security goals in Asia. Naval superiority over Japan in the western Pacific was one thing; superiority ...
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