Sir Julian Corbett was regarded as one of the greatest naval historians of the early twentieth century. "Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905" was never available to the public during his lifetime. As noted in the introduction to Volume I, Corbett dealt not with "minute details a[...]
Unlike his contemporary American theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britain's eminent maritime strategist, Sir Julian Corbett, believed that victory in war did not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this had never been the case. Corbett's keen analysis of the Russo- Japanes[...]