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Jon Sumida Publications
[August 2013]
Books:
Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to On War (Lawrence, KS: University Press of
Kansas, 2008; paperback edition, 2011); selected title, U.S. Marine Corps Professional
Reading Program, colonel to general (2009-2012; superseded 2013); selected title, U.S.
Marine Corps War College list of top ten military books published 2000-2010; C-span2
College Series interview with Peter Slevin (2 December 2012) http://www.cspanarchives.org/program/Decodi#
Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer
Mahan Reconsidered (Washington, D.C.: Wilson Center Press/Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1997; paperback edition, 1999); selected title, U.S. Marine
Corps Professional Reading Program, colonel to general (superseded)
In Defence of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology and British Naval Policy, 18891914 (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989; paperback edition, London: Routledge, 1993;
paperback reissue, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Pres, forthcoming January 2014)
The Pollen Papers: The Privately Circulated Printed Works of Arthur Hungerford
Pollen, 1901-1916, Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 124 (London: George
Allen & Unwin, 1984)
Articles and Chapters in Books:
“A Concordance of Selected Subjects in On War,” Journal of Military History
(forthcoming January 2014)
“The Clausewitz Problem,” Army History (Fall 2009)
“On Defence as the Stronger Form of War,” in Hew Strachan and Andreas HerbergRothe, eds, Clausewitz in the 21st Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
“Expectation, Adaptation, and Resignation: British Battle Fleet Tactical Planning, August
1914-April 1916,” Naval War College Review, 60 (Summer 2007)
“Geography, Technology, and British Naval Strategy in the Dreadnought Era,” Naval
War College Review, 59 (Summer 2006)
“British Preparations for Global Naval War, 1904-1914: Directed Revolution or Critical
Problem Solving?” in Monica Toft and Talbot Imlay, eds, The Fog of Peace and War
Planning: Military and Strategic Planning under Uncertainty (London: Routledge, 2006)
“Pitfalls and Prospects: the Misuses and Uses of Military History and Classical Theory in
an Age of Transformation,” in Anthony McIvor, ed., Rethinking the Principles of War
(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005)
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“Re-imagining the History of Twentieth Century Navies,” in Daniel Finamore, ed.,
Maritime History as World History (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2004)
“A Matter of Timing: The Royal Navy and the Tactics of Decisive Battle, 1912-1916,”
Journal of Military History (January 2003) [Moncado Prize from the Society for Military
History, 2004]
“New Insight from Old Books: The Case of Alfred Thayer Mahan,” Naval War College
Review (Summer 2001); adapted version: “Old Thought, New Problem: Mahan and the
Consideration of Spacepower’ in Charles Lutes and Peter Hays, eds, Toward a Theory of
Spacepower (Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 2011)
http://www.ndu.edu/press/space-Ch1.html
“The Relationship between History and Theory in On War: the Clausewitzian Ideal and
its Implications,” Journal of Military History (April 2001); see also Clifford J. Rogers,
“Clausewitz, Genius, and the Rules” [a nine-page reaction to my article], and “Response
by Jon Sumida to the Remarks by Dr. Rogers,” Journal of Military History (October
2002)
“History and Theory: the Clausewitzian Ideal and Its Implications,” in David Stevens and
John Reeve, ed. Southern Trident: Strategy, History and the Rise of Australian Naval
Power (Crows Nest [Sydney]: Allen and Unwin, 2001).
“British Naval Procurement and Technological Change, 1919-1939,” in Philips Payson
O’Brien, ed., Fighting the Next War at Sea: Technology, Shipbuilding and Future
Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (London: Frank Cass, 2001)
“Demythologizing the Fisher Era: the Role of Change in Historical Method,”
Militärgeschichtliches Forchungsamt, 59 (2000)
“History and Theory: the Clausewitzian Ideal and Its Implications,” Journal of the Royal
United Services Institute of Australia, 21 (May 2000)
“Alfred Thayer Mahan, Geopolitician,” in Geoffrey Sloan and Colin S. Gray, eds,
Geopolitics, Geography and Strategy (London: Frank Cass, 1999); also in special issue of
The Journal of Strategic Studies, 22 (June/September 1999)
“Sir John Fisher’s Naval Revolution,” Naval History (July/August 1996) [‘Naval History
Author of the Year’ award for 1996]
“The Quest for Reach: The Development of Long-Range Naval Gunnery in the Royal
Navy, 1901-1912,” in Stephen Chiabotti, ed., Tooling for War: Military Transformation
in the Industrial Age: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Military History Symposium of the
United States Air Force Academy (Chicago: Imprint, 1996)
“Machines, Men, Manufacturing, Management, and Money: The Study of Navies as
Complex Organizations and the Transformation of Twentieth Century Naval History,”
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(David Rosenberg, co-author) Doing Naval History: Essays Towards Improvement, John
Hattendorf, ed. (Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College, 1995)
“Churchill and British Sea Power, 1908-1929,” in R. A. C. Parker, ed.,Winston Churchill:
Studies in Statesmanship (London: Brassey’s, 1995)
“Sir John Fisher and the Dreadnought: the Sources of Naval Mythology,” Journal of
Military History (October 1995) [Moncado Prize from the Society for Military History,
1995]
“Challenging Parkinson’s Law,” Naval History (December 1994)
“The Historian as Contemporary Analyst: Julian Corbett and Admiral Sir John Fisher,
1904-1910,” in John Hattendorf and James Goldrick, eds, Mahan is Not Enough: The
Influence and Contemporary Relevance of Sir Julian Corbett and Admiral Sir Herbert
Richmond (Newport: Naval War College, 1993)
“Forging the Trident: British Naval Industrial Logistics, 1914-1918,” in John A. Lynn,
ed., Feeding Mars: Essays on Logistics and Resource Mobilization in Western Warfare
from the Middle Ages to the Present (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1993); selected title,
U.S. Marine Corps Professional Reading Program, colonel to general (current)
“British Naval Operational Logistics, 1914-1918,” Journal of Military History (July
1993) [Moncado Prize from the Society for Military History, 1993]
“The Best Laid Plans . . .: The Development of British Battle Fleet Tactics, 1919-1942,”
International History Review (November 1992)
“British Naval Administration and Policy in the Age of Fisher,” Journal of Military
History (January 1990)
“The Royal Navy and Technological Change, l8l5-1945,” in Men, Machines and War
[Eleventh Military History Symposium, March 22-23, 1984, Royal Military College of
Canada], edited by Ronald Haycock (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1988)
“British Capital Ship Design and Fire Control in the Dreadnought Era: Sir John Fisher,
Arthur Hungerford Pollen, and the Battle Cruiser,” Journal of Modern History (June
1979)
Contributions:
Entries for ‘Alfred Thayer Mahan’ and ‘Carl von Clausewitz’ in Encyclopedia of Military
Science, edited by Kurt Piehler (Sage, 2013)
Entries for ‘Dennis Hart Mahan’ and ‘Alfred Thayer Mahan’ in Military Education in the
United States, edited by William E. Simons (Greenwood, 2000).
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7 short articles for The Reader’s Companion to Military History, Geoffrey Parker and
Robert Cowley, eds (Houghton Mifflin, 1996)
Military History, Modern British History Section, American Historical Association,
Guide to Historical Literature (Oxford University Press, 1995)
“1914, Sturdee, Falkland Islands,” in Great Battles of the Royal Navy as commemorated
in the Gunroom of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth edited by Eric Grove (Arms and
Armour, 1994)
Edition of Documents [Contributing co-editor]: Navy Records Society Centennial Volume
edited by Geoffrey Till, 7 short articles (Navy Records Society, 1993)
Entry for ‘Arthur Hungerford Pollen’ in the Dictionary of National Biography,
Supplement: From the beginnings to 1985, edited by C. S. Nicholls (Oxford University
Press, 1993)
Short article on Admiral Sir John Fisher in the Encyclopaedia of Military Affairs
(Pergamon-Brassey, 1992)
9 short articles on naval battles of the First and Second World War, The Encyclopaedia of
Warfare in the 20th Century edited by Noble Frankland (Michael Beazley, 1989)
“The Royal Navy, l860-l9l9,” in British Military History: A Guide to the Recent
Literature edited by Gerald Jordan (Garland, 1988)
“Trumpet Music and the ‘Military Revolution’ of the Seventeenth Century,” Journal of
Modern History (June 1976)
Review Articles:
“Gunnery, Procurement, and Strategy in the Dreadnought Era,” a review of Dreadnought
Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland by John Brooks, Journal of Military History, 69
(October 2005): 1179-87; surrejoinder, JMH, 70 (January 2006): 199-200.
Stalin’s Ocean-Going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programmes 19351953 by Jürgen Rohwer and Mikhail S. Monakov, Kritika (May 2003)
“Technology, Culture, and the Modern Battleship,” a review of Sacred Vessels: The Cult
of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy by Robert L. O’Connell, Naval War
College Review (Fall 1992)
Reviews:
Churchill and Sea Power by Christopher M. Bell, War in History (forthcoming)
The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914: Admiralty Plans to Protect British
Trade in a War Against Germany by Matthew S. Seligmann, Journal of Modern History
(September 2013)
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The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society from Machiavelli to Clausewitz
edited by Beatrice Heuser, European History Quarterly, 43/2 (2013)
Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918 by Shawn T. Grimes,
International Journal of Maritime History (June 2012)
The Challenges of Command: The Royal Navy’s Executive Branch Officers, 1880-1919
by Robert L. Davison, Canadian Journal of History (Autumn 2012)
The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making 1805-1927 by C. I.
Hamilton, International Journal of Maritime History (December 2011)
Essays in Naval History, from Medieval to Modern by N. A. M. Rodger, Journal of
Military History (October 2010)
The British Naval Staff in the First World War by Nicholas Black, International Journal
of Maritime History (December 2009)
If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War: An Analysis of World War II Naval Strategy by
John A. Adams, Journal of Military History (October 2009)
The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire by Jan Rüger,
Journal of Modern History (September 2009)
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen
Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll, Journal of Military History (October 2008)
Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs by G.
C. Peden, Journal of Military History (October 2007)
Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970 by David Edgerton, American Historical Review
(April 2007)
Nineteenth Century Torpedoes and their Inventors by Edwyn Gray, International
Journal of Maritime History (December 2005)
The Royal Navy’s Home Fleet in World War II by James P. Levy, European History
Quarterly, 35 (2005)
Imperialism at Sea: Naval Strategic Thought, The Ideology of Sea Power and The Tirpitz
Plan, 1875-1914 by Rolf Hobson, Journal of Military History (October 2003)
Navies of Europe by Lawrence Sondhaus, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du nord
(Spring 2003)
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The Role of Amphibious Warfare in British Defence Policy, 1945-56 by Ian Speller,
Albion (2003)
The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Wars by Christopher M. Bell,
Journal of Military History (October 2002)
The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period: An Operational Perspective
by Joseph Moretz, Journal of Military History (July 2002)
Raising Churchill’s Army: The British Army and the War against Germany 1919-1945
by David French, Journal of Modern History (June 2002)
Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832-1915: An economic and business history by A. J.
Arnold, EH.NET (January 2002)
Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1880-1945 by William McBride, The
Northern Mariner/Le Marin du nord (Spring 2001)
Naval History and Maritime Strategy: Collected Essays by John B. Hattendorf, and The
Royal Navy and Nazi Germany, 1933-39: A Study in Appeasement and the Origins of the
Second World War, by Joseph Maiolo, Journal of Military History (April 2001)
Imperial Defence 1868-1887 by Donald M. Schurman, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin
du nord (Fall 2000)
The Foundations of Naval History: John Knox Laughton, the Royal Navy and the
Historical Profession by Andrew Lambert, American Neptune (Spring 2000)
Sir John Fisher’s Naval Revolution by Nicholas Lambert, Naval Institute Proceedings
(October 1999)
Maritime Strategy and Continental Wars by Raja Menon, and British and American
Naval Power: Politics and Policy, 1900-1936 by Phillips Payson O’Brien, International
History Review (September 1999)
Revolutionary Armies in the Modern Era: A Revisionist Approach by S. P. MacKenzie,
Journal of Modern History (December 1999)
Battle Cruisers by John Roberts, Journal of Military History (January 1999)
British Naval Policy in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli by John Beeler, Victorian
Studies (Autumn 1998/1999)
Top Secret Exchange: The Tizard Mission and the Scientific War by David Zimmerman,
American Historical Review (October 1998)
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Sailing on the Silver Screen: Hollywood and the U.S. Navy by Lawrence Suid, Historical
Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Vol. 18, No. 2: 1998)
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command by Andrew Gordon,
American Neptune (Fall, 1997)
Jutland: The German Perspective by V. E. Tarrant, American Neptune (Winter 1997)
Fisher’s Face: or, Getting to Know the Admiral by Jan Morris, Journal of Military
History (July 1996)
Twentieth Century First Sea Lords edited by Malcolm Murfett, Journal of Military
History (January 1996)
Seapower: Theory and Practice edited by Geoffrey Till, International History Review
(Winter 1996)
Peace and Disarmament: Naval Rivalry and Arms Control, 1922-1933 by Richard W.
Fanning, Naval History (November-December 1995)
A Naval History of World War I by Paul G. Halpern, Albion (1995)
How Navies Fight: The U. S. Navy and Its Allies by Frank Uhlig, Jr., War in History
(Vol. 2/No. 1, 1995)
The Wilson Administration and the Shipbuilding Crisis of 1917 by William J. Williams,
American Neptune (Winter 1993)
The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing
Navy by Jonathan G. Coad, Journal of Military History (January 1993)
Dreadnought by Robert K. Massey, United States Naval Institute Proceedings
(December 1992)
Defending the Empire: The Conservative Party and British Defence Policy 1899-1915 by
Rhodri Williams, Mariner’s Mirror (May 1992)
Old Friends New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, Volume II:
The Pacific War 1942-1945 by Arthur J. Marder, Mark Jacobsen, and John Horsfield,
Albion (Summer 1992)
The Crisis of British Power: The Imperial and Naval Papers of the Second Earl of
Selborne, 1895-1910 edited by D. George Boyce (London: The Historians' Press, 1990),
Mariner's Mirror (February 1992)
Tools of War: Instruments, Ideas, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445-1871 edited by John
A. Lynn, and Importing the European Army: The Introduction of European Military
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Techniques and Institutions into the Extra-European World, 1600-1914 by David B.
Ralston, Journal of Modern History (September 1992)
Range and Vision: The First Hundred Years of Barr & Stroud by Michael Moss and Iain
Russell, Journal of Military History (January 1991)
Warshipbuilding on the Clyde: Naval Orders and the Prosperity of the Clyde
Shipbuilding Industry, 1889-1939 by Hugh B. Peebles, and Evolution of Engineering in
the Royal Navy, Vol. I: 1827-1939 by Commander P. M. Rippon, Journal of Military
History (September 1990)
Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy: Discipline on the Leeward Islands Station
1784-1812 by John D. Byrn, Jr., Criminal Justice History, An International Annual
(1990)
The Great Naval Battle of Ottawa by David Zimmerman, Technology and Culture
(December 1990)
The Military Revolution by Geoffrey Parker, International History Review (August
1989)
The Defence Equation: British Military Systems--Policy, Planning and Performance
since 1945 edited by Martin Edmonds, and Sword and Mace: Twentieth Century CivilMilitary Relations in Britain edited by John Sweetman, Albion (Fall 1989)
The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1914-1918 by Paul G. Halpern, History (February
1989)
The Great War At Sea, 1914-1918 by Richard Hough, International History Review
(August 1985)
Naval Policy Between the Wars, 2 vols., by Stephen Roskill, and The Rise and Fall of
British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy, Journal of Modern History (September 1978)