Naval history includes national experiences that familiar narratives leave peripheral. Modern Indian and Chinese frigates, along with the recent FFX programme, illustrate the wider coverage sought here. Studying these subjects alongside older fleets connects naval history with continuing strategic questions. Alex Clarke recalls interviewing a department that called itself modern history but ended its teaching at 1860. Such chronological boundaries leave modern navies and recent developments outside the story. War studies provides room to follow operational and institutional lessons into the present.
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Naval history beyond familiar narratives
Wider national and chronological coverage can reveal lessons missed by familiar naval stories.