Maritime Dominion's campaign-centered naval history

Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World begins with the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the American Civil War, and the rise of the United States, Japanese, and German navies. It then moves through Tsushima, Coronel, Dogger Bank, Jutland, unrestricted U-boat warfare, the Atlantic, Midway, and the Cold War. This campaign structure follows sea power across imperial competition, two world wars, and the postwar order. The suggestion that strategic leadership passed from Britain in the 1920s is challenged because the United States Congress did not yet fund a fleet capable of sustaining that transfer. The shift fits the aftermath of the Second World War more convincingly, so the review pairs a wide campaign survey with a warning to test the book's organizing thesis.