Agents of Innovation: The General Board andthe Design of the Fleet That Defeated the Japanese Navy

Authors

Michael Pearlman

Abstract

Skeptics of disarmament treaties, such as Richard Pearl, have long argued that these treaties make a nation weaker by depriving it of the means of self-defense. John Kuehn, former naval aviator and presently professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, in Fort Leaven- worth, Kansas, is far more subtle in this excellent book. He shows how the Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 froze battleship construction and yet made the U.S. Navy stronger by 1941. While it is never easy to prove something so counterintuitive, Kuehn does it hands down.

Recommended Citation

Pearlman, Michael (2010) "Agents of Innovation: The General Board andthe Design of the Fleet That Defeated the Japanese Navy," Naval War College Review: Vol. 63: No. 1, Article 18.
Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol63/iss1/18