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The tonnage of US aircraft carriers has increased almost eightfold in recent decades. Modern patrol ships are larger than some nineteenth-century cruisers. This is just one aspect of the evolution that this technology is undergoing, competing not only with each other but also with tanks, missiles, bombers, drones, intelligence and diplomats, concessional loans and trade embargoes.

In this book, military expert Maksym Palamarchuk describes the evolution of major warships in the strategic environment as a result of the interaction of numerous multidirectional influences: politics, technology, government budgets, admirals' views on fleet tactics, and, last but not least, the patterns and contingencies of war.