“Thought-provoking, a book sure to spark debate.” — Robert J. Schneller, Jr., Technology and Culture
“One could say this is yet another book about the rise and fall of the battleship as the centerpiece of naval power. But what sets the author’s subtle work apart from earlier histories is his purpose. He sets out neither to defame nor defend naval leaders. Do not expect fo find even the most obvious troglodyte of an admiral belittled in this text… [A] well-balanced analysis.” — Michael A. Palmer, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
“An excellent survey of how the U.S. Navy adapted to changing technology, and how technological change in turn shaped the Navy.” — New York Military Affairs Symposium Newsletter
“McBride examines the tendency of military institutions to favour stability over radical innovations… Well researched and clearly written.” — Christopher Bell, Northern Mariner
“This masterly study of the interaction between technological change and service politics in the U.S. Navy deserves to become a standard work.” — Sir Michael Howard, former Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford University
“An excellent book. Technological Change and the United States Navy addresses a historical issue of acknowledged importance — the persistence of the battleship culture in the U.S. Navy — and does so on the basis of a substantial body of original research, much of it archival. This book makes original and important contributions to our understanding of what might be termed the intellectual life of the Navy, a matter of no small significance to the course and conduct of two world wars, a host of lesser conflicts, and the future of the Navy. Comprehensive, exhaustively researched, convincing in its arguments, and even-handed in its judgments, this book will remain the definitive work on the subject for the foreseeable future.” — John F. Guilmartin, Jr., Ohio State University
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