About the Author

William Reynolds Braisted, professor emeritus of naval history at the University of Texas and former visiting professor at the Naval Historical Center and the U.S. Naval Academy, is the author of The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909 and The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1909-1922.

Reviews

Unique in both its comprehensive research and breadth and depth of coverage. This volume extends Braisted's analysis of naval affairs in the Pacific that he began in his two previous acclaimed works. Diplomats in Blue has a particularly timely quality because it conveys the complexity of working in and with a foreign culture in a 'peacekeeping' or 'maintenance of order' mission similar to current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are lessons here for policymakers. - James C. Bradford, Texas A&M University