Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies
Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships
and a military-industrial complex
Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889
Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat
Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser
Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire
Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War
Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it
Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff?
Panama revolution, 1903 : taking Panama or taking advantage in Panama? and Cuba too
Appendix: Panamanian incidents, 1850-1902
Japan, 1904-1908 : the rise of Japan and the Great White Fleet; US Navy vs. the Japanese Navy?
Appendix A: The Great White Fleet
Appendix B: Capital ships Japanese fleet
Nicaragua, 1912 : $ diplomacy : US Marines + US business
World War, 1917-1918 : fighting the Germans and the allies : President Wilson's surge that worked
Naval disarmament, 1921 : Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 1921, the greatest naval battle of all time
Appendix A: Battleships sunk by the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty
British battleships sunk by the Washington Treaty; Japanese battleships sunk by the Washington Treaty; Great Britain : battleships after the Washington Treaty
Conclusion
Appendix: Explanation of naval comparison tables.