The Decline of the Overseas Station Fleets: The United States Asiatic Fleet and the Shanghai Crisis, 1932.

摘要

This report dicusses the Manchurian crisis which is often cited as the main event that upset the previous balance in the Far East between Japan, China and the Western powers, leading ultimately to at least the Pacific phase of World War II. However, it is not so often realized that the crisis also had its naval side, centering around the Shanghai incident of 1932, and that it marked the end of a form of naval activity that had predominated in the Far East since the arrival of the Europeans four centuries earlier.