Introduction / Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine -- Legal issues in expeditionary campaigns / Eric T. Jensen -- Festering the Spanish ulcer : the Royal Navy and the Peninsular War, 1808-1814 / Michael Duffy -- The Royal Navy's White Sea campaign of 1854 / Andrew D. Lambert -- Gallipoli as a combined and joint operation / Robin Prior -- The British Mesopotamia campaign, 1914-1918 / Paul G. Halpern -- Pearl Harbor and beyond : Japan's peripheral strategy to defeat China / S.C.M. Paine -- A pivotal campaign in a peripheral theatre : Guadalcanal and World War II in the Pacific / Bradford A. Lee -- The New Guinea campaign during World War II / David Stevens -- Amphibious assault as decisive maneuver in Korea / Donald Chisholm -- Naval operations in peripheral conflicts : the Malayan emergency (1948-60) and confrontation (1962-66) / Jeffrey Grey -- China's 1974 naval expedition to the Paracel Islands / Bruce A. Elleman -- Always expect the unexpected : the Falklands/Malvinas maritime conflict 1982 / Eric Grove -- The maritime campaign in Iraq / Peter Jones -- U.S. naval operations and contemporary geopolitics : the war on terror and the new great game in the early 21st century / John Reeve -- Conclusions : naval expeditionary warfare and the future of seapower / Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine.