1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Why Warships? -- 1.3 How Do You Get Your Information? -- 1.4 The Structure of the Study -- Notes -- 2 Changing Navies and Naval Technology -- 2.1 Order of Battle, 1960 and 1980 -- 2.2 "The Navy Always Travels First Class" -- 2.3 Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 The Internationalisation of the Warship-Building Industry -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The International Market for Warships -- 3.3 International Transfers of Warship Technology -- 3.4 Internationalisation in the Construction of Warships -- Notes -- 4 The Internationalisation of Warship Equipment Industries -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Geographic Markets -- 4.3 Product Markets -- 4.4 The Internationalisation of Production -- 4.5 Conelusions -- Notes -- 5 Concentration and Specialisation in Naval Industries -- 5.1 General Concentration and Déconcentration -- 5.2 Warship Markets -- 5.3 Concentration and Specialisation in Western European Warship Building -- 5.4 Concentration and Specialisation in Western European Warship Equipment Industries -- 5.5 Conclusions -- Notes -- 6 Rationalisation in European Nato Armaments - Political and Industrial Preconditions -- 6.1 The World Market for Armaments as a Constituent Element of Defence Industries and Defence Procurement -- 6.2 National Defence Industries and Government Policy -- 6.3 Technology and The Dynamics of Vertical Competition -- 6.4 The Need for Rationalisation -- Notes -- Note on Sources and Methods -- References -- Statistical Appendix.