Military forces and sectors

This account reveals the overlooked role of Marine Defense Battalions in shaping the early Pacific War, from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal.

It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 .

A fascinating look at the insurgencies and counterinsurgencies throughout history with a concentration on the 20th and 21st centuries.

Rising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers.

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Spy Planes, Intruders, and Wild Weasels examines the emergence of electronic warfare and SEAD as critical components of air strategy during the Vietnam War.

The Air Force can be the initial platform of a lifelong career pathway for individuals interested in serving one contract or those who stay on active-duty for a full career.

The latest edition of Red Star over the Pacific explores how China's growing sea power-shaped by both Western and Chinese strategic thought-threatens U.

The latest edition of Red Star over the Pacific explores how China's growing sea power-shaped by both Western and Chinese strategic thought-threatens U.

Driven by extensive Japanese primary sources, Gamble in the Coral Seaoffers an operational analysis of thefirst clash of aircraft carriers at the pivotal Battle of the Coral Sea from the Japanese perspective, including leadership, tactics, and errors that brought a numeric victory but a strategic loss for Japan that halted their bold advance into the South Pacific and ultimately set the stage for Midway.

The United States Navy has evolved in the last century and a half from humble and often frustrating beginnings during and after the Revolutionary War to become the strongest navy in the world with responsibilities that span the globe.

This original and fresh book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca in the long historical shadow and among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle.

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The awe-inspiring story of Hannah Senesh, a female paratrooper in World War II whose courage and sacrifice left an indelible mark on history.

The Russo-Ukraine War is a vital learning opportunity for military strategists across the globe.

The first account of Britain’s convoys during the Napoleonic Wars—showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory   During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain’s warships.

American military attaches document the impact of airpower during the Spanish Civil War, featuring intervention by some of the strongest air forces in the world in a prelude to World War II.

This new volume from the Blue and Gold Professional Library describes and analyzes the tactical employment of naval combat arms, including surface forces, submarine forces, naval aviation, and naval special forces in a high-intensity conventional war at sea.

This new volume from the Blue and Gold Professional Library describes and analyzes the tactical employment of naval combat arms, including surface forces, submarine forces, naval aviation, and naval special forces in a high-intensity conventional war at sea.

This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the professional development of two notable and highly accomplished naval officers and their contributions to the development of the Aegis Weapons System.

This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the professional development of two notable and highly accomplished naval officers and their contributions to the development of the Aegis Weapons System.

Britain's War for the Mediterranean provides a definitive study on British warmaking in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition.

The biography of Admiral James George Stavridis provides a look at the naval admiral, leader and commentator.

Military analyst Michael O'Hanlon shows how outside forces could successfully intervene to stop an ongoing cycle of warfare in a country whose government has collapsed or come under severe internal challenge.

This book enables readers to learn about upstanders, partisans, and survivors from first-hand perspectives that reveal the many forms of resistance-some bold and defiant, some subtle-to the Nazis during the Holocaust.

From the Civil War to the Great War, the transatlantic commercial trading system that dated from the nation's colonial times continued in America.

The biography of Admiral James George Stavridis provides a look at the naval admiral, leader and commentator.

Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Eraoffers a detailed study of the complexities of urban operations, demonstrating through historical conflicts their key features, the various weapons and tactics employed by both sides, and the factors that contributed to success or failure.

Driven by extensive Japanese primary sources, Gamble in the Coral Seaoffers an operational analysis of thefirst clash of aircraft carriers at the pivotal Battle of the Coral Sea from the Japanese perspective, including leadership, tactics, and errors that brought a numeric victory but a strategic loss for Japan that halted their bold advance into the South Pacific and ultimately set the stage for Midway.

A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat-it helped to make an empire.

Winner of the 2023 Chinese Historians in the United States Book AwardA survey of Chinese naval operational history, Li's book focuses on the major battles and important engagements of more than 1,200 Chinese naval operations from 1949-2009, including the joint landing campaigns in the Taiwan Strait Crises, naval battles in the South China Sea, air defense against American pilots during Operation Rolling Thunder, and anti-piracy operations in Africa.

Although the United States won the race to the moon, the Soviets were far more active in space than Americans during the decade that followed.

Although the United States won the race to the moon, the Soviets were far more active in space than Americans during the decade that followed.

Winner of the 2023 Chinese Historians in the United States Book AwardA survey of Chinese naval operational history, Li's book focuses on the major battles and important engagements of more than 1,200 Chinese naval operations from 1949-2009, including the joint landing campaigns in the Taiwan Strait Crises, naval battles in the South China Sea, air defense against American pilots during Operation Rolling Thunder, and anti-piracy operations in Africa.

Winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval LiteratureThe Neptune Factor is the biography of an idea-the concept of "e;Sea Power,"e; a term first coined by Capt.

Naval warfare was confined for centuries to surface combat, or undersea clashes.

Fought in the skies over North Vietnam, the air war between Vietnamese People's Air Force (VNPAF) and U.

Rising China and emerging India are becoming major maritime powers.

Karl Haushofer, a Bavarian general and professor, is widely recognized as the "e;father of geopolitics.

On 29 September 1934, at the German Embassy office in London, Christabel Bielenberg officially became a German citizen.

Naval intelligence is one of the most vital, and sometimes decisive, forms of intelligence.

The USS Rasher had an extraordinary record in World War II: she sank 18 enemy ships and destroyed 99,901 tons--the second highest tonnage of the war.

The 1930s were dominated by economic collapse, stagnation, and mass unemployment.

In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II, Kevin A.

Sun Tzu in Space provides a novel way of thinking about the future, connecting international relations, history, and science fiction to better understand some of the various paths for future human activities in space.

Sailing Upwind is more than just another memoir of a distinguished former naval officer';s highly diverse career.

When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.

Explore Japanese internment through the voices of those who endured removal, those who designed this notorious forced relocation, and those who witnessed the broken promise of U.

This book tells the largely unknown story behind the rescue activities of several remarkable young Jewish women in Vichy France during World War II and their role in the resistance against Nazi and Vichy France deportation policies.