Military forces and sectors

In General Naval Tactics, Naval War College professor and renowned tactical expert Milan Vego describes and explains those aspects of naval tactics most closely related to the human factor.

A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy is a deliberately compact introductory work aimed at junior seafarers, those who make decisions affecting the sea services, and those who educate seafarers and decision-makers.

After 2005, the United States and coalition partners led an air advisory campaign to rebuild the Afghan Air Force (AAF).

Catkiller 3-2 provides unique insights into the role of the tactical air controller, airborne (TACA) in I Corps as seen through the eyes of one of the pilots who flew low-flying, unarmed, single-engine aircraft in support of Marine ground units during the Vietnam War.

Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet.

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After Jutland analyses the naval war in Northern European waters following the critical, but inconclusive Battle of Jutland.

This book is, simultaneously, a biography of Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.

The Decline of European Naval Forces aims to provide insight into the evolution of Europe's naval forces since the end of the Cold War.

In the dark days of World War II, merchant mariners made heroic contributions to the eventual Allied victory and suffered tremendous casualties in so doing.

Learning War examines the U.

In this book, Magnus Nordenman explores the emerging competition between the United States and its NATO allies and the resurgent Russian navy in the North Atlantic.

Admiral Raoul Castex is France's most important modern naval strategist.

Free to patrol the skies and surface of the high seas under international law, U.

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Always at War is the story of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the early decades of the Cold War.

This book is a collective biography of the 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become officers.

First published in 1986 and lauded by historians and World War II buffs eager for the Japanese viewpoint, this collection of essays makes significant contributions to the field of World War II literature.

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Given the dearth of scholarship on the Phoney War, this book examines the early months of World War II when Winston Churchill's ability to lead Britain in the fight against the Nazis was being tested.

In Stanley Johnston's Blunder: The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind the U.

At the beginning of World War II, professor Lauren Post, San Diego State College, asked his students entering military service to write to him.

India's armed forces play a key role in protecting the country and occupy a special place in the Indian people's hearts, yet standard accounts of contemporary Indian history rarely have a military dimension.

The General Board of the Navy was a uniquely American strategic planning organization with few analogs at the time of its establishment, except perhaps the various components of the Admiralty in Great Britain.

Military ways can be enigmatic, resulting in an alien world where acronyms often replace words and where "e;1330"e; is a time of day.

Few American presidents have exercised their constitutional authority as commander in chief with more determination than Franklin D.

21st Century Corbett is a collection of essays demonstrating the critical role Sir Julian Corbett played in the development of maritime strategy and sea power theory in the early twentieth century.

Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergei Georgiyevich Gorshkov led the Soviet Navy for almost three decades during the height of the Cold War.

Neglected Skies uses a reconsideration of the clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navys First Air Fleet in the Indian Ocean in April 1942 to draw a larger conclusion about declining British military power in the era.

Ten years after the close of World War II, the U.

The men who ventured into the air in the Navy's first frail aircraft were not only daring-they had vision, persistence, and a nearly unlimited determination to convince the skeptics that their frail kite-like structures could someday possess military value.

A Tale of Two Navies is an analysis of the unique relationship between the United States Navy and the Royal Navy from 1960 to present.

"e;The Civil War is often considered a "e;soldiers' war,"e; but Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy acknowledges the legacy of service of the officers and sailors of the Confederate States Navy.

The Free Sea offers a unique, single-volume analysis of incidents in American history that affected U.

Two years before the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped bring a quick end to hostilities in the summer of 1945, U.

This biography of Admiral Thomas C.

This book examines China's national security strategy by looking at the three major elements-foreign policy, energy security, and naval power-all interactive and major influences on China's future and its relations with the United States.

Naval service is an apprenticed profession.

Prior to this book's original publication in 1959 little had been done to dispel confusion regarding what really happened to the French Navy during World War II.

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Less than five years after naval aviation led the forces that defeated Imperial Japan that very organization was in serious trouble.

This volume focuses on naval leadership and ethics with respect to the individual leader and how his or her values and actions affect military cohesion, mission success, and the profession of arms.

Roots of Tradition: Amphibious Warfare in Early America will fill the gap in the historiography of naval and military warfare.

China's shipbuilding industry has grown more rapidly than any other in modern history.