United States Dept Of Defense: 18 books
On Course to Desert Storm
The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Contributions to Naval History No. 5..
Traces the history of the United States Navy and the Persian Gulf from 1800 to the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988.
by Mark D. Sherry, Center of Military History (U.S. Army)
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
The U.S. Army underwent a decade of significant transformation between 1987 and 1997 that affected strategy, force requirements, structure, and basing requirements. The end of the Cold War provided the initial impetus for defense reshaping and drove the pace and depth of change. Reductions in forces...
To Train The Fleet For War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940
The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Product Description: To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923–1940, by Professor Albert A. Nofi, examines in detail, making extensive use of the Naval War College archives, each of the U.S. Navy’s twenty-one “fleet problems” conducted between World Wars I and...
Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign
The Rolling Thunder Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
This is the sixth monograph in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. It covers aircraft carrier activity during Operation Rolling Thunder in the war. Operation Rolling Thunder was one of the longest sustained aerial bombing campaigns in history. And it would be a failure. The U.S. Navy proved...
U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare 1775-2007: Selected Papers From the 2007 Conference of Army Historians
Selected Papers From the 2007 Conference of Army Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
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Presents fifteen papers from the 2007 Conference of Army Historians. Examines irregular warfare in a wide and diverse range of circumstances and eras.
The...
Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense: Role of Research and Development 1945-2000
The Role of Research and Development 1945-2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
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A broad historical overview of changing institutional patterns of technological innovation with the Defense Department's major weapons laboratories.
Examines...
Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972
Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This commemoration booklet focuses on naval air power during the final years of the Vietnam War. For much of this period, Navy aircraft sought to hamper the flow of supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos—a huge investment in air power resources that ultimately proved fruitless. After North...
Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon
: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Navy Medicine begins and ends with a humanitarian operation-—the first, in 1954, after the French were defeated, when refugees fled to South Vietnam to escape from the communist regime in the North; and the second, in 1975, after the fall of Saigon and the final stage of America’s exit...
Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947
The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Product Description: Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, the Lessons of World War II, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945–1947, by Professor Hal M. Friedman, studies the contribution of the Naval War College, especially in the presidency of Admiral Raymond Spruance, to strategic thought during...
Knowing the Enemy: Naval Intelligence in Southeast Asia
Naval Intelligence in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
U.S. Navy Intelligence Contribution Key to SE Asia War Effort from 1965-75
Knowing the Enemy, part of the commemorative series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War, covers the Navy intelligence establishment’s support to the war effort in Southeast Asia from 1965 to 1975. It describes the contribution...
March to Victory: Washington, Rochambeau, and the Yorktown Campaign of 1781
Washington, Rochambeau, and the Yorktown Campaign of 1781
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Provides an in-depth account of the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, the most decisive operation of the American Revolution. Author Dr. Robert Selig examines how the Americans and French moved land and naval forces from Rhode Island to Virginia, where they gained the tactical advantage over their opponents...
The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps
The Backbone of the Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
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CMH Pub. 70-38-1. David W. Hogan, Jr., et al, general editors. New edition which updates the 1989 version which culminated the Center of Military History's...
by Center of Military History (U.S. Army), Jr. David W. Hogan, Charles E. White
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
The U.S. Army and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, prepared as part of the Army's contribution to the observance of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration (2003-2006), is an engaging account of a stirring and significant event in American military heritage. While most Americans have some inkling...
Transforming an Army at War: Designing the Modular Force, 1991-2005
Designing the Modular Force, 1991-2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Transforming an Army at War examines the origins of the modular concept, the reasons for undertaking it, and the process for developing modular unit designs. The Army had been exploring the notion of modularity since shortly after the end of the Cold War. Modularity, at its most basic, was the idea...
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