Naval Institute Press: 579 books
by Donald T. Phillips, James M. Loy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The Architecture of Leadership is a simple but effective toolkit for leaders, whose main theme is "preparation = performance." Using the elements of architecture, they begin with a foundation of character and values, move to a floor representing a drive to achieve combined with the capacity to care,...
Character in Action
The U.S. Coast Guard on Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
How does the U.S. Coast Guard create, instill, and maintain leadership throughout a 40,000 member force spread across the United States? A former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and a best-selling author combine their knowledge of the subject to offer a formula for success. Donald T. Phillips, who...
by Edward L. Beach
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In 1972, following the huge success of Run Silent, Run Deep, Edward L. Beach's second novel of submarine warfare was published to great acclaim. Like its predecessor, Dust on the Sea was lauded for its authentic portrayal of what it meant to be a submariner during the desperate years of World War II....
by Richard Dick Keresey
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Drawing on his own experiences as the captain of PT 105 at Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and more, the author tells how the fastest little boat in combat contributed to the war effort.
Women at War
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Today, women in all U.S. military services are involved in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. They serve as pilots and crewmen of assault helicopters, bombers, fighters, and transport planes, and are frequently engaged in firefights with enemy insurgents while guarding convoys, traveling in hostile territory,...
Unflinching Zeal
The Air Battles Over France and Britain, MayOctober 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Noted aviation historian Robin Higham examines the evolution of the Armée de l’Air and RAF during the interwar period. Although France and England shared a mutual enemy in Germany, the development of the air forces of in each nation shared few commonalities.Higham demonstrates that the Armée de l’Terre...
Two Roads to War
The French and British Air Arms from Versailles to Dunkirk
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Two Roads to 1940 is a comparative study of the French and British air arms, from 1918 to 10 May 1940. Higham seeks the answer to the question Why was the Armée de l’Air defeated in June 1940 whereas the Royal Air Force won the Battle Over Britain in September?”To reach a conclusion, the structure,...
War Without Fronts
The American Experience in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The publication of this long out-of-print book should facilitate the ongoing conversation on how the American war in Vietnam continues to serve as a comparison for more recent U.S. overseas military campaigns.Thomas C. Thayer’s War Without Fronts, first appearing in 1985, offered an analysis of U.S....
Rebuttal
The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee's Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
In December 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) released a 500+ page executive summary of a 6,000 page study of the CIA's detention and interrogation of al Qa'ida terrorists. In early 2015 publishers released the study in book form and called it "the report" on "torture." Rebuttal...
Fighting for Afghanistan
A Rogue Historian at War
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Sean Maloney, the first Canadian military historian to go into battle since the Korean War, brings the intensity of near-fatal experiences in southern Afghanistan to his description of events in 2006 when the Taliban insurgency threatened to overwhelm the U.S.-led coalition. He explains how the shift...
Laughter in the Shadows
A CIA Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
This memoir of a CIA operations officer captures the spirit of the early years of the Agency, a period sometimes described as its 'finest hours.' Using the alias 'St. Martin,' Stuart Methven served in the CIA from the 1950s through the 1970s. The book opens by describing the author's training in the...
Papa Topside
The Sealab Chronicles of Capt. George F. Bond, USN
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
A pioneer in the field of deep-sea diving, George F. Bond helped develop the theory of saturation diving and the techniques and dive tables used by divers around the world. In this edited journal-made public for the first time-Bond offers a lively account of his work with the U.S. Navy’s first manned...
The Kissing Sailor
The Mystery Behind the Photo That Ended World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated...
Airpower Reborn
The Strategic Concepts of John Warden and John Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Airpower Reborn offers a conceptual approach to warfare that emphasizes airpower’s unique capability to achieve strategic effects. Six world-leading theorists argue that a viable strategy must transcend the purely military sphere, view the adversary as a multi-dimensional system, and pursue systemic...