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by Julian Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Unlike Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britain’s great maritime strategist Sir Julian Corbett believed that victory in war does not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this has never been the case. Corbett’s keen analysis of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 as presented in this...
Limiting Risk in America's Wars
Airpower, Asymmetrics, and a New Strategic Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The United States has the most expensive and seemingly military forces in the world. Yet, since World War II its military success rate has been fairly meager. The Korean War was a draw, Vietnam, Mogadishu, Afghanistan and Iraq were clear losses. Successes include: Iraq in 1991, the Balkans (Croatia...
China, the United States, and 21st-Century Sea Power
Defining a Maritime Security Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
China's rise on the world's oceans is attracting wide attention and may ultimately restructure the global balance of power during the course of the 21st century. Many books have described this phenomenon and the significant strategic implications that flow from Beijing's rapid maritime development. However,...
Rebalancing the Force
Basing and Forward Presence in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
merican seapower requires a robust constellation of bases to support global power projection. Given the rise of China and the emergence of the Asia-Pacific as the center of global economic growth and strategic contention, nowhere is American basing access more important than in this region. Yet manifold...
The Battle of Stonington
Torpedoes, Submarines, and Rockets in the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In the summer of 1814 a squadron of Royal Navy ships attacked the tiny Connecticut seaport of Stonington, and declared its intention of destroying the town. Over the next four days the British barraged the nearly defenseless civilian population with some fifty tons of explosives, before mysteriously...
by Anthony D. McIvor
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
This new work features the fresh thinking of twenty-eight leading authors from a variety of military and national security disciplines. Following an introduction by Lt. Gen. James Dubik, Commander I Corps, U.S. Army, and an opening essay titled "State of the Question" by Dr. Colin Gray, the anthology...
The Liberty Incident Revealed
The Definitive Account of the 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Cutting through all of the controversy and conspiracy theories about Israel’s deadly attack on the USS Liberty in June 1967 at the height of the Six Day War, Cristol revises his well-regarded book about the event with a complete, in-depth analysis of all of the sources, including recently released...
OSS in China
Prelude to Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Maochun Yu tells the story of the intelligence activities of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in China during World War II. Drawing on recently released classified materials from the U.S. National Archives and on previously unopened Chinese documents, Yu reveals the immense and complex challenges...
The Battle to Save the Houston
October 1944 to March 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
A World War II adventure story of epic proportions, this book tells the heroic tale of a dedicated band of men who refused to let their crippled ship sink to the bottom of the Pacific in late 1944. Based on over seventy eyewitness accounts and hundreds of official documents and personal papers, it records...
The Man Who Never Was
World War II's Boldest Counterintelligence Operation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece. The innovative plot was so successful that the Germans moved some of their forces...
The Sailing Frigate
A History in Ship Models
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they...
Bioterror in the 21st Century
Emerging Threats in a New Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Daniel Gerstein draws on twenty-nine years of experience in the security and defense sectors to address the threat of bioterrorism. He argues that bioterrorism is a very real threat to humankind due to the 21st century’s confluence of globalization, terrorism and biotechnology. Each of these three...
Turnabout and Deception
Crafting the Double-Cross and the Theory of Outs
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This title combines two of spymaster Barton Whaley's most potent analyses of the craft: Turnabout: Crafting the Double-Cross and When Deception Fails: The Theory of Outs. Each examination dives into extensive case studies to establish not only bedrock understandings of essential espionage principals,...
India's Wars
A Military History, 1947-1971
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017