Naval category: 2015 books

Cover of The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812. Vol. I
by Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013

When Admiral Mahan passed away in 1914, his ideas and thoughts lived on in his writings, which spanned the naval strategy of his own times and the lessons learnt from history. They are still read today at the modern naval academies and the ideas permeate the teachings at Annapolis. A flag officer...
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John Paul Jones

America's First Sea Warrior

by Joseph Callo
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011

This fresh look at America’s first sea warrior avoids the hero worship of past biographies and provides a more complete understanding of his accomplishments. Writing from the perspective of a naval officer with more than thirty years of experience and a seaman with a lifetime of sailing know-how,...
Cover of Cordon of Steel: The U.S. Navy and the Cuban Missile Crisis - President John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Admiral Dennison, U-2, Fidel Castro, SS-4 Sandal and SS-5 Skean Soviet Missiles
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013

In the fall of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came as close as they ever would to global nuclear war. Hoping to correct what he saw as a strategic imbalance with the United States, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev began secretly deploying medium range ballistic missiles (MRBM) and...
Cover of 21st Century U.S. Military Manuals: U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) MAGTF Marine Air-Ground Task Force Aviation Planning Fleet Marine Force Manual (FMFM) 5-70
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual covers Marine air-ground task force aviation planning. Fleet Marine Force Manual (FMFM) 5-70, MAGTF Aviation Planning, provides Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF) planners with a foundation...
Cover of The U.S. Naval Institute on Mentorship
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017

Naval service is an apprenticed profession. Experienced sailors mentor their younger shipmates, passing down their hard-earned knowledge and skills, and working side-by-side to develop the next generation of sailors. This Wheel Book includes some of the best writing on mentoring in the sea services from...
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Fighters Over the Fleet

Naval Air Defence from Biplanes to the Cold War

by Norman Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016

This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the three main exponents of carrier warfare, the Royal Navy, the US Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. It describes the earliest efforts...
Cover of The Naval War in the Baltic 1939 -1945
by Poul Grooss
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017

From the shelling of the fort at Westerplatte, on the Polish coast, on 1 September 1939, to the loss of thousands of German refugees at sea in May 1945, the Baltic witnessed continuous and ferocious fighting throughout the Second World War. In this new book the author chronicles the naval warfare...
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Sea Power

The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans

by Admiral James Stavridis, USN
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

From one of the most admired admirals of his generation -- and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO -- comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element...
Cover of 21st Century U.S. Military Manuals: U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Marine Corps Operations MCDP 1-0 (Value-Added Professional Format Series)
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual covers Marine Corps Operations, the first Marine Corps Operations doctrinal publication written for the Marine component and the Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF). It represents how our warfighting...
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Naval Warfare

A Global History since 1860

by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017

The modern age of naval warfare began with the combination of steam power, iron warships, and modern artillery, which launched an intense period of international competition. Tracing naval warfare from the 1860s into the future, noted historian Jeremy Black provides a dynamic account of strategy and...
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Warrior to Dreadnought

Warship Design and Development 1860-1905

by David K Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010

In the 50 years that separated Warrior from Dreadnought there occurred a revolution in warship design quite unparalleled in naval history; a period that began with the fully-rigged broadside ironclads and ended with the emergence of the great battleships and battlecruisers that were to fight in the...
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Lessons Not Learned

The U.S. Navy's Status Quo Culture

by Roger Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013

Despite its reputation as the most impressive naval force in the world, the U.S. Navy is in trouble, according to the author of this book, and systemic weaknesses could be its undoing. Here, military sociologist Roger Thompson provides a compelling, often scathing, assessment of the U.S. Navy and its...
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From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow

Volume III: Jutland and After May to December 1916

by Arthur J Marder
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014

The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination. To unrivalled mastery of sources he adds a gift...
Cover of The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Imperial Naval Air Service
by Peter Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2010

This book describes in considerable detail the people, events ships and aircraft that shaped the Air Service from its origins in the late 19th century to its demise in 1945. The formative years began when a British Naval Mission was established in Japan in 1867 to advise on the development of balloons...
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