Naval category: 2015 books
Naval Firepower
Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
For more than half a century the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, finding a 'firing solution' was a significant problem made all the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing...
In Defence of Naval Supremacy
Finance, Technology, and British Naval Policy 1889-1914
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "Dreadnought Revolution" of 1906. Based on intensive and extensive archival research, the book strives to explain vital financial and technical matters which enable readers to observe the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book examines the role of convoys to protect merchant shipping. Convoys have been a major ingredient to success in two world wars. They have also been successful in protecting shipping in modern contingency...
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...
After Jutland
The Naval War in Northern European Waters, June 1916–November 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
After Jutland analyses the naval war in Northern European waters following the critical, but inconclusive Battle of Jutland. A popular misconception is that Jutland marked the end of the operational career of the German High Sea Fleet and the beginning of a period of stagnation for both it and its...
The Royal Navy in the Age of Austerity 1919-22
Naval and Foreign Policy under Lloyd George
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book thoroughly explores and analyses naval policy during the period of austerity that followed the First World War. During this post-war period, as the Royal Navy identified Japan its likely opponent in a future naval war, the British Government was forced to "tighten its belt†? and cut...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
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. He was the architect of the Red Fleet, turning it from little more than a coastal defense force into the most powerful navy that Russia ever possessed....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book examines India’s naval strategy within the context of Asian regional security.
Amidst the intensifying geopolitical contestation in the waters of Asia, this book investigates the growing strategic salience of the Indian Navy. Delhi’s expanding economic and military strength has...
American Amphibious Warfare
The Roots of Tradition to 1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Roots of Tradition: Amphibious Warfare in Early America will fill the gap in the historiography of naval and military warfare. As the title implies, this book describes and analyzes early landing operations (from the Revolution through the Civil War) of American history, showing how they contributed...
America's Black Sea Fleet
The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 19191923
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
In a high-tempo series of operations throughout the Black Sea, Aegean Sea and eastern Mediterranean, a small American fleet of destroyers and other naval vessels responded ably to several major international crises including the last days of the Russian Revolution and the 1920-1922 Turkish Nationalist...
Poder naval y modernización del Estado
Política de construcción naval española (siglos XVI-XVIII)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 29, 2012
La presente obra es el resultado de una década de investigación en archivos de distintos países, así como de un exhaustivo análisis de la historiografía antigua y contemporánea sobre el sistema naval hispánico. En sus páginas, el lector especializado encontrará una síntesis razonada del...
Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I
British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider history of the First World War.
The Royal Naval Air Service invested heavily in aircraft of all types—aeroplanes,...