Naval Institute Press: 579 books
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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...
Incidents at Sea
American Confrontation and Cooperation with Russia and China, 1945-2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Free to patrol the skies and surface of the high seas under international law, U.S. and Soviet naval and air forces made daily direct contact during the Cold War. Often confrontational and occasionally violent, air-to-air contacts alone killed more than one hundred Soviet and American aviators during...
The U.S. Naval Institute on the U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Naval Institute Wheel Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The United States Coast Guard might be the smallest branch of the U.S. military but it plays a vital role in our national security as detailed in the selections appearing in this wheel book. From protecting the homeland to providing coast guard forces to combatant commanders and every mission in between,...
by John E. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Technological changes are inevitable, often of great benefit, and they must be understood by all maritime leaders. Since the Navy’s beginnings, it has created, adapted, rejected, and sometimes grudgingly accepted new technologies. Technological changes in the maritime arena have ranged from the highly...
Paullin's History of Naval Administration 1775-1911
A Collection of Articles from the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
The classic collection of articles from the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, now in ebook form.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
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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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Famous as the "boots on the ground," U.S. Marines have long played a vital role in the air as well. In these pages, readers will find both history and analysis as Naval Institute authors record and assess this lesser-known but significant aspect of "Leatherneck" combat over the last century.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
One of this century’s most significant events, China’s maritime transformation is already making waves. Yet China’s course and its implications, including at sea, remain highly uncertain—triggering intense speculation and concern from many quarters and in many directions. It has never been more...
Sky Ships
A History of the Airship in the United States Navy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book’s publication.Impressed by Germany’s commercial and military Zeppelins,...
At the Crossroads Between Peace and War
The London Naval Conference in 1930
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
A great power arms race in naval weaponry and platforms, rising challengers seeking to overturn the existing international order in Asia, an economic slump that put immense pressure on politicians in democracies to trim defense budgets, and diplomatic efforts by statesmen to find ways to promote mutual...
Whips to Walls
Naval Discipline from Flogging to Progressive Era Reform at Portsmouth Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
During World War I, the United States Navy conducted at the Portsmouth, NH Naval Prison what many penal scholars consider the most ambitious experiment in the history of progressive prison reform. Cell doors remained opened, prisoners governed themselves and thousands of rehabilitated prisoners were...
by O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Struggle at Sea is an operational history that records every naval engagement fought between major surface warships during the First World War. The book is organized into seven major chapters. The first introduces the technology, the weapons, the ships, and the doctrine that governed naval warfare in...
The Decline of European Naval Forces
Challenges to Sea Power in an Age of Fiscal Austerity and Political Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The Decline of European Naval Forces aims to provide insight into the evolution of Europe’s naval forces since the end of the Cold War. To illuminate the drastic changes many European navies have undergone over the last twenty-five years, Jeremy Stöhs analyzes the defense policies and naval strategies...