Author: Jeter A. Isely
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787200957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
“Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility of amphibious warfare....Relentlessly accurate and impartial.”—N.Y. Times Originally published in 1951, this book is a widely regarded classic on US Marine amphibious doctrine and operations employed in the Pacific during the Second World War. The authors describe in detail the development of the theoretical aspects of amphibious assault in the inter-war period, but devote the vast majority of the narrative to the various landings and their core strategies, using Japanese documents “to sketch in the background of military decisions made by the enemy.” A must for those who wish to understand the American war against Japan.
The U.S. Marines And Amphibious War
Author: Jeter A. Isely
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787200957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
“Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility of amphibious warfare....Relentlessly accurate and impartial.”—N.Y. Times Originally published in 1951, this book is a widely regarded classic on US Marine amphibious doctrine and operations employed in the Pacific during the Second World War. The authors describe in detail the development of the theoretical aspects of amphibious assault in the inter-war period, but devote the vast majority of the narrative to the various landings and their core strategies, using Japanese documents “to sketch in the background of military decisions made by the enemy.” A must for those who wish to understand the American war against Japan.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787200957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
“Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility of amphibious warfare....Relentlessly accurate and impartial.”—N.Y. Times Originally published in 1951, this book is a widely regarded classic on US Marine amphibious doctrine and operations employed in the Pacific during the Second World War. The authors describe in detail the development of the theoretical aspects of amphibious assault in the inter-war period, but devote the vast majority of the narrative to the various landings and their core strategies, using Japanese documents “to sketch in the background of military decisions made by the enemy.” A must for those who wish to understand the American war against Japan.
Amphibious Warfare
Author: Ian Speller
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782741739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Highly illustrated, Amphibious Warfare takes the reader through the different stages of an amphibious campaign chapter by chapter, illustrating each with case studies from the last 100 years.
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782741739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Highly illustrated, Amphibious Warfare takes the reader through the different stages of an amphibious campaign chapter by chapter, illustrating each with case studies from the last 100 years.
Assault from the Sea
Author: Blythe Bartlett
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612515754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
This collection of 51 essays provides a history of amphibious landings that include European, Asian, and American operations. It describes in detail some of history's most significant amphibious assaults, as well as planned attacks that were never carried out.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612515754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
This collection of 51 essays provides a history of amphibious landings that include European, Asian, and American operations. It describes in detail some of history's most significant amphibious assaults, as well as planned attacks that were never carried out.
Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700
Author: Trim
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047417291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This volume reconceptualizes amphibious warfare and also fills an important gap in its historiography, examining how it was conceived, practised and employed, from the Crusades, through the first wave of European exploration and colonization, the Price Revolution and the European wars of religion, up to the early Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of a new wave of imperialism. Essays examine issues related to strategy, operational art, tactics, logistics and military technology, but also consider commerce and culture. They reveal that amphibious warfare was often waged for economic reasons and was the quintessential warfare of European imperialism, for sea power was required to deliver and sustain land power. The volume is lavishly illustrated with 30 plates and twelve maps. Contributors: Matthew Bennett; Louis Sicking; Malyn Newitt; Jan Glete; John F. Guilmartin; R. B. Wernham; Mark Charles Fissel; Guy Rowlands; John Stapleton; David J.B. Trim.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047417291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
This volume reconceptualizes amphibious warfare and also fills an important gap in its historiography, examining how it was conceived, practised and employed, from the Crusades, through the first wave of European exploration and colonization, the Price Revolution and the European wars of religion, up to the early Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of a new wave of imperialism. Essays examine issues related to strategy, operational art, tactics, logistics and military technology, but also consider commerce and culture. They reveal that amphibious warfare was often waged for economic reasons and was the quintessential warfare of European imperialism, for sea power was required to deliver and sustain land power. The volume is lavishly illustrated with 30 plates and twelve maps. Contributors: Matthew Bennett; Louis Sicking; Malyn Newitt; Jan Glete; John F. Guilmartin; R. B. Wernham; Mark Charles Fissel; Guy Rowlands; John Stapleton; David J.B. Trim.
At the Water's Edge
Author: Theodore L Gatchel
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612514308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Conventional military wisdom holds that the amphibious assault against a defended beach is the most difficult of all military operations--yet modern amphibious landings have been almost universally successful. This apparent contradiction is fully explored in this first look at 20th-century amphibious warfare from the perspective of the defender. The author, Col. Theodore L. Gatchel, USMC (Ret.), examines amphibious operations from Gallipoli to the Falkland Islands to determine why the defenders were unable to prevent the attackers from landing or to throw them back into the sea after they had fought their way ashore. He places the reader in the defenders' shoes as such epic battles as Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Inchon are planned and fought, and then uses these cases to explain why the defenders were unable to successfully defend against enemy landings. A practitioner, teacher, and student of amphibious warfare, Colonel Gatchel follows those explanations with speculations on how a defender today might try to stop a landing and on the implications of such actions for future amphibious operations.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612514308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Conventional military wisdom holds that the amphibious assault against a defended beach is the most difficult of all military operations--yet modern amphibious landings have been almost universally successful. This apparent contradiction is fully explored in this first look at 20th-century amphibious warfare from the perspective of the defender. The author, Col. Theodore L. Gatchel, USMC (Ret.), examines amphibious operations from Gallipoli to the Falkland Islands to determine why the defenders were unable to prevent the attackers from landing or to throw them back into the sea after they had fought their way ashore. He places the reader in the defenders' shoes as such epic battles as Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Inchon are planned and fought, and then uses these cases to explain why the defenders were unable to successfully defend against enemy landings. A practitioner, teacher, and student of amphibious warfare, Colonel Gatchel follows those explanations with speculations on how a defender today might try to stop a landing and on the implications of such actions for future amphibious operations.
Pete Ellis
Author: Dirk Anthony Ballendorf
Publisher: Leatherneck Classics
ISBN: 9781591140269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Few Marines have had more impact on the Corps's history than Pete Ellis, and none have been more controversial. This biography of the brilliant yet troubled Marine disputes many long-accepted but unsubstantiated accounts of his life and death. Ellis's legacy as the father of amphibious warfare is fully examined by the authors, who searched through family papers, fitness reports, Japanese sources, and interviewed eyewitnesses to solve the mysteries of Ellis's tragic life.
Publisher: Leatherneck Classics
ISBN: 9781591140269
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Few Marines have had more impact on the Corps's history than Pete Ellis, and none have been more controversial. This biography of the brilliant yet troubled Marine disputes many long-accepted but unsubstantiated accounts of his life and death. Ellis's legacy as the father of amphibious warfare is fully examined by the authors, who searched through family papers, fitness reports, Japanese sources, and interviewed eyewitnesses to solve the mysteries of Ellis's tragic life.
Hit the Beach
Author: Simon Foster
Publisher: Rigel Publications
ISBN: 9781898799849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
From the Plains of Abraham in 1759 to the Falklands landings in 1982, investigate the unique challenge posed by amphibious warfare--where the invading troops cannot wage their battle offensively until reaching dry ground, and when the defending forces can start with an advantage. Also included: the awesome Dardanelles offensive of 1915-16, the bloody fighting at Gallipoli, and the American landings at Inchon in 1950. 272 pages, 120 b/w illus., 5 x 7 3/4.
Publisher: Rigel Publications
ISBN: 9781898799849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
From the Plains of Abraham in 1759 to the Falklands landings in 1982, investigate the unique challenge posed by amphibious warfare--where the invading troops cannot wage their battle offensively until reaching dry ground, and when the defending forces can start with an advantage. Also included: the awesome Dardanelles offensive of 1915-16, the bloody fighting at Gallipoli, and the American landings at Inchon in 1950. 272 pages, 120 b/w illus., 5 x 7 3/4.
U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft
Author: Norman Friedman
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
In this latest addition to his acclaimed U.S. warship design history series, Norman Friedman describes the ships and the craft of the U.S. amphibious force, from its inception in the 1920s through World War II to the present. He explains how and why the United States successfully created an entirely new kind of fleet to fight and win such World War II battles as D-Day and the island landings in the Pacific. To an extent not previously documented, his book lays out the differing views and contributions of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marines as well as the British, and how they affected the development of prewar and wartime amphibious forces. Current and future amphibious forces and tactics are explained, together with their implications for ships and craft, from 40,000-ton amphibious carriers down to tracked amphibious vehicles.As in earlier volumes in the series, this study uses previously unpublished sources to illustrate not only what was actually built but what was planned and never brought into service. For example, the book offers the first comprehensive and fully illustrated account of abortive attempts in the 1960s and beyond to build new fire support ships (LFS). With nearly two hundred photographs and specially commissioned line drawings and extensive appendixes, the work conveniently brings together details of the ships and their service histories found elsewhere only in scattered official references.
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
In this latest addition to his acclaimed U.S. warship design history series, Norman Friedman describes the ships and the craft of the U.S. amphibious force, from its inception in the 1920s through World War II to the present. He explains how and why the United States successfully created an entirely new kind of fleet to fight and win such World War II battles as D-Day and the island landings in the Pacific. To an extent not previously documented, his book lays out the differing views and contributions of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marines as well as the British, and how they affected the development of prewar and wartime amphibious forces. Current and future amphibious forces and tactics are explained, together with their implications for ships and craft, from 40,000-ton amphibious carriers down to tracked amphibious vehicles.As in earlier volumes in the series, this study uses previously unpublished sources to illustrate not only what was actually built but what was planned and never brought into service. For example, the book offers the first comprehensive and fully illustrated account of abortive attempts in the 1960s and beyond to build new fire support ships (LFS). With nearly two hundred photographs and specially commissioned line drawings and extensive appendixes, the work conveniently brings together details of the ships and their service histories found elsewhere only in scattered official references.
Sea Soldiers in the Cold War
Author: Joseph H. Alexander
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781557500557
Category : Amphibious warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An operational history of amphibian warfare during the Cold War period. Illus.
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781557500557
Category : Amphibious warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An operational history of amphibian warfare during the Cold War period. Illus.
Naval Mine Warfare
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309170559
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Sea mines have been important in naval warfare throughout history and continue to be so today. They have caused major damage to naval forces, slowed or stopped naval actions and commercial shipping, and forced the alteration of strategic and tactical plans. The threat posed by sea mines continues, and is increasing, in today's world of inexpensive advanced electronics, nanotechnology, and multiple potential enemies, some of which are difficult to identify. This report assesses the Department of the Navy's capabilities for conducting naval mining and countermining sea operations.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309170559
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Sea mines have been important in naval warfare throughout history and continue to be so today. They have caused major damage to naval forces, slowed or stopped naval actions and commercial shipping, and forced the alteration of strategic and tactical plans. The threat posed by sea mines continues, and is increasing, in today's world of inexpensive advanced electronics, nanotechnology, and multiple potential enemies, some of which are difficult to identify. This report assesses the Department of the Navy's capabilities for conducting naval mining and countermining sea operations.