Author: Steve Bush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904459415
Category : Warships
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Mike Critchley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904459002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Mike Critchley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907771050
Category : Warships
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Mike Critchley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907771791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Steve Bush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904459552
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: David Hobbs
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848320485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as professional equals alongside the US Navy in the thick of the action. How this was achieved by a nation nearing exhaustion after five years of conflict is a story of epic proportions in which ingenuity, diplomacy and dogged persistence all played a part. As much a political as a technical triumph, the BPF was uniquely complex in its make-up: its C-in-C was responsible to the Admiralty for the general direction of his Fleet; took operational orders from the American Admiral Nimitz; answered to the Government of Australia for the construction and maintenance of a vast base infrastructure, and to other Commonwealth Governments for the ships and men that formed his fully-integrated multi-national fleet. This ground-breaking new work by David Hobbs describes the background, creation and expansion of the BPF from its first tentative strikes, through operations off the coast of Japan to its impact on the immediate post-war period, including the opinions of USN liaison officers attached to the British flagships. The book is the first to demonstrate the real scope and scale of the BPF’s impressive achievement.

Author: Mike Critchley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907771302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Steve Bush
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Warships
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Author: Mike Critchley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907771586
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Garren Mulloy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197644074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Japan's post-war armed forces are a paradox, both embarrassing remnants of the past and valuable repositories of experience. This book charts the development of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) from 1954 as both unorthodox military institutions and servants of a civil society that decries militarism. Investigating JSDF contributions to Japanese and global security, the evolution of such contributions during and after the Cold War, and their possible reconfiguration for Japan's security needs ahead, Garren Mulloy offers insight into the Forces' past, present and future. He explores the characteristics and contradictions of Japanese policy, including novel approaches in response to an increasingly assertive China, the latent threat of North Korea and contributory pressure from the US. Though the American alliance remains the core of Japanese security, new partnerships and international overtures will also shape the Forces' place in Prime Minister Abe's new vision of 'proactive contributions to peace'. Defenders of Japan deconstructs how the JSDF have adapted and will continue to adapt within domestic norms, caught between unresolved legacies of Japan's imperial past and a dynamically shifting balance of future global power.