In October 1944, Allied forces began landing on the Philippine island of ...
This edited collection examines the changing character of military professionalism and the role of ethics in the twenty-first-century military. The authors, who range from uniformed military to academics to non-uniformed professionals on the battlefield, delve into whether the concepts of Samuel Huntington, Morris Janowitz, and Sir John Hackett still apply, how training and continuing education play a role in defining ...
First flown in 1940, the prototype Vought F4U Corsair instantly became the fastest fighter in the world and the fastest U.S. aircraft of any description. Powered by a huge 18-cylinder Pratt and Whitney Double Wasp engine driving an enormous 13 feet 4-inch propeller, the first Corsairs were capable of speeds of 417 mph. This figure would rise to nearly 450 ...
James Webb Award for Distinguished Fiction (Marine Corps Heritage Foundation)
Military Writers Association Gold Medal Award for Historical Fiction
Winner of William E. Colby Military Writers' Award
Winner of W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction
Sometimes it takes years for a combat vet to understand what war did to him when he was nineteen. With the perception ...
The essays in this book highlight the connective tissue between maritime strategy and naval innovation. The cases and perspectives in this collection of essays by some of today’s foremost strategic thinkers are both retrospective and prospective and carry on an intellectual tradition established by the likes of Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Composed of four parts, each one deals with a ...