This book presents a detailed picture of the complex and difficult process the U.S. Navy and its NATO allies faced in devising the NATO naval command structure, and explores NATO's place today in the realignment of nations.
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Securing Command of the Sea
"NATO Naval Planning, 1948-1954"
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High Seas
The Naval Passage to an Uncharted World
Breaking with tradition, Admiral William Owens—vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and one of the nation's foremost strategic thinkers—prescribes new roles and missions and revolutionary new ships and aircraft needed for a new Navy, and lets readers in on their planning.
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Red Scorpion
The War Patrols of the USS Rasher
The USS Rasher had an extraordinary record in World War II: she sank 18 enemy ships and destroyed 99,901 tons--the second highest tonnage of the war. Her fifth war patrol is the stuff of legends. In August 1944 during a single night surface attack on a Japanese convoy off the Philippines, she sank the escort carrier Taiyo and three marus ...
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Wreck of the Isabella
At the outbreak of the War of 1812, a group of men, women, and children were shipwrecked on a deserted island in the Falklands. This chronicle of their survival adventures provides more surprising twists than a novel when an American and a British ship come to the rescue.
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Battleship Missouri
An Illustrated History
Now available in paperback, this book traces the complete story of the Missouri from her keel-laying in 1941, her participation in the Japanese surrender in 1945, and her contribution to the Persian Gulf War. Through extensive interviews and research with records from the Naval Heritage and History Command, National Archives, Harry S. Truman Library, and other repositories, author Paul Stillwell ...
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The Easter Offensive
"The Last American Advisors, Vietnam, 1972"
This thoroughly documented chronology of the April 1972 invasion of South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese Army, called the Easter Offensive, serves both as a historical lesson and a remarkable war memoir. On the Marine Corps Commandant's professional list for years, it is told with authority and compassion by a crucial player, an American Marine who was a senior advisor ...
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