Explores the internal institutional factors that promote and enable military adaptation. The book employs four cases, drawing upon one from each of the US armed services. Each case was an extensive campaign, with several cycles of action/counteraction.
With updates to every chapter, this new fourth edition serves as the premier guide to professional writing for the naval services. Authored by a naval officer... Læs mere
Traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to... Læs mere
Today Democrats, Republicans, and career public officials agree on one thing: few individuals possess the military experience,... Læs mere
A remarkable collection of works by some of the most authoritative naval historians in the United States which draws on many formerly classified sources to shed new light on the U.S. Navy’s role in the three-year struggle to preserve the independence of the Republic of Korea.
The first complete biography of one of the last surviving World War II U.S. Navy aces, and one of the Navy’s most respected officers of... Læs mere
Challenging centuries-old conventional wisdom regarding the principles of war, tactics, and the roles of strategy, doctrine, experiential learning, and military history, Friedman's work offers a striking synthesis of thinking on tactics as well as strategy.
Drawing on a lifetime of military and legal experience, Stephen M. Duncan examines the many questions relating to the... Læs mere
Award-winning author Edward Miller contends in this work that the United States forced Japan into international bankruptcy to... Læs mere
Argues that a little-known, but intense Soviet-Japanese conflict along the Manchurian- Mongolian frontier at Nomonhan influenced the... Læs mere