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  • Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945

    by William M. McBride ...
    Series Book 27 - Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
    Winner, Engineer-Historian Award from the American Society of Mechanical EngineersNavies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from ... Read more

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  • Canadian Nuclear Weapons

    The Untold Story of Canada's Cold War Arsenal

    by John Clearwater ...
    "We are thus not only the first country in the world with the capability to produce nuclear weapons that chose not to do so, we are also the first nuclear armed country to have chosen to divest itself of nuclear weapons."Pierre Trudeau United Nations, 26 May 1978From 1963 to 1984, US nuclear warheads armed Canadian weapons systems in both Canada and West Germany. It is likely that during the early ... Read more

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  • Refighting the Pacific War

    An Alternative History of World War II

    Edited by James C Bresnahan ...
    Refighting the Pacific War looks at how World War II in the Pacific might have unfolded differently, giving historians, authors and veterans the opportunity to discuss what happened and what might have happened. Contributors to this alternative history include noted military historians William Bartsch, John Burton, Donald Goldstein, John Lundstrom, Robert Mrazek, Jon Parshall, Douglas Smith, Peter ... Read more

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  • Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950

    by Jeffrey G. Barlow ...
    Chronicles in compelling detail the historic showdown between the U.S. Air Force and the Navy over the role of carrier aviation in the national security framework of the United States.The National Security Act of 1947, intended to unify the separate armed services under a single Defense Secretary, failed to settle the deeper issue that divided them, the debate over roles and missions. One symptom ... Read more

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  • First to Fight

    An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

    by Estate of V H. Krulak ...
    Series series Bluejacket Books
    In this riveting insider's chronicle, legendary Marine General Brute Krulak submits an unprecedented examination of U.S. Marines-their fights on the battlefield and off, their extraordinary esprit de corps. Deftly blending history with autobiography, action with analysis, and separating fact from fable, General Krulak touches the very essence of the Corps: what it means to be a Marine and the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Kaigun

    Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941

    by David C. Evans, David Peattie ...
    One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources have produced this remarkable study of the Navy's ... Read more

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  • Armed Conflict

    The Lessons of Modern Warfare

    by Brian Steed ...
    What challenges will America face in armed conflicts of the future and how will we prepare for them? National security depends upon the ability of the military to “predict” the future nature of war. Despite the difficulty in making such predictions, one must remember: nation states and other countries will continue to use armed conflict as a means to further their aims, and these aims will, at ... Read more

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  • War In The Falklands: Perspectives On British Strategy And Use Of Air Power

    by Lt.-Col. John E. Marr USAF ...
    Examines the political atmosphere and events leading to the Falklands war and concludes that the war was caused by critical misperceptions on both sides. Analyzes British response with emphasis on force selection, strategy, "Jointness," and the role of airpower. Suggests that British victory hinged on a well-coordinated, joint warfighting effort, and highlights the key role played by airpower. ... Read more

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  • A Few Good Women

    America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

    by Evelyn Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee ...
    In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories.Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and gathering thousands of eyewitness accounts, letters, and interviews for this unprecedented chronicle of America’s ... Read more

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  • Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War

    Was Defeat Inevitable?

    by James B. Wood ...
    In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic plan—to secure the resources Japan needed and establish a viable defensible perimeter for the Empire—that the Allies were able to regain the ... Read more

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  • Navies in the 21st Century

    by Conrad Waters ...
    " A range of naval experts . . . build[s] a diverse and deeply-thought out picture of where maritime warfare is now and where it is likely to go."— Army Rumour ServiceWhat is the purpose of navies in the modern world, and what types of warship does this require? This book tackles these questions by looking at naval developments, both technological and operational, in the quarter century since the ... Read more

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  • U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Canada

    by John Clearwater ...
    In this second volume of his nuclear weapon series, John Clearwater continues to investigate the presence of American nuclear weapons in Canada. In Canadian Nuclear Weapons, Clearwater told the story of nuclear weapons that were in the hands of Canadian forces during the Cold War. In U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Canada, he goes further, looking at nuclear weapons held by American forces on Canadian ... Read more

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