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Category : Cold adaptation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
U.S. Navy Cold Weather Handbook for Surface Ships
Author: The Legacy of Belleau Wood
Author: Paul W. WestermeyerPublisher: Marine Corps Association
ISBN: 9780160944123
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In the summer of 2017, the newly arrived president of Marine Corps University, Brigadier General William J. Bowers, ordered a lecture series, "The Legacy of Belleau Wood: 100 Years of Making Marines and Winning Battles." The series would include four lectures, and it was to be supported by an anthology produced by History Division, providing readings to the students on the topics each lecture would cover. The intent was to produce an anthology of lasting worth to Marines, broadly depicting keystone moments in the history of the Corps during the century following the Battle of Belleau Wood. This volume presents a collection of 36 extracts, articles, letters, orders, interviews, and biographies. The work is intended to serve as a general overview and provisional reference to inform both Marines and the general public of the broad outlines of notable trends and controversies in Marine Corps history--Provided by publisher.
U.S. Marines and Irregular Warfare
Author: Nicholas J. SchlosserPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160927836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
U.S. Marines in Irregular Warfare: Training and Education is a brief history that recounts how the U.S. Marine Corps adapted to fight the Global War on Terrorism during 2000-10. The Marine Corps has a long history of fighting irregular wars, including the Banana Wars in Central America during the 1920s and the Vietnam War during the 1960s. To battle the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Corps drew upon this experience while also implementing new plans and programs to better prepare Marines to carry out counterinsurgency operations. The Marine Corps updated the curriculum at the Command and Staff College and transformed the annual Combined Arms Exercise into Exercise Mojave Viper: an immersive training program that simulated the urban environments in which Marines would be operating in Southwest Asia. Most importantly, Marines adjusted in the field, as battalion and company commanders drew on their basic training and education to devise innovative tactics to better combat the new threats they now faced. ?us, as this story shows, the Marine Corps did not undergo a radical transformation to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, but instead drew on principles that had defined it as a warfighting organization throughout most of its history. Keywords: United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; U.S. Marine Corps; U.S. Marines; Marines; Marine Corps; Global War on Terrorism; global war on terrorism; irregular warfare; military strategy; counterinsurgency; combat; iraq war; Iraq War; Afghanistan; military education; soldier training; combat training and tactics; Southwest Asia
Fighting to Leave
Author: Robert E. StoffeyPublisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 9780760333105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A chronicle of the last years of the Vietnam War that is at once a comprehensive overview and at the same time a vividly personal account from a field commander.
Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia
Author: Earl H. EllisPublisher:
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Category : Micronesia
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"Most of this reference publication was written by Major E. H. Ellis in 1921 when he perceived the coming war with Japan and made this effort to describe where the conflict might be fought and the manner in which it would be carried out."--Page iii
The National Shipbuilding Research Program
Author: National Shipbuilding Research ProgramPublisher:
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Godspeed, John Glenn
Author: Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781590783849
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Picture-book biography of John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth.
Weapon System Safety Guidelines Handbook
Author: United States. Naval Ordnance Systems CommandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Annual Command History
Author: U.S. Army Aviation and Troop CommandPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
War on the Waters
Author: James M. McPhersonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807837326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.