For more than 250 years, the U.S. Navy has played a pivotal role in national security and prosperity. On Course Through History: The U.S. Navy at 250... read more
For more than 250 years, the U.S. Navy has played a pivotal role in national security and prosperity. On Course Through History: The U.S. Navy at 250 presents the history of America’s sea service with an emphasis on the evolution of the Navy’s professional communities. Readers will find chapters on surface warfare, undersea warfare, naval aviation, special warfare, intelligence and information warfare, diving, medicine, civil engineering, the Supply Corps, the U.S. Navy Reserve, and the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Every American sailor is a warfighter, and collectively they can draw upon the Navy's rich legacy for insight and inspiration as they uphold its honorable tradition of defending the nation.
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The US Navy continuously looks to history for lessons that can improve its warfighting edge in all domains. As the official custodian of US Navy history,... read more
The US Navy continuously looks to history for lessons that can improve its warfighting edge in all domains. As the official custodian of US Navy history, the Naval History and Heritage Command collects, maintains, analyzes, and disseminates this resource. To showcase this capability, Priming the Warfighter features 18 articles, essays, and white papers produced by the command that leverage episodes from the past 250 years of Navy history in the pursuit of better appreciation of and solutions for current problems. It is ultimately through these shared experiences that history acts a force multiplier and contributes to the Navy and Marine Corps mission of projecting peace and strength throughout the world.
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The U.S. Navy and Innovation presents a series of eight case studies to illustrate how the US Navy went about innovation amid the great power struggles of... read more
The U.S. Navy and Innovation presents a series of eight case studies to illustrate how the US Navy went about innovation amid the great power struggles of the twentieth century. The eight chapters cover nearly the full span of the twentieth century, ranging from the naval arms race prior to World War I to the Navy’s strategy renaissance of the 1980s. Presenting innovations achieved and implemented both during wartime and outside it, each case study provides examples of innovative changes in technology, doctrine, or strategy. Several show the complex interplay among these factors. Featuring a foreword by former Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro.
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During the Battle of Okinawa, American sailors confronted their most destructive enemy of the Pacific War: the kamikazes of the Imperial Japanese Special... read more
During the Battle of Okinawa, American sailors confronted their most destructive enemy of the Pacific War: the kamikazes of the Imperial Japanese Special Attack Corps. Over the course of what quickly became the deadliest engagement ever fought by the U.S. Navy, American naval officers and their crews developed new tactics to counter the brutal onslaught of a suicidal enemy whose sole purpose was to demoralize the US fleet and inflict as many casualties as possible. Japanese military leaders viewed the kamikaze as their last hope to prevent US forces from reaching the home islands and compelling Japan’s unconditional surrender. Drawing on the accounts of enlisted sailors, On the Verge of Breaking Down Completely sheds new light on the desperate struggle off Okinawa and the terrifying ordeal of men under the relentless assault of suicide attacks. Ultimately, American sailors’ tenacity and ability to adapt in order to win during World War II should serve as enduring inspiration to those serving in the U.S. Navy today.
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Education is critical for warfighting readiness and effectiveness. In this volume, Tyler Pitrof traces the evolution of the US Navy’s approach to enlisted... read more
Education is critical for warfighting readiness and effectiveness. In this volume, Tyler Pitrof traces the evolution of the US Navy’s approach to enlisted education from World War II to the present day. As demonstrated in this publication, since the 1970s, the Navy has generally considered its educational programs to be an incentive to enlist. However, advanced technology, like the Aegis Combat System, has dramatically increased the need for abstract thinking to augment traditional training. Educating the Bluejackets provides a succinct history of US Navy enlisted education policy and will enable personnel to use the cumulative insights of the past to help address the service’s future educational needs. Sixteenth Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy James M. Honea provided an incisive foreword to this volume.
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For the first time, this volume presents all of the surviving World War II correspondence that Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz wrote to his wife, Catherine.... read more
For the first time, this volume presents all of the surviving World War II correspondence that Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz wrote to his wife, Catherine. In Best Beloved: The Wartime Letters of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz to his Wife, Catherine, Nimitz relates in his own words his feelings as he prepared to assume command of the devastated US Pacific Fleet in December 1941, his fears about the possibility of being relieved during the war’s darkest days in 1942, and his nervous excitement as he signed the surrender document that ended the most destructive war of the twentieth century. Admiral Samuel J. Paparo Jr., commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, provides a trenchant foreword to this collection.
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