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Navy Confirms Boat Swarm Observed Trailing the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Was Iranian
U.S.Navy spokesmen have confirmed that about 18 small combatant craft recently "shadowed" the Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships from her task force. The "swarm shadowing" took place in the Strait of Hormuz . The entire Iranian "swarm fleet " was clearly visible via commercial satellite imagery in early December of 2019. This was prior to the US. drone strikes that killed top Iranian military leaders in retaliation for their attack on U.S. interests in Iraq. 
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The Lincoln sailed through the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf of Oman earlier this month, as seen in commercial satellite imagery. The U.S. Navy reports that none of the Iranian craft acted provocatively toward the carrier, or her escorts. None the less the image of 18 small boats in very close proximity to Lincoln and her escorts is a stark reminder of the inherent risks of each transit through the Strait..
This swarm shadowing occurred prior to the American drone attack that prompted Iran to swear revenge on the U.S.. The next time we could see a swarm attack on one of our carriers. The Iranian "swarm boats" have little chance of breaking through a US carrier escort flotilla. They have virtually no chance of sinking one of our carriers. However, nothing is impossible the lesson of the BISMARK from WWII is that a bunch of lessor warships can gang up on the super war ship of the era, and if the smaller attack flotilla doesn't mind losing a few boats, sink the more advanced and larger vessel (s). We doubt the Iranian command seriously believes that they could sink even one ship of a U. S. Carrier task force. However, a "mission kill' has a real chance of succeeding .
"Mission kill" occurs when a combatant causes enough damage to an enemy's equipment to stop or delay the mission of their opponent. A really successful "Mission kill"could send a US Carrier and /or any number of her screening war ships into an expensive and protracted ship yard stay. The U.S. public seems unaware that great powers have used "mission kill" tactics in the past usually to bypass legislative war power scrutiny and reduce collateral damages. "Mission kill" strategy and tactics these days are especially attractive to the lesser powers. The Iranians after the loss of two general officers in a very precise U.S. drone attack may be highly interested in a shocking attack on U.S. armed forces vice their usual attacks on softer civilian targets.
Preventing mission kill from a boat swarm attack requires some different approaches to carrier protection. The swarm must be engaged before the carrier task force gets into swarm boat gun range. This would require greater use of air cover and perhaps our own gang of "street fighters" , small heavily armed patrol boats to engage the enemy before they can conduct a mission kill. More difficult is the change in use of force policies and rules of engagement. Given the threats Iran has made on the US in the wake of our successful drone attacks; we must consider any approaching swarm on track towards a US carrier task force as any enemy intent on engaging. They must be met with force even if they are still in Iranian territorial waters. If ,upon meeting our outlying "street fighters" they change course we should monitor their movements until they have returned to base. At the first sign of resistance we must destroy the swarm before it gets into mission kill position. If we do encounter a swarm attack that would be justification for destroying the naval support infrastructure of Iran. Iran's maritime forces operating in their own neighborhood are Iran's only means of engaging the US military. Terrorism is their only other option for carrying war to the US. Attempted "Mission kills" at sea against our fleet should result in the total destruction of Iranian maritime forces; there is no need to tolerate an Iranian war at sea. If we don't invade them they can't really invade us.
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Navy Lasers, Railgun, and Gun-Launched Guided Projectile: Background and Issues for Congress.
FROM THE PREAMBLE OF THE REPORT
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R44175.pdf
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Three new ship-based weapons being developed by the Navy—solid state lasers (SSLs), the electromagnetic railgun (EMRG), and the gun-launched guided projectile (GLGP), also known as the hypervelocity projectile (HVP)—could substantially improve the ability of Navy surface ships to defend themselves against surface craft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and eventually antiship cruise missiles (ASCMs). The Navy has been developing SSLs for several years, and in 2014 installed on a Navy ship a prototype SSL called the Laser Weapon System (LaWS) that was capable of countering surface craft and UAVs. The Navy is now developing SSLs with improved capability for countering surface craft and UAVs, and eventually a capability for countering ASCMs.
Navy efforts to develop these more capable lasers include the Solid State Laser Technology Maturation (SSL-TM) effort; the Ruggedized High Energy Laser (RHEL); the Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy (ODIN); the Surface Navy Laser Weapon System (SNLWS) Increment 1, also known as the high-energy laser with integrated optical dazzler and surveillance (HELIOS); and the High Energy Laser Counter-ASCM Program (HELCA)
The Navy refers to the first four efforts above collectively as the Navy Laser Family of Systems (NFLoS). Under the Navy’s laser development approach, NFLOS and HELCAP, along with technologies developed by other parts of DOD, are to support the development of future, more capable shipboard lasers. The Navy has been developing EMRG for several years. It was originally conceived as a naval surface fire support (NSFS) weapon for supporting Marines and other friendly forces ashore. Subsequently, it was determined that ERGM could also be used for air and missile defense, which strengthened interest in ERGM development. More recently, it was determined that the projectile to be fired by ERGM could also be fired by existing powder-propellant guns, including 5-inch and 155 mm guns on Navy cruisers and destroyers, and 155 mm artillery guns operated by the Army and Marine Corps. When fired from power guns, the projectile does not fly as quickly as it does when fired from an ERGM, but it still flies quickly enough to be of use as an air-defense weapon. The concept of firing the projectile from powder guns is referred to as GLGP and HVP. One potential advantage of HVP/GLGP is that, once developed, it can be rapidly deployed on Navy cruisers and destroyers and in Army and Marine Corps artillery units, because the powder guns in question already exist.
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In addition to the question of whether to approve, reject, or modify the Navy’s FY2020 funding requests for SSLs, ERGM, and HVP/GLGP, issues for Congress include the following: whether the Navy is moving too quickly, too slowly, or at about the right speed in its efforts to develop these weapons; the Navy’s plans for transitioning these weapons from development to procurement and fielding aboard Navy ships; and whether Navy the Navy’s shipbuilding plans include ships with appropriate amounts of space, weight, electrical power, and cooling capacity to accommodate these weapons
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Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels for Fiscal Year 2019 Prepared by: Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Warfare Systems) (N9) 2000 Navy Pentagon Washington, DC 20350-2000
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Read below for the basic themes of the report and a table of contents.
Key Themes in this Report The National Defense Strategy provides the overarching guidance and high level requirements for establishing the Navy the Nation Needs (NNN), the Navy’s plan for building and sustaining a lethal, resilient force through balanced investments across readiness, capability, and capacity. This 30-year shipbuilding plan is the foundation for growing capacity with the following key themes: Acts on the policy legislation provided by Congress in the 2018 NDAA, which supports Navy’s validated NNN requirement for 355 Battle Force ships. Includes 54 Battle Force ships within the FYDP (11 more than PB2018 request), and all candidate Service Life Extensions (SLE). Anticipates achieving a 355 ship Battle Force beyond 2050, but also frames options for potentially accelerating to the 2030s with additional resources, service life extensions, and strong industry response. Provides scalable acquisition profiles that promote a stable and efficient industrial base that encourages industry investment in capital improvements, capital expansion, and a properly sized world-class workforce.
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Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels for Fiscal Year 2019 Table of Contents I.
Reporting Requirement ..............................................................................................3 II. Submission of the Report ...........................................................................................3 III. Key Themes in this Report ........................................................................................3 IV. Force Structure Assessment and Fleet Architecture ..................................................3 V. Unmanned Systems ....................................................................................................4 VI. Long-Range Plan .......................................................................................................4 VII. Industrial Base ...........................................................................................................6 VIII. Summary ...................................................................................................................
.6 Appendix 1: Difference between the 2014 Force Structure Assessment and the 2016 Navy the Nation Needs Appendix 2:
PB19 Shipbuilding Plan (FY2019-FY2023) ..................................................9 Appendix 3: Long-Range Naval Vessel Inventory ...........................................................11 Appendix 4: Shipbuilding Industrial Base & the Boom/Bust Impact ..............................16 Appendix 5: Estimated Annual Ship Construction Funding Required for .......................19 the Long-Range Shipbuilding Program Appendix 6: Planned Ship Decommissionings, Dismantlings, and Disposals .................20 during FY2019-FY2023 Appendix 7: Auxiliary Vessel Plan ..................................................................................22 Appendix 8: Estimated Total Cost of Construction for Each Vessel ...............................24 Contained in the Annual Long Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels for Fiscal Year 2018 (Limited Distribution)
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BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Design, Development, and Service Histories
Bird farms are not the exclusive province of the American Navy. The Brits have been a bit short in the bird farm business of late but are coming back aboard with the new QUEEN ELIZABETH class. (See our related posts Final Deposition of the SARATOGA , ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF THE MICHELIN GUIDE TO BIRD FARMS, MY CARRIER VIDEO IS WAY COOLER THAN YOURS , THE MICHELIN GUIDE TO BIRD FARMS
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
"This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class, with full technical details, and there are extensive summaries of every ship's career. Apart from the obvious large-deck carriers, the book also includes seaplane carriers, escort carriers and MAC ships, the maintenance ships built on carrier hulls, unbuilt projects, and the modern LPH. It concludes with a look at the future of naval aviation, while numerous appendices summarize related subjects like naval aircraft, recognition markings and the circumstances surrounding the loss of every British carrier. As befits such an important reference work, it is heavily illustrated with a magnificent gallery of photos and plans, some reproduced in color.
Written by the leading historian of British carrier aviation, himself a retired Fleet Air Arm pilot, it displays the authority of a lifetime's research combined with a practical understanding of the issues surrounding the design and operation of aircraft carriers. British Aircraft Carriers is certain to become the standard work on the subject."
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BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Design, Development, and Service Histories
Bird farms are not the exclusive province of the American Navy. The Brits have been a bit short in the bird farm business of late but are coming back aboard with the new QUEEN ELIZABETH class. (See our related posts Final Deposition of the SARATOGA , ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF THE MICHELIN GUIDE TO BIRD FARMS, MY CARRIER VIDEO IS WAY COOLER THAN YOURS , THE MICHELIN GUIDE TO BIRD FARMS
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
"This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class, with full technical details, and there are extensive summaries of every ship's career. Apart from the obvious large-deck carriers, the book also includes seaplane carriers, escort carriers and MAC ships, the maintenance ships built on carrier hulls, unbuilt projects, and the modern LPH. It concludes with a look at the future of naval aviation, while numerous appendices summarize related subjects like naval aircraft, recognition markings and the circumstances surrounding the loss of every British carrier. As befits such an important reference work, it is heavily illustrated with a magnificent gallery of photos and plans, some reproduced in color.
Written by the leading historian of British carrier aviation, himself a retired Fleet Air Arm pilot, it displays the authority of a lifetime's research combined with a practical understanding of the issues surrounding the design and operation of aircraft carriers. British Aircraft Carriers is certain to become the standard work on the subject."
AAB RECOMMENDED FOR SERIOUS STUDENTS OF NAVAL HISTORY ESPECIALLY THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY, INTERESTING READ AND AN EXCELLENT PERMANENT REFERENCE
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CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE REPORT CHINA's NAVAL MODERNIZATION
Below is a summary from the Congressional Research Service. The text of this public document is presented exactly as written. However, bold facing, color changes and foot notes and links are ours.
China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress. Updated August 30, 2019
Chinese sailors at Pearl Harbor, the place their government has publicly announced that they would drive us back to. (Official U.S. Navy Photo)
Congressional Research Service
https://crsreports.congress.govRL33153
China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities
Summary
In an international security environment characterized as one of renewed great power competition, China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting. China’s navy, which China has been steadily modernizing for roughly 25 years, since the early to mid-1990s, has become a formidable military force within China’s near-seas region, and it is conducting a growing number of operations in more-distant waters, including the broader waters of the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and waters around Europe. China’s navy is viewed as posing a major challenge to the U.S. Navy’s ability to achieve and maintain wartime control of blue-water ocean areas in the Western Pacific—the first such challenge the U.S. Navy has faced since the end of the Cold War—and forms a key element of a Chinese challenge to the long-standing status of the United States as the leading military power in the Western Pacific.
China’s naval modernization effort encompasses a wide array of platform and weapon acquisition programs, including anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs),submarines, surface ships, aircraft, unmanned vehicles (UVs), and supporting C4ISR (command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) systems.China’s naval modernization effort also includes improvements in maintenance and logistics,doctrine, personnel quality, education and training, and exercises.
China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort is assessed as being aimed at developing capabilities for addressing the situation with Taiwan militarily, if need be; for achieving a greater degree of control or domination over China’s near-seas region,
particularly the South China Sea; for enforcing China’s view that it has the right to regulate foreign military activities in its 200-mile maritime exclusive economic zone (EEZ); for defending China’s commercial sea lines of communication (SLOCs), particularly those linking China to the Persian Gulf; for displacing U.S. influence in the Western Pacific; and for asserting China’s status as the leading regional power and a major world power. Consistent with these goals, observers believe China wants its navy to be capable of acting as part of a Chinese anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) force—a force that can deter U.S. intervention in a conflict in China’s near-seas region over Taiwan or some other issue, or failing that, delay the arrival or reduce the effectiveness of intervening U.S. forces. Additional missions for China’s navy include conducting maritime security (including antipiracy) operations, evacuating Chinese nationals from foreign countries when necessary, and conducting humanitarian assistance/disaster response (HA/DR) operations.The U.S. Navy in recent years has taken a number of actions to counter China’s naval modernization effort. Among other things, the U.S. Navy has shifted a greater percentage of its fleet to the Pacific; assigned its most-capable new ships and aircraft and its best personnel to the Pacific; maintained or increased general presence operations, training and developmental exercises, and engagement and cooperation with allied and other navies in the Pacific; increased the planned future size of the Navy; initiated, increased, or accelerated numerous programs for developing new military technologies and acquiring new ships, aircraft, unmanned vehicles,and weapons; begun development of new operational concepts (i.e., new ways to employ Navy and Marine Corps forces) for countering Chinese maritime A2/AD forces, and signaled that the Navy in coming years will shift to a more-distributed fleet architecture that will feature a smaller portion of larger ships, a larger portion of smaller ships, and a substantially greater use of unmanned vehicles. The issue for Congress is whether the U.S. Navy is responding appropriately
to China’s naval modernization effort.
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Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.govRL33153
China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities Summary In an international security environment characterized as one of renewed great power competition, China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, has become the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting. China’s navy, which China has been steadily modernizing for roughly 25 years, since the early to mid-1990s, has become a formidable military force within China’s near-seas region, and it is conducting a growing number of operations in more-distant waters, including the broader waters of the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and waters around Europe. China’s navy is viewed as posing a major challenge to the U.S. Navy’s ability to achieve and maintain wartime control of blue-water ocean areas in the Western Pacific—the first such challenge the U.S. Navy has faced since the end of the Cold War—and forms a key element of a Chinese challenge to the long-standing status of the United States as the leading military power in the Western Pacific.
CHINA INTENDS TO KEEP US OUT OF THE CHINA SEAS BUT INTENDS TO PLAY A BIG ROLE IN THE ARCTIC
WHY RUSSIA & CHINA FEAR US FORD-CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
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An Analysis of U.S. China Strategic Competition In Military Technological and Industrial Development by Tai Ming Cheung and Thomas G. Mahnken
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There is a growing military technological competition between the United States and China. This growing competition is an integral part a larger strategic contest. To understand this complicated military technological competition requires an in depth understanding of the military, political, economic , drivers behind the phenomena. This military technological rivalry evolves out of the larger geostrategic and geo-ecomoic competition involving the "Middle Kingdom's" desire to control the China Seas and their neighboring littoral states as virtually a Chinese lake and vassal islands. China is behind at the moment, in our opinion, in this technological race. But the United States is just starting to awaken to the fact that a race is on. This technological contest is just getting underway. We anticipate that it will grow rapidly and become more complex and intense over time.
We do see some similarities in this modern day conflict between near peer powers and the old "Cold War". We understand this conflict to be quite different in nature despite the surface similarities with the old "Cold War". The Cold war was primarily a contest between ideologies communism vs capitalism. The Soviet block had its allies or vassal states and the United States had its allies, but in the new contest the military and industrial , and commercial boundaries are blurred. The contest is taking place in a globalized interdependent economy. Geo-economic determinants are coming to the foreground and will make for some strange bed fellows.
The book is an anthology of sorts , a collection of essays by experts carefully selected and edited to address the military and industrial elements of the growing competition between the United States and China. The limitation of the work to these limited aspects of the competition works well for keeping the book readable and reasonably sized. But this is not the comprehensive all purpose examination of the subject. Probably no one volume would ever suffice. But we find it to be a highly useful and insightful work for this portion of the contest and at this stage of the evolution of the conflict. We highly recommend the work for journalists, political scientists (and their students), naval officers especially any junior officers with orders to the region or to the Naval Post Graduate school or War College. We also believe that Commercial maritime management may find the insights useful as would many people in the State Department.
About $ 30 to $110 depending on hard cover , paper back or kindle editions new or used.. At our last check Amazon had a variety of editions in stock.
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A Book Review:
SHATTERED TRIDENT by Larry Bond
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There is a growing military technological competition between the United States and China. This growing competition is an integral part a larger strategic contest. To understand this complicated military technological competition requires an in depth understanding of the military, political, economic , drivers behind the phenomena. This military technological rivalry evolves out of the larger geostrategic and geo-ecomoic competition involving the "Middle Kingdom's" desire to control the China Seas and their neighboring littoral states as virtually a Chinese lake and vassal islands. China is behind at the moment, in our opinion, in this technological race. But the United States is just starting to awaken to the fact that a race is on. This technological contest is just getting underway. We anticipate that it will grow rapidly and become more complex and intense over time.
We do see some similarities in this modern day conflict between near peer powers and the old "Cold War". We understand this conflict to be quite different in nature despite the surface similarities with the old "Cold War". The Cold war was primarily a contest between ideologies communism vs capitalism. The Soviet block had its allies or vassal states and the United States had its allies, but in the new contest the military and industrial , and commercial boundaries are blurred. The contest is taking place in a globalized interdependent economy. Geo-economic determinants are coming to the foreground and will make for some strange bed fellows.
The book is an anthology of sorts , a collection of essays by experts carefully selected and edited to address the military and industrial elements of the growing competition between the United States and China. The limitation of the work to these limited aspects of the competition works well for keeping the book readable and reasonably sized. But this is not the comprehensive all purpose examination of the subject. Probably no one volume would ever suffice. But we find it to be a highly useful and insightful work for this portion of the contest and at this stage of the evolution of the conflict. We highly recommend the work for journalists, political scientists (and their students), naval officers especially any junior officers with orders to the region or to the Naval Post Graduate school or War College. We also believe that Commercial maritime management may find the insights useful as would many people in the State Department.
About $ 30 to $110 depending on hard cover , paper back or kindle editions new or used.. At our last check Amazon had a variety of editions in stock.
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A Book Review:
Think a Naval War In The China Seas Could Be Contained ?
Think again,this book is on our must read before the end of Fall list. It came out in May and we apologize for overlooking it, it should have been in your beach bag. If you have been following our blog post series titled "HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM ?", you will have a lot of understanding of the background to this corking work of naval fiction. If you have not been following our series and read this book you will painlessly receive enough background on the real world situation that you will be able to join our series and not be lost at any point in the near future. This is a book that takes you right into the heart of darkness that we have been describing for over a year. It gives the reader a gripping what if tale of a war that no one wants but everyone seems powerless to stop.
What if the Philippines and Japan lost faith in the willingness or ability of the United States to live up to our defense agreements?
What if China made another move on Vietnam such as the ruthless murder of Vietnamese sailors depicted here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2ZrFphSmc
What if Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan formed a secret alliance to stop Chinese aggression without American participation.
What if this alliance began to sink ships secretly in order to reduce China's oil supply and damage but not destroy her economy in the hope of dealing China's leadership a new set of problems in the hopes that they would back off their naval powered island land grab?
What if China discovered who was responsible for their lost tankers?
What would the U.S. do if the President decided that the best course of action was to conduct our own secret submarine war to insure that warfare remained naval and no real winners or losers emerged?
Far fetched? We would say its as real as today's headlines but our national media is paying scant attention to the situation, there are virtually no headlines....except here ...in our series HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM?
We highly recommend this fast paced adventure tale as not only entertaining but painlessly instructive on what may be the most important issue of peace or war of the current event horizon.
Think again,this book is on our must read before the end of Fall list. It came out in May and we apologize for overlooking it, it should have been in your beach bag. If you have been following our blog post series titled "HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM ?", you will have a lot of understanding of the background to this corking work of naval fiction. If you have not been following our series and read this book you will painlessly receive enough background on the real world situation that you will be able to join our series and not be lost at any point in the near future. This is a book that takes you right into the heart of darkness that we have been describing for over a year. It gives the reader a gripping what if tale of a war that no one wants but everyone seems powerless to stop.
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RECOMMENDED:
SALTWATER LEADERSHIP
by RADM Robert O. WrayUSN Jr.,
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Rear Admiral Robert O.Wray jr., USN was President of the U.S. Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey at the time he wrote and edited this book for publication by the U.S. Naval Institute (USNI). He is nearing retirement and this work is a parting gift to shipmates. Profits from your purchase are another parting gift from the Admiral to maritime charities. We have described many times before our trust in the Naval Institute's Board of Editors and professional editorial staff. As you know we frequently link to Naval Institute publications even before we read them and consider virtually all USNI publications to be American Admiralty Books "RECOMMENDED" even if we haven't yet prepared a review yet. This one we have read cover to cover. However we probably couldn't pen a better endorsement than this by a former WWII era junior naval officer:
"I wish I had this book when I was a junior officer at sea. I hope you'll read it, and be a better officer for it. Our nation needs that"- Former Lt (jg) USNR and former Commander in Chief U.S. Armed forces, President George H.W. Bush.
Now note the underlined portion of this recommendation from Admiral Gary Roughead,USN, former Chief of Naval Operations.
"Saltwater Leadership" is more than a terrific, relevant leadership primer for young officers. It's a worthwhile read regardless of seniority and a book to be perused often as a valuable, practical leadership course check"
To these recommendations we would like to add some observations, and suggestions.
OBSERVATION:
(1)The book addresses junior officers of the Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine. The author does state that because of his background the book does tend to be somewhat "navalcentric." There is another very small but important uniformed naval type service that could benefit from this book and that is the NOAA Corps, consisting of just over 400 uniformed commissioned officers who carry naval rank, subject to integrated duties with the armed forces as needed and commanding the oceanographic research ships, some of the marine sanctuary enforcement vessels, field teams and aircraft of NOAA. These are the officers who are in charge of the units gathering the data, often in difficult and dangerous environments that go into the Charts and Coast Pilots that all of us use aboard ship.In the past they have also been seconded to various operations within the Navy, Coast Guard, and even the Army.
(2) The senior enlisted corps is not addressed in the book, yet at and above the First Class Petty Officer level many positions, especially in the Coast Guard may be filled by by either a junior commissioned officer or a senior enlisted member. Many small Coast Guard units and elements have senior enlisted "Officers in Charge", "Executive Petty Officers", or Operations Petty Officers. Sometimes these small units will have a commissioned officer in the Commanding Officer, Executive Officer, Operations Officer billets, and sometimes within the span of less than a year the same billets may be filled by Chief and First Class Petty Officers. The actual job requirements may not change at all. For example some small ships and boat stations traditionally "commanded" by E-7s through E-9s under a "Group Command" commanded by a Chief Warrant Boatswain get reorganized under an expanded group or sector with a more senior commissioned officer as Commander. The various officer like billets assigned to senior petty officers previously are reassigned to junior officers to "provide early career command and leadership experience". Sometimes reorganization at group and sector levels reverses the process, reintroducing the non commissioned structure. On both Navy and Coast Guard ships, but very prominently on Coast Guard ships senior boatswains mates and operations specialists serve as deck watch officers underway.
SUGGESTIONS:
(1) Saltwater Leadership should join the reading list for Senior and Master Chief Petty Officer advancement and for NOAA Corps commissioned Officers and those NOAA civil service mariners with "Chief" titles such as "Chief Boatswain", "Chief Boatswainsmate", "Chief Engineer" .
(2) Future updated editions ( and we believe there will be many) should address the audience as both junior officers and senior petty officers and some effort should be made now to encourage senior petty officers, NOAA Officers, and NOAA civil service shipboard "Chiefs" to read this book.
OBSERVATION /PREDICTION:
We observe that this is a work broadly applicable to a wide variety of maritime leaders across more service lines and ranks than originally imagined. We think it will eventually become one of the Naval Institute's classic multi-generational references like the BLUEJACKET'S MANUAL and will undergo many editions over generations. Its format lends itself to assignment to new author/editors for updates far into the future long after Rear Admiral Wray and his various contributors have been piped aboard the final landing.
RECOMMENDATION: If you are presently serving between the grades of First Class Petty Officer to Lieutenant in any of the naval services read this book now! If more senior, or even if retired read this book as soon as possible in order to keep up with the rising generations of naval leadership for whom this will be a first, or early, and sometimes only work on naval leadership read at the time you encounter them in their career.
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FOR WEAPONS OFFICERS, GUNNERS MATES, FIRE CONTROL TECHNICIANS, ALL MANNER OF ARMORERS AND FANS OF THE INDIAN NAVY:
TRISHFUL: http://trishul-trident.blogspot.in/ The Indian Navy for many years had to function on a very anemic budget. Yet, the officers and ratings over the years built a world class navy out of fire sale equipment much of it from the former Soviet Union and Russia. But the "Tigers" as we like to call them didn't just buy off the shelf, bring in some Russian advisers, and translate the operations manuals and placards. The Indian navy at all levels engaged in back engineering, analysis, and technological improvement of their fire sale weapons. Their efforts brought the Indian navy from undistinguished Third World naval status to the list of the top four navies on Earth. That was when they were still operating on adjusted, modified, adapted fire sale equipment purchased from diverse sources. Given that success, we suspect that in terms of professional competency , the kind of professional competency that fosters innovation, the Indian navy is running a close second to the U.S. Navy in terms of an innovative organizational culture.
The U.S. Navy despite a budget that would be the envy of any of the other top four navies is still underfunded in terms of its global responsibilities. Historically the U.S. Navy , like the Indian Navy has known much harder financial times and has had to emerge as an innovative force. It was the U.S. Navy that has been the sustained leader in aircraft carrier operations, underway replenishment, nuclear submarine operations, submerged missile launches some of the ear marks of top navies today. Part of the U.S. Navy's culture of innovation is the uniquely independent U.S. Naval Institute , a forum of independent thought where officers, ratings, and civilians of every stripe may publish innovative proposals, and analysis without having to be politically correct within the political culture of their local command or other realm of employment. There is no asking "may I" when publishing with the Institute's PROCEEDINGS. The editorial board of the Institute reads like a WHO's WHO of the entire naval establishment giving any article that is published a unique status that makes it difficult to attack from a stance based on office politics. Critics of published ideas are welcome and can easily appear in print as rebuttal articles or simply letters to the editor.
We haven't found a single source of Indian naval thinking as comprehensive as the Naval Institute but we note the emergence of a growing collection of Indian naval subject matter periodicals, websites, and blogs that provide in a less visible and institutionalized set of forums for the same types of discussions. We will try to make these known to our readers over time and provide links to those available on the Internet. TRISHFUL is such a blog especially for those with particular interests in the nuts and bolts of vessels, air craft and weapons systems. We know little about the blogger Prasun K. Sengupta but we have carefully reviewed the blog and find it full of authentic information, much of it quite detailed about the hardware and occasionally strategy and tactics of the Indian Navy. The site should be of interest not only students and fans of the Indian navy but also those highly interested in Russian weapons systems. Often the site carries posts on Indian back engineering, testing, and innovations related to systems originally acquired from Russia. We highly recommend the site to anyone interested in the Indian Navy generally and most particularly to those interested in the after market development of Russian weapons exports.
TRISHFUL: http://trishul-trident.blogspot.in/ The Indian Navy for many years had to function on a very anemic budget. Yet, the officers and ratings over the years built a world class navy out of fire sale equipment much of it from the former Soviet Union and Russia. But the "Tigers" as we like to call them didn't just buy off the shelf, bring in some Russian advisers, and translate the operations manuals and placards. The Indian navy at all levels engaged in back engineering, analysis, and technological improvement of their fire sale weapons. Their efforts brought the Indian navy from undistinguished Third World naval status to the list of the top four navies on Earth. That was when they were still operating on adjusted, modified, adapted fire sale equipment purchased from diverse sources. Given that success, we suspect that in terms of professional competency , the kind of professional competency that fosters innovation, the Indian navy is running a close second to the U.S. Navy in terms of an innovative organizational culture.
FOR SUBMARINERS AND FANS OF SUBMARINES:
:Photo: U.S. Navy
This collection of links came out of our Key Word Search reviews. We have no way of knowing if the searchers referred to our site were model builders, naval architects, submarine fans, or actual submariners but we noticed a number of searches of late for "submarine plans. We were very disappointed to realize that we had nothing posted at the time for such searches. We remedy that here and will post these to the naval interest section and other special interest pages to hopefully make these links easy to literally "stumble across".
1. http://www.heiszwolf.com/subs/plans/plans.html HEISZWOLF.COM technical plans of submarines are presented. The plans are organized in a chronological fashion so that a more or less historic overview of submarine technology should be obtained.
2. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=plans%20submarine&clk_rvr_id=600714036006&adpos=1o1&MT_ID=69&crlp=16500781234_2416792&device=c&geo_id=10232&keyword=plans+submarine&crdt=0 Submarine Plans on E-bay What is available on this site of course changes daily. However when we searched it we found everything from concept sketches to full blown plans and scaled model plans on everything from Japanese and German WWII submarine designs to Disney's version of the NAUTILUS. The price range was from $2.99 to about $29.00.
3.http://www.vacuumtransit.biz/ A "How to" video on building a two man home built submarine.
4. Submarine 101 : http://www.submarineboat.com/submarine_101.htm Descriptions of the various types of personal submarines available including those with potential for amateur construction.
5.AQUA SUB: A one man "snorkel submarine " plans originally featured in MECHANICS ILLUSTRATED
6. MINISUBS .ORG: http://minisubs.org/page34.php Discussion site for those interested in building their own personal submarine or submersible
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:Photo: U.S. NavyThis collection of links came out of our Key Word Search reviews. We have no way of knowing if the searchers referred to our site were model builders, naval architects, submarine fans, or actual submariners but we noticed a number of searches of late for "submarine plans. We were very disappointed to realize that we had nothing posted at the time for such searches. We remedy that here and will post these to the naval interest section and other special interest pages to hopefully make these links easy to literally "stumble across".
1. http://www.heiszwolf.com/subs/plans/plans.html HEISZWOLF.COM technical plans of submarines are presented. The plans are organized in a chronological fashion so that a more or less historic overview of submarine technology should be obtained.
2. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=plans%20submarine&clk_rvr_id=600714036006&adpos=1o1&MT_ID=69&crlp=16500781234_2416792&device=c&geo_id=10232&keyword=plans+submarine&crdt=0 Submarine Plans on E-bay What is available on this site of course changes daily. However when we searched it we found everything from concept sketches to full blown plans and scaled model plans on everything from Japanese and German WWII submarine designs to Disney's version of the NAUTILUS. The price range was from $2.99 to about $29.00.
3.http://www.vacuumtransit.biz/ A "How to" video on building a two man home built submarine.
4. Submarine 101 : http://www.submarineboat.com/submarine_101.htm Descriptions of the various types of personal submarines available including those with potential for amateur construction.
5.AQUA SUB: A one man "snorkel submarine " plans originally featured in MECHANICS ILLUSTRATED
6. MINISUBS .ORG: http://minisubs.org/page34.php Discussion site for those interested in building their own personal submarine or submersible
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INTRODUCING JANE'S INFORMATION GROUP
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WHAT IS "JANE'S?
Jane's was founded in 1898 by Fred T. Jane. The organization is based in London and is presently owned by IHS, Inc. During the World Wars Jane's published aircraft and ship recognition manuals for the British Admiralty. Before WWI Fred T. Jane was publishing guides to the war ships of the various major power navies. Over the years the line of reference works has expanded to include all manner of defense, transport, security and law enforcement subjects and timely specialty area news and analysis services. Jane's is considered an "Open intelligence source" by most of the World's intelligence services but most especially naval intelligence services. The link below will take you to a Wikipedia article providing a more complete history of Jane's Information Group with links to articles on Fred T. Jane and other aspects of the Jane's story.
JANE'S IS HIGH QUALITY AND HIGH PRICE
Jane's keeps such tight control of their intellectual property that it is extremely difficult to find even an image of their founder Fred T.Jane that is in the public domain. When the U.S.Naval Intelligence Professionals Organization carried an article about Fred T.Jane some years ago, Jane's would not release a free image of Fred T.Jane for use in their publication THE QUARTERLY. Jane's would not provide a free founder's photo even though the article amounted to free advertising to an audience Jane's would very much like to market to. If there is any good news for the researcher who is short on research funds it was that at least the organization apparently sold such photographs with the price adjusted based on the circulation of the purchasing publication. In the end the the intelligence association publication used a composite sketch similar to a police artist drawing done by a talented volunteer in lieu of an actual photo. Jane's does have some competition such as Defense News, Flight International, and Aviation Week and Space Technology . However as the titles indicate their competition isn't as comprehensive across the full spectrum of defense, security, transport, and law enforcement.
No one matches Jane's reputation for accuracy. Indeed founder Fred T.Jane was quite willing to go broke before compromising on quality and nearly did so on at least two occasions. In the areas that Jane's covers it is almost impossible to ignore Jane's, but utilizing Jane's publications at Jane's prices is not always possible for the unfunded academic and most any research project of limited means. However there are some Jane's publications of historical interest that can be purchased from Non Jane sources at reasonable prices such as the WWII reference work pictured at the top of the article available through Amazon. So at least historical researchers may be able to obtain personal copies of relevant Jane's references at ordinary book store prices. Here is some of what Amazon has available.
Enter "JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS" in the Amazon search block and you will be able to find your way to all of the extensive offerings of Amazon for the JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS Series. It appears you can even order a current volume here if you have about $3,000 but the non current year works and the historical summaries such as Jane's War At SEA 1897- 1997 are very reasonable, especially as used volumes through Amazon.
ANNUAL REFERENCES AND PERIODICALS OFFERED BY JANE'S INFORMATION GROUP:
TO MAKE DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE JANE'S ORGANIZATION:
Books
(annual) If you click on most of the title below you will link to a Wikipedia description of the publication
- Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide
- Jane's All the World's Aircraft
- Jane's Armour and Artillery
- Jane's Defence Industry News
- Jane's Fighting Ships
- Jane's Guns Recognition Guide
- Jane's High Speed Marine Transportation
- Jane's Infantry Weapons
- Jane's Military Communications [2]
- Jane's Urban Transport Systems
- Jane's Vintage Aircraft Recognition Guide
- Jane's World Railways
- Jane's Special Forces Recognition Guide
[edit]Periodicals
- Jane's Intelligence Weekly (no longer available in print)
- Jane's Defence Weekly
- Jane's International Defence Review
- Jane's Navy International
- Jane's Intelligence Review
- Jane's Intelligence Digest
- Jane's Defence Industry
- Jane's Airport Review
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TO MAKE DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE JANE'S ORGANIZATION:
http://www.janes.com/products/janes/index.aspx
WARNING TO LOUISIANA RESIDENTS: YOU ARE PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR SALES TAX TO THE STATE FOR INTERNET PURCHASES.
WARNING TO LOUISIANA RESIDENTS: YOU ARE PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR SALES TAX TO THE STATE FOR INTERNET PURCHASES.
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Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History:
In 1890, Captain (later Rear Admiral, post retirement) Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783. The book is considered a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire. Two years later, he completed his supplementary volume, The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812. Mahan would write a number of other books exploring the concepts related to sea power, always illustrating his theories with examples from history. The formal study of seapower in the English speaking world, and much of the rest of the world, most notably of late China, begins with Mahan's, The Influence of Seapower upon History. Much of the other literature of more recent vintage on the subject begins as a commentary upon the ideas of Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Mahan argued that British control of the seas, combined with a corresponding decline in the naval strength of its major European rivals, paved the way for Great Britain's emergence as the world's dominant military, political, and economic power of his day. Mahan and some leading American politicians, most importantly Theodore Roosevelt, believed that these lessons could be applied to U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the quest to expand U.S. markets overseas.
Mahan's books were viewed as complimentary with those of his contemporary Professor Frederick Jackson Turner, who is best known for his seminal essay of 1893, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." Turner was an American history professor at the University of Wisconsin. Turner described the end of westward migration across North America and the "closing of the American frontier." Turner predicted that the "closing of the frontier" would have profound social and economic consequences. Turner noted that calls for a "vigorous foreign policy" in his day were signs that Americans were increasingly looking outside the continental United States in order to satiate their desire for new economic opportunities and markets.
Mahan's theories supported a "vigorous foreign policy," which at the time translated to imperialism. Mahan believed that the U.S. economy would soon produce more product than the domestic population could possibly consume. Looking seaward, he argued that the United States should seek new markets abroad. Mahan's chief concern was ensuring that the U.S. Government could guarantee access to new international markets. Mahan described three prerequisites for securing such access: a merchant marine fleet, which could carry American products to new markets across the "great highway" of the high seas; an American battleship navy to deter or destroy rival fleets; and a network of naval bases capable of providing fuel and supplies for the enlarged navy. Only with these things, according to Mahan, could the United States Navy maintain open lines of communications between the United States and its new markets."
Mahan was not alone in advocating for the acquisition of naval bases. Secretary of State William Seward had attempted to expand the U.S. commercial presence in Asia by purchasing Alaska in 1867. Seward also increased American influence over Hawaii by concluding a reciprocity treaty that would bind the islands' economy to that of the United States. Seward attempted to purchase Caribbean naval bases. Steward capped his efforts by attempting to positively influence the ratification of a treaty with the Colombian Government that would allow the United States to build an isthmian canal through the province of Panama. In the post Civil War era, however, Congress became preoccupied with Reconstruction in the South, and the Senate rejected all of Seward's efforts.
In the 1890s, Mahan's theories were propounded by leading politicians, especially Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, and Secretary of the Navy Herbert Tracy. After the start of the Spanish American war in May 1898, President William McKinley finally secured the annexation of Hawaii in 1867 by means of joint resolution of Congress. Following the conclusion of the Spanish American War in 1898, the United States gained control of territories that could serve as the coaling stations and naval bases that Mahan had advocated, such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. Five years later, the United States obtained a lease for a naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. If the influence of seapower upon history has not been felt globally, certainly the influence of the book by that title and its author Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan has had a profound influence on the history of this nation and the English speaking navies of the world.
The book itself should be read by every naval professional. It has been through several printing since 1890 but is not always available as a new binding. Amazon had some used copies available when we last checked:
We searched the Naval Institute's offerings on 1/15/2012 and didn't find it by title. Neither did we find it in their description of their "Classics of Naval Literature"collection. A check of the Nimitz Library of the U.S. Naval Academy indicated a number of hard bound copies in their collection. We suspect that the libraries of the Merchant Marine Academy and the five State Maritime Academies also house multiple copies. We are certain that the book can be obtained through an interlibrary loan. If it is truely out of print we doubt that it will be so for long. The rising Chinese Navy is studying and writing about this work today as one of thier primary guides during their expansion. As the reader becomes familiar with more recent tracts on seapower the constant references to Mahan's work can not escape notice. It is very difficult to understand modern discussions of seapower without being familiar with the first and still classic treatment of the subject.
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SEA POWER: A NAVAL HISTORY: by Elmer B. Potter
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For many years this book was known as "Nimitz and Potter" from the days when Fleet Admiral Nimitz co-authored the original work with Elmer Potter. The book was used to educate generations of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, and Merchant Marine Cadets at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, and the various state maritime academies. Before this more recent publication in 1982, the book was last issued as best we can determine in 1960. In 1960 the Cold War was still in progress and quite a few naval developments were still in the future. The work covers about 2,000 years of naval history from Greek and Roman Galleys to the Vietnam Era. In its original edition it referred often to Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power on History.
The book was for decades, and still is, an important reference on the influence of sea power on history. The 1982 edition added material concerning the Cold War and newer weapons but condensed or eliminated some former materials to reduce the book in length from the original. We agree with the Amazon reviewer who wrote:
"The condensation of the book to shrink it to "only half as long as the 1960 edition" was not a helpful change. The typeface is tiny; the quality of the illustrations and diagrams is inferior to the first edition; and the quality of the paper is poor. "Tightening the [writing] style," another second edition effort, did not produce a positive change in the readability of the book. The original edition is still an engaging read and has been frequently referred to over the ensuing forty-eight years. The second edition is less engaging in style and more ponderous to read." American Admiralty Books seconds the idea of the Amazon customer reviewer who wrote:
"For those embarking on a study of this subject for the first time I would recommend starting with a copy of the first edition, if obtainable, and then reading the last three chapters of the second edition to catch up on the period 1960-1981. Of course much has happened in the ensuing 28 years between 1981 and 2009 and the debate is raging about the future development and employment of naval forces in the new, post 2001 environment. To keep up with this dynamic topic a subscription to the Naval Institute Proceedings is recommended." AHD - USNA 1961
Below we've provided the hyperlink to the Amazon listing for the 1982 edition. We suggest in either looking for a used copy of the old edition or in requesting an interlibrary loan that you add "Nimitz" as co-author for the earlier edition. It was through the study of "Nimitz and Potter on "Sea Power" that generations of maritime officers were first introduced to the theories of Alfred Thayer Mahan.
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SHOULD AMERICAN WAR SHIP CREWS PRACTICE AND CARRY SOCCER OR BASEBALL EQUIPMENT? Sports Are Part Of Naval Diplomacy.
.(Photo U.S.Navy) Midshipman 4th Class Burgess Nichols Jr. throws a pitch during the U.S. Naval Academy season home opener game
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| Sailors of Peru and the United States playing Soccer (photo: U.S. Navy) |
CTF 76 Sailors Participate in Community Relations Project By Lt. Cmdr. Brian Wierzbicki, CTF 76 Public Affairs
"UTAPHAO, Thailand (NNS) -- Amphibious Force Seventh Fleet Sailors and Marines participated in a community relations project with Sailors from the Royal Thai Navy as part of exercise Cobra Gold 2014, Feb. 16. ........." "Following the introductions, the Sailors and students played soccer, volleyball and catch. "
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EDITORIAL COMMENT:
U.S.Major League Baseball Season opened March 31, 2014. College Baseball, at least on the U.S. Gulf Coast has been underway since late February. Here in New Orleans the much anticipated Triple A Zephyrs season gets underway with the season opener on Thursday. There is no doubt that baseball is popular in America but too many college physical education administrators, naval policy makers, and others believe that Soccer is the world game and that Americans should embrace it, while U.S. Navy crews should develop some proficiency in it for the sake of more effective naval diplomacy. The American general public seems to be spit between two views. On the one hand a growing number of non baseball fans feel that baseball has no appeal outside of America, while rabid baseball fans , such as myself, believe in the cosmic importance of baseball. Both groups seem to miss two important events that emerged from both the major leagues and little leagues world series of 2013. A Japanese pitcher served the major league World Series winner. Note we're talking an actual Japanese pitcher from the major leagues of Japan, a guy who needed a translator to handle the after game interview. Japan loves baseball, has a vibrant professional baseball tradition, and plays a damn good game, with serious world class players. Taiwan took the Little League World Series. Latin America including Mexico and Cuba not only follows baseball but have produced many U.S. major league and Triple A players over the decades. The International Baseball Federation will hold its tournament officials seminar in Hong Kong this year. China is fielding a national baseball team. New Zealand has signed Japan's 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Naoyuki Shimizu into the management of Team New Zealand. The fact is that baseball has a big following in the Pacific Basin where we are trying to increase our naval presence and influence.
I'm not knocking soccer, just as there are many nations in the Pacific Basin and Latin America that follow and play baseball, there are many nations in Europe and the Middle East that follow and play soccer and have virtually no interest in baseball. Soccer is a tempting sport for ship's collateral duty physical fitness and morale officers to support. A ball and a few T shirts allows a ship to field an identifiable team. Baseball equipment is more expensive to purchase maintain, and more difficult to store. However, especially in the Pacific where interest in baseball is high the interest of amateur players in meeting , and especially defeating an American amateur team is keen. For the amateur baseball player of the Pacific basin playing an American amateur team such as that of a visiting naval vessel is a rare and treasured opportunity. Just as it is a known fact that Americans accord anyone with a British accent an average of 10 additional IQ points regardless of the Brit's educational attainment or actual intelligence, the baseball players of the Pacific Basin accord American amateur baseball players at all levels of amateur play with more skill than they deserve. To actually meet an American Baseball team on the diamond for many amateur players may be a life time highlight of their participation in the sport. But here the ship's command runs into the challenge. Never under estimate the skill level and affection for the game of the Pacific Basin fan or amateur player. A ship's team no better than a sand lot pick up game should never go up against a Pacific Basin organized amateur team. If the ship can't do better than unpracticed sand lot ball don't play anyone but local pick up sand lot teams. Unfortunately it is the organized amateurs who will most often seek out a game. The ship that wants to make a really great impression in the Pacific Basin baseball areas needs to field a properly equipped, properly uniformed, skilled and practiced team. If the ship's team wins the opposing team will be anxious for the next ship's call for a replay. If the ship's team loses but the local guys really had to work for it, you just made their year.
When I joined the Navy in 1965 our instructors and the BLUE JACKET'S MANUAL impressed on us the idea that "every Blue Jacket is an ambassador" and that port calls were about more than the crew's need for a little rest and relaxation. The goal of every port call, no matter how short or free of formal cultural exchanges, was to leave behind a good impression of the U.S. Navy with the people of the port. Through a well prepared baseball program a ship can leave more than a good impression; a ship can leave the opposing team, and their family and friends with a fond memory, and the local media with a real photo opportunity and human interest story. Surely, play soccer where the opportunity arises and if the ship can can actually field a practiced and competent team so much the better. Unfortunately few practiced , organized amateur soccer teams ever dream about defeating a U.S. team, the U.S. is just not a power in the world of soccer. However despite the fact that the last winning pitcher in the U.S. major league World Series was imported from Japan, and despite the fact that Taiwan took the the Little League World series in 2013 we're still thought of as the best baseball players. As the players at all levels in the Pacific Basin continue to develop and organization and professionalism continue to spread we may only have a few years left to reap the benefit of the "British accent effect", so..... by Gawd sailors let's PLAY BALL!"
Johnas Presbyter
When I joined the Navy in 1965 our instructors and the BLUE JACKET'S MANUAL impressed on us the idea that "every Blue Jacket is an ambassador" and that port calls were about more than the crew's need for a little rest and relaxation. The goal of every port call, no matter how short or free of formal cultural exchanges, was to leave behind a good impression of the U.S. Navy with the people of the port. Through a well prepared baseball program a ship can leave more than a good impression; a ship can leave the opposing team, and their family and friends with a fond memory, and the local media with a real photo opportunity and human interest story. Surely, play soccer where the opportunity arises and if the ship can can actually field a practiced and competent team so much the better. Unfortunately few practiced , organized amateur soccer teams ever dream about defeating a U.S. team, the U.S. is just not a power in the world of soccer. However despite the fact that the last winning pitcher in the U.S. major league World Series was imported from Japan, and despite the fact that Taiwan took the the Little League World series in 2013 we're still thought of as the best baseball players. As the players at all levels in the Pacific Basin continue to develop and organization and professionalism continue to spread we may only have a few years left to reap the benefit of the "British accent effect", so..... by Gawd sailors let's PLAY BALL!"
Johnas Presbyter
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THE ADMIRALS: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King the Five Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea. by Walter R. Boneman
ISBN 10: 0316097845
ISBN 13: 978-0316097845
576 pages
Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy,and King were often rivals and not all were exactly friends, but they seemed to share certain visions about the employment of submarines and aircraft carriers and they stayed focused on the task of putting the Axis navies on the bottom until the end of World War II. They were the only officers in American History ever awarded the five star rank of Fleet Admiral. It is an understatement that they were among the top leaders of the day who quite literally saved the world. They left a legacy that is still pertinent to the U.S. Navy today and they earned a permanent place in history. This is their story, well told.
American Admiralty Books RECOMMENDED for all Americans and students of the history of English speaking navies everywhere.
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The Chief of Naval Operations Reading List:
ISBN 10: 0316097845
ISBN 13: 978-0316097845
576 pages
Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy,and King were often rivals and not all were exactly friends, but they seemed to share certain visions about the employment of submarines and aircraft carriers and they stayed focused on the task of putting the Axis navies on the bottom until the end of World War II. They were the only officers in American History ever awarded the five star rank of Fleet Admiral. It is an understatement that they were among the top leaders of the day who quite literally saved the world. They left a legacy that is still pertinent to the U.S. Navy today and they earned a permanent place in history. This is their story, well told.
American Admiralty Books RECOMMENDED for all Americans and students of the history of English speaking navies everywhere.
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The Chief of Naval Operations Reading List:
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) has posted a suggested reading list since 2002. He has divided it into selections marked "Basic: "Intermediate", and "Advanced". The CNO hasn't formally associated the lists with specific ranks or pay grades but it seems clear that the "Basic" list is thought helpful to the professional development of all ranks and rates.
Enlisted sailors above the third pay grade (Seaman) study for advancement through the Petty Officer rates (Third Class Petty Officer through Master Chief Petty Officer) through three areas of study. Rate studies are technical and prepare the sailor for the technical duties of his rating (such as "Boatswain'smate," "Gunner's mate," "Engineman," "Corpsman," etc.). These rating courses are covered in formal schools and correspondence courses and on line courses prepared by naval training commands. "Practical Factors" are check lists of particular hands on skill demonstrations that the candidate for advancement must demonstrate before being admitted to the competitive advancement ("Service Wide") examinations. The third area of study is termed "Military Factors" and a correspondence course on these military factors is associated with each petty officer rank. The reading list might be thought of as an expansion of the "Military Factors."
"Military Factors" cover duties expected of sailors based on rank, not their particular rate or occupational specialty. For example all Petty Officers starting at the Petty Officer Third Class level are liable to duty in the shore patrol. Most any petty officer can be subject to duty as the "Junior Officer of the Deck"(JOD) . If the commissioned officer of the deck is off of the quarter deck the JOD could be the only authority to meet an asylum seeker in a foreign port. If that asylum seeker is in hot pursuit by local authorities the JOD had better know a few basics of international law. A very junior Boatswain's mate serving as the liberty launch coxswain could easily be confronted by local harbor police. At that moment he or she needs to know about the privileges and immunities of war ships and their boats.
In short, Blue Jackets at the even the junior petty officer level need to be consummate military professionals. Junior commissioned officers are not only exposed to such decisional dilemmas as the petty officers but more over are formally charged with "enforcing international law." All naval personnel are exposed to travel and operations in foreign jurisdictions and cultures. The basic reading list appears to be designed to help all naval personnel achieve a broad background of understanding of the "connectiveness" of politics, history, cultures, and events, and the potential for broad ranging consequences by the actions of seemingly minor actors.
On the intermediate list we note some titles that we have seen that we have also seen on suggested reading lists for naval and Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Academies, and certain officer and chief leadership schools of the past. "Sea Power, A Naval History by Nimitiz and Potter was long a text for Midshipmen at the Naval Academy, the federal and state maritime academies, and the NJROTC. We think the labeling of this group of titles as "intermediate" indicates their non exclusive utility to the senior petty officer and junior officer levels. We think the titles are wisely labeled as they are rather than being associated with particular ranks to encourage early reading by more junior personnel and background reading by more senior personnel who may have not had the opportunity to properly prepare for such senior opportunities as the Naval War College, or the Industrial College of the Military, or individual non engineering post graduate programs.
On the advanced list we see some titles that we have definitely seen on suggested reading lists for the Naval War College. But these titles are just that "advanced," any naval professional able to understand these works is abpt to benefit. American Admiralty Books has not yet had time to prepare hyper links to all of the titles on this list. Please watch this space for our progress. Meanwhile many of the titles can be found at Amazon .com and can be found by title and author search.
HERE IS A RECENT POST ON THE CNO READING LIST WITH HELPFUL LINKS TO THE CURRENT LIST, RECENT ADDITIONS, A LINK TO A READING LIST FROM THE NAVAL WAR COLLEGE< AND A LINK TO THE NAVY LIBRARY ON LINE:
YOU WOULD BE AMAZED BY WHAT SAILORS READ
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Crishanda K. McCall)Sailors have been readers ever since the forecastle became dominated by literate sailors. Books require no power, can be read most anywhere at any time, even in a crowded berthing area where people are trying to sleep. The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) has always known this and a few years ago decided to take advantage of this sailor's tradition by publishing a list of suggested readings. Trust us the list is no anthology of naval terms dictionaries or gunnery manuals. The CNO was aiming at nothing kess than stretching sailor minds. Anyone could learn from and enjoy these books. Lets look at just a few of the latest listings:
The books are presented as book cover icon hyper links. Click on any books cover icon and you will pull up the dust cover description, possibly some reviews, scroll down for the ISBN numbers if you want to try a library loan, this is also a point of purchase but there is no obligation to buy. If you are a naval professional scroll down for our hyperlinks to the CNO's reading program, a similar program from the Naval War College and a link to the navy on line library where you may be able to read some of these works on line for free.
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| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich M. Remarque |
| American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 | William Manchester |
| Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes | Stephen M. Hawking |
| Command of the Seas: A Personal Story | John F. Lehman |
| Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty Three American Soldiers Who Fought It | Al Santoli, Ed. |
| Flight of the Intruder | Stephen Coontz |
| Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy |
| In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years | James B. & Sybil Stockdale |
| In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies | Thomas J. Peters |
| On Watch | Elmo Zumwalt |
| Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| Red Storm Rising | Tom Clancy |
| Run Silent, Run Deep | Edward L. Beach |
| The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk |
| The Cruel Sea | Nicholas Monsarrat |
| The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara |
| The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe |
| The Russians | Hedrick Smith |
| The Sand Pebbles | Richard McKenna |
| The Source | James A. Michener |
| The United States Navy: A Two Hundred Year History | Edward L. Beach |
| Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War | Samuel E. Morison |
| War and Remembrance | Herman Wouk |
| Winds of War | Herman Wouk |
| A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | Neil Sheehan |
| Admiral Arleigh Burke: A Biography | E.B. Potter |
| At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor | Gordon W. Prange |
| Assignment-Pentagon: The Insider's Guide to the Potomac Puzzle Palace | Perry M. Smith |
| Bull Halsey: A Biography | E.B. Potter |
| Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants and Their War | Eric Larrabee |
| The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture | Ruth Benedict |
| Eagle Against the Sun: An American War with Japan | Ronald H. Spector |
| Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945 | David Eisenhower |
| Fate is the Hunter | Ernest K. Gann |
| First to Fight: An Island View of the U.S. Marine Corps | Victor H. Krulak |
| From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision | Paul Nitze |
| Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success | Masaaki Imai |
| Makers of Modern Strategy | Peter Paret |
| Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King | Thomas Buell |
| Miracle at Midway | Gordon W. Prange |
| Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties | Paul Johnson |
| Mountbatten | Philip Ziegler |
| Nelson, A Biography | David Walder |
| Nimitz | E.B. Potter |
| Out of the Crisis | W. Edwards Deming |
| Presidency and the Management of National Security | Carnes Lord |
| The Deming Management System | Mary Walton |
| The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman |
| The Atlantic Campaign: World War II's Great Struggle at Sea | Dan Van Der Vat |
| The Face of Battle | John Keegan |
| The Future of Sea Power | Eric J. Grove |
| The KGB Today: The Hidden Hand | John Barron |
| The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 | William Manchester |
| The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone 1932-1940 | William Manchester |
| The Maritime Strategy: Geopolitics and the Defense of the West | Colin S. Gray |
| The Mask of Command | John Keegan |
| The Pentagon and the Art of War: The Question of Military Reform | Edward N. Luttwak |
| The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare | John Keegan |
| The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance | Thomas Buell |
| The Rise of American Naval Forces, 1776-1918 | Harold & Margaret Sprout |
| The Rivals: America and Russia Since World War II | Adam B. Ulam |
| Sea Power: A Naval History | Elmer B. Potter & Chester Nimitz |
| The Second World War | John Keegan |
| Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan | Clay Blair, Jr. |
| Today's Isms: Communism, Fascism, Capitalism, Socialism | William Ebenstein & Edwin Fogelman |
| The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 | John L. Gaddis |
| Vietnam: A History | Stanley Karnow |
| America at Century's End | James R. Schlesinger |
| The Art of War | Sun Tsu |
| Cold Dawn: The Story of SALT | John Newhouse |
| Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice | Alexander George |
| Fleet Tactics: Theory and Practice | Wayne P. Hughes |
| From Beirut to Jerusalem | Thomas L. Friedman |
| The Geopolitics of Superpowers | Colin S. Gray |
| How Democracies Perish | Jean-Francois Revel |
| The Influence of Seapower Upon History | Alfred T. Mahan |
| Man, the State and War: A Theoretical Analysis | Kenneth N. Waltz |
| Military Strategy: A General Theory of Power Control | Joseph C. Wylie |
| Origins of the Maratime Strategy: American Naval Strategy in the First Postwar Decade | Michael A. Palmer |
| On War | Carl von Clausewitz |
| Power and Change: The Administrative History of the Office of the CNO, 1946-1986 | Thomas C. Hone |
| Seapower and Strategy | Colin S. Gray & Roger Barnett |
| The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations | Samuel P. Huntington |
| Some Principles of Maritime Strategy | Julian S. Corbett |
| Strategy for Defeat: Vietnam in Retrospect | Ulysses Sharp |
| Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace | Edward N. Luttwak |
| The Ultra Secret | F.W. Winterbotham |
| U.S. Defence Policy in an Era of Constrained Resources | Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. & Richard H. Schultz |
| The U.S. Navy: The View from the Mid-1990's | James L. George |
| War and Politics | Bernard Brodie |
| The White House Years | Henry Kissinger |
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COMMANDANT OF THE U.S. MARINE CORPS
The Marine Corps reading list is associated by rank as indicated below but also contains a section marked "for all marines". When the Commandant published the list below he spoke about the reading list as part of a marine's mental fitness and the importance of maintaining mental fitness and how it compared to physical itness. The Commandant expressed his hope that participation in the reading list, introducing marines to some common ideas important to Marine Corps culture would lead to even greater cohesion in the corps. It is hard for American Admiralty Books to imagine an organization with more cultural cohesion than the United States Marine Corps, but if the Commandant says this will help, we know what Marines will do. While we have not yet had the opportunity to review all of these titles and post their individual Amazon sites we can at the moment provide this list of titles and authors and links to the Amazon search engine.Note: The Authors last name is to the right use the hyperlink below to find the book the Amazon system by searching by title and author.
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Private, Private First Class, Lance Corporal
| Forester | Rifleman Dodd |
| Heinlein | Starship Troopers |
| Hubbard | A Message to Garcia |
| Miller | The Bridge at Dong-Ha |
| Simmons | U.S. Marines: 1775-1975 |
| Various | U.S. Constitution |
| Webb | Fields of Five |
| Barber | The War of the Running Dogs: The Malayan Emergency, 1948-1962 |
| Campbell | The Old Man's Trail |
| Card | Ender's Game |
| Chapin | Uncommon Men: Sergeants Major of the Marine Corps |
| Crane | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Davis | Marine: The Life of Lt Gen & USMC (Ret) Lewis B. (Chesty) Puller |
| Hammel | Fire in the Streets: The Battle for Hue, Tet 1968 |
| Leckie | The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West |
| Marshall | Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation |
| McCormick | The Right Kind of War |
| Schell | Battle Leadership |
| Swinton | The Defense of Duffer's Drift |
| Thomason | Fix Bayonets! |
| Uris | Battle Cry |
| West | The Village |
| Amrose | Band of Brothers: E Co. 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest |
| Ambrose | Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 |
| Asprey | War in the Shadows: The Guerilla in History |
| Collins | Common Sense Training: A Working Philosophy for Leaders |
| English & Gudmundsson | On Infantry |
| Fuller | Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship |
| Giap | How We Won the War |
| Hagan | American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy, 1877-1889 |
| Holmes | Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle |
| Hynes | Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator |
| Keegan | The Face of Battle |
| Laquer & Alexander | Terrorism Reader |
| Liddell Hart | Strategy |
| Lind | Maneuver Warfare Handbook |
| Manning | The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre |
| Moore & Galloway | We Were Soldiers Once and Young: La Drang, The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam |
| Moskin | The U.S. Marine Corps Story |
| Moskos | The Military: More Than Just a Job |
| Nolan | Operation Buffalo: USMC Fight for the DMZ |
| Nye | Challenge of Command: A Reading for Military Excellence |
| Rommel | Attacks |
| Ross | Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor |
| Sajer | The Forgotten Soldier: The Classic World War II Autobiography |
| Scales | Firepower in Limited War |
| Shaara | The Killer Angels |
| Sherrod | Tarawa: The Story of a Battle |
| Sulzberg | The Fall of Eagles |
| Sun Tzu | Art of War |
| Various | U.S. Constitution |
| Willock | Unaccoustomed to Fear: A Biography of the Late General Roy S. Gieger |
| Ardant Du Picq | Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battles |
| Chaliand | Guerrilla Strategies: A Historical Anthology from the Long March to Afghanistan |
| Doughty | The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940 |
| Fall | Street Without Joy |
| Hackett | Profession of Arms |
| Hastings | Battle for the Falklands |
| Heinl | Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign |
| Higgenbotham | The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice |
| Hoffman | Once a Legend:"Red Mike" Edson of the Marine Raiders |
| Hooker | Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology |
| Horne | The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 |
| Infantry School (U.S.) | Infantry in Battle |
| Isley & Crowl | The U.S. Marines and Amphibious War: Its Theory, and its Practice in the Pacific |
| Keegan | The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare |
| Krulak | First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps |
| Lupfer | The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine During the First World War |
| MacArthur | Reminiscences |
| McDonald | Company Commander |
| Mao Tse-Tung | Mao Tse-Tung on Guerilla Warfare |
| McDonough | Defense of Hill 781 |
| McPherson | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era |
| Mellenthin | Panzer Battles: A Study of the Employment of Armor in the Decond World War |
| Meyer | Company Command: The Bottom Line |
| Millett & Maslowski | For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America |
| Moorehead | Galipoli |
| Moran | The Anatomy of Courage |
| Myrer | One an Eagle |
| Navmc 2890 | Small Wars Manual |
| Newman | Follow Me: Human Element in Leadership |
| O'Ballance | No Victor, No Vanquished: Yom Kippur War |
| Peppers | History of U.S. Military Logistics, 1935-1985 |
| Puller | Fortunate Son |
| Sears | Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam |
| Sledge | With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa |
| Smith | Douglas Southall Freeman on Leadership |
| Summers | On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War |
| Turley | The Easter Offensive, Vietnam, 1972 |
| Van Creveld | Airpower and Maneuver Warfare |
| Baynes | Morale: A Study of Men and Courage |
| Catton | Grant Takes Command |
| Clausewitz | On War |
| D'este | Patton: A Genius for War |
| Fall | Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu |
| Fehrenbach | This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness |
| Frank | Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account |
| Fraser | Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel |
| Griffith | Forward into Battle: Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to Vietnam |
| Guevara | Che Guevara on Guerilla Warfare |
| Hammel | Chosin: Heroic Ordeal of the Korean War |
| Higginbotham | George Washington and the American Military Tradition |
| Lejeune | Reminiscences of a Marine |
| Mersky | U.S. Marine Corps Aviation |
| Paret | Makers of Modern Steategy: From Maciavelli to the Nuclear Age |
| Prange | At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor |
| Robertson | Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory |
| Schwarzkopf | It Doesn't Take a Hero |
| Sherrod | History of Marine Corps Aviation in WW2 |
| Shy | A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence |
| Slim | Defeat into Victory |
| Spector | Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan |
| Van Crevald | Command in war |
| Van Crevald | Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton |
| Baer | One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990 |
| Bennett | Ultra in the West: The Normandy Campaign, 1944-45 |
| Buell | The Quiet warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance |
| Gordon & Trainor | The General's War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf |
| James | The Year of MacArthur |
| Keiser | The U.S. Marine Corps and Defense Unification, 1944-47: The Politics of Survival |
| Kohn | Eagle and Sword: The Federalists and the Creation of the Military Establishment in America, 1783-1802 |
| Krepinevich | The Army and Vietnam |
| Long | Personal Memoirs of Ulusses S. Grant |
| Millett | In Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the U.S. Marine Corps |
| Murray | The Making of Strategy |
| Newman | Follow Me II: More on the Human Element in Leadership |
| Pagonis | Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War |
| Travers | How the War Was Won |
| Vaux | Take That Hill: Royal Marines in the Falklands War |
| White | The Enlightened Soldier: Scharnhorst and the Militarische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805 |
| Woodward | 100 Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander |
| Ambrose | The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Brennan | Foundations of Moral Obligation: The Stockdale Course |
| Chandler | The Campaigns of Napoleon |
| Cohen | Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War |
| Cray | General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman |
| Doughty | Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939 |
| Eccles | Logistics in the National Defense |
| Flicke | War Secrets in the Ether: The use of Signals Intelligence by the German Military in WW2 |
| Forester | The General |
| Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem |
| Horne | A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962 |
| Horne | To Lose a Battle:, France 1940 |
| Kennedy | The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery |
| Millett & Murray | Military Innovation in the Interwar Period |
| Murray | Luftwaffe |
| O'Neill | A Democracy at war: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in WW2 |
| Palmer | The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam |
| Potter | Nimitz |
| Ridgeway | Korean War |
| Ryan | A Bridge to Far |
| Shulimson | The Marine Corps Search for a Mission, 1880-1898 |
| Simpkin | Race to the Swift: Thoughts on Twenty First Century Warfare |
| Smythe | Pershing, General of the Armies |
| Thucydides | The Peloponnesian War |
| Travers | The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front, and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918 |
| Van Tien Dung | Our Great Spring Victory: An Account of the Liberation of South Vietnam |
| Vandergrift | Once a Marine: The Memoirs of General A.A. Vandergrift, USMC |
| Weigley | Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-45 |
| Bartlett | Lejeune: A Marine's Life, 1867-1942 |
| Fuller | Generalship, Its Diseases and Their Cure: A Study of the Personal Factor in Command |
| Halberstam | The Best and the Brightest |
| Kagan | On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace |
| Kennedy | Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000 |
| Kissinger | Diplomacy |
| MacDonald | Giap: The Victor in Vietnam |
| McNamara | In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam |
| Moore | A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines |
| Murray | Airwar in the Gulf |
| Newman | What Are Generals Made of? |
| Powell | My American Journey |
| Royster | Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman |
| Schmidt | Maverick Marine: General Smedley Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History |
| Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
| Timberg | The Nightingale's Song |
| Twining | No Bended Knee |
| Greenwood & Neimeyer | America's Cutting Edge: U.S. Marine Corps Roles and Missions (Roles and Missions) |
| Smith | Angels from the Sea: Relief Operations in Bangladesh (Peace Operations) |
| Drew | NATO: From Berin to Bosnia (Peace Operations) |
| McKenzie | Peacekeeper (Peace Operations) |
| Murray | 1995-1996 Brassey's Mershon American Defense Annual (Revolutions in Military Affairs) |
| Toffler & Toffler | War and Anti-War (Revolutions in Military Affairs) |
| Scwartau | Information Warfare (Information Warfare) |
| Campen | The First Information War (Information Warfare) |
| Libicki | What Is Information Warfare? (Information Warfare) |
| Van Ham | Managing Non-Proliferation Regimes in the 1990s (International Nuclear Proliferation) |
| Reiner | Nuclear Non-Proliferation (International Nuclear Proliferation) |
| Braestrup | Big Story (Military and the Media) |
| Fialka | Hotel Warriors (Military and the Media) |
| Covey | Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Professional Development) |
| Smith | Taking Charge, Making the Right Choices (Professional Development) |
| Walton | The Deming Management Method (Professional Development) |
| Senge | The Fifth Discipline (Professional Development) |
| Thomas | Beyond Race and Gender (Cultural Diversity) |
| Buchen | Cultural Diversity Manual (Cultural Diversity) |
| Hacker | Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (Cultural Diversity) |
| Bennett | Book of Virtues (Ethics) |
| Carter | Integrity (Ethics) |
| Various | Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces (Women in the Military) |
| Webb | Step Forward (Women in the Military) |
| Yianilos | Woman Marine (Women in the Military) |
| Elshtain | Women and War (Women in the Military) |
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HERESIES OF SEAPOWER by Fred T. Jane
ISBN-10: 1112215689
ISBN-13:978-11122115681
380 pages
* "Seapower: A nation that exhibits sea power, the power to project force across the seas, a naval power
Fred T. Jane was the founder of the present day Jane's Informational Services. Jane's Informational Services is the company that produces Jane's All the World's Warships and numerous other comprehensive guides to ships, aircraft, military and police equipment.
Jane's also produces on line maritime and aviation orientated industrial intelligence services and reports. Fred T. Jane published "Heresies of Seapower" in 1906. Jane was clearly a naval enthusiast, and a strong believer and proponent of sea power, but his historical analysis brought him to a different conclusion than Mahan. "The Heresies of Seapower" is a counter weight to the near gospel acceptance of the theories espoused by Mahan in his seminal "The Influence of Seapower Upon History ". The primary reason why Jane's work went out of print for decades and Mahan's is the centerpiece of all naval discussion of sea power had nothing to do with Jane's historical analysis.
Jane attempted to not only describe his theories with astute historical analysis that contrasted strongly with Mahan's but he also attempted to make some future prediction about the evolution of capitol ships in the emerging twentieth century. Jane looked at some of the same wars that Mahan did and saw some factors at work that aided the sea power to victory over the continental power that Mahan didn't examine. Jane also looked at the relatively few examples where the Seapower failed to prevail over the continental power, examples that Mahan didn't examine.
Jane concluded that in a contest between "the Elephant" (a continental power, big army) and the "Whale" (a major naval power) it is very possible for the Seapower to emerge a loser. Jane found the single greatest predictor of which side in an armed conflict would emerge a winner hinged not on who was the greatest seapower, though he saw sea power all else being equal, as a game clincher, was something he called "Fitness to Win". Citing and analyzing historical examples Jane demonstrated that the nation with an active "peace party" in the body politic, especially when coupled with public opposition or indifference to the conflict simply could not win against a determined enemy. By contrast the nation with strong public support of the conflict and absent any serious opposition, with a military with high morale and a "hatred" of the particular enemy was most likely to win despite any naval advantage of the opposing power. These positively aggressive attributes of the predicted winner, in combination, Jane called "fitness to win." After a tiny non naval power like North Vietnam eventually drove the United States, the greatest seapower ever known right out of the South and into the sea, one can see how interest in Jane's theories rose in the post Vietnam era.
What caused Jane's "Heresies" to be disregarded was his foray into predictions. The Wright Brothers had demonstrated heavier than air flight only three years prior to Jane's publication. By contrast submarines had been undergoing continuos development since the end of the American civil war. Jane assigned to the submarine the future preeminence in the world's navies that the battle ship was enjoying in 1906 and that the aircraft carrier, not the submarine, would succeed to by World War II. Trend is not always future and Jane failed as a naval futurist. But accurate historical analysis stands alone. For years the book could not be found except as a rare used book or interlibrary loan. Now quite a number of new bindings are available from several sources in paperback, and as a print on demand volume.
Jane and Mahan are being read and discussed again. In this section the reader will find many modern treatments of sea power. In American History we often say that our history is the continuing debate between Jefferson and Hamilton. For years the discussion of sea power was the hallelujah chorus to Mahan. Today, Jane is being rexamined. It is difficult to appreciate the more modern titles that we will present here if the reader is not familiar with Mahan and Jane. Most of the new printings of Jane we found to be well under $30. Jane's "The Heresies of Seapower" is an American Admiralty Books recommended acquisition.
Naval Power: A History of Warfare and the Sea from 1500 Onwards
by Jeremy Black, published 2009.
While Mahan described sea power as a totality of a nation's sea faring and power projection capabilities including its merchant marine, and shore based support industries; this more recent treatment of the subject is more Navy centric as the title implies. This is a short and easily readable history of naval power and its relationship to international relations. The work describes navies as instruments of power and analyzes what a given navy indicates about the nature of the state and culture that sponsors it.
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Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Seapower
by Geoffry Moorhouse, Published 2007
ISBN 10: 0753820994 ISBN 13- 978-0753820995
American Admiralty Books "Suggested" for the serious student of British Sea Power, or Henry VII or his daughter Elizabeth.
The much married and divorced or widowed personal life of Henry VIII has often overshadowed some of his other notable contributions to England besides his daughter Elizabeth. It was Henry VIII who started what would become the Royal Navy.
On his ascension to the throne England could hardly muster 5 ships and at the end of his reign the nation had 50 armed naval vessels which passed intact from Henry to his son Edward, VI, and finally to Elizabeth who found them adequate to the task, given some serious help from Mother Nature, to the repulsion of the Spanish Armada. This is a 400 page serious and scholarly look at a particular and relatively short era in the evolution of English Sea Power. It is however a lively read and may be of interest to the general reader of non fiction. Suggested
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Deterrence through Strength:
British Naval Power and Foreign Policy Under Pax Britiannica (Studies on War, society, the Military by Rebecca Berens Mateke
ISBN 10-08032355143
ISBN 13-978-0803235144
American Admiralty Books "suggested"
At the time that Mahan wrote his seminal Influence of Seapower on History, the United States wasn't the leading Seapower in the world; Great Britain was. Indeed it was Great Britain's use of sea power that Mahan spent most of his ink examining. This new exploration of British naval power in the era when Britannia truly ruled the waves is worth the 320 pages. Rebecca Berens Mateke is an associate professor of History at Ripon College in Wisconsin. This might have well been written as a course text book but it should be of much broader interest than that. Written recently (published in July 2011) this is a fresh examination of the era that started the academic discussion. In comparison to some of the more recent tracks on the same subject we find this one more readable and most reasonably priced at around $36, far less than some its textbooks turned commercial non fiction offerings that weigh in at over $100. We haven't found any other naval titles by Professor Mateke outside of periodicals articles. If this one takes off perhaps we will see some more. The naval history niche has needed a Steven Ambrose, be one of the first to encourage a potential candidate "Suggested"
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SEA POWER: A Guide for the Twenty First Century
by Geoffrey Till
ISBN 10-0415480884 ISBN 13-975-0415480888
American Admiralty Books: Recommended for the Serious Student of Sea Power
It is rare for American Admiralty Books to recommend a book with a retail price of over $150 even when we limit our recommendation to the serious student of the subject. This book should have a market as a text book for college classes on sea power but its utility to the naval professional doesn't stop there. Despite the cost, we recommend owning a copy of this work if you are a senior naval leader or academic. For more junior personnel we still suggest reading this work. In addition to a library loan those who find the cost of a new hard bound copy prohibitive may want to consider buying the Kindle (electronic reader) edition for a little over $30, or renting the Kindle edition for less than $10. Assuming that you have already read the timeless classics on Sea Power this is great read for looking at the way ahead. we highly recommend it if you are preparing for a future tour at the Naval War college or CPO Academy.
Geoffery Till, the author, is the former Dean of Academic Studies at the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College. Presently he is Professor of Maritime Studies in the Defence Studies Department and Director of the Corbett Center for Maritime policy , Kings College , London.
Till's book is a comprehensive overview of the ploitical and military significance of the oceans in the 21st century. It is one of the best single publications of recent vintage maritime power and naval strategy in the broad general sense.
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The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Past by Alfred Thayer Mahan
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American Admiralty Books: "Suggested"
The "Present" in the book's title actually refers to the contemporary times of the author, the long dead guru of sea power Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN. Nonetheless, for the serious student of sea power no collection of works on seapower, no reading program, is complete without all of the works of Mahan. This one is of particular interest since his best known work approaches sea power from a focus that is largely British, the Brits being the major Seapower of Mahan's day. In this work he tries to explain to the America of his day why the nation should be concerned with the development of sea power. The book, once long out of print and the copyright now in the public domain, has been reprinted and bound by Qantro Classic Books and is available via the provided Amazon hyper link for about ten bucks.
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THE US NAVAL INSTITUTE LAUNCHES eBOOK PROGRAM:
Naval, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps veterans as well readers who visited our "Authoritative Literature"Section are usually familiar with The Naval Institute. The Naval Institute is physically located on the grounds of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and has been publishing authoritative guides and histories since about 1873. The motto of the Institute is "Dare to Think, Speak, and Write" and it has been known as "the open forum" for sea services thinkers since its founding. In addition to its two glossy magazines the monthly PROCEEDINGS and the quarterly "NAVAL HISTORY" the Institute publishes books. Many of these books are important but only to a very limited group of naval professionals. Some years ago the Institute was approached by a young author with a work of naval fiction. The institute had never published fiction before. There was quite an internal debate but because of the remarkable realism of the offered novel it was decided to publish it. The book was THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and the author was Tom Clancy. The proceeds from the book and the movie went a long way towards subsidizing the work of the Institute in less profitable but nonetheless important ventures such as making available titles such as DICTIONARY OF NAVAL TERMS, and NAVAL WRITING GUIDE, or NAVAL CUSTOM, COURTESY and TRADITION. The institute today offers many titles of both fiction and non fiction naval thumbed works of popular appeal. These works aren't just for the naval professionals who make up the membership of the Institute. These are highly readable and entertaining and informative works of the first order. Naval Institute Press books are available through Amazon as in both paper back and hardbound versions.
Now the Institute introduces a new source for its popular titles, many are becoming available on Kindle. American Admiralty Books has such trust in the incomparable editorial board and staff of the Naval Institute that we don't want to wait until we have reviewed all titles to make our visitors aware of what is available.
whether fiction or non fiction we trust that you will find any of the Institute's popular titles the best in their class. Look for them in Amazon's "Kindle S
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Project Azorian:
Nonfiction that is stranger than fiction, this is the story of the CIA and the secretive raising of the wrecked soviet nuclear submarine K-129.
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Allah's Angels - Chechen Women in War.
A comprehensive portrait of how the women of Chechnya were forced by the circumstances of war to undertake many non traditional roles and in the process advanced their own human rights. Those rights are now being lost to the advancing Islamists movement.
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BIOTERRORISM IN THE 21ST CENTUIRY: Emerging Threats in a Global Environment
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SEAL OF HONOR: Operation Red Wings and the Life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy USN
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WE WERE PIRATES: A Torpedoman's Pacific War.
Based on the WWII diary of Torpedoman Robert Hunt's 12 war patrols in the Pacific
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EYES IN THE SKY: Eisenhower, the CIA, and Cold War Aerial Espionage
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Faithful Warriors: A combat Marine Remembers the Pacific War (WW II)
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FROM STORM TO FREEDOM: America's Long War with Iraq
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IN FINAL DEFENSE OF THE REICH: The destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division
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THE LAST LINCOLN CONSPIRATOR: John Surratt's Flight from the Gallows
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MILITANT ISLAMISTS IDEOLOGY: Understanding the Global Threat
by Commander Youssef H. Aboul-Enein, USN
While we have not yet read this work we are familiar with some of the work of Commander Aboul-Enein through the Naval Institute's PROCEEDINGS periodical. This work appears to be a continuation of the Commander's able attempts to deconstruct, discredit, and marginalize al-Qaida ideology using Islamic based arguments. Since such arguments are likely to be the most carefully considered in the World of Islam, we'd be remiss not to draw special attention to this work. Even if it were to prove a very difficult read our State Department and military professionals need to read it, if only because there is so little in English on the subject. However our prior exposure to the Commander and our faith in the editorial skills of the Naval Institute Press cause us to be quite confident that this will be a smooth and enjoyable as well as informative read. We look forward to our review. Don't wait on us to read this.
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WARRIORS and WIZARDS: the Development and Defeat of radio-Controlled Glide Bombs of the Third Reich
The radio controlled "glide bombs" in this case were anti ship weapons deployed by the German's in the late stages of WW II. When these early "precision munitions" first appeared they met with great success sinking an Italian and an English Battleship but the Germans appeared to give them up within only a short time after their introduction. The allies quickly derived electronic counter measures that negatively affected the control systems rendering the weapon useless without destroying it with kinetic energy. These devices have been mentioned in previous histories but Martin Bollinger's account appears to be the first detailed account. These WW II anti ship weapons appear to be an important part of "precision ordinance" developmental history. Their demise through electronic warfare methods vice kinetic weapons foreshadows much of today's "countermeasures" technologies.
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THE GREAT TANK BATTLE OF 73 EASTING:
While we haven't finished reading this one and can't offer a traditional review; we can tell you that it is about a 1991 tank battle in the First Iraq War. We can also probably say with some conviction that this is an example of the Naval Institute's standing as the "Open Forum." The author is not complimentary to his military superiors. If nothing else we have here another example of the Institute's willingness as an organization made up of military professionals but independent of the military for funding, to ignore political correctness and ask the right questions: (1) Does it describe a really great idea? (2) Does it describe a really difficult problem with high impact and suggest some solutions? (3) Does it expose a previously unknown or little know truth of some consequence? (4) Is a corking good story?
American Admiralty Books routinely expects the Naval Institute's popular titles to meet these criteria and we have not been disappointed in 30 years.
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ISBN 10: 1594601739
ISBN 13: 978-1594601736
American Admiralty Books: Suggested for real
Naval and Admiralty law history buffs and sea adventure screen
writers.
I own an ancient copy of this book in a
crumbling leather bound version. For some odd reason I acquired it right after
the movie "MASTER AND COMMANDER" was released. I loved the movie and really
wondered where screen writers got the ideas for such naval history dramas. Then
a fellow member of the Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP) Association sent
me this ancient volume out of the blue. One look inside and I not only knew
where the seminal ideas but much of the detail came from.
The case reports are like a time machine. Naval battles by British forces that resulted in captured, vice sunk enemy ships and cargos were adjudicated in the prize courts. In those days naval crews earned their pitiful salaries but could share in prize money from captures as well. The amounts were awarded in the prize courts after several fact sets were determined. The enemy identity of the ship had to be confirmed. If the ship was neutral but carrying contraband the contraband nature of the cargo had to be determined and the circumstances of the case examined to determine if ship and cargo could be seized or only the cargo in accordance with the law.
The case reports are like a time machine. Naval battles by British forces that resulted in captured, vice sunk enemy ships and cargos were adjudicated in the prize courts. In those days naval crews earned their pitiful salaries but could share in prize money from captures as well. The amounts were awarded in the prize courts after several fact sets were determined. The enemy identity of the ship had to be confirmed. If the ship was neutral but carrying contraband the contraband nature of the cargo had to be determined and the circumstances of the case examined to determine if ship and cargo could be seized or only the cargo in accordance with the law.
As the record of a prize adjudication unfolded in court the
story of the sea battle or confrontation, and some of the personality of the
Captains and crews unfold in the court record. Below is a quote from the
publishers (Nabu Press) description so that you'll know exactly how this modern
copy was produced.
"This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS
NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and
jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or
blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc., that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this
work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to
bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the
preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the
imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable
book."
We can't really claim that reading this book will make you a better admiralty lawyer but we think many admiralty lawyers would find it entertaining, and we bet Hollywood has a few of these spread around the Screen Writer's Guild. We think the same is true for a lot of naval history buffs and naval professionals, so we have posted this book in both sections; Admiralty Law and Naval History. Great tales told in the bloodless tone of the court reporter. The book is also a priceless primary historical source, but thanks to Nabu Press is available at a quite reasonable price. The rather lengthy hyperlink below takes you an Amazon site with multiple versions of the work, there you will find descriptions of each version and picture icons you can click on for more details similar to our usual image type hyperlink.
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Not A Book a Vital Website for voyage planning
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The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and The Right of "Innocent Passage"
The United
States and other English speaking nations have fought hard over the
centuries to preserve "freedom of the seas" while simultaneously working
with all nations to try to establish a responsible and responsive
regime for managing the world's ocean resources.
Based on the presently configured International
Convention on the Law of the SEA, the world has rejected the concept of
200 mile wide territorial seas where the adjacent coastal state is as
sovereign as it is on the main street of their capitol. In stead the
world has adopted a regime of graduated soverignity with the territorial
sea limited to 12 miles from a base line ashore on the adjacent coastal
state. Beyond this 12 mile territorial sea there are various zones
where certail types of law enforcement activity by the adjacent coastal
state are allowed. For example ther eis usually a 12 mile "contigious
zone" or :Customs enforcement zone that starts wher ethe territorial sea
ends. Withinh this zone the adjacent coastal state may enforce certain
specific customs laws, most especially the exercise of jurisdiction over
any vessel "constructively present" in their territorial sea by virtue
of communicating with vessels from the shore for other than collision
avoidance purposes.
Continental powers are generally now legally
entitled to exclusive rights to the benthic (bottonm dwelling) fisheries
and minerals of the sea floor from their continental margins to the
geographic limits of the continental shelves. Regardless of the
submarine geography and geology most continental states are accorded an
exclusive economic zone where , subject to every other nation's right to
"innocent passage", only the EEZ holder may establish off shore
platforms and other forms of semi permanent resource extraction or use
installations. Here and there in the world, nations are claiming larger
shares of the Outer Continental Shelves (OCS) under the OCS treaties.
Russia, for example claims their Arctic OCS waters extend from their
continental margin to the North Pole because the Pole, according to
their research, actually sits on their continental shelf. However the
international community points to the exceptions in the EEZ distribution
/ recognition where adjacent states share a shelf or are simply closer
than the norm of 200 miles. An example would be the width of the U.S.
EEZ between Florida and the Bahamas. The United States can't claim a 200
mile EEZ with the Bahamas being only 60 miles from shore, at this point
the boundaries between respective EEZs is a negociated one.
For years the "right of innocent passage"
allowed vessels to travel to the edge of the territorial sea unmolested
by the maritime authorities of the adjacent coastal state and innocent
passage included complete freedom of "oceanographic research". The EEZ
concept now modifies the traditional freedom of oceanographic research. A
ship with benthic or seismic sensing capabilities is capable of
gathering data of immediate economic value. Many adjacent coastal states
regard this as an intolerable infringement of their EEZ. Many such
ships look for guidance on the established boundaries and disputed areas
of the World's EEZs so that they can turn such sensors off and log the
time and location of securing these transceivers in legally sensitive
waters. Unfortunately EEZ limits are not found marked on most nautical
charts. Off shore oil drillers and explration organizations are
concerned with such boundaries and disputed zones on a daily basis. The
above hyper link will take the voyage planner, project planned,
navigator, or quartermaster to a Google Earth web site where one may
prepare an overlay of EEZ recognized boundaries and disputed areas for
overlay on more typical geographic maps and charts. From these the
trained navigator should be able to extract longitude and lattitude
coordinates allowing him or her to pencil in lines on a standard
navigation chart. See our "Navigation" section for "Ben's Tech Corner" for more details of how to use the linked site.
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JOE ROCHEFORT'S WAR: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamato at Midway by Elliot Carlson, published by the Naval Institute Press .
ISBN 10: 161251064
ISBN 13: 978-1612410606
Available in Hardbound, Softbound, and Kindle at price ranges from about $18.00 to about $37.00
American Admiralty Books : RECOMMENDED for naval Intelligence professionals, naval historians, naval history buffs, and World War II history buffs
Elliot Carlson's work is the first full length biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort, USN, the officer who commanded the the U.S. Navy's cryptanalytic unit at Pearl Harbor that broke the Japanese code before the critical Battle of Midway. Considering that famed naval author and historian Edward L. Beach described Rochefort as one of the most important officers in all of naval history in terms of his contributions at a critical time we should consider this biography long over due. Rochefort grew up in Los Angeles, dropped out of high school, lied about his age and joined the Navy for World War I service. Barely five years into his enlisted career he was promoted to the commissioned grade of Ensign, one of very few enlisted to officer ascensions during that time in history. Carlson's work breathes life into the memory of Rochefort as the independent thinker, irreverent, if not defensive personality, and consequential officer that he was. The book brings alive his frustrations over his unsuccessful searches for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and describes his joy when he succeeded in tracking Yamamoto's fleet in early 1942. Readers learn of the success of his cryptanalyst in breaking the Japanese code that reveals Yamamoto's target as the island of Midway. While his conclusions were bitterly opposed by some Navy brass, Admiral Nimitz acted on them and credited him with helping to make the U.S. victory possible and changing the course of the War. Carlson tells us the follow up story of how Academy educated superior officers in Washington, in a jealous snit over the "Mustang's" (enlisted to officer) success forced Rochefort's removal from the unit at Pearl harbor and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal that Admiral Nimitz had recommended. The reader then learns of further success in the naval intelligence field that Rohefort had in Washington before the war ended and he was eventually retired as a Captain, ignoring recommendations by even one of his former bitter opponent Admirals that he should have been elevated to flag rank. The story of Joe Rochefort is long overdue. American Admiralty Books recommends it especially to all serving, and retired naval intelligence professionals.
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Under Construction:
HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM?
THE NAVAL INSTITUTE TITLES ON CHINA'S RECENT NAVAL DEVELOPMENTS
See Our Blog of May 21, 2012
Having said that, below is our temporary information on these important titles. We will install our typical book cover type link to their exact place in Amazon as soon as possible. The ISBN numbers will be provided now so that if you need a library loan the books will be easier for your librarian to find, and of course you can always order direct through the Naval Institute whose web address and toll free number we have provided in the above paragraph.
You may note that unlike so many other publications in other parts of this blog we don't provide much of a book review on Naval Institute Press Books. If you visit our section titled "Authoritative Literature" we explain the unique status of the naval Institute. Basically we feel that if the editorial board of the U..S. Naval Institute feels a publication was worth publishing, we are certain that it is worth reading and important to at least certain segments of the professional naval community. This is why they are among the very few sources of English language maritime publications that we consider "authoritative" most other literature that we label as "authoritative" is based on a particular title and the test of time and the other tests that we describe in our Authoritative Literature Section. Hear are the key Naval Institute titles on China's PLAN:
RED STAR OVER THE PACIFIC by Toshi Yoshihara and James A. Holmes, ISBN 978-1-59114-390-1
CHINA THE UNITED STATES AND 21st CENTURY SEA POWER, DEFINING A MARITIME SECURITY PARTNERSHIP, edited by Andrew S. Erickson, Lyle J. Goldstein, and Nan Li. ISBN 978-1-59114-243-0
THE GREAT WALL AT SEA 2nd Edition, by Bernard D. Cole, ISBN 978-1-59114-142-6
PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY Combat Systems Technologies 1949-2010., by James C. Bussert and Bruce a. Elleman, ISBN 978-1-59114-080-1
If you need any of these titles now or simply need more information on them check out the Naval Institutes's Web site www.usni.org or search by title and author on Amazon's general search link http://www.amazon.com/ If you are not ready to check out these titles on your own just now check back with us later at this spot for updated information and direct links to each title.
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The U.S. Naval Institute has published its list of "Notable Naval Books of 2011. The list includes only books published during 2011, according to the Institute:
"The basic criterion for selection is that the book must contribute to the edification of naval professionals in some meaningful way. In many cases these books expand our knowledge of a certain subject; in others they serve to stimulate discussion and debate; and occasionally one comes that inspires or adds to our basic understanding of who and what we are.
As before, reference books that are published on a regular basis ( such as Jane's Fighting Ships) and long standing professional books (such as the Watch Officer's Guide) are not included. While there is no doubt that such books are notable, mentioning them year after year would be redundant and unnecessary; those interested in this list are quite likely to aid you in a library loan already aware of them and need not be reminded.
American Admiralty Books continues to have extraordinary confidence in the editorial board of the Naval Institute and we try to make news of Institute publications and recommendations available as soon as possible without putting Naval Institute published or recommended works through the individual review process that we apply to so many other publications. While we rate other nautical works within our site and only occasionally award a work the status of "Recommended", usually followed by some sort of description of the reading audience we recommend a title to; we consider all Naval Institute publications and recommendations as "Recommended for Naval Professionals". Unfortunately the out put of the Naval Institute is such that we have great difficulty keeping up and can't always publish full descriptions and image hyper links . But as always there are two places to find the titles we will be describing here shortly. You may find and purchase them by doing an Amazon general search by title and author
http://www.amazon.com/
or you may contact the naval Institute at:
www.usni.org
We apologize that we don't have immediately available the ISBN numbers for the works described below to aid you in obtaining a library loan. We will post them as we find them, check again with often. The 2011 titles will be posted shortly . To get started consider:
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USNI 2011 Notable Books
JOE ROCHEFORT'S WAR: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson. We actually reviewed this book prior to its appearance on the Institute's 2011 "recommended list". The review and a temporary hyperlink to the amazon vendor site can be reached by scrolling about three items up from here. We took the unusual measure at the time of placing our own "American Admiralty Books Recommended " rating on it for a much wider audience than just naval intelligence professionals.'. We thought it was a great book and are pleased to see it on the 2011 "Notable Books" list. Click on the hyperlink below for fast shipment of a copy.
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USNI 2011 Notable Books
BATTLE FOR THE CITY OF THE DEAD: In the Shadow of the Golden Dome, Najaf, August 2004 by Dick Camp, (Zenith Press)
An oral history of one of the Iraq War's most challenging battles. This is an accurate and engaging account of urban warfare by a retired Marine Colonel and accomplished author. In this battle the "Mahdi Militia" in violation of the international law of armed conflict used the sanctity of the Imam Ali Mosque and the world's largest Muslim cemetery to their advantage and gave American forces a major problem in rules of engagement. This is the skillfully described story of how the American forces met the challenge with grace and aplomb. Click on the hyperlink below for more information or to order a copy.
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-City-Dead-Shadow-Golden/dp/0760340064/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338913393&sr=1-1
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USNI 2011 Notable Books
THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY by Carig L. Symonds (Oxford University Press)
This work is part of Oxford University Press's Pivotal Moments in American History series. Most historians acknowledge the Battle of Midway as the turning point in the Pacific War. Though the battle has been the subject of numerous books and periodical articles this account by award winning author Craig Symonds explains why more clearly identifiable and quantifiable factors actually influenced the outcome. Before selection by the USNI as a notable book of 2011 the work was selected as a "Best Book of 2011 by the Military Quarterly . While we all know the ending Symonds writing style will keep you turning pages like Tom Clancy novel. .
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USNI 2011 Notable Books:
1812 The Navy's War, by George C. Daughan (basic Books)
This year is the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 so it should be no surprise that in 2011 some history authors would be looking ahead and publishing on this war that caused Great Britain to finally acknowledge the loss of its colonies and recognize the birth of a new nation. We didn't do as well as we might have in that war. The enemy entered our country and burned our capital. Later we would literally slaughter one of their armies at New Orleans but in between most of the good news of the war was provided by the exploits of the U.S. Navy.Again, as in most histories we know how each battle turns out, but the prose of Mr. Daugan makes the old stories literally "riveting".
OUR SUGGESTIONS FOR AN ON LINE VIDEO MARITIME HISTORY COURSE
First we introduce you to a historian who makes a clear point that world history is maritime history.
Photo by Nellie Large
Lincoln Paine is the author of five books and more than fifty articles, reviews, and lectures on maritime history. His books include the award-winning The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (Knopf, 2013), Down East: A Maritime History of Maine . The photo above is a capture from his personal site.which we link you to below:
http://lincolnpaine.com/about-the-author/
His first lecture is titled THE SEA AND CIVILIZATION. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBtNgo5xYqM
In his second lecture he links MARITIME HISTORY AND GLOBAL HUMAN ECOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3iTgSIOea0
All Maritime History Is Not Western:
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Ever play "Battleship" when you were a kid? For our younger readers it was a game done with grids overlaying silhouettes of war ships in which you call out your "shots" by grid coordinates against your opponents ships that you of course can't see. We're really dating our selves here if you are under 50 or so it is highly unlikely that you have ever played "Battleship" with such primitive gaming materials. Today, "Battleship" is done on line, often for free with amazing audio visuals, historical accuracy and against sometimes multiple players. There are battles based on long past battles such as the Second Battle Of the Virginia Capes depicted above and imaginary battles based on modern naval combatants such as the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN BATTLE GROUP depicted below:
For nearly five years now we have been bringing you book reviews and links to books, and videos on naval subjects. As naval professionals we have personally engaged in naval "table top exercises", and even in computerized simulations. Games can be an important training tool for the professional as well as learning tools for naval history, and just plain fun for the enthusiasts. Unfortunately the"old salts' round about the office are hardly millennials and frankly we didn't think much about computer games until recently when we stumbled across some. We still want to be the only name you need to know and the only site you need to book mark to start research on any maritime or naval subject, so it was down right negligent of us to not include in our "BIG LINKS LOCKER" links to on line naval war gaming and reviews of such war gaming. So starting today we are looking into the naval computer gaming world and linking you to it. This post and subsequent posts on the subject will be featured prominently in our NAVAL INTERESTS special interest page. So, looking for a naval war game, just click into the American Admiralty Books Web site for links and reviews:
LET'S START WITH REVIEWS AND LINKS TO THE TOP TEN NAVAL BATTLE GAMES AS RATED BY SOFTONIC .COM
Click Here: https://en.softonic.com/articles/top-10-naval-battle-games
Here you will find short descriptions/reviews of the following along with links for direct entry into play or down loading: Below we illustrate SOFTONIC's list and provide some limited direct links. There are more links at the Softonic site. Where a download button is provided at the Softonic site we refer you to the site as it would be wise to read their review first.
Under Construction:
The Naval Institute Names It's "NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2011"
"The basic criterion for selection is that the book must contribute to the edification of naval professionals in some meaningful way. In many cases these books expand our knowledge of a certain subject; in others they serve to stimulate discussion and debate; and occasionally one comes that inspires or adds to our basic understanding of who and what we are.
As before, reference books that are published on a regular basis ( such as Jane's Fighting Ships) and long standing professional books (such as the Watch Officer's Guide) are not included. While there is no doubt that such books are notable, mentioning them year after year would be redundant and unnecessary; those interested in this list are quite likely to aid you in a library loan already aware of them and need not be reminded.
American Admiralty Books continues to have extraordinary confidence in the editorial board of the Naval Institute and we try to make news of Institute publications and recommendations available as soon as possible without putting Naval Institute published or recommended works through the individual review process that we apply to so many other publications. While we rate other nautical works within our site and only occasionally award a work the status of "Recommended", usually followed by some sort of description of the reading audience we recommend a title to; we consider all Naval Institute publications and recommendations as "Recommended for Naval Professionals". Unfortunately the out put of the Naval Institute is such that we have great difficulty keeping up and can't always publish full descriptions and image hyper links . But as always there are two places to find the titles we will be describing here shortly. You may find and purchase them by doing an Amazon general search by title and author
http://www.amazon.com/
or you may contact the naval Institute at:
www.usni.org
We apologize that we don't have immediately available the ISBN numbers for the works described below to aid you in obtaining a library loan. We will post them as we find them, check again with often. The 2011 titles will be posted shortly . To get started consider:
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USNI 2011 Notable Books
JOE ROCHEFORT'S WAR: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson. We actually reviewed this book prior to its appearance on the Institute's 2011 "recommended list". The review and a temporary hyperlink to the amazon vendor site can be reached by scrolling about three items up from here. We took the unusual measure at the time of placing our own "American Admiralty Books Recommended " rating on it for a much wider audience than just naval intelligence professionals.'. We thought it was a great book and are pleased to see it on the 2011 "Notable Books" list. Click on the hyperlink below for fast shipment of a copy.
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USNI 2011 Notable Books
BATTLE FOR THE CITY OF THE DEAD: In the Shadow of the Golden Dome, Najaf, August 2004 by Dick Camp, (Zenith Press)
An oral history of one of the Iraq War's most challenging battles. This is an accurate and engaging account of urban warfare by a retired Marine Colonel and accomplished author. In this battle the "Mahdi Militia" in violation of the international law of armed conflict used the sanctity of the Imam Ali Mosque and the world's largest Muslim cemetery to their advantage and gave American forces a major problem in rules of engagement. This is the skillfully described story of how the American forces met the challenge with grace and aplomb. Click on the hyperlink below for more information or to order a copy.
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-City-Dead-Shadow-Golden/dp/0760340064/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1338913393&sr=1-1
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USNI 2011 Notable Books
THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY by Carig L. Symonds (Oxford University Press)
This work is part of Oxford University Press's Pivotal Moments in American History series. Most historians acknowledge the Battle of Midway as the turning point in the Pacific War. Though the battle has been the subject of numerous books and periodical articles this account by award winning author Craig Symonds explains why more clearly identifiable and quantifiable factors actually influenced the outcome. Before selection by the USNI as a notable book of 2011 the work was selected as a "Best Book of 2011 by the Military Quarterly . While we all know the ending Symonds writing style will keep you turning pages like Tom Clancy novel. .
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USNI 2011 Notable Books:
1812 The Navy's War, by George C. Daughan (basic Books)
This year is the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 so it should be no surprise that in 2011 some history authors would be looking ahead and publishing on this war that caused Great Britain to finally acknowledge the loss of its colonies and recognize the birth of a new nation. We didn't do as well as we might have in that war. The enemy entered our country and burned our capital. Later we would literally slaughter one of their armies at New Orleans but in between most of the good news of the war was provided by the exploits of the U.S. Navy.Again, as in most histories we know how each battle turns out, but the prose of Mr. Daugan makes the old stories literally "riveting".
OUR SUGGESTIONS FOR AN ON LINE VIDEO MARITIME HISTORY COURSE
First we introduce you to a historian who makes a clear point that world history is maritime history.
Photo by Nellie Large
Lincoln Paine is the author of five books and more than fifty articles, reviews, and lectures on maritime history. His books include the award-winning The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (Knopf, 2013), Down East: A Maritime History of Maine . The photo above is a capture from his personal site.which we link you to below:
http://lincolnpaine.com/about-the-author/
His first lecture is titled THE SEA AND CIVILIZATION. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBtNgo5xYqM
In his second lecture he links MARITIME HISTORY AND GLOBAL HUMAN ECOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3iTgSIOea0
All Maritime History Is Not Western:
Chinese sailors at Pearl Harbor, the place their government has publicly announced that they would drive us back to. (Official U.S. Navy Photo)
Controversial: 1421 Chinese Discover America Before Europeans "The Log Books Of The Star Ships' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yK-9hxk5HY
MORE TO COME
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THE HOOLIGAN NAVY DOCUMENTARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IW8Xwnig9U
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LET'S START WITH REVIEWS AND LINKS TO THE TOP TEN NAVAL BATTLE GAMES AS RATED BY SOFTONIC .COM
Click Here: https://en.softonic.com/articles/top-10-naval-battle-games
Here you will find short descriptions/reviews of the following along with links for direct entry into play or down loading: Below we illustrate SOFTONIC's list and provide some limited direct links. There are more links at the Softonic site. Where a download button is provided at the Softonic site we refer you to the site as it would be wise to read their review first.
1. World of Warships: Try it for free at Play Free World of Warships
2. BattleStations Midway: A Softonic site down load
3. BattleStations Pacific : A Softonic site down load
4. Silent Hunter IV: Wolves of the Pacific: A Softonic site download
5. Naval War: Arctic Circle: A Softonic site down load
6. Dangerous Waters: A Softonic site down load
7. Battle Fleet 2: World War 2 in the Pacific: A Softonic site down load
8. Fighting Steel: A Softonic site download
9. Naval Action: A Softonic site download
10. Windward: Try http://store.steampowered.com/app/326410/Windward/
NAVAL WAR GAMING IS INCOMPLETE WITH OUT NAVAL AIR Power gaming
Softonic describes this as a "great option" though it is not an exclusively naval site, but has "Some great naval content". The focus of the site is on air combat including air combat off of navy air craft carriers.
HOW ABOUT BATTLE GAMES BASED ON ANTICIPATED FUTURE BATTLES LIKE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA? Softonic suggests :
Battlefield 4 Naval Strike (expansion pack)
"The Naval Strike expansion pack for Battlefield 4 brings naval warfare to the 21st century. Taking place in the South China Sea, an area of increasing naval tension between the US and China, the DLC pack brings multiplayer maps, new gadgets and weapons, and most importantly, a hovercraft. In the new Carrier Assault mode, you’ll be battling to sink the enemy’s aircraft carriers" Its a down load that we suggest entering from the Softonic site
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
"For a series about climbing over rooftops and stabbing Templars, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s ship-to-ship combat is surprisingly complete and satsifying. Sailing across the Caribbean taking direct control of your ship – The Jackdaw – you can attack different navy’s vessels with your vast armory to get money and supplies for upgrades. But, if you would rather board an enemy vessel for some cutlass based action, you can capture it and add it to your fleet."
American Admiralty Books also suggests checking out the Softonic site for naval warfare games that don't require a PC.
Well that concludes our opening shot across the bow on naval war gaming with our review and links to the Softonic site a great place to start if you're spoiling for a naval battle in cyber space.
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