The legacy of American naval power
Subtitle: reinvigorating maritime strategic thought : an anthology
By: contributing editor, Paul Westermeyer ; art editor, Breanne Robertson
Publisher: History Division, United States Marine Corps
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Quantico, Virginia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9781732003019
Subjects: Sea-power; Naval art and science; History; Naval History; United States. Marine Corps; United States. Navy
Other titles: Reinvigorating maritime strategic thought
Description: "This volume presents a collection of extracts, articles, letters, orders, interviews, and biographies. The work is intended to serve as a general overview and provisional reference to inform both Marines, sailors, and the general public of the broad outlines of maritime strategic thought"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Shipping list no.: 2019-0194-P.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-407).
Table of contents: title: A brief introduction to the history of maritime strategy  -- by Paul Westermeyer; title: The ascendance of American maritime power: a historical perspective culminating in Guadalcanal  -- by Paul Westermeyer; title: Transformation a century ago  -- by Norman Friedman; title: The color plans, 1919-1938  -- by Louis Morton; title: Evolution of modern amphibious warfare, 1920-1941  -- by Lieutenant Colonel Frank O. Hough, Major Verle E. Ludwig, and Henry I. Shaw Jr.; title: The legacy and lessons of Operation Watchtower  -- by Jon T. Hoffman; title: Preliminary report of JANEX-1  -- by Major General Holland M. Smith -- Biographies.; title: Lieutenant General John A. Lejeune ;; title: Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz --; title: The expansion of maritime power: the role of naval aviation and submarines  -- by Paul Westermeyer; title: The future of the submarine  -- by Franklin D. Roosevelt; title: Use of aircraft in naval warfare  -- by Commander D.E. Cummings; title: Letter from Geiger to Yarnell on aviation -- Major General Roy S. Geiger letter to Admiral H.E. Yarnell; title: How we bridged a wartime "learning gap"  -- by Lieutenant Colonel Frank G. Hoffman; title: The future employment of naval forces  -- by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; title: The influence of aviation on the evolution of American naval thought  -- by Dr. David R. Mets; title: Submarines: key to the offset strategy  -- by Rear Admiral W.J. Holland Jr.; title: A new naval era  -- by Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert and General James F. Amos -- Biographies.; title: General Roy Stanley Geiger ;; title: Admiral Hyman G. Rickover --; title: Maritime power in crisis response: from the nuclear era to hyperwar  -- by Paul Westermeyer; title: Letter from Geiger to Commandant Vandegrift on Bikini Atoll atomic tests 21 August 1946 --; title: Admiral Gorshkov and the Soviet navy  -- by Dr. Donald Chipman; title: One telephone call gets it all: maritime prepositioning for crisis response enhancement  -- by General Paul X. Kelleyr to Yarnell on aviation; title: Restless strategy: Alfred Gray's philosophy of warfighting  -- by Thomas G. Mahnken and A. Bradley Potter; title: Why cyberwar will not and should not have its grand strategist  -- by Martin C. Libicki; title: On hyperwar  -- by General John Allen and Amir Husain; title: Keeping our amphibious edge  -- by Admiral John C. Harvey and Colonel P.J. Ridderhof; title: Between peace and the air-sea battle: a war at sea strategy  -- by Captain Jeffrey E. Kline and Captain Wayne P. Hughes -- Biographies.; title: General Paul X. Kelley ;; title: Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt --; title: The future of maritime power  -- by Paul Westermeyer; title: The Marine Corps of tomorrow  -- by Major Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr.; title: Facing westward to the future  -- by General Charles C. Krulak; title: A new twist to an age-old naval tradition  -- by Commander David B. Waidelich; title: A design for maintaining maritime superiority  -- by Admiral John M. Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations; title: The Navy and nation need a maritime strategy-- by Paul S. Giarra.