Naval Institute Press: 579 books
21st Century Patton
Strategic Insights for the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
While Patton remains an iconic figure 70 years after his death, few fully appreciate him as a strategic thinker. Indeed, his flamboyant personality often obscures the fact that he was a lifelong student of the military art and a true strategic visionary.This short volume introduces readers to a more...
by Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Patton’s Way is a unique approach to the legend of General George S. Patton, Jr. and his development and application of a unique approach to modern warfare.Unlike Carlo D’Este’s Patton: Genius for War or Stanley Hirshson’s General Patton: A Soldier’s Life, Patton’s Way is not a biography....
Old Glory Stories
American Combat Leadership in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Saying that no generation of Americans has produced a finer array of combat commanders than that of World War II, a thirty-year army veteran examines combat leadership throughout the war at every level of command in the U.S. Army. The author argues that although Army chief of staff George C. Marshall's...
by Henry Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Purge of the Thirtieth Division by Major General Henry Dozier Russell is the only known written work by any of the eighteen National Guard division commanders mobilized in1940 and 1941. It chronicles from a National Guard perspective many of the challenges and growing pains experienced by the Army...
Margin of Victory
Five Battles That Changed the Face of Modern War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Hindsight can become foresight if viewed through the right lens. Margin of Victory views the outcomes of five horrific twentieth century battles through the lens of military strategy; force design and modernization, all of which decisively influence the savage fighting on the day of battle. From the...
NATO's Gamble
Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In this revealing work, Dag Henriksen discloses the origins and content of NATO's strategic and conceptual thinking on how the use of force was to succeed politically in altering the behavior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). The air campaign, known as Operation Allied Force, was the first...
by Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book gives a counterpoint history – wry, keen-eyed, sometimes disgruntled – of the hard-fought, brilliant campaign that won World War II in the Southwest Pacific. It draws on the diary of an officer who knew its airfields and scarred beachheads, and its narrative is wrapped around a scandal...
David Glasgow Farragut
Our First Admiral
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
The second volume of this authoritative biography of America’s first admiral examines the last ten years of David Glasgow Farragut’s life, which included the ever-fascinating period of the Civil War. Farragut was as carefully methodical in preparation for battle as he was fearlessly swift in the...
One Marine's War
A Combat Interpreter's Quest for Mercy in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
One Marine’s War recounts the experiences of Robert Sheeks, a Marine combat interpreter, and how he underwent a remarkable transformation as a consequence of his encounters with the Imperial Japanese Army, Nisei Japanese-American language instructors, Japanese and Pacific Island native civilians, and...
Red Scorpion
The War Patrols of the USS Rasher
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
The USS Rasher was one of America's most successful Word War II submarines, and her wartime exploits earned her three Presidential Unit Citations. Accordingly, the Rasher sank eighteen enemy ships and destroyed 99,901 tons, which was the second highest tonnage of the war. The Rasher's fifth war patrol...
The Fleet the Gods Forgot
The U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet at the outbreak of World War II and their disastrous encounter with vastly superior Japanese forces.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Airpower in Action tells the story of the evolution of airpower and its impact upon the history of warfare. Through a critical examination of twenty-nine case studies in which the United States in various coalitions and Israel played significant roles, the book offers perspectives on the political purpose,...
Cassandra in Oz
Counterinsurgency and Future War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book is a unique combination of intellectual history, personal memoir, and military theory. When Conrad Crane retired from twenty six years of active duty to become a research professor at the Army War College, he never expected to become a modern Cassandra, fated to tell truth to power without...
Military Strategy
A General Theory of Power Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
No military service can long remain effective without searching self-criticism and continuous re-examination of its own ideas. Wylie, well known in the Navy, is a refreshingly and outspoken individual, thoroughly at home on the bridge of a ship, but equally at home in the semantics of dialectical discussion....