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Hm 32: New Interpretations In Naval History, Benjamin "Bj" Armstrong Nov 2023

Hm 32: New Interpretations In Naval History, Benjamin "Bj" Armstrong

Historical Monographs

Selected papers from the twenty-first McMullen Naval History Symposium held at the U.S. Naval Academy, 19–20 September 2019.


Hm 31: New Interpretations In Naval History, Brian Vandemark Nov 2023

Hm 31: New Interpretations In Naval History, Brian Vandemark

Historical Monographs

Selected papers from the twentieth McMullen Naval History Symposium held at the U.S. Naval Academy, 14–15 September 2017.


Hm 30: Reflections On Naval History: Collected Essays, John B. Hattendorf Nov 2023

Hm 30: Reflections On Naval History: Collected Essays, John B. Hattendorf

Historical Monographs

Reflections on Naval History: Collected Essays, by John B. Hattendorf, Ernest J. King Professor Emeritus of Maritime History, Naval War College, is the third in a series of volumes that bring together scholarly writings originally published in a variety of specialized journals and other publications, many of which are obscure and difficult to access. It includes papers originally appearing in the years 2010–20. The earlier volumes are Naval History and Maritime Strategy: Collected Essays (2000), and Talking about Naval History: A Collection of Essays (2011). The latter volume also appeared under the imprimatur of the Naval War College Press.


Hm 29: New Interpretations In Naval History: Selected Papers From The Nineteenth Mcmullen Naval History Symposium Held At The U.S. Naval Academy, 17–18 September 2015, James C. Rentfrow Jan 2022

Hm 29: New Interpretations In Naval History: Selected Papers From The Nineteenth Mcmullen Naval History Symposium Held At The U.S. Naval Academy, 17–18 September 2015, James C. Rentfrow

Historical Monographs

The nineteenth McMullen Naval History Symposium took place at the U.S. Naval Academy on 17–18 September 2015. In what was yet another record for attendance, over 250 scholars representing eleven countries shared 126 papers in forty-two panel sessions.


Hm 28: To The Java Sea: Selections From The Diary, Reports, And Letters Of Henry E. Eccles, 1940-1942, John B. Hattendorf, Pelham Boyer Jan 2021

Hm 28: To The Java Sea: Selections From The Diary, Reports, And Letters Of Henry E. Eccles, 1940-1942, John B. Hattendorf, Pelham Boyer

Historical Monographs

The three-year span between 1940 and 1942 was critical in Henry Eccles’s life and career. These years mark not only the beginnings of the direct involvement of the United States in World War II but also Eccles’s first surface warship command, the command that earned him high professional recognition—the Navy Cross and the Silver Star. The diary, reports, and letters assembled here allow the modern reader an unusual opportunity to enter a very different world and a very different time in naval history. The contents document Lt. Cdr. Henry E. Eccles’s trip by passenger ships from New York to Manila, …


Hm 27: Major Naval Operations In European Waters, 1939–1945, Milan Vego Jan 2021

Hm 27: Major Naval Operations In European Waters, 1939–1945, Milan Vego

Historical Monographs

This work is the second and last sequel to Major Naval Operations, published by the Naval War College Press in 2008 as Newport Paper 32. The first sequel, Major Fleet-versus-Fleet Operations in the Pacific War, 1941–1945, was published (as Historical Monograph 22) by the Naval War College Press / Government Printing Office in 2014; a second edition came out in 2016. The focus of that volume was on the description and analysis of three major fleet-versus-fleet operations. In contrast, this work, Major Naval Operations in European Waters, 1939–1945 (twenty-seventh in the Naval War College Press’s Historical Monograph series), looks …


Hm 26: The Hattendorf Prize Lectures, Volume 1: 2011–2019, Evan Wilson Jan 2020

Hm 26: The Hattendorf Prize Lectures, Volume 1: 2011–2019, Evan Wilson

Historical Monographs

Let this volume serve three purposes. First, it is an example of naval history done well. All the essays were written by distinguished scholars, and they demonstrate the best of the field. They look beyond operations, integrating sea power into larger frameworks; they revel in complexity, rejecting simple explanations; and most of all, they ask the right questions. The lectures also demonstrate the enduring relevance of sea power theory. Mahan is not enough, but—thanks in part to the prize laureates—no one is suggesting that he is. Understanding the parameters of the historical debates, as well as their limitations, is essential …


Hm 25: New Interpretations In Naval History, Lori Lyn Bogle, James C. Rentfrow Jan 2018

Hm 25: New Interpretations In Naval History, Lori Lyn Bogle, James C. Rentfrow

Historical Monographs

Selected Papers from the Eighteenth McMullen Naval History Symposium Held at the U.S. Naval Academy 19–20 September 2013.


Hm 24: Blue Versus Purple, Hal M. Friedman Jan 2017

Hm 24: Blue Versus Purple, Hal M. Friedman

Historical Monographs

The U.S. Naval War College, the Soviet Union, and the New Enemy in the Pacific, 1946.


Hm 23: New Interpretations In Naval History, Marcus O. Jones Jan 2016

Hm 23: New Interpretations In Naval History, Marcus O. Jones

Historical Monographs

Selected Papers from the Seventeenth McMullen Naval History Symposium Held at the United States Naval Academy, 15–16 September 2011.


Hm 22: Major Fleet-Versus-Fleet Operations In The Pacific War, 1941–1945, Milan Vego Jan 2016

Hm 22: Major Fleet-Versus-Fleet Operations In The Pacific War, 1941–1945, Milan Vego

Historical Monographs

Major naval operations represent an area of study of operational art that Western naval theoreticians and planners have generally neglected. Too much emphasis is given instead to advanced technologies and tactics of weapons, at the expense of combined-arms tactics. The absence of an immediate and serious threat at sea today should not be allowed to prevent the development of sound naval theory and doctrine and the training of naval forces to prepare, plan, and execute major naval/joint operations as part of land campaigns in the littorals or a maritime campaign.


Hm 21: Blue Versus Orange, Hal M. Friedman Jan 2013

Hm 21: Blue Versus Orange, Hal M. Friedman

Historical Monographs

"The U.S. Naval War College, Japan, and the Old Enemy in the Pacific, 1945–1946."


Hm 20: New Interpretations In Naval History, Craig C. Felker, Marcus O. Jones Jan 2012

Hm 20: New Interpretations In Naval History, Craig C. Felker, Marcus O. Jones

Historical Monographs

Selected Papers from the Sixteenth Naval History Symposium Held at the United States Naval Academy 10–11 September 2009.


Hm 19: Talking About Naval History: A Collection Of Essays, John B. Hattendorf Jan 2011

Hm 19: Talking About Naval History: A Collection Of Essays, John B. Hattendorf

Historical Monographs

This collection is divided into parts that deal with four major themes: the broad field of maritime history; general naval history, with specific focus on the classical age of sail, from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815; the wide scope of American naval history from 1775 to the end of the twentieth century; and finally, the realm of naval theory and its relationship to naval historical studies.


Hm 18: To Train The Fleet For War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940, Albert A. Nofi Jan 2010

Hm 18: To Train The Fleet For War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940, Albert A. Nofi

Historical Monographs

Dr. Nofi’s work is a major contribution to our historical understanding of the interwar period in American naval history. In this volume he examines and describes in detail each of the “fleet problems,” discussing the issues raised and the resulting conclusions in the individual fleet exercises.


Hm 17: Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons Of World War Ii, And Future Naval Warfare, Hal M. Friedman Jan 2010

Hm 17: Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons Of World War Ii, And Future Naval Warfare, Hal M. Friedman

Historical Monographs

This book is a study of how a military–academic institution—in this case the United States Naval War College (NWC)—attempted to readjust to a peacetime period that simultaneously entailed the start of a new type of conflict for the United States, namely, the Cold War, and the advent of a revolutionary new weapon, the atomic bomb.


Hm 16: Three Splendid Little Wars - The Diary Of Joseph K. Taussig, 1898-1901, Joseph K. Taussig, Evelyn M. Cherpak Jan 2009

Hm 16: Three Splendid Little Wars - The Diary Of Joseph K. Taussig, 1898-1901, Joseph K. Taussig, Evelyn M. Cherpak

Historical Monographs

The Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Rebellion occurred over a hundred years ago. Scholars have produced a spate of books treating the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Rebellion. Personal accounts of service in the Spanish-American War have been published as well, yet fewer for the latter two conflicts. The unpublished diaries of Joseph K. Taussig, who participated in all of these conflicts, are therefore a uniquely valuable personal account of his wartime experiences.


Hm 15: The Memoirs Of Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, H. Kent Hewitt, Evelyn M. Cherpak Jan 2004

Hm 15: The Memoirs Of Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, H. Kent Hewitt, Evelyn M. Cherpak

Historical Monographs

Memoirs as sources fill an important gap in the historical record. They tell us how an individual lived, what he did, and what he thought about how he lived and what he did. Such are the memoirs of H. K. Hewitt, admiral in the United States Navy, whose active duty career spanned the first fifty years of the twentieth century, including World War I and World War II, when he played a leadership role in the Allied invasions of North Africa and Southern Europe.


Hm 14: An Admiral's Yarn, Harris Laning, Mark Russell Shulman Jan 1999

Hm 14: An Admiral's Yarn, Harris Laning, Mark Russell Shulman

Historical Monographs

Harris Laning served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1891 to 1937. As well as anyone, he represents the men who built up the service into the world's greatest maritime fighting force.


Hm 12: The Queenstown Patrol, 1917 - The Diary Of Commander Joseph Knefler Taussig, U.S. Navy, Joseph Knefler Taussig, William N. Still Jan 1996

Hm 12: The Queenstown Patrol, 1917 - The Diary Of Commander Joseph Knefler Taussig, U.S. Navy, Joseph Knefler Taussig, William N. Still

Historical Monographs

Professor William N. Still, Jr., has chosen to mark a turning point in U.S. naval history. The diary is more than interesting and colorful information about the wartime exploits of a distinguished U.S. naval officer, and it is even more than the "insider's" narrative of an operational challenge amply fulfilled.


Hm 13: Doing Naval History - Essays Toward Improvement, John B. Hattendorf Jan 1995

Hm 13: Doing Naval History - Essays Toward Improvement, John B. Hattendorf

Historical Monographs

The hull of the old ship of naval history, stripped of her tackle and ornament may well be food for worms, but the subject on which naval historians focus should not be overlooked or lost. It can appear again in a new model, corrected and amended by a new breed of historians, who work with wider viewpoints and on firm intellectual foundations. Along those lines, the essays in this volume provide some valuable insights and offer stimulating ideas on new approaches that promote excellence in doing naval history.


Hm 11: Ubi Sumus? The State Of Naval And Maritime History, John B. Hattendorf Jan 1994

Hm 11: Ubi Sumus? The State Of Naval And Maritime History, John B. Hattendorf

Historical Monographs

This book of essays had its origin in a two and a half-day joint Yale-Naval War College conference held in New Haven, Connecticut, at the invitation of Professor Paul M. Kennedy. This conference was limited by time and resources to focusing on the naval and maritime history of only eight countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.


Hm: 10: Mahan Is Not Enough, James Goldrick, John B. Hattendorf Jan 1993

Hm: 10: Mahan Is Not Enough, James Goldrick, John B. Hattendorf

Historical Monographs

The Proceedings of a Conference on the Works of Sir Julian Corbett and Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond.


Hm 9: The Influence Of History Of Mahan, John B. Hattendorf Jan 1991

Hm 9: The Influence Of History Of Mahan, John B. Hattendorf

Historical Monographs

The Proceedings of a Conference Marking the Centenary of Alfred Thayer Mahan's "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783."


Hm 8: The Fraternity Of The Blue Uniform, Richard G. Colbert, Allied Naval Cooperation, Joel J. Sokolsky Jan 1990

Hm 8: The Fraternity Of The Blue Uniform, Richard G. Colbert, Allied Naval Cooperation, Joel J. Sokolsky

Historical Monographs

Admiral Richard G. Colbert's particular approach to U.S. naval strategy, placing as it did great emphasis on the need to enhance cooperation between the U.S. Navy and friendly maritime forces, was not entirely different from the maritime strategy of the 1980s.


Hm 7: A Bibliography Of The Works Of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Alfred Thayer Mahan, John B. Hattendorf, Lynn C. Hattendorf Jan 1986

Hm 7: A Bibliography Of The Works Of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Alfred Thayer Mahan, John B. Hattendorf, Lynn C. Hattendorf

Historical Monographs

There is no doubt that Mahan laid the foundation for a theoretical understanding of navies as well as contributed to the rise of the U.S. Navy to great power status. Curiously, however, there has been no complete bibliography of Mahan' s published work. The 100th anniversary of the beginning of his theoretical work offers such an opportunity.


Hm 6: Angel On The Yardarm: The Beginnings Of Fleet Radar Defense And The Kamikaze Threat, John Monsarrat Jan 1985

Hm 6: Angel On The Yardarm: The Beginnings Of Fleet Radar Defense And The Kamikaze Threat, John Monsarrat

Historical Monographs

My account of the USS Langley in this narrative takes her from her pre-commissioning detail to the completion of her wartime cruise.


Hm 5: On His Majesty's Service, Joseph H. Wellings, John B. Hattendorf Jan 1983

Hm 5: On His Majesty's Service, Joseph H. Wellings, John B. Hattendorf

Historical Monographs

Observations of the British Home Fleet from the diary, reports, and letters of Joseph H. Wellings, Assistant U.S. Naval Attaché, London, 1940-41.


Hm 4: The Blue Sword: The Naval War College And The American Mission, 1919-1941, Michael Vlahos Jan 1980

Hm 4: The Blue Sword: The Naval War College And The American Mission, 1919-1941, Michael Vlahos

Historical Monographs

From 1919 to 1941, the Navy, indoctrinated at Newport, formed the institutional patterns of kinship between two paradigms: what Frederick Merk called "Manifest Destiny and Mission."


Hm 3: Professors Of War: The Naval War College And The Development Of The Naval Profession, Ronald Spector Jan 1977

Hm 3: Professors Of War: The Naval War College And The Development Of The Naval Profession, Ronald Spector

Historical Monographs

This is a study of the role of the Naval War College in the professionalization of the U.S. Navy and the effects of that process upon the shaping of naval policy from the founding of the College in 1884 to its temporary discontinuance in 1917 during World War I.