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Small Boats and Daring Men - Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy (Hardcover)
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Small Boats and Daring Men - Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy (Hardcover)
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series
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Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine
Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine
Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding
pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and
striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul
Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations
as critical to naval warfare. With Jones's own experience as a
starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval
warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate
naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind,
makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as
key elements in the story of American sea power. Beginning with the
Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime
missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of
modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At
the same time, Armstrong examines the era's conflicts with nonstate
enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific
and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed
perspective to his subject; and his work - with reference to
original naval operational reports, sailors' memoirs and diaries,
and officers' correspondence - is at once an exciting narrative of
danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these
events fit into concepts of American sea power. Offering a critical
new look at the naval history of the Early American era, this book
also raises fundamental questions for naval strategy in the
twenty-first century.
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