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American Amphibious Warfare - The Roots of Tradition to 1865 (Hardcover)
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American Amphibious Warfare - The Roots of Tradition to 1865 (Hardcover)
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American Amphibious Warfare: The Roots of Tradition to 1865 will
fill the gap in the historiography of naval and military warfare.
As the title implies, this book describes and analyzes early
landing operations (from the Revolution through the Civil War) of
American history, showing how they contributed to its rich
amphibious tradition. No such study currently exists. This study
does not attempt to describe every amphibious operation in early
America, but focuses on seven major battles or campaigns providing
a strong appreciation for the roots of American amphibious
traditions. It will address in abbreviated form other amphibious
operations and various land and naval battles as necessary to place
these major actions in proper historical context. It is important
to remember that amphibious operations include both offensive and
defensive actions; and both when viewed from the water's edge can
be instructive. Of the seven major amphibious campaigns examined in
this book, five are offensive and two are defensive from the
American perspective. (The New York and Baltimore campaigns are
defensive and the Yorktown, Derna (Tripoli), California, Veracruz,
and Fort Fisher are offensive.) For many Americans, the concept of
amphibious warfare derives from the World War II model where
landing forces assaulted foreign shores against determined
resistance. These actions resulted in very high casualties, yet
proved uniformly success for American operations. The circumstances
of geography coupled with the weapons and equipment available at
that time dictated this type of warfare. During the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, no such equipment or weapons existed for
assaulting defended beaches. Commanders attempted to land their
forces in areas where the resistance would be light or nonexistent.
The initiative and maneuverability inherent in naval forces
permitted the establishment of combat power ashore before having to
engage the enemy. The naval echelon could deliver forces to the
point of attack faster that the land-based defenders could react.
The focus of this book is to analyze and explain how amphibious
traditions began in this earlier era and, in the epilogue, show how
they compare and contrast with modern amphibious forces,
particularly the modern U.S. Marine Corps. One of the interesting
conclusions it that weapons and equipment (modern amphibious ships,
landing craft air cushioned, VSTOL fixed wing aircraft,
helicopters, and theV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft), coupled with
new doctrine (operational maneuver from the sea, ship to shore
maneuver) actually allow modern forces to return to the amphibious
tactics and operations of the earlier period. Is short, the U.S.
Marine corps of the twenty-first century is a true inheritor of
these Roots of Tradition established in early America.
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