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This book examines the US Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar
years from a new perspective. Rather than focusing on the
technologies developed, the wargames conducted, or the results of
the now famous Fleet Problems, this work analyzes the global
deployments of the rest of the US fleet. By examining the annual
reports of the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval
Operations, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps over 20 years,
the book traces the US ships, squadrons, and fleets conducting
naval diplomacy and humanitarian missions, maritime security
patrols, and deployments for deterrent effect across the world’s
oceans. Despite the common label of the interwar years as
"isolationist," the deployments of the US Navy and Marine Corps in
that period were anything but isolated. The majority of the
literature on the era has a narrow focus on preparation for combat
and wartime, which provides an incomplete view of the history of US
naval power and also establishes a misleading set of precedents and
historical context for naval thinkers and strategists in the
contemporary world. Offering a wider and more complete
understanding of the history of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps from
1920 to 1939, this book demonstrates the tension between the
execution of peacetime missions and the preparation for the next
war, while also offering a broader understanding of American naval
forces and their role in American and global history. This book
will be of much interest to students of naval and military history,
sea power, and International History.
Exam board: Pearson Edexcel Level: GCSE (9-1) Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 Help more
students to access the content for Pearson Edexcel GCSE History
with this Foundation Edition, containing bespoke text and
activities to support students working up to Grade 5. Covering
Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39, this book: - Follows the same
structure and page numbers as the mainstream textbook for effective
co-teaching in the same class - Simplifies and reduces the text on
each page, focusing on the essential knowledge that students need
and using clear diagrams to explain more challenging concepts -
Uses carefully-controlled vocabulary throughout, ensuring that the
reading level is appropriate for all students, including those with
lower literacy levels or English as an additional language (EAL) -
Develops students' knowledge, understanding and skills through
accessible and achievable tasks - Provides step-by-step guidance on
how to answer exam questions and target a Grade 5, building
students' confidence as they revise and practise for their exams -
Includes definitions of 'useful words' and 'history words' at the
start of each key topic to boost students' vocabulary Reading level
measured and verified by MetaMetrics using the Lexile Framework for
Reading
Exam board: Edexcel Level: A-level Subject: History First teaching:
September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 Target success in Edexcel
A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured
revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation
activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that
students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their
knowledge. - Enables students to plan and manage a successful
revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner - Consolidates
knowledge with clear and focused content coverage, organised into
easy-to-revise chunks - Encourages active revision by closely
combining historical content with related activities - Helps
students build, practise and enhance their exam skills as they
progress through activities set at three different levels -
Improves exam technique through exam-style questions with sample
answers and commentary from expert authors and teachers - Boosts
historical knowledge with a useful glossary and timeline
Exam board: Pearson Edexcel Level: GCSE (9-1) Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 Help more
students to access the content for Pearson Edexcel GCSE History
with this Foundation Edition, containing bespoke text and
activities to support students working up to Grade 5. Covering
Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88, this book: - Follows the same
structure and page numbers as the mainstream textbook for effective
co-teaching in the same class - Simplifies and reduces the text on
each page, focusing on the essential knowledge that students need
and using clear diagrams to explain more challenging concepts -
Uses carefully-controlled vocabulary throughout, ensuring that the
reading level is appropriate for all students, including those with
lower literacy levels or English as an additional language (EAL) -
Develops students' knowledge, understanding and skills through
accessible and achievable tasks - Provides step-by-step guidance on
how to answer exam questions and target a Grade 5, building
students' confidence as they revise and practise for their exams
Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject:
History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016
(AS); Summer 2017 (A-level) Put your trust in the textbook series
that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper
knowledge and better grades for over 30 years. Updated to meet the
demands of today's A-level specifications, this new generation of
Access to History titles includes accurate exam guidance based on
examiners' reports, free online activity worksheets and contextual
information that underpins students' understanding of the period. -
Develop strong historical knowledge: in-depth analysis of each
topic is both authoritative and accessible - Build historical
skills and understanding: downloadable activity worksheets can be
used independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork
and homework - Learn, remember and connect important events and
people: an introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines
and links to additional online resources support lessons, revision
and coursework - Achieve exam success: practical advice matched to
the requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the
lessons learnt from previous exams - Engage with sources,
interpretations and the latest historical research: students will
evaluate a rich collection of visual and written materials, plus
key debates that examine the views of different historians
Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Seapower upon History is
well known to students of naval history and strategy, but his other
writings are often dismissed as irrelevant to today's problems.
This collection of five of Mahan's essays, along with Benjamin
Armstrong's informative introductions, illustrates why Mahan's work
remains relevant to the 21st century and how it can help develop
our strategic thinking. People misunderstand Mahan, the editor
argues, because they have read only what others say about him, not
what Mahan wrote himself. Armstrong's analysis is derived directly
from Mahan's own writings. From the challenges of bureaucratic
organization and the pit falls of staff duty, to the development of
global strategy and fleet composition, to illustrations of
effective combat leadership, Armstrong demonstrates that Mahan's
ideas continue to provide today's readers with a solid foundation
to address the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.
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.
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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