Download or read book Admiral William Veazie Pratt U S Navy written by Gerald E. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Admiral William Veazie Pratt U S Navy written by Gerald Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period spanned by William Veazie Pratt's naval career coincided with an era of extraordinary historical importance. It saw the development of "The New Navy, " decisive naval victories on two sides of the globe, he increasing influence of American naval power on the international scene, and the emergence of the United States as one of the foremost world powers. It saw the revision of strategic concepts and the development of tactics to exploit the capabilities of the new ships. It saw the evolution of specialized types of ships, and organizing, training, and exercising these types in combination to form a fleet prepared for major engagements at sea. It saw basic adjustments in the Navy Department in response to the changing requirements of fleet readiness, planning, and direction of the operating forces.Drawing upon Pratt's varied service afloat and ashore and his close association with many of the most significant events of the era, this biography by Professor Gerald E. Wheeler provides insights of value to an understanding of the modern Navy and its roles in recent American history. The biography also throws light on the policy-level scene in Washington and on the factors and decision processes by which the nation's naval power was sized and shaped.
Download or read book Admiral William Veazie Pratt U S Navy written by Gerald E. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prelude to Pearl Harbor written by Gerald E. Wheeler and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1963, Prelude to Pearl Harbor was the first of three books on naval topics for which Prof. Gerald E. Wheeler is remembered today. “During the years 1921 to 1931 American naval leaders faced a problem in some ways similar to the situation after 1947. They were convinced that the United States had a national enemy in Japan. But the United States Congress, like the public that elected it during the 1920’s, was less than impressed; in fact it was positively hostile to any suggestion that America might again go to war. The President and his executive departments—save perhaps the War Department—were also reluctant to accept the Navy’s conclusions or its premises. How the United States Navy solved its problem of preparing for war in an unsympathetic climate of opinion is the story here presented.”—Prof. Wheeler, Preface
Download or read book Admiral William Shepherd Benson First Chief of Naval Operations written by Mary Klachko and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this full-length study of the navy's first CNO, the authors offer a judicious evaluation of Benson's sound leadership of the navy at war.
Download or read book Register of the Papers of William Veazie Pratt written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Admiral William Veazie Pratt U S Navy written by Gerald E. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Versatile Guardian written by Richard A. Von Doenhoff and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Battleship Operations in World War I written by Jerry W. Jones and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the operational histories of U.S. battleships in the Great War.
Download or read book Professors of War written by Ronald H. Spector and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--Page 1.
Download or read book Anglo American Naval Relations 1917 1919 written by Michael Simpson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1993 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of documents traces the relationship between the Royal Navy and the United States Navy from Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917 until the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
Download or read book The Chiefs of Naval Operations written by Robert William Love and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At the Crossroads Between Peace and War written by John H Maurer and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides fresh perspectives on the international strategic environment between the two world wars. At London in 1930, the United States, Great Britain, and Japan concluded an important arms control agreement to manage the international competition in naval armaments. In particular, the major naval powers reached agreement about how many heavy cruisers they could possess. Hailed at the time as a signal achievement in international cooperation, the success at London proved short-lived. France and Italy refused to participate in the treaty. Even worse followed, as within a few years growing antagonisms among the great powers manifested itself in the complete breakdown of the interwar arms control regime negotiated at London. The resulting naval arms race would set Japan and the United States on a collision course toward Pearl Harbor.
Download or read book Playing War written by John M. Lillard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the First and Second World Wars, the U.S. Navy used the experience it had gained in battle to prepare for future wars through simulated conflicts, or war games, at the Naval War College. In Playing War John M. Lillard analyzes individual war games in detail, showing how players tested new tactics and doctrines, experimented with advanced technology, and transformed their approaches through these war games, learning lessons that would prepare them to make critical decisions in the years to come. Recent histories of the interwar period explore how the U.S. Navy digested the impact of World War I and prepared itself for World War II. However, most of these works overlook or dismiss the transformational quality of the War College war games and the central role they played in preparing the navy for war. To address that gap, Playing War details how the interwar navy projected itself into the future through simulated conflicts. Playing War recasts the reputation of the interwar War College as an agent of preparation and innovation and the war games as the instruments of that agency.
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Sea Power written by George W. Baer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A navy is a state's main instrument of maritime force. What it should do, what doctrine it holds, what ships it deploys, and how it fights are determined by practical political and military choices in relation to national needs. Choices are made according to the state's goals, perceived threat, maritime opportunity, technological capabilities, practical experience, and, not the least, the way the sea service defines itself and its way of war. This book is a history of the modern U.S. Navy. It explains how the Navy, in the century after 1890, was formed and reformed in the interaction of purpose, experience, and doctrine.
Download or read book Peace And Disarmament written by Richard Fanning and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arms control remains a major international issue as the twentieth century closes, but it is hardly a new concern. The effort to limit military power has enjoyed recurring support since shortly after World War I, when the United States, Britain, and Japan sought naval arms control as a means to insure stability in the Far East, contain naval expenditure, and prevent another world cataclysm. Richard Fanning examines the efforts of American, British, and Japanese leaders -- political, military, and social -- to reach agreement on naval limitation between 1922 and the mid-1930s, with focus on the years 1927-30, when political leaders, statesmen, naval officers, and various civilian pressure groups were especially active in considering naval limits. The civilian and even some military actors believed the Great War had been an aberration and that international stability would reign in the near future. But the coming of the Great Depression brought a dramatic drop in concern for disarmament. This study, based on a wide variety of unpublished sources, compares the cultural underpinnings of the disarmament movement in the three countries, especially the effects of public opinion, through examination of the many peace groups that played an important role in the disarmament process. The decision to strive for arms control, he finds, usually resulted from peace group pressure and political expediency. For anyone interested in naval history, this book illuminates the beginnings of the arms limitation effort and the growth of the peace movement.
Download or read book Admirals and Empire written by Donald A. Yerxa and published by Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om USAs sikkerhedspolitik og dominans i Caribien (Caribiske Hav) fra 1898-1945, hvor bl.a. den spansk-amerikanske krig 1898, anlæggelsen af Panamakanalen 1906-1914 og en række interventioner i mellemkrigsårene samt forholdene under 1.- og 2. Verdenskrig viste USAs evne og vilje til at forsvare sine interesser i området overfor naboer og andre stormagter.
