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Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
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ISBN 13 : 9780870213434
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Total Pages : 766 pages
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Download or read book Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan: 1890-1901 written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
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ISBN 13 : 9780870213434
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Total Pages : 150 pages
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Download or read book Letters of Alfred Thayer Mahan to Samuel A'Court Ashe (1858-59) written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Shulimson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Marine Corps' Search for a Mission, 1880-1898 written by Jack Shulimson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heirs to a storied past and glamorized as modern-day knights, the Marine Corps—the elite fighting force in America's military—in fact has not always been so highly regarded. As Jack Shulimson shows, only a century ago the Corps' identity and existence were much in question. Although the Marines were formally established by Congress in 1798 and subsequently distinguished themselves fighting on the Barbary Coast, their essential mission and identity remained unclear throughout most of the nineteenth century. But amid the crosscurrents of industrialization, technological change, professionalization, and reform that emerged in Gilded Age America, the Corps underwent a gradual transformation that ultimately secured its significant and enduring military role. In this enlightening study, Shulimson argues that the Marine Corps officers' inextricable ties to the Navy both hampered and aided their attempt to define their own special jurisdiction and professional identity. Often treated like a poor relation, the Marine officers frequently found themselves in direct competition with their counterparts in the Navy and at times the object of the latter's scorn. Shulimson reveals the processes, politics, and personalities that converged to create these tense and sometimes embattled relations, but he goes on to show how Marine officers (with the Navy's blessing) eventually transcended their second-class role.
Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
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Download or read book Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan: 1902-1914 written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
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Author : Ronald H. Carpenter
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035555
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Rhetoric in Martial Deliberations and Decision Making written by Ronald H. Carpenter and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the discourse involved in martial deliberations, Ronald H. Carpenter examines the rhetoric employed by naval and military commanders as they recommend specific tactics and strategies to peers as well as presidents. Drawing on ideas of rhetorical thinking from Aristotle to Kenneth Burke, Carpenter identifies two concepts of particular importance to the military decision-making process: prudence and the representative anecdote.
Author : Sean A Mirski
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541758463
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)
Download or read book We May Dominate the World written by Sean A Mirski and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirkus 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for today The cutthroat world of international politics has always been dominated by great powers. Yet no great power in the modern era has ever managed to achieve the kind of invulnerability that comes from being completely supreme in its own neighborhood. No great power, that is, except one—the United States. In We May Dominate the World, Sean A. Mirski tells the riveting story of how the United States became a regional hegemon in the century following the Civil War. By turns reluctant and ruthless, Americans squeezed their European rivals out of the hemisphere while landing forces on their neighbors’ soil with dizzying frequency. Mirski reveals the surprising reasons behind this muscular foreign policy in a narrative full of twists, colorful characters, and original accounts of the palace coups and bloody interventions that turned the fledgling republic into a global superpower. Today, as China makes its own run at regional hegemony and nations like Russia and Iran grow more menacing, Mirski’s fresh look at the rise of the American colossus offers indispensable lessons for how to meet the challenges of our own century.
Author : Stanley Weintraub
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 161149060X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court written by Stanley Weintraub and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little seems to have changed since Queen Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic Ocean; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the moon. In theyoung nation, Americans who were little interested in the sons and daughters of their last king, George III, developed a love-hate relationship with Victoria, his granddaughter, that lasted for all her sixty-four years on the throne, ending only with herdeath in the first weeks of the twentieth century. Victoria's long reign encompassed much of the time in which the young United States was growing up. The responses of Americans toward Victoria reveal not only what they thought of her (and her husband) as people and as monarchs, but reflect their own ambitions, confidence, smugness, insecurities-and sense of loss. Parting from England brought a surge of pride, but it also carried with it an unanticipated price. American encounters with Queen Victoria asperson and as symbol evoke the costs of relinquishing a history, a tradition, a ceremonial texture. The brash, bewildered and beguiled Americans in these pages, from lion tamer Isaac Van Amburgh, Barnum's midget "Tom Thumb" and sharpshooter Annie Oakley,to literary lions like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain and Henry James evince not only another dimension of the remote woman who might have been their queen, but what Americans were like, and what they thought they were like, in her time.
Author : David Silbey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780809096619
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (966 download)
Download or read book A War of Frontier and Empire written by David Silbey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. Played out over three distinct conflicts--one fought between the Spanish and the allied United States and Filipino forces; one fought between the United States and the Philippine Army of Liberation; and one fought between occupying American troops and an insurgent alliance of often divided Filipinos--the war marked America's first steps as a global power and produced a wealth of lessons learned and forgotten. First-rate military history, A War of Frontier and Empire retells an often forgotten chapter in America's past, infusing it with commanding contemporary relevance.
Author : John Lamberton Harper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521566285
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (662 download)
Download or read book American Visions of Europe written by John Lamberton Harper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biographical study of three American statesmen, concentrating on the development of their distinct attitudes and political programs with respect to the problem of Europe in American foreign policy: Roosevelt's partial internationalism, aiming at the retirement of Europe from world politics while avoiding American entanglement; Kennan's partial isolationism, aspiring to restore Europe's centrality and autonomy through temporary American engagement; and Acheson's accommodating interventionism, establishing the United States as a permanent power in Europe at the behest of European and American interests. The purpose of the book is to explain how and why they arrived at very different solutions to the problem of internecine conflict in Europe, and to show the continuing relevance of their ideas. Three learned and elegantly written portraits are set against the background of the dramatic events and foreign policy controversies of the twentieth century.
Author : Evan Thomas
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 031608798X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The War Lovers written by Evan Thomas and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 15, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm. A powerful group of war lovers agitated that the United States exert its muscle across the seas. Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge were influential politicians dismayed by the "closing" of the Western frontier. William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal falsely heralded that Spain's "secret infernal machine" had destroyed the battleship as Hearst himself saw great potential in whipping Americans into a frenzy. The Maine would provide the excuse they'd been waiting for. On the other side were Roosevelt's former teacher, philosopher William James, and his friend and political ally, Thomas Reed, the powerful Speaker of the House. Both foresaw a disaster. At stake was not only sending troops to Cuba and the Philippines, Spain's sprawling colony on the other side of the world-but the friendships between these men. Now, bestselling historian Evan Thomas brings us the full story of this monumental turning point in American history. Epic in scope and revelatory in detail, The War Lovers takes us from Boston mansions to the halls of Congress to the beaches of Cuba and the jungles of the Philippines. It is landmark work with an unforgettable cast of characters-and provocative relevance to today.
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Publisher : Newport, R. I. : Naval War College Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of the Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan written by and published by Newport, R. I. : Naval War College Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Go
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330998
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The American Colonial State in the Philippines written by Julian Go and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVInterdisciplinary collection placing the U.S. imperial project in the Philippines within a global, comparative framework./div
Author : Donald Chisholm
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804735254
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes written by Donald Chisholm and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental study provides an innovative and powerful means for understanding institutions by applying problem solving theory to the creation and elaboration of formal organizational rules and procedures. Based on a meticulously researched historical analysis of the U.S. Navys officer personnel system from its beginnings to 1941, the book is informed by developments in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, operations research, and management science. It also offers important insights into the development of the American administrative state, highlighting broader societal conflicts over equity, efficiency, and economy. Considering the Navys personnel system as an institution, the book shows that changes in that system resulted from a long-term process of institutional design, in which formal rules and procedures are established and elaborated. Institutional design is here understood as a problem-solving process comprising day-to-day efforts of many decision makers to resolve the difficulties that block completion of their tasks. The officer personnel system is treated as a problem of organized complexity, with many components interacting in systematic, intricate ways, its structure usually imperfectly understood by the participants. Consequently, much problem solving entails decomposing the larger problem into smaller, more manageable components, closing open constraints, and balancing competing value premises. The author finds that decision makers are unlikely to generate many alternatives, since searching for existing solutions elsewhere or inventing new ones is an expensive, difficult enterprise. Choice is usually a matter of accepting, rejecting, or modifying a single solution. Because time constraints force decisions before problems are well structured, errors are frequently made, problem components are at best only partially addressed, and the chosen solution may not solve the problem at all and even if it does is likely to generate unanticipated side-effects that worsen other problem components. In its definitive treatment of a critical but hitherto entirely unresearched dimension of the administration of the U.S. Navy, the book provides full details over time concerning the elaboration of officer grades and titles, creation of promotion by selection, sea duty requirements, graded retirement, staff-line conflicts, the establishment of the Reserve, and such unusual subjects as tombstone promotions. In the process, it transcends the specifics of the personnel system to give a broad picture of the Navys history over the first century and a half of its development.
