Life and Letters of Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce
Author : Albert Gleaves
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Albert Gleaves
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1925
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Page : 381 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : John Trost Kuehn
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1682471926
The General Board of the Navy, in existence from 1900 to 1950, was a uniquely American and unparalleled strategic planning organization. As John T. Kuehn shows, this was the United States' first modern general staff in peacetime, as well as the nexus for naval thought and strategic thinking. The Board's creation reflected the reformist spirit of the era that also gave birth to the Army War College, the Army General Staff, and the Chief of Naval Operations. As such, the General Board and its mission also reflected an attempt to reconcile the primacy of civilian control of the military with an increasing need for more formal military and naval planning establishments, processes, and methods. Thus the General Board's very name reflected the idea shared by both corporate America and naval tradition that challenges and problems could be met with special, temporary organizational bodies. By the 1920s the General Board had become a permanent feature of the Navy and was regarded as the premier strategic "think tank" for advice to the Secretary of the Navy. Evolving over the course of its existence, the Board developed into a bona fide institutional component atop the service's hierarchy. Kuehn highlights how this small body, wielding immense influence over the span of its organizational life, was an innovative, progressive, and productive force for the security of the United States in peace and for naval success in war. The service of the men comprising the Board is little known, but their collaborative ethos should serve as a model for their modern counterparts. Kuehn's organizational history of the General Board provides context on the complexities and turbulence involved in building the modern Navy that transitioned over time from coal and sail to nuclear-powered warships. America's First General Staff offers the first single-volume history of the General Board of the Navy, as well as an analysis of the U.S. Navy during periods of great change in both peace and war.
Author : James C Bradford
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612512593
This collection of interpretive, biographical essays on the admirals of the new steel navy continues the story of the development of the American naval begun so successfully in Command Under Sail and Captains of the Old Steam Navy. During the period of 1880 to 1930, the U.S. Navy underwent a significant transformation as it adapted to new technologies and grew to meet the responsibilities thrust upon it by America’s new role as a world power. This book offers readers an entertaining yet informative history that allows amateur and professionals alike to better appreciate the U.S. Navy’s dramatic period of development and adjustment.
Author : Barbara A. Lynch
Publisher : Naval Historical Center
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
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Author : United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1927
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Author : Paul A. C. Koistinen
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
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In this volume, Koistinen examines war planning and mobilizing in an era of rapid industrialization and reveals how economic mobilization for defense and war is shaped at the national level by the interaction of political, economic, and military institutions and by increasingly powerful and expensive weaponry.
Author : Ronald Glenn Machoian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806137469
In this first full-length biography of William Harding Carter, Ronald G. Machoian explores Carter’s pivotal role in bringing the American military into a new era and transforming a legion of citizen-soldiers into the modern professional force we know today. Machoian follows Carter’s career from his boyhood in Civil War Nashville, where he volunteered to carry Union dispatches, through his involvement in bitter campaigns against Apaches in the Southwest, to his participation in the Indian Wars’ tragic final chapter at Wounded Knee in 1890. Carter’s life and work reflected his times—the Gilded Age and the Progressive era. Machoian shows Carter as an able intellectual, attuned to contemporary cultural trends and tirelessly devoted to ensuring that the U.S. Army kept abreast of them. In collaboration with Secretary of War Elihu Root, he created the U.S. Army War College and pushed through Congress the General Staff Act of 1903, which replaced the office of commanding general with a chief of staff and modernized the staff structure. Later, he championed the replacement of the state militia system with a more capable national reserve and advocated wartime conscription. Since his death in 1925, Carter’s important contributions toward modernizing the U.S. Army have been overlooked. Machoian redresses this oversight by highlighting Carter’s contributions to the U.S. military’s growth as a professional institution and the nation’s transition to the twentieth century.
Author : James C Bradford
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612512607
Now in paperback for the first time, this collection of biographical essays delves into the careers of thirteen colorful naval leaders who guided the U.S. Navy through four turbulent decades of transition. Interpretive in approach, each essay emphasizes facets of the officer's personality or aspects of his career that made lasting contributions to the navy.
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Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 1926
Category : American literature
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