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The Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships
8½ x 11 | Hardcover
The Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships books has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands of copies worldwide. To mark and celebrate this achievement, the Naval Institute Press is proud to make these books available once more. Digitally remastered for enhanced photo resolution and quality, corrected, and updated, this series will continue to serve—for scholars and enthusiasts alike—as the foundation for U.S. naval warship research and reference for years to come.
November 2021
512 pp. | 202 photos, 159 line drawings
978-1-68247-759-5
$100.00 | Holiday Price: $50.00
October 2021
480 pp. | 200 photos, 130 line drawings
978-1-68247-758-8
$100.00 | Holiday Price: $50.00
August 2021
568 pp. | 234 photos, 79 line drawings
978-1-68247-757-1
$100.00 | Holiday Price: $50.00
August 2021
400 pp. | 144 photos, 102 line drawings
978-1-68247-760-1
$70.00 | Holiday Price: $35.00
March 2021
368 pp. | 6 x 9 4 b/w maps, 2 b/w figures, 12 b/w tables Hardcover |
978-1-68247-589-8
$39.95 | Holiday Price: $19.98
TRANSFORMING WAR
September 2021
200 pp. | 5 x 8 Paperback
978-1-68247-705-2
$24.95 | Holiday Price: $12.48
Military Change during War
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
“Mars Adapting is an important contribution and essential reading for anyone interested in military adaptation.”
—Trent Hone, author of Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945 and co-author of Battle Line: The United States Navy, 1919–1939
Mars Adapting examines what makes some military organizations better at this contest than others. It explores the institutional characteristics or attributes at play in learning quickly. Adaptation requires a dynamic process of acquiring knowledge, the utilization of that knowledge to alter a unit’s skills, and the sharing of that learning to other units to integrate and institutionalize better operational practice.
The author establishes a theory called Organizational Learning Capacity that captures the transition of experience and knowledge from individuals into larger and higher levels of each military service through four major steps. The learning/change cycle is influenced, he argues, by four institutional attributes (leadership, organizational culture, learning mechanisms, and dissemination mechanisms). The dynamic interplay of these institutional enablers shaped their ability to perceive and change appropriately.
FRANK HOFFMAN holds an appointment as a distinguished research fellow at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He is a retired U.S. Marine infantry officer. His forty-two years in the U.S. defense establishment includes senior political appointments at the Pentagon, ten years at Headquarters Marine Corps, and a decade at NDU’s Institute for National Strategic Studies. In addition to his research portfolio in strategy and military innovation, he has taught at the National War College. He earned his PhD in war studies from King’s College, London.
Habits of Highly Effective Maritime Strategists
BY JAMES R. HOLMES
“Weaving history and stories about those who became successful strategists with a keen understanding of the science and art of naval warfare, this insightful book lists the habits one must adopt to succeed. Get to it!”
—Robert O. Work, former Deputy Secretary of Defense
Habits of Highly Effective Maritime Strategists is a deliberately compact work aimed at both current and aspiring strategists, especially those who concern themselves with strategy at sea, and at those who work for or alongside them. The volume is meant to help strategic leaders know and educate themselves, two of the most important enterprises in the field of leadership.
James R. Holmes reaches back to the classics of philosophy—especially to the works of Aristotle, the founder of the Lyceum—to posit that strategy is a habit. Rather, he writes, it involves cultivating a family of habits. To excel at strategy, one should learn what excellent strategists do and practice that ritual each day.
JAMES R. HOLMES is a former U.S. Navy surface warfare officer and the inaugural J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, Salve Regina University, Providence College, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He was the top graduate in his Naval War College class.
May 2021
978-1-68247-591-1
$44.95 | Holiday Price: $22.48
The Bathyscaph Trieste and Pioneers of Undersea Exploration
BY NORMAN POLMAR AND LEE J. MATHERS
“A great read for those interested in deep ocean and submarine technology.”
—Capt. Charles M. Staehle, USNR (Ret.), first pilot of DSV’s-1 and TRIESTE Pilot No. 12
Developed by French physicist Auguste Piccard and his son Jacques, the bathyscaph Trieste was a scientific marvel that allowed unprecedented scientific, technical, and military feats in the ocean depths. France and the United States both acquired and subsequently developed variants of the original bathyscaph. While both France and the United States employed the bathyscaph as a tool for scientific investigation of the deepest ocean depths, the U.S. Navy developed and employed the Trieste for military missions as well. From its earliest years, participants in the Trieste program realized that they were making history, blazing a trail into previously unexplored and unexploited depths, developing new capabilities and opening a new frontier.
NORMAN POLMAR is an analyst, consultant, and author, specializing in naval, aviation, and technology subjects. He has written or coauthored more than 50 published books.
LEE J. MATHERS is a former Surface Warfare Officer with an intelligence subspecialty. He attended the University of Utah, Central Michigan University, and the Defense Intelligence School, the last followed by intelligence duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
April 2021
978-1-68247-533-1
$54.95 | Holiday Price: $27.48
STUDIES IN NAVAL HISTORY AND SEA POWER
A Ceaseless Watch
Australia’s Third-Party Naval Defense, 1919–1942
BY ANGUS BRITTS
“A Ceaseless Watch is an absorbing read and a worthy addition to scholarly works on Australian strategic history. It sits well with historical analytical works on the Pacific War.”
—Australian Naval Institute
A Ceaseless Watch: Australia’s Third Party Naval Defense, 1919–1942 illustrates how Australia confronted the need to base its post–World War I defense planning around the security provided by a major naval power: in the first instance, Britain, and later the United States. Spanning the period leading up to Australia’s greatest security crisis—the military threat posed by Japan throughout the majority of 1942—the work takes the reader all the way up to the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy by the United States Navy in the Solomon Islands campaign.
Britts illustrates the difficulty in forming a defense relationship between small and great powers, where the needs of the former are not subsumed by the interests of the latter, from the interwar years to the start of World War II. In an era when the entire Pacific region was at war, the inability of a larger power to fulfill its side of a defensive pact with a smaller power shaped the future of the region itself.
ANGUS BRITTS is an Australian historian who resides in Sydney, New South Wales. He graduated with a postgraduate Research Masters from the University of Sydney and is the author of Neglected Skies: The Demise of British Naval Power in the Far East, 1922–42. His major area of historical interest is British imperial naval defense and the Singapore strategy.
