U.S. Naval Institue Photo Archive

SELECT A SPECIAL GIFT FROM THE U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE’S VAST PHOTO ARCHIVE

Say thank you to your veteran by giving a gift of cherished memories with a framed photo from the Naval Institute Photo Archive. Our gift to you is a 20% discount by using discount code B6FF57 at checkout from the Naval Institute’s online photo store: photos.usni.org

gifts

Custom framed photos are carefully inspected and packed and come to you from our photo lab partner ready for hanging. Choose from fl at or box frames in a choice of six fi nishes. Additionally, you will know that the service was provided to you by a “Green Business Certifi cation Award” company. For assistance with photo orders, call (410) 2951022 during business hours.

December 2020

320 pp. | 6 x 9 Paperback

978-1-68247-525-6

$75.00 | Holiday Price: $37.50

Technology, Bureaucracy, and the Problem of Change in the Age of Competition

EDITED BY ALESSIO PATALANO AND JAMES A. RUSSELL; FOREWORD BY VICE ADM. ANN RONDEAU, USN (RET.)

The essays in this book highlight the connective tissue between maritime strategy and naval innovation. The cases and perspectives in this collection of essays by some of today’s foremost strategic thinkers are both retrospective and prospective and carry on an intellectual tradition established by the likes of Alfred Thayer Mahan.

ALESSIO PATALANO is a reader in war studies in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, specializing in Japanese naval history and strategy and contemporary maritime issues in East Asia. He is director of the Asian Security & Warfare Research Group and Research Associate at the King’s China Institute.

JAMES A. RUSSELL is an associate professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at NPS, where he teaches courses on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, military innovation, and national security strategy. His articles and commentaries have appeared in a wide variety of media and scholarly outlets around the world.

December 2021

208 pp. | 5½ x 8¼ 3 b/w tables and 22 figures Hardcover

978-1-68247-727-4

$24.95 | Holiday Price: $12.48

BLUE & GOLD PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY

Fighting the Fleet

Operational Art and Modern Fleet Combat

BY JEFFREY R. CARES AND ANTHONY COWDEN

“This is simply the best work of its kind on the fusion of operational art in the maritime domain. It is accessible, grounded in operations analysis, and is underpinned by historical example. It should be required reading for our naval warriors so we might win when next called upon.”

—Rear Adm. Jeffrey Harley, USN (Ret.)

Fighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the operational level of war—striking, screening, scouting, and basing—and that successful operational art is achieved when they are brought to bear in a cohesive, competitive scheme. In explaining these elements and how they are conjoined for advantage, a central theme emerges: despite the utility and importance of jointness among the armed forces, the effective employment of naval power requires a specialized language and understanding of naval concepts that is often diluted or completely lost when too much jointness is introduced.

JEFFREY R. CARES is the CEO of Alidade Incorporated and a retired navy captain. He is the author of Distributed Networked Operations: The Foundations of Network Centric Warfare and Operations Research for Unmanned Systems, in addition to pioneering work in the application of complex systems research to military problems.

ANTHONY COWDEN attended the University of Michigan under the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC), where he received his BA in history. After a twenty-year Reserve career Captain Cowden returned to active duty in 2009 and will retire after 37 years as a commissioned officer in 2021.