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Dead Reckoning
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The Tankies
BY GARTH ENNIS
—Nicholas Moran, AKA “The Chieftain”
March 2021
256 pp. | 65⁄₈ x 10¼ Paperback
978-1-68247-597-3
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Four-Fisted Tales
Animals in Combat
BY BEN TOWLE
—Jake Tapper, CNN anchor
August 2021
120 pp. | 6¾ x 9½ Paperback |
978-1-68247-416-7
$24.95 | Holiday Price: $12.48
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
BY JAMES D. HORNFISCHER, DOUG MURRAY, STEVEN SANDERS
“James D. Hornfischer is one of America's great narrative historians, and his The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors on the battle off Samar (October 25, 1944) details one of the great sagas of the Second World War. Now that story has been rendered in graphic format with drawings by Steven Sanders to engage an even wider audience. It is a reminder of the great debt owed by modern Americans to the sacrifices of those who served in the Second World War.”
—Craig L. Symonds, author of World War II at Sea
November 2021
208 pp. | 65⁄₈ x 10¼ Hardcover |
978-1-68247-338-2
$29.95 | Holiday Price: $14.98
Flutist of Arnhem
A Story of Operation Market Garden
BY ANTONIO GIL
—Foreword Reviews
May 2021
152 pp. | 7¼ x 10 Paperback |
978-1-68247-463-1
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Teddy
BY LAURENCE LUCKINBILL
—Kirkus Reviews
February 2021
176 pp. | 7 x 10 Paperback |
978-1-68247-487-7
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Jewish Brigade
BY MARVANO
—Foreword Reviews
September 2021
144 pp. | 8 x 10½ Paperback |
978-1-68247-723-6
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April 2021
978-1-68247-569-0
$39.95 | Holiday Price: $19.98
September 2020
376 pp. | 6 x 9 7 figures, 2 tables Hardcover |
ISBN: 978-1-68247-376-4
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“War and Resistance in the Philippines is a must-have for anyone interested in this fascinating and important history.”
—James Scott, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Rampage and Target Tokyo
War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942–1944, repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the surrender of Allied forces in May 1942 and MacArthur’s return in October 1944. No book has comprehensively examined the Filipino resistance during this crucial period. Here, James Kelly Morningstar provides for the first time a comprehensive history of the protracted fighting by 260,000 guerrillas in 277 units across the archipelago.
Beginning with the Japanese occupation, the collapse of the United States Forces, Far East (USAFFE), and the simultaneous rise of the complex, diverse Philippine guerrilla movements, Morningstar exposes the inadequacy of MacArthur’s conventional plans while revealing his inchoate preparation for guerrilla resistance. Morningstar then recounts in detail the impromptu resistance led by refugee American and Filipino soldiers, local politicians, and social revolutionaries left to battle the Japanese—and each other—with emphasis on how Japanese, American, and Filipino actions influenced and proscribed each other.
JAMES KELLY MORNINGSTAR is a retired U.S. Army armor officer and decorated combat veteran with degrees from West Point and Kansas State University, a master’s degree from Georgetown University, and a PhD from the University of Maryland. He currently teaches military history at Georgetown. He is the author of Patton’s War: A Radical Theory of War.
The Craft of Wargaming
A Detailed Planning Guide for Defense Planners and Analysts
BY COL. JEFF APPLEGET, USA (RET.), COL. ROBERT BURKS, USA (RET.), AND FRED CAMERON
“The Craft of Wargaming provides a primer for understanding the institutional traditions and practices that developed to support wargaming in analytical purposes. It complements previous handbooks and adds a focus on the institutional implementation of wargames.”
—The Strategy Bridge
“A superb compendium for both defense planners and analysts as well as the designers of quality games. An absolutely must-have addition to the shelves of any serious practitioner of war games or consumers of their output.”
—Robert O. Work, 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and Undersecretary of the Navy
The Craft of Wargaming is designed to support supervisors, planners, and analysts who use wargames to support their organizations’ missions. The authors focus on providing analysts and planners with a clear methodology that allows them to initiate, design, develop, conduct, and analyze wargames. Although the methodology is built around the analytic wargaming construct, organizations or individuals can easily adapt this methodology to construct educational and experiential wargames.
COL. JEFF APPLEGET, USA (RET.), served in the Army for thirty years. He joined the Naval Postgraduate School in 2009, where he teaches wargaming and combat modeling.
COL. ROBERT BURKS, USA (RET.), enlisted in the Army in 1982 and upon his retirement in 2013 joined the Naval Postgraduate School. He now focuses on teaching quantitative methods and wargaming to the SOF community.
February 2021
312 pp. | 6 x 9 21 b/w illustrations Hardcover |
978-1-68247-587-4
$39.95 | Holiday Price: $19.98
HISTORY OF MILITARY AVIATION
April 2021
368 pp. | 6 x 9 15 b/w photos, 14 tables, 1 b/w map Hardcover |
978-1-68247-616-1
$54.95 | Holiday Price: $27.48
STUDIES IN NAVAL HISTORY AND SEA POWER Strategic Air Command in the Cold War
BY BRENT ZIARNICK
To Rule the Skies: Strategic Air Command in the Cold War fills a critical gap in Cold War and Air Force history by telling the story of General Thomas S. Power for the first time. Thomas Power was second only to Curtis LeMay in forming the Strategic Air Command (SAC), one of the premier combat organizations of the twentieth century, but he is rarely mentioned today. What little is written about Power describes him as LeMay’s willing hatchet man—uneducated, unimaginative, autocratic, and sadistic. Based on extensive archival research, To Rule the Skies seeks to overturn this appraisal.
Brent D. Ziarnick covers the span of both Power’s personal and professional life and challenges many of the myths of conventional knowledge about him. Denied college because his middle-class immigrant family imploded while he was still in school, Power worked in New York City construction while studying for the Flying Cadet examination at night in the New York Public Library. As a young pilot, Power participated in some of the Army Air Corps’ most storied operations. In the interwar years, his family connections allowed Power to interact with American Wall Street millionaires and the British aristocracy. Confined to training combat aircrews in the United States for most of World War II, Power proved his combat leadership as a bombing wing commander by planning and leading the firebombing of Tokyo for Gen. Curtis LeMay.
After the war, Power helped LeMay transform the Air Force into the aerospace force America needed during the Cold War. A master of strategic air warfare, he aided in establishing SAC as the Free World’s Big Stick against Soviet aggression. Far from being unimaginative, Power led the incorporation of the nuclear weapon, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the airborne alert, and the Single Integrated Operational Plan into America’s deterrent posture as Air Research and Development Command commander and both the vice commander and commander-in-chief of SAC. Most importantly, Power led SAC through the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Even after retirement, Power as a New York Times bestselling author brought his message of deterrence through strength to the nation.
BRENT D. ZIARNICK is an assistant professor at the Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He has been published in Wired, Politico, and The Hill. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.
The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power
France’s Quest for an Independent Naval Policy, 1940–1963
BY HUGUES CANUEL
The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War. The Marine nationale continued fighting after the Armistice, a service divided against itself. The destruction of French sea power—at the hands of the Allies, the Axis, and fratricidal confrontations in the colonies— continued unabated until the scuttling of the Vichy fleet in 1942. And yet, just over twenty years after this dark day, Charles de Gaulle announced a plan to complement the country’s nuclear deterrent with a force of nuclear-powered, ballistic missile-carrying submarines. Completing the rebuilding effort that followed the nadir in Toulon, this force provided the means to make the Marine nationale a fully-fledged blue-water navy again, ready to face the complex circumstances of the Cold War.
HUGUES CANUEL is currently employed as Defense Attaché in Japan. He earned a PhD in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada. Following command at sea, he served with the NATO Training Mission—Afghanistan. He focusses his research on Cold War history and East Asian contemporary affairs.
August 2021
304 pp. | 6 x 9 Hardcover |
978-1-68247-633-8
$44.95 | Holiday Price: $22.48
September 2021
978-1-68247-586-7
$60.00 | Holiday Price: $30.00
TRANSFORMING WAR The Collapse of Cold War Naval Strategic Planning
BY STEVEN T. WILLS
“Strategy Shelved is an extraordinary, timely, and much-needed addition to the strategic literature of the U.S. Navy. Wills argues convincingly that institutional self-knowledge is critical for success in strategy especially in periods of fundamental strategic, technological, and organizational change such as the Navy now finds itself. It is a must-read for naval leaders, strategists, and scholars alike.”
—Capt. Peter D. Haynes, U.S. Navy (Ret.), author of Toward a New Maritime Strategy: American Naval Thinking in the Post-Cold War Era
As U.S. strategy shifts to focus on great power competition, Strategy Shelved provides a valuable, analytic look back to the Cold War era by examining the rise and eventual fall of the U.S. Navy’s strategy system from post–World War II to 1994. Steven T. Wills draws some important conclusions that have relevance to the ongoing strategic debates of today.
His analysis focuses on the 1970s and 1980s as a period when U.S. Navy strategic thought was rebuilt after a period of stagnation during the Vietnam conflict and its high-water mark in the form of the 1980s’ Maritime Strategy and its attendant six hundred–ship navy force structure. He traces the collapse of this earlier system by identifying several contributing factors: the provisions of the Goldwater Nichols Act of 1986, the aftermath of the First Gulf War of 1991, the early 1990s’ revolution in military affairs, and the changes to the Chief of Naval Operations staff in 1992 following the end of the Cold War. All of these conditions served to undermine the existing naval strategy system.
Wills concludes his analysis with an assessment of the return of naval strategy documents in 2007 and 2015 and speculates on the potential for success of current Navy strategies, including the latest tri-service maritime strategy.
STEVEN T. WILLS is an expert in U.S. Navy strategy and policy at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) in Arlington, VA. He served for twenty years as a U.S. Navy surface warfare officer. He also holds a PhD and MA in history from Ohio University, an MA from the United States Naval War College, and a BA in history from Miami University, Oxford, OH.
Cyberspace in Peace and War, Second Edition
BY MARTIN C. LIBICKI
“Libicki's updated master class on the foundations, implications and import of cyberspace delivers the breadth of an encyclopedia and the accessibility of a personal guide within a context of forward-looking strategy. Covering technology, human factors and doctrine in equal measure, Libicki delivers a book that the reader can employ as a ready reference to assist in navigating the complex landscape of strategy and policy for a domain on which all others depend.”
—Chris Inglis, former deputy director, National Security Agency
This updated and expanded edition of Cyberspace in Peace and War by Martin C. Libicki presents a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity, cyberwar, and cyber-terrorism. From basic concepts to advanced principles, Libicki examines the sources and consequences of system compromises, addresses strategic aspects of cyberwar, and defines cybersecurity in the context of military operations while highlighting unique aspects of the digital battleground and strategic uses of cyberwar.
This new edition provides updated analysis on cyberespionage, including the enigmatic behavior of Russian actors, making this volume a timely and necessary addition to the cyber-practitioner’s library.
Cyberspace in Peace and War guides readers through the complexities of cybersecurity and cyberwar and challenges them to understand the topics in new ways. Libicki provides the technical and geopolitical foundations of cyberwar necessary to understand the policies, operations, and strategies required for safeguarding an increasingly online infrastructure.
MARTIN C. LIBICKI is a distinguished visiting professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. His work notably involves the national security implications of information technology as it involves cybersecurity and cyberwar. He graduated from MIT and has a PhD from U.C. Berkeley.
