Jeremy Black

Combined Operations (eBook, PDF)

A Global History of Amphibious and Airborne Warfare

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This compelling book provides the first global history of the evolution of combined operations since Antiquity. Beginning with amphibious warfare in the ancient world of the Romans, Vikings, and Mongols, Jeremy Black advances through the Gunpowder Revolution, the rise of maritime empires and the formation of nation-states, the early Industrial Revolution and the adaptation of modern technology to warfare, the twentieth-century world wars, the Cold War, and concluding with the modern age of irregular and asymmetric conflict. Black's informed and analytical narrative emphasizes conflicts around the world, focusing not only on leading powers but also regional combatants. His case studies include amphibious operations in the Mongol invasions of Japan, the War for American Independence, and the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. He also explores the development and effectiveness of airborne operations as a way to project military power inland. Offering a balanced assessment of strategic, operational, and technical developments over time, Black considers both the potential and limitations of amphibious and airborne warfare-past, present, and future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216236153
• Artikelnr.: 74841673

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Black graduated from Cambridge University with a Starred First and did graduate work at Oxford University before teaching at the University of Durham and then at the University of Exeter, where he is professor emeritus of history. He has held visiting chairs at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Texas Christian University, and Stillman College. He is a 2018 Templeton Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008. His recent books include Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: A Global History, and Air Power: A Global History.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1: Combined Operations to 1500 Chapter 2: The Early Modern Period
1500-1700 Chapter 3: The Eighteenth Century
1700-1775 Chapter 4: The American Revolution and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1775-1815 Chapter 5: The Nineteenth Century
1815-1914 Chapter 6: The First World War
1914-18 Chapter 7: The Interwar Period
1918-39 Chapter 8: The Second World War
I
1939-42 Chapter 9: The Second World War
II
1942-45 Chapter 10: The Cold War
1945-90 Chapter 11: Since 1990 Chapter 12: Conclusions Notes Selected Further Reading Index