Marine Corps Topics of Interest

Chronicles the development of US Army, Navy, and Marine Corps amphibious operations during WWII. Describes ships and landing craft, ship-to-shore movement, command relationships, air and gunfire support, mine countermeasures, and salvage, and includes accounts of operations in the Solomon Islands and North Africa, and in Normandy, Leyte, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa in 1944-45, drawing on oral histories, war diaries, and combat reports. Contains b&w photos and maps.

This is the story of seven now-epic long-range assaults executed against murderous enemy fire at Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa - and a potential eighth, Kyushu.

This is the first of two volumes describing in detail the role of the US naval forces during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Illustrates command-and-control issues through stories of operations, and discusses broader strategic issues in the context of the impact on naval operations. Deals with the early days of Desert Shield, decisions made in preparation for defense, and preparation for offensive operations after the president announced a near doubling of US forces. Sources include the author's personal observations, as well as official logs, internal briefings, news reports, and interviews.

This book covers the US Marine Corps in the Vietnam War, centering on the structure and function of the two Fleet Marine Force (FMF) divisions and the corps command level, III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF). This detailed examination of III MAF explores its infantry, armor, artillery, aviation, service and engineer elements. Author Ed Gilbert explains how they functioned and highlights tensions that arose in the command structure as the war progressed. He also illustrates how the two FMF divisions bore the brunt of the fighting in the more conventional war against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army units, and the very different role of the four Combined Action Battalions based in Vietnamese Villages.

The author, who was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, describes some of the problems met in a Navy racing to war and finding it necessary to recreate a largely abandoned operational technique in a somewhat ad hoc fashion.

Anthony Cordesman draws careful conclusions based on extensive research from a wide variety of sources, including newly declassified documents; official military reports; informal review and commentary by U.S. military services and British, French, Egyptian, and Saudi officers; interviews; and field research in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and southern Iraq as well as Cordesman’s own firsthand observations of the unfolding battle for Kuwait in his capacity as military analyst for ABC News and a year of research on the war as fellow at the Wilson Center.

This book is an operational history of amphibious warfare in the cold war, principally as refined and executed by the two superpowers, their allies, and surrogates. The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps receive the lion's share of coverage because their amphibious forces evolved earlier, attained credibility sooner, grew larger, and deployed in more distant seas than their counterparts in other countries, but all major powers are treated. The book examines amphibious doctrine, organization, specialized ships and landing craft, and force deployments as part of the naval prosecution of cold war political objectives. It describes repeated cycles of crises and forward deployments when amphibious elements of both superpowers served as "storm petrels" throughout the "years of violent peace."

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This collection of 51 essays provides a history of amphibious landings that include European, Asian, and American operations. It describes in detail some of history's most significant amphibious assaults, as well as planned attacks that were never carried out.

The Illustrated History from 1914 to the Present Day. Taking the unique approach of building up the different stages of an amphibious campaign chapter by chapter, Amphibious Warfare gives a complete picture of the men, commanders, strategy and tactics, ships, landing craft, tanks and aircraft, as well as the actual assaults.

In this authoritative and well-illustrated study, leading military and academic experts analyze 37 amphibious operations, from the 'how not to do it' catastrophe at Gallipoli in 1915 to the Al Faw landings in Iraq in 2003. Among the essays are studies of the Zeebrugge and Ostend raids (1918), Japanese amphibious warfare 1918-1942, Guadalcanal (1942), Anzio (1944), the Normandy landings, Iwo Jima and Okinawa (1945), the Suez Crisis and the Falkland Islands (1982).

Warfighting presents the Marine Corps doctrine on maneuver warfare in three complete Fleet Marine Force Manuals: FMFM 1 'Warfighting', FMFM 1-1 'Campaigning' and FMFM 1-3 'Tactics'. Rather than establishing hard-and-fast rules, they provide guidelines for actions in combat, concentrating on mission orders, the focus of effort, and the search for the enemy's surface and gaps (strengths and weaknesses). The three manuals are complemented by b. Col. H. T. Hayden's new material, which sets the theory and practice of Marine Corps doctrine in its historical perspective, looks to the future of maneuver warfare, and comments on the text of the manuals. Hayden draws on his personal experiences as a Marine officer on active service in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf to give the reader a full understanding of the overall concept and applications of maneuver warfare.