Category: Books

Battleship Commander

Battleship Commander

Posted by | 2 May 2022 | , , , , | 0

Paul Stillwell: Battleship Commander. The life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr, Naval Institute Press 2021 Unsurprisingly, it took until 2021 to publish the first biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. who played a key role in the U.S. Navy's Pacific campaign during World War II. Although strongly promoted by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, only a few sentences about Admiral Lee's work can be found in the work "Seemacht, Eine Seekriegsgeschichte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart" published by Elmar B. Potter and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the German version of which was edited by Jürgen Rohwer. Found...

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Unmanned maritime surveillance by Triton

Unmanned maritime surveillance by Triton

Posted by | 10 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

Ernest Snowden, Robert F. Wood Jr: Maritime Unmanned. From Global Hawk to Triton, Naval Institute Press 2021 Although it is actually about the development of a new platform with new technologies for large-scale maritime reconnaissance, Snowden and Wood's book reads like a detective story. On the one hand, there are a handful of visionary naval officers with their counterparts from the defence industry, and on the other, the bureaucratic obstructionists from the Pentagon and competitors in the defence industry. Some of this resistance has already been described in P.W. Singer's book "Wired for War. The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century"...

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2034 - A possible next world war

2034 - A possible next world war

Posted by | 10 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis: 2034 A novel of the next World War, PENGUIN PRESS New York 2021, 303 p. In the mid-1980s, the publication of Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October" and "Red Storm Rising" introduced a new genre to the literary world: The influence of new technologies on military operations and their impact on political decisions. The next step was taken with the books by Peter W. Singer and in particular his book with August Cole "Ghost Fleet. A Novel of the next World War" in 2015, which describes the possible course of future military operations based on...

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50 books about the sea

50 books about the sea

Posted by | 10 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.): The Sailor's Bookshelf. Fifty Books to know the Sea, USNI 23 November 2021, 232 pp. With this book, Admiral Stavridis remains true to his love: the sea and books about it. He has selected 50 books from the large number and variety of books available, which he describes in four main categories, each in short summaries of three to four pages: Seas, explorers, seafarers in novels, seafarers in non-fiction. The sailor will find well-known but also unknown works; the landlubber will receive a kind of navigation aid through literature with a maritime flavour. He is guided through history, learns about great sea battles...

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Logistics. The key to victory

Logistics. The key to victory

Posted by | 9 Dec 2021 | , , | 1

Jeremy Black: Logistics. The Key to Victory, Pen & Sword Books, distributed by USNI, 216 pp. Rightly published in the UK in 2021, the book is also distributed by the USNI to reach a much wider readership. Although all Army, Air Force and Navy commanders recognise the critical importance of logistics, studies tend to be limited to the impact of strategy, tactics used, weaponry and the influence of leaders. Jeremy Black aims to close this gap in historical research and has analysed major conflicts from the past and present in terms of the respective role of logistics. In twelve chapters, he...

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