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On contested shores : the evolving role of amphibious operations in the history of warfare / edited by Timothy Heck and B.A. Friedman.

Quantico, Virginia : Marine Corps University Press, 2020.

United States. Marine Corps.

Amphibious warfare -- History -- Case studies.

Landing operations -- History -- Case studies.

9781732003149 (t.p. verso of paperback)

1732003149 (t.p. verso of paperback)

(p. [4] of paperback cover)

xix, 430 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Introduction / Timothy Heck and B.A. Friedman -- Amphibious special operation : night attack on Porto Ercoletto, Tuscany, 2 June 1555 / Jacopo Pessina -- 1574 Siege of Leiden during the Eighty Years' War : attack by land, relief by sea / Samuel de Korte -- Amphibious Genesis : Thomas More Molyneux and the birth of amphibious doctrine / Andrew Young -- Delaware River Campaign of 1777 : an examinationof an eighteenth-century amphibious operation / James R. McIntyre -- Vera Cruz, 1847 / J. Overton -- Courting disaster : the battle of Santa Rosa Island, 8-9 October 1861 / Edward J. Hagerty -- Korea, 1871 : the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in great power competition / Benjamin Armstrong -- Estonian amphibious operations in the Eastern Baltic, 1918-20 / Eric A. Sibul -- U.S. Marine Corps and Gallipoli / Angus Murray -- Ambiguous application : the study of amphibious warfare at the Marine Corps Schools, 1920-33 / Bruce Gudmundsson -- Operation Weserubung : early amphibious multidomain operations / James K. Greer -- Reich strikes back : German victory in the Dodecanese, October-November 1943 / Jeffrey Schultz.

Missing the mark : lessons in naval gunfire support at Tarawa / James P. McGrath III -- Soviet strategic attack and the tactical amphibious failure at Merküla in 1944 / Andrew Del Gaudio -- Learning the lessons of Port-en-Bessin, 1944 / John D. Salt -- German naval evacuations on the Eastern Front, 1943-45 / Gregory Liedtke -- Against all odds : Turkish amphibious operation in Cyprus, 20-23 July 1974 / Serhat Güvenç and Mesut Uyar -- Role of amphibious operations within the multidomain operational construct : background and considerations / Keith D. Dickson -- Future is amphibious : the role of naval special warfare in the great power competition / Sulakshana Komerath -- Uncertainty, Maskirovka, and militarism : Russian perspectives and amphibious assault potential in the arctic near future / Ellen A. Ahlness -- Naval strategy and the future of amphibious operations / B.A. Friedman -- United Kingdom's approach to amphibious operations : from the Cold War to the information age / Kevin Rowlands -- U.S. Marine Corps and advanced base operations : past, present, and future / Walker D. Mills -- Conclusion / B.A. Friedman and Timothy Heck.

"The basis for On Contested Shores has been under construction since before the Commandant released the planning guidance. As career Marine officers, who spent very little time at sea, the editors have long been concerned that the Marine Corps was becoming too land-centric, heavily reflecting the characteristics of a second land army. This has been true since 1991, when the Marine Corps participated in a land campaign in Iraq, and especially since 2001, when it participated in three land campaigns: Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. To fight these battles, the Marine Corps became heavier, upgraded equipment, and generally focused on counterinsurgency tactics vice amphibious warfare. While the Marine Corps always steps up to fight alongside the U.S. Army, its purpose is naval campaigns fought alongside the U.S. Navy. This book is in part a way to help figure out how to regain and maintain the skills necessary for maritime operations"--

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