Small Boats And Daring Men (Campaigns And Commanders Series) (Volume 66),New

Small Boats And Daring Men (Campaigns And Commanders Series) (Volume 66),New

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Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Joness own experience as a starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the bluewater battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power.Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modernday Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At the same time, Armstrong examines the eras conflicts with nonstate enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his workwith reference to original naval operational reports, sailors memoirs and diaries, and officers correspondenceis at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power.Offering a critical new look at the naval history of the Early American era, this book also raises fundamental questions for naval strategy in the twentyfirst century.

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