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• 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"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• A history of foreign internal defense and the indirect approach
• Modern warfare and international humanitarian law
• Ethical and legal considerations in training surrogate forces
• U.S. Special Operations Command doctrine on human rights and IHL
• Joint combined exchange training
• The Leahy law
• Peru and the Rondas Campesinas
• Columbia and the Self-Defense Forces
• The U.S. indirect approach in El Salvador
• The U.S. experience in Iraq
• Conclusions and recommendations.

"[This book] leverages the author's vast experience in Latin American history to examine how the U.S. Special Operations Forces (USSOF) train surrogate forces. He argues that it is necessary to employ Untied States Special Operations Command's (USSOCOM) indirect approach to grow and build partnership capacity through foreign internal defense (FID) and to find a balance with international humanitarian law (IHL). Paterson also examines the legal issues and restrictions on training and equipping foreign forces and the impact of these exchanges with our partners. His research methodology includes extensive interviews and incorporates a historical case study approach, examining FID efforts in Peru, Colombia, and El Salvador for lessons learned, and then compares and contrasts USSOF train-and-equip efforts in Iraq" -- foreword.

• Foreword.
• Preface.
• Oversight in a war zone.
• What happened and to what effect.
• Nation (re)building by adhocracy.
• How much money was spent.
• Where the money went.
• Pathways toward reform.
• Final lessons.

• Foreword by Bruce A. Elleman
• Introduction by Bruce A. Elleman, Andrew Forbes, and David Rosenberg
• Chapter 1. A modern history of the international legal definition of piracy / by Penny Campbell
• Chapter 2. Piracy on the South China coast through modern times / by Robert J. Antony
• Chapter 3. The Taiping Rebellion, piracy, and the Arrow War / by Bruce A. Elleman
• Chapter 4. Selamat Datang, Kapitan: post-World War II piracy in the South China Sea / by Charles W. Koburger, Jr.
• Chapter 5. The political economy of piracy in the South China Sea / by David Rosenberg
• Chapter 6. The looting and rape of Vietnamese boat people / Bruce A. Elleman
• Chapter 7. Piracy and armed robbery in the Malacca Strait: a problem solved? / by Catherine Zara Raymond
• Chapter 8. Piracy in Bangladesh: what lies beneath? / by Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
• Chapter 9. Confronting maritime crime in Southeast Asian waters: reexamining "piracy" in the twenty-first century / by Sam Bateman
• Chapter 10. President Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary pirates / by Robert F. Turner
• Chapter 11. The limits of naval power: The merchant brig Three Sisters, riff prates, and British battleships / by Andrew Lambert
• Chapter 12. Guns, oils, and "cake": maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea / by Arild Nodland
• Chapter 13. Fish, family, and profit: piracy and the Horn of Africa / by Gary E. Weir
• Conclusions by Bruce A. Elleman, Andrew Forbes, and David Rosenberg.

"This monograph is intended as a contribution to both scholarship and professional naval thinking; it is an academic and comparative examination of twelve selected case studies from maritime history used to illuminate a range of concepts and uses of piracy suppression. The twelve case studies provide the basis for the conclusions, an approach that provides a more thorough understanding of the uses and limitations of naval antipiracy operations in the context of new maritime technologies and within a wider range of modern national policy goals than might otherwise be achievable. Above all this collection provides a sound basis for comparative analysis of varying historical experiences that can stimulate new and original thinking about a basic but often overlooked naval duty."--Foreword

• Foreword by Henry A. Kissinger
• Foreword by Anatoly Dobrynin
• I. The confidential channel, 1969-1971
• 1. "We are entering an era of negotiation": opening the channel, February-December 1969
• 2. Détente and complication: Vietnam, Middle East, Cuba, January-December 1970
• 3. "The future of Soviet-US relations is in our hands": SALT, Berlin, Summit, January 1-July 14, 1971
• 4. Between Beijing and Moscow: the advent of triangular diplomacy, July 15-November 14, 1971
• 5. "A watershed in our relationship": the war in South Asia, November 15-December 31, 1971
• II. The Moscow Summit, 1972
• 6. "We are serious about pursuing détente": Nixon's trip to China and preparations for the Summit, January1-March 29, 1972
• 7. "What a little country can do to wreck well-laid plans": the North Vietnamese spring offensive, March 30-April 18, 1972
• 8. Dress rehearsal: Kissinger's secret trip to Moscow, April 19-24, 1972
• 9. In the balance: Vietnam, Germany, and the Summit, April 25-May 21, 1972
• 10. Face to face: Nixon and Brezhnev at the Summit, May 22-May 29, 1972.

Contains intelligence documents (38 in this book and 174 in the accompanying CD) related to the Vietnam War. Shows how the United States intelligence Community viewed critical developments over a 27-year period, ranging from analysis of the implications of the post-World War 2 breakup of colonial empires to the Communist takeover of Saigon in 1975.
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• Kazakstan / Martha Brill Olcott
• Kyrgyzstan / Martha Brill Olcott
• Tajikistan / Muriel Atkin
• Turkmenistan / Larry Clark, Michael Thurman and David Tyson
• Uzbekistan / Nancy Lubin.

Edited by Glenn E. Curtis. 4th of a six-volume subseries covering all the post-Soviet States. Brings new information about a region of enhanced relevance in the world's economy and geopolitical structure. Provides a context for the current evaluations with descriptions of the historical, political, and social backgrounds of these five countries in Central Asia. For each country, the authors provide: historical background; the society and its environment; the economy; government and politics; and national security.
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Contains various Dept. of State publications, including: US Department of State dispatch and its supplement issues; current Background Notes for all countries; daily press briefings for 1991; reports submitted to Congress; and current regional maps from the Office of the Geographer.

3d edition. Edited by Thomas Collelo. Prepared by Library of Congress, Federal Research Division. Research completed Feb. 1989. Provides information on the history, society, economy, politics, and national security of Angola. Also includes appendices, bibliographies, a glossary, and an index.
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