History of the U.S. Navy

Robert W. Love

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9780811767187
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia militar y marítima

This sweeping recasting of American naval history is a bold departure from the conventional “sea power” approach. Volume Two of History of the U.S. Navy shows how the Navy in World War II helped to upset the traditional balance in Europe and Asia. Days after Pearl Harbor, Admiral Ernest J. King took command of a navy overwhelmed by the demands of war. King devised grand strategies to defeat the Axis and promoted a cadre of fighting admirals—Halsey, Spruance, Hewitt, Kincaid, and Turner—who waged unprecedented in complexity and violence. New sources provide an entirely fresh look at the Battle of the Atlantic, the invasion of Europe, and the great naval campaigns in the Pacific.
This book contains the first comprehensive interpretation of the U.S. Navy’s role in the Cold War, when the United States found itself the global bailiff. Love demonstrated that the Navy’s abiding priority was to capture and maintain a share of the strategic bombardment mission by building new ships, planes, submarines, and mission to deliver nuclear weapons.
The dawn of the New World Oder found the Navy still on duty as the mailed fist of American foreign policy, standing watch in the Persian Gulf and, at the same time, off the coast of West Africa during Liberia’s violent civil war. Fresh challenges, the author argues, call for a newly balanced fleet and continued attention to America’s first line of defense.

Table of contents

• Chapter One: From Pearl Harbor to the Java Sea, 1942
• Chapter Two: From the Marshalls Raid to the Battle off Midway, 1942
• Chapter Three: Guadalcanal, 1942–1943
• Chapter Four: The Atlantic Front, 1942
• Chapter Five: Winning the Battle of the Atlantic, 1943–1945
• Chapter Six: The Invasion of Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944
• Chapter Seven: Advancing on the Flanks in the Pacific, 1943–1944
• Chapter Eight: The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944–1945
• Chapter Nine: The Pacific Submarine Offensive, 1942–1945
• Chapter Ten: Beginning the Central Pacific Offensive, 1943–1944
• Chapter Eleven: The Battle of the Philippine Sea, 1944
• Chapter Twelve: The Return to the Philippines, 1944
• Chapter Thirteen: From Yalta to Hiroshima, 1945
• Chapter Fourteen: The Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945–1949
• Chapter Fifteen: Defending Containment and Resisting Unification, 1948–1949
• Chapter Sixteen: The Korean War, 1950–1951
• Chapter Seventeen: Stalemate in Korea, 1951–1953
• Chapter Eighteen: The New Look and Massive Retaliation, 1953–1957
• Chapter Nineteen: Enforcing Containment in Asia, 1953–1956
• Chapter Twenty: The Advent of Polaris, 1957–1960
• Chapter Twenty-one: Policing the Eisenhower Doctrine, 1957–1958
• Chapter Twenty-two: The Navy on the New Frontier, 1961–1963
• Chapter Twenty-three: Flexible Response, 1961–1963
• Chapter Twenty-four: To the Tonkin Gulf Incident, 1961–1964
• Chapter Twenty-five: Gradual Escalation in the Vietnam War, 1965
• Chapter Twenty-six: The Navy’s Air War in Vietnam, 1966–1968
• Chapter Twenty-seven: The Naval War in South Vietnam, 1965–1967
• Chapter Twenty-eight: The Tide Turns in the Vietnam War, 1967–1968
• Chapter Twenty-nine: Defending the Nixon Doctrine, 1969–1971
• Chapter Thirty: The Navy and Détente, 1969–1973
• Chapter Thirty-one: The End of the Vietnam War, 1969–1973
• Chapter Thirty-two: The Interregnum, 1974–1976
• Chapter Thirty-three: The New Isolationism, 1975–1977
• Chapter Thirty-four: The Days of Malaise, 1977–1979
• Chapter Thirty-five: Upholding the Carter Doctrine, 1979–1980
• Chapter Thirty-six: The Maritime Strategy, 1981–1988
• Chapter Thirty-seven: The Reagan Doctrine, 1982–1986
• Chapter Thirty-eight: Defending the Reagan Doctrine, 1985–1989
• Chapter Thirty-nine: The Iran-Iraq War, 1980–1989
• Chapter Forty: The New World Order, 1989–1991
• Epilogue
• List of Abbreviations
• Notes