The U.S. Navy in the Korean War Review

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(More customer reviews)Over many years, books researched and produced by the Naval Historical Center in Washington, D.C. in tandem with the Naval Institute Press unfailingly prove to be outstanding works. NHC's fine team of historians, writers and editors produce thoughtful, analytical, accurate and, not least, attractively presented, volumes in their series of offerings, often in concert, as in this case, with the U.S. Naval Institute, America's leading publisher of quality books on U.S. and international naval history and reference. This volume on the Navy in the Korean War is certainly no exception. The book's editor, Dr. Edward Marolda, is a senior historian at the Naval Historical Center who has done wonderful work in the past on the modern Navy, particularly in his fine works on the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars. Here he has effectively linked together an excellent series of scholarly monographs produced in previous years by the NHC covering the salient aspects of the Korean War from the American perspective. These lengthy essays analyze a diverse range of topics, such as the effectiveness of the Navy's senior leadership early in the war, carrier air operations, particularly at the outset of the conflict when the U.S. naval presence in the region was minimal due to post-World War II downsizing, the Inchon amphibious operation, and a unique perspective on African American naval pilots in the war. This book is as readable and entertaining as it is informative. I highly recommend it.

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This remarkable collection of works by some of the most authoritative naval historians in the United States draws on many formerly classified sources to shed new light on the U.S. Navy's role in the three-year struggle to preserve the independence of the Republic of Korea. Several of the essays concentrate on fleet operations during the first critical year of the war and later years when United Nations forces fought a "static war." Others focus on the leadership of Admirals Forrest P. Sherman, C. Turner Joy, James H. Doyle, and Arleigh A. Burke and on carrier-based and ground-based naval air operations as well as the contributions of African American Sailors. As a whole, this book documents how the Navy's domination of the seas around Korea enabled Allied forces to project combat power ashore the length and breadth of the Korean peninsula. It also shows how the powerful presence of U.S. and Allied naval forces discouraged China and the Soviet Union from launching other military adventures in the Far East, thus keeping the first "limited war" of the Cold War era confined to Korea. But far from being an aberration unlikely to be replicated, the Korean War proved to be only the first in a long line of twentieth-century and early twenty-first century conflicts involving U.S. naval forces confronting Communist and nontraditional adversaries, and a full understanding of the Korean War experience, as provided in this book, helps define the role of sea power in today's world.

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