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At the Water's Edge
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Military StrategyNaval History
Publisher Price: $43.95
ISBN13: 9781591143222
Publisher: U S Naval Inst Pr
Published: Jul 31 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The author, Col. Theodore L. Gatchel, USMC (Ret.), examines amphibious operations from Gallipoli to the Falkland Islands to determine why the defenders were unable to prevent the attackers from landing or to throw them back into the sea after they had fought their way ashore. He places the reader in the defenders' shoes as such epic battles as Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Inchon are planned and fought, and then uses these cases to explain why the defenders were unable to successfully defend against enemy landings.
A practitioner, teacher, and student of amphibious warfare, Colonel Gatchel follows those explanations with speculations on how a defender today might try to stop a landing and on the implications of such actions for future amphibious operations.
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