American Naval History


Printed:	2002	Author:	Jack Sweetman
Publisher:	Naval Institute Press	ISBN:	1557508674
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This indispensable reference provides concise, year-to-year summaries of events in the history of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps from the Revolution onward. Nearly encyclopedic in coverage and supported by well over two hundred illustrations and four indexes, it gives readers immediate access to a wealth of material. Compiled and updated by a longtime professor of naval history at the U.S. Naval Academy, the popular chronology is much more than a simple catalog of naval facts. Jack Sweetman explains the consequences of major events and, when appropriate, provides a series of entries to show stages of development and give a sense of continuity.
This new third edition, the first update since 1991, adds information on the decade from the Gulf War through the turn of the century, a period that included nuclear weapons reductions and the end of the Cold War, but also saw a focus on littoral warfare, the growing role of women in uniform, strikes on Iraq, intervention in Somalia, the air war with Yugoslavia, the attack on the USS Cole, and finally the war in Afghanistan.