Overview
For years, the Marine Corps has touted the prescience of Lt. Col. ""Pete"" Ellis, USMC, who predicted in 1921 that the United States would fight Japan and how the Pacific Theater would be won. Now the works of the ""amphibious prophet"" are collected together for the first time. Included are Ellis' essays on naval and amphibious operations that the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps would use to win the war against Imperial Japan, as well as his articles about counterinsurgency and conventional war based on his experiences in the Philippines and in Europe during World War I. As the United States focuses on the Pacific once again, Friedman presents Ellis' ideas as a case study to inform current policymakers about the dynamics of strategy and warfare across the vast reaches of the Pacific. This collection reveals Ellis to be a thinker who was ahead of his time in identifying concepts the U.S. military struggles with even today.
Full Product Details
Author: Brett A. Friedman ,
B A Friedman
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Imprint: Naval Institute Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.054kg
ISBN: 9781612518077
ISBN 10: 1612518079
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 30 April 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
If you read 21st Century Ellis and cannot see the many parallels with the defence of Australia and its region then you just don't get it. Some of these concepts may be common knowledge to most navy and marine types but in the 21st century we need the Australian Army and the RAAF to get onboard the maritime world. 21st Century Ellis is highly recommended. --Australian Naval Institute
As the edited articles show, while he was ahead of his time, his ideas and theories contributed significantly to America's victory over Japan some 22 years after his death at Japanese hands. As the editor contends, they have survived and flourished for 70 years beyond that. -Baird Maritime Australia
If you read 21st Century Ellis and cannot see the many parallels with the defence of Australia and its region then you just don't get it. Some of these concepts may be common knowledge to most navy and marine types but in the 21st century we need the Australian Army and the RAAF to get onboard the maritime world. 21st Century Ellis is highly recommended. --Australian Naval Institute
Author Information
Capt. B. A. Friedman is a field artillery officer in the United States Marine Corps currently stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He is pursuing a Master of Arts in national security and strategic studies through the Naval War College.
