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After Italy's surrender to the Allies in September 1943, German naval forces took control of the entire Aegean, and the resulting guerrilla war in the narrow seas and littoral waters would continue to rage until the general peace. Naval warfare in the narrow seas is different from naval actions on the high seas, requiring different types of ships and craft and different mindsets. In the cramped and narrow inshore waters, which can easily be do...

This history of the French Navy in Indochina from 1945-1954 examines the specific naval organization, equipment, and skills demanded by coastal and riverine warfare. Focusing on the development of the French naval infantry assault divisions called dinassauts, the volume reviews their tactics, techniques, battles, and overall performance on coastal patrol, river patrol, and river assault. The authoritative text is complemented by maps of the ar...

The first and only scholarly book in English about the French Navy during the reign of the Vichy government, The Cyrano Fleet is a revisionist study presenting the French version of the events of 1940 through 1942. Captain Koburger's use of French sources has allowed him to put forth evidence that contradicts and often corrects our understanding of this complex period of French maritime history. In particular, he attacks the Anglo-American con...

Explores the Austro-Hungarian Navy's contribution to the Central Powers effort in the Adriatic during the First World War.

Steel Ships, Iron Crosses, and Refugees documents the German navy's role in the Baltic, including the final epic amphibious lift in the Baltic and the world's two largest maritime disasters. The small German Navy and Merchant Marines evacuated over 2, 000, 000 refugees, wounded, and troops by sea, without adequate air support and while under Russian fire. During the evacuation, the torpedoing of Wilhelm Gustaloff and GOYA alone resulted in the...

As the U.S. Navy enters the twenty-first century, many of the ships, aircraft, weapons, and tactics it employed so successfully during the Cold War will no longer be cost-effective or even effective. Future battlefields will shift the locus of naval action from the high seas into littoral waters, demanding sustained operations in relatively narrow, shallow waters. Naval forces in the twenty-first century must not only meet the traditional requ...

In this book, Koburger argues that the many battles that constituted the campaign for the Solomons were the key to victory in the Pacific for the US Navy - not the battle of the Coral Sea or the Battle of Midway. The individual campaigns are described realistically.

Presents an account of the naval events that took place in the Eastern Mediterranean between 1940 and 1945. It also aims to demonstrate in an interesting fashion what naval warfare in the narrow seas is really like.

Djibouti's naval base, 600 miles closer to the Strait of Hormuz than Diego Garcia, is the nearest base to Middle East oil centers likely to be available to France and its allies in the future. Koburger's work, the only current book on maritime Djibouti, describes the geography, naval history, and present stragegic importance of this country, and indicates what might be its future. Koburger includes previously little known facts concerning Fren...

This text is a study of the French naval expedition to Vietnam shortly after World War II. It provides a case study of what such expeditions involve and illustrates many politico-military lessons for those like the US, who would project power from the sea east of the Suez today.

According to Charles W. Koburger, Jr., the naval world has been turned upside down and the United States is not prepared for it. Most naval thought has been written for large blue water ships isolated on the open sea. But low-intensity conflicts--insurgencies, counterinsurgencies, terrorism, regional hostilities--smolder and flare around the world. Naval war is now frequently fought in narrow landbound seas where everything and everybody is in...

This study discusses the history of US dealings with Vichy France, especially in the French Antilles and St Pierre et Miquelon. Koburger examines Operation Torch, the subsequent establishment of US bases on French soil and the rebuilding by the US of the French Navy.

This work looks at the overall picture of warfare in the narrow Baltic Sea during World War II, with equal emphasis placed on the smaller navies of Sweden, Denmark and Finland and on Britain and Germany. The characteristics and operational problems of the Baltic are also described.