Amphibious warfare 1000-1700; commerce, state formation and European expansion.9004132449 Amphibious warfare amphibious warfare (ămfĭb`ēəs), employment of a combination of land and sea forces to take or defend a military objective. The general strategy is very ancient and was extensively employed by the Greeks, e.g. 1000-1700; commerce, state formation and European expansion. Ed. by D.J.B. Trim and Mark Charles Fissel. Brill Brill or Bril, Flemish painters, brothers. Mattys Brill (mä`tīs), 1550–83, went to Rome early in his career and executed frescoes for Gregory XIII in the Vatican. Academic Publishers 2006 498 pages $174.00 Hardcover V43 For the purposes of this volume, amphibious warfare is defined as the form of warfare in which land-based and waterborne forces cooperate against an enemy. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Trim (U. of London, UK) and Fissel (U. of California at Berkeley, US), between 1000 and 1700 AD, "amphibious am·phib·i·ous adj. 1. Biology Living or able to live both on land and in water. 2. Able to operate both on land and in water: amphibious tanks. 3. (or `combined' or `joint') operations were conducted with ever increasing frequency and sophistication--especially (though not only) by the nascent nascent /nas·cent/ (nas´ent) (na´sent) 1. being born; just coming into existence. 2. just liberated from a chemical combination, and hence more reactive because uncombined. nation-states of Christendom." While the ten historical essays they present examining amphibious warfare within this temporal and geographic area are primarily military history, focusing on tactics, operational art, strategy, and logistics, as well as developments in military and naval institutions and technology; they also consider the influence of amphibious warfare on commercial development, state formation, and European expansion. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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