This study investigates the need for a U.S. flag merchant marine. Parameters used are those functions of a merchant marine enunciated by President Roosevelt in 1935: (1) protection of U.S. commerce from unfair foreign trade practices; (2)...
This paper on neutral rights on the high seas and the origins of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War grew out of a much larger and continuing study of the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War. The rights and duties of both neutrals and...
The United States Navy has always considered combating piracy a mission and responsibility under international law and tradition. Recently, the importance of this mission has increased markedly. There are two reasons for this. First, the increase...
Throughout history seagoing nations have nurtured their navies to protect their ocean lifelines and influence regional and world events. Blockades are one way in which a naval power has historically influenced these events. In time of war and...
In January 1943 the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, and Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Navy agreed that the formation of a joint committee to assess enemy Naval and merchant shipping losses during World War II would be desirable. Accordingly the JOINT...
This study investigates why Secretaries Gideon Welles and Stephen Mallory were able to remain in office for the entire span of the Civil War, while most of their contemporaries did not last their full term. The study explores Secretaries Mallory's...
Serves as a practical guide for officers of the Army of the United States in administering the "laws of war" and the application of correct legal principles to situations involving military government, martial law, and domestic disturbances.
In this study on industry and commerce in the Philippines, main branches, organization and government control, and the effects of war on industry are examined. Commerce topics include domestic trade, foreign trade and price control.
This study on Germany focuses on transportation systems and inland waterways. The four sections of this document are broken down by the shipbuilding industry, shipping industry, Reich (national) waterways, and inland ports.
This military manual covers the rules or laws of war by which the conduct of war is regulated by civilized nations. Included is armed forces qualifications, conduct of hostilities, prisoners, casualties, espionage, capitulation, military...
This field service document is broken down into three categories: organization, operations (information, security, orders, marches and convoys, combat, shelter), and administration (service of the interior, service of the theater of operations,...
Basic field manual, volume VII, military law, was published in three parts, as follows: part one- manual for courts-martial; part two- rules of land warfare; and part three- military aid to civil authorities. This document, part two, details basic...
Reviews economic warfare (all aspects of war aimed at the destruction of the economy of the enemy) employed and developed by the United States and Great Britain during World War II and makes recommendations to improve their application in both...
This paper on neutral rights on the high seas and the origins of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War grew out of a much larger and continuing study of the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War. The rights and duties of both neutrals and...
Navy Department, Office of Naval Records and Library
The operations herein described are those which actually took place in the year 1918 and detail accounts of the cruises of all the submarines that operated off the American coast during the First World War.
This is an Army Service Forces Manual, a Civil Affairs handbook, on Norway. This study examines topics regarding government and administration (focusing on German military government in Norway), labor, cultural institutions, government finance, and...