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msieving1 -> Thesis on WW2 Amphibious Warfare (11/27/2008 12:34:18 AM)
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This may be of interest to people here.
http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/10092/1641/1/thesis_fulltext.pdf
Abstract
Amphibious operations are a topic central to the history of World
War Two in the Pacific Theatre. The majority of research on this
topic has been centred on the impact of American experiences
and successes attributed to the development and evolution of
amphibious warfare. The contributions of the United Kingdom and
Japan to the development of amphibious warfare have been
either overlooked or marginalized. This thesis will investigate the
amphibious activities of all three powers both during and before
the Pacific War, and seek to explain the importance of each
nation’s contribution to amphibious warfare. In addition, the thesis
will demonstrate how in its highest forms amphibious operations
became a fully fledged system of global force projection. The
thesis will explain how each of these powers interpreted the
legacy of the failure of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign both in the
context of their own wartime experiences, and in their respective
strategic worldviews. This interpretation is central to how each
power prepared for amphibious operations in the next war. The
importance of the geography of the Pacific Ocean to the evolution
and development of amphibious warfare will be discussed, as will
the advances in technology that allowed the creation of logistical
systems to support these operations.
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