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"A detailed study of three major naval operations of World War II. These three, initiated by imperial Japan, took place in the Pacific and resulted in the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway/Aleutians, and the Philippine Sea. All the cases provide ample background on the geographic and strategic context of the operations, as well as an account of the unfolding of the action utilizing much primary source material in, especially, American and Japanese archives"--Provided by publisher.
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Dr. Milan Vego has been a professor in the Joint Military Operations Department at the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, since August 1991. A native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he obtained political asylum in the United States in 1976. Dr. Vego has been an adjunct professor at the Defense Intelligence College (1984 91) and a senior fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia (1985 87), and at the former Soviet Army Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (1987 89). He earned a BA (1970) in modern history and an MA in U.S./Latin American history (1973) at the University of Belgrade and his PhD in European history from the George Washington University (1981). He holds a license as a master mariner. Dr. Vego has published eight books, including the textbooks "Operational Warfare" (2001) and "Joint Operational Warfare: Theory and Practice" (2008; reprint 2009), as well as "The Battle for Leyte, 1944: Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execution, " and numerous articles in professional journals. He published his most recent book, "Operational Warfare at Sea: Theory and Practice, " in December 2008."
