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Aircraft in those days were too primitive, too short range, and too underpowered to accomplish this, and Germany lacked the naval strength to force a passage through the blockade. But if Germany could build a fleet of cargo U-boats that were large enough to carry meaningful loads and had the range to make a round trip between Germany and the United States without refueling, the blockade might be successfully broken. Since the German navy could not cut Britain’s supply line to America, another answer lay in sabotaging munitions factories, depots, and ships, as well as infecting horses and mules at the western end of the supply line. German agents, with American sympathizers, successfully carried out more than fifty attacks involving fires and explosions and spread anthrax and glanders on the East Coast before America’s entry into the war on 6 April 1917. Breaking the blockade with a fleet of cargo U-boats provided the lowest risk of drawing � MARCH America into the war; at the same time, sabotage 280 pp., 33 b/w photos, 9 maps, 6 1/8” x 9 1/4” was incompatible with Germany’s diplomatic goal Hardcover: $35.95 ISBN: 978-1-59114-184-6 of keeping the United States out of the war. The two History • WWI solutions were very different, but the fact that both campaigns were run by intelligence agencies—the Etappendienst (navy) and the Geheimdienst (army), through the agency of one man, Paul Hilken, in one American city, Baltimore, make them inseparable. Those solutions created the dichotomy that produced the U-boat Deutschland and the Baltimore Sabotage Cell. Here, Messimer provides the first study of the degree to which U.S. citizens were enlisted in Germany’s sabotage operations and debunks many myths that surround the Deutschland. DWIGHT R. MESSIMER is a U.S. Army veteran and former lecturer in history at California State University–San Jose. He is the author of Find and Destroy: Antisubmarine Warfare in World War I and Verschollen: World War I U-boat Losses. He resides in Northern California. 1 NEW PUBLICATIONS � FEBRUARY �▲ SEPTEMBER MARCH 176 pp., 1 b/w line drawing, 6” x 9” 176224 pp., 1113 b/w photos, 15” illustration, x 8” Paperback: $21.95 6”Paperback: x 9” $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-61251-810-7 Paperback:ISBN: 978-1-59114-185-3 $21.95 History • Naval AutobiographyISBN: 978-1-61251-807-7 • Naval History • Naval 21ST CENTURY SIMS 21ST CENTURY ELLIS Innovation, Education, and Leadership for the Modern Era Operational Art and Strategic Prophecy for the Modern Era Edited by Benjamin F. Armstrong Edited by B. A. Friedman For more than two decades William S. Sims was at the For years, the Marine Corps has touted the prescience of Lt. forefront of naval affairs. From the revolution in naval Col. “Pete” Ellis, USMC, who predicted in 1921 that the gunnery to his development of torpedo boat and destroyer United States would fight Japan and how the Pacific Theater operations, he was a central figure in preparing the U.S. Navy would be won. Now the works of the “amphibious prophet” for World War I. During the war, he served as the senior are collected together for the first time. Included are Ellis’ naval commander in Europe and was instrumental in the essays on naval and amphibious operations that the U.S. Navy establishment of the convoy system. Following the war his and Marine Corps would use to win the war against Imperial leadership as president of the Naval War College established Japan, as well as his articles about counterinsurgency and the foundation of the creative and innovative Navy that conventional war based on his experiences in the Philippines developed the operating concepts for submarines and aircraft and in Europe during World War I. As the United States carriers leading up to World War II. Despite his dramatic focuses on the Pacific once again, Friedman presents Ellis’ impact on the U.S. Navy, Sims’ books and articles are often ideas as a case study to inform current policymakers about overlooked. His lessons are especially important for today’s the dynamics of strategy and warfare across the vast reaches military, facing budget cuts as well as missions in transition. of the Pacific. This collection reveals Ellis to be a thinker This book is a collection of Adm. William Sims’ written who was ahead of his time in identifying concepts the U.S. work, and it investigates his relevance in addressing the military struggles with even today. questions facing today’s military personnel and policymakers. LCDR BENJAMIN F. ARMSTRONG, USN, is a graduate of the U.S. CAPT. B. A. FRIEDMAN is a field artillery officer in the United Naval Academy and Norwich University and is a PhD States Marine Corps currently stationed at Camp Lejeune, candidate in war studies with King’s College, London. He has North Carolina. He is pursuing a master of arts in national been awarded the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary security and strategic studies through the Naval War 2 Achievement and is the editor of 21st Century Mahan. College. TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 OR GO ONLINE AT WWW.NIP.ORG TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 OR GO ONLINE AT � FEBRUARY � FEBRUARY 432 pp., 4 b/w maps, 6” x 9” 358 pp., 16 b/w photos, 1 line drawing, Paperback: $26.95 27 maps, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-559-2 Paperback: $25.95 History • Naval ISBN: 978-1-59114-196-9 History • WWII MAHAN ON NAVAL STRATEGY STRUGGLE FOR THE MIDDLE SEA Selections from the Writings of Rear Admiral The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, Alfred Thayer Mahan 1940–1945 By Rear Adm. Alfred Thayer Mahan, USN By Vincent P. O’Hara With an introduction by John B. Hattendorf, Editor Mahan on Naval Strategy, available in paperback for the first The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where time, provides a selection of key writings from one of the Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions greatest naval theorists of all time. An original contributor to were fought there than in the Atlantic or Pacific yet the study of strategic thinking, Alfred Thayer Mahan presented remarkably little has been written about the subject. This concepts and theories in The Influence of Seapower and his other fresh study of the Mediterranean’s naval war analyzes the writings that provide guidance in developing strategies to deal actions and performances of the five major navies—British, with the maritime challenges of the twenty-first century. With Italian, French, German, and American—during the entire this unique collection of key articles and chapters from Mahan’s five-year campaign and examines the national imperatives works, readers have a single, convenient reference to help them that drove each nation’s maritime strategy.