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David Nasca discusses his book on US amphibious warfare “The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare 1898-1945”

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Interview Summary

David Nasca served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and has graduate degrees in international relations, diplomacy, history, military studies, political science, national security and strategic studies as well as a Ph.D. from Salve Regina University. He wrote a book on the emergence of amphibious warfare in the US and we spoke about the book and about the connection between amphibious warfare and the USMC.

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1:13 – David talk about how he got into studying and writing on amphibious warfare.

1:59 – David talks about why the US focused on amphibious warfare.

4:33 – David talks about the details of what makes amphibious warfare.

6:25 – David talks about offense versus defense in amphibious warfare.

8:40 – David talks about the problem of where to attack in amphibious warfare.

11:50 – David talks defending against amphibious attack.

15:09 – David talks about Japanese amphibious warfare in WWII and the attack on the Philippines.

16:27 – David talks about the US defense of the Pacific garrisons.

18:42 – David talks about the Allied amphibious assaults on D-Day.

21:25 – David talks about bridgeheads versus amphibious raids.

23:28 – David talks about technology and amphibious technology.

27:44 – David talks about naval gunfire and air support for amphibious warfare.

29:19 – David talks about combined warfare and amphibious warfare.

31:45 – David talks about the Marine Corps and amphibious warfare.

34:22 – David talks about US Marine Corps training towards amphibious warfare.

36:43 – David talks about the development of techniques to check beaches below the waterline.

38:16 – David talks about how he did his research.

41:04 – David talks about enjoying studying Marine Corps history in regards to amphibious warfare.

43:50 – David talks about the British using amphibious warfare in a strategic context.

45:55 – David talks about naval strength and the use of amphibious warfare.

48:15 – David talks about resourcing amphibious warfare.

52:43 – David talks about where does the validity of amphibious warfare end.

55:13 – David talks about the amphibious operation into Afghanistan.

1:00:57 – David can be found on amazon under his author’s homepage.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/3lditre

https://www.usni.org/press/books/emergence-american-amphibious-warfare-1898-1945

https://www.amazon.com/David-S.-Nasca/e/B07YLFJSBT?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000

James Miller talks about the NEAR mission http://spacewalksmoneytalks.com/p/691

Brian Herskowitz discusses outlining a screenplay https://wp.me/p7CDU9-532

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Guests: David Nasca

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, academic, podcast, Naval Institute Press, General military history, WWII, WWI, 19^th century war, Naval Warfare, United States, Britain,

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