Full Description
In addition to port security, ship inspection and safety, law enforcement, and search and rescue, the U.S. Coast Guard assumes an important role in national defense at home and abroad. To that end, the Coast Guard has carried out separate and coordinated missions with other armed forces from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and North Polar region. This chronicle of the Coast Guard's contributions to national defense examines participation in World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. Among the topics explored are defense threats, drug trafficking, and border security, as well as Coast Guard personnel, training, leadership, and assets.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Commander Gary M. Thomas, USCG
Preface
Introduction
1. The Coast Guard: 1790 to World War I
2. World War II on Land, Sea and Air
3. Korea: The Forgotten Cold War Conflict
4. The Cold War from America to Vietnam
5. Logistics and Tactics in Indochina
6. Cold War, Terror and Interdiction
7. National Defense on the Great Lakes
8. Natural Disasters and the War on Terror
9. Coast Guard Aviation and National Defense
10. Homeland Security
11. The Coast Guard in Kosovo, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf
12. Port Security, Pirates and Commandos
13. Budgets, Assets, Missions and Training
14. The Arctic and National Security
15. The Coast Guard Heritage
Appendix A: Team Coast Guard and Commandants to 1990
Appendix B: Team Coast Guard and Commandants, 1990 to 2010
Appendix C: Always Ready: Coast Guard Personnel
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
