02932nam 2200457z- 450 991047353820332120231214133447.0(CKB)4530000000000437(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78347(EXLCZ)99453000000000043720202202d2020 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPhase Line Attila the amphibious campaign for Cyprus, 1974 /Edward J. Erickson, Mesut UyarQuantico, VAMarine Corps University Press (MCUP)20201 electronic resource (264 p.)1-7370405-0-6 1-7320030-8-4 A study in amphibiosity -- The militarization of Cyprus -- Planning the assault G-5 to G-1 -- The G-day assault -- Consolidating the lodgment G+1 to G+2 -- The operational pause, 23 July-13 August 1974 -- Breakout to Phase Line Attila, 14-16 August 1974 -- Reflections on amphibiosity.This monograph will prove to be one of the more valuable works ever written on the efficacy of modern era amphibious warfare. While many students of military affairs have assumed that large-scale forcible entry amphibious operations are a thing of the past, the authors have done an outstanding job, in just eight concise and well-written chapters, to demonstrate how amphibious warfare, in combination with other joint operations, can prove decisive on modern-day battlefields. Covering a little-known combat operation that incredibly involved two neighboring North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies--Greece and Turkey--the 1974 battle known in Turkey as Operation Star Drop-4 and erroneously in the West as Operation Attila, took place on the perpetually restive island nation of Cyprus. Moreover, the authors have finally brought to light what is “arguably only one of two such [amphibious] operations” fought since 1945 that involved a substantially opposed landing. The operation also included the heavy use of airborne, airmobile, naval surface, and other follow-on armored forces that proved decisive toward relative Turkish success on Cyprus in 1974.Phase Line AttilaPostwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000bicsscCyprusHistoryTurkish Invasion, 1974TurkeyHistory, Military20th centuryCyprusTurkeyinvasionamphibious warfarelanding operationsPostwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000956.9304Erickson Edward J.1950-693413Uyar MesutMarine Corps University (U.S.).Press,BOOK9910473538203321Phase Line Attila2985094UNINA