LEADER 02932nam 2200457z- 450 001 9910473538203321 005 20231214133447.0 035 $a(CKB)4530000000000437 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78347 035 $a(EXLCZ)994530000000000437 100 $a20202202d2020 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPhase Line Attila $ethe amphibious campaign for Cyprus, 1974 /$fEdward J. Erickson, Mesut Uyar 210 $aQuantico, VA$cMarine Corps University Press (MCUP)$d2020 215 $a1 electronic resource (264 p.) 311 $a1-7370405-0-6 311 $a1-7320030-8-4 327 $aA 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. 330 $aThis 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. 517 $aPhase Line Attila 606 $aPostwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000$2bicssc 607 $aCyprus$xHistory$yTurkish Invasion, 1974 607 $aTurkey$xHistory, Military$y20th century 610 $aCyprus 610 $aTurkey 610 $ainvasion 610 $aamphibious warfare 610 $alanding operations 615 7$aPostwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 676 $a956.9304 700 $aErickson$b Edward J.$f1950-$0693413 702 $aUyar$b Mesut 712 02$aMarine Corps University (U.S.).$bPress, 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910473538203321 996 $aPhase Line Attila$92985094 997 $aUNINA