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"For years, the Marine Corps has touted the prescience of Lieutenant Colonel ""Pete"" Ellis, USMC, who predicted in 1921 that the United States would fight Japan and how the Pacific Theater would be won. Now, for the first time, those predictions and other works by the ""amphibious prophet"" are available in print. Included is two works by Ellis on naval and amphibious operations, including Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia, the study of tactics and operations in the Pacific Ocean that the United States Navy and Marine Corps would use to win the war against Imperial Japan. Ellis describes the form and functions of a modern Marine Corps designed to win its Nation's battles. Ellis' ideas about how the Marine Corps should fight are still in use throughout the world today. Ellis' ideas on amphibious operations are well known, but his ideas on counterinsurgency and conventional war have been overshadowed and forgotten. Ellis wrote two articles based on his warfighting experiences in the Philippines and as part of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I. These articles, last published in the early 1920's, are both republished in this book and show Ellis as a prescient thinker who was ahead of his time. Ellis identifies concepts that the US military struggles with even today, and that other thinkers would not identify for decades after Ellis' death. Also included are six essays by the editor, introducing the ideas of Pete Ellis and putting them in a modern context. As the United States turns its focus to the Pacific, Ellis' ideas can inform policymakers on the dynamics of strategy and warfare in the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean. Edited by Captain B. A. Friedman, USMC, 21st Century Ellis reveals the strategic insights of Pete Ellis for then and now."

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If you read 21st Century Ellis and cannot see the many parallels with the defence of Australia and its region then you just don't get it. Some of these concepts may be common knowledge to most navy and marine types but in the 21st century we need the Australian Army and the RAAF to get onboard the maritime world. 21st Century Ellis is highly recommended. --Australian Naval Institute

As the edited articles show, while he was ahead of his time, his ideas and theories contributed significantly to America's victory over Japan some 22 years after his death at Japanese hands. As the editor contends, they have survived and flourished for 70 years beyond that. -Baird Maritime Australia

If you read 21st Century Ellis and cannot see the many parallels with the defence of Australia and its region then you just don't get it. Some of these concepts may be common knowledge to most navy and marine types but in the 21st century we need the Australian Army and the RAAF to get onboard the maritime world. 21st Century Ellis is highly recommended. --Australian Naval Institute

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Captain B. A. Friedman is a field artillery officer in the United States Marine Corps currently stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, USA. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from The Ohio State University, USA and is pursuing a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies through the Naval War College, USA. He resides with his lovely wife Ashton and daughters Savannah and Emma.

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