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Jim retired after a forty-four-year career with the Department of Defense, including duty as a carrier-based naval aviator. He holds advanced degrees from the University of Southern California and formerly served as a faculty member and National Security Affairs department chair at the Naval Postgraduate School. Dr. Tritten’s publications have won him eighty-three writing awards, including the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award from the Navy League of the U.S., the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA) Writer of the Year and the Parris Award from SouthWest Writers (SWW) – both of the latter in 2023. He has published fourteen books and over four hundred fifty chapters, short stories, essays, articles, and government technical reports. Jim was a ...more

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	Doctrine And Fleet Tactics In The Royal Navy 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soviet Naval Forces And Nuclear Warfare: Weapons, Employment, And Policy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naval Perspectives for Military Doctrine Development by James John Tritten (Goodreads Author), Jim Tritten (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love, Sweet to Spicy: A Corrales Writing Group Anthology by James John Tritten (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Chris Allen (Contributor), Pat Walkow (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Declaratory Policy for the Strategic Employment of the Soviet Navy 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our New National Security Strategy: America Promises to Come Back it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Doctrine Reader: The Navies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Spain by James John Tritten (Goodreads Author), Luigi Donolo, U.S. Naval War College Press (Producer) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Blood Lines (Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor, #2)

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“I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.”
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