Military category: 34701 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Carl Von Clausewitz defined war as: "an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will". To that end, the Russian government has waged two major military campaigns since 1991: the invasion...
by Samuel Willard Crompton
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Brutality and fear. Heroism and sacrifice. Military history is a fascinating, complex, and often contradictory subject. War and fighting between tribes, clans, groups and countries has been with us forever. Great leaders, great villains, pivotal moments and events become transformative, causing political,...
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy
India, Iraq and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international...
by Dr. Huw Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate—and controversial—new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career....
by Xiaobing Li
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Since the establishment of the Red Army in 1927, China's military has responded to profound changes in Chinese society, particularly its domestic politics, shifting economy, and evolving threat perceptions. Recently tensions between China and Taiwan and other east Asian nations have aroused great...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Modern military Special Operations arguably started with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II and have maintained strategic utility for almost 70 years. The War on Terror,...
Managing Diversity in the Military
The value of inclusion in a culture of uniformity
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
This edited book examines the management of diversity and inclusion in the military.
Owing to the rise of asymmetric warfare, a shift in demographics and labor shortfalls, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has prioritized diversity and inclusion in its workforce management philosophy. In pursuing...
Nonlinear Science and Warfare
Chaos, complexity and the U.S. military in the information age
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book examines the United States military’s use of concepts from non-linear science, such as chaos and complexity theory, in its efforts to theorise information-age warfare.
Over the past three decades, the US defence community has shown an increasing interest in learning lessons from...
Invisible Injured
Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Canadian soldiers returning home have always been changed by war and peacekeeping, frequently in harmful but unseen ways. The Invisible Injured explores the Canadian military’s continuous battle with psychological trauma from 1914 to 2014 to show that while public understanding and sympathy toward...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Army Regulation AR 600-8-22 Military Awards is a rapid action revision effective 24 June 2013. It provides Department of the Army policy, criteria, and administrative instructions concerning individual military decorations. Good Conduction Medal, service medals and ribbons, combat and...
When Soldiers Say No
Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Traditionally few people challenged the distinction between absolute and selective conscientious objection by those being asked to carry out military duties. The former is an objection to fighting all wars - a position generally respected and accommodated by democratic states, while the latter is...
The Chinese Army Today
Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
The Chinese Army Today is a completely unique and comprehensive study of all elements of the Chinese military, focusing on its ground forces to a degree not found in any other contemporary works.
In 1999, the military modernization program of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army that had...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The tendency to maintain familiar behaviors while evolving slowly and incrementally when faced with unfamiliar problems is the result of a gap in the US Army's understanding of adaptability...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This paper analyzes the political and military effectiveness of the Rhode Island militia during the Revolutionary War. Through careful study of the roots of Rhode Island and its militia forces,...