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No Substitute for Victory
Successful American Military Strategies from the Revolutionary War to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
**“Neatly encapsulates why the United States has been so successful at warfare . . . should be required reading in the military academies and the White House” (Andrew Roberts, New York Times–bestselling author).
Is there a recipe for military success? In No Substitute for Victory, author...
America and World War I
A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
America and World War I, the first volume in the new Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies series, provides a concise, annotated guide to the vast amount of resources available on the Great War. With over 2,000 entries selected from a wide variety of publications, manuscript collections,...
by Christina Gier
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
An advertisement in the sheet music of the song “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France” (1917) announces: “Music will help win the war!” This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during the American engagement in the First World...
The Chinese Army Today
Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works. This new, revised edition has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the institution.
In 1999, the military modernization...
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Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers [2 volumes]
The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Each culture has had its Machiavelli, its Sun Tzu; its own Mohammed-like or Napoleonic figure. This encyclopedia ranges across the world to provide entries on every significant military and strategic thinker in human history as well as a number of military cultures, covering Chinese, Western, Indian,...
Allies and Adversaries
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military...
Fighting for Napoleon
French Soldiers' Letters, 1799–1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
True, first-hand accounts of combat and soldiering from the men who fought for Napoleon Bonparte and the First French Empire: “Fascinating stuff” (Stuart Asquith, author of Military Modelling).
The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often presented from a strategic point of view, or in terms...
The Sources of Military Doctrine
France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive,...
Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée
Motivation, Military Culture, and Masculinity in the French Army, 1800-1808
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The men who fought in Napoleon’s Grande Armée built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberté, égalité, and fraternité. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to overthrow tyrants, rallied...
by General Baron Antoine Henri de Jomini
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
The Seven Years War (1756-1763) marked the first truly world-wide conflict following the expansion of European colonies, sparking engagements across India to Canada.
As with so many of the European wars, the causes were a question of land and legitimacy. The ever-present simmering tensions between...
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. This monograph examines the imperial Russian campaign to quell rebellion in the North Caucasus from 1801 to 1864 and the Bolshevik suppression of the Basmachi rebellion in Central Asia from...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Since September 11, 2001, the United States has used unmanned systems extensively around the world. These were primarily unmanned aircraft systems, but in the same years the technologies for ground...
by Ephraim Emerton
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2018
The principle of the mediæval, feudal state is to be found in the division of what we call "sovereign powers" among a great number of persons. These powers are chiefly the military, the judicial, and the financial. The military power includes not merely the defence of the country against...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Part of our value-added professional format series, the Military Working Dogs Field Manual (FM 3-19.17) addresses the current capabilities of the Military Police Working Dog Program as well as the potential for future applications. As technology and world situations change, the MWD team will continue...