Military category: 34701 books
Victory at Risk
Restoring America's Military Power: A New War Plan for the Pentagon
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Our combat readiness to fight a conventional war is in freefall. This is the alarm sounded with clarity, authority, and conviction in Victory at Risk, a veteran Army officer and policymaker’s deeply disturbing critique of today’s U. S. military establishment. Major General Michael W. Davidson,...
by Colonel Ian N. A. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Recent years have seen the US, UK and other ISAF and Coalition nations enmeshed in protracted, complex and intense campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Resilient and highly adaptable opponents have operated asymmetrically, and amongst the people, to negate the technological superiority of the West;...
Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War
Was Defeat Inevitable?
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic plan—to secure the resources Japan needed and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This work examines the use of tanks in urban warfare. It seeks to provide insight and a historical precedence on the wisdom of employing tanks in an inherently dangerous dimension of the modern...
Beyond Shock and Awe
Warfare in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
**From one of the twelve founding members of Delta Force, a collection of commentary on the future of war. **
In Beyond Shock and Awe, media commentator Eric Haney—a founding member of Delta Force and author of Inside Delta Force—along with other noted military analysts and award-nominated...
The Cold War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In The Cold War: A Military History, David Miller, a preeminent Cold War scholar, writes insightfully of the historic effects of the military build-up brought on by the Cold War and its concomitant effect on strategy. Bringing together for the first time newly declassified information, Miller takes...
by E.R. Johnson, Lloyd S. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Without the support of airlift, the modern American military machine would be brought to a standstill. Since World War II—beginning with the Cold War and continuing up to the present day—the U.S. armed forces have come increasingly to rely upon airlift for mobility. The power to rapidly move and...
Home Fires Burning
Married to the Military-for Better or Worse
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York’s Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It’s a ritual played out on military bases across the nation as the waiting wives of Karen Houppert’s extraordinary...
Irregular Army
How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard’s explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang members, criminals...
by Clement A. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Confederate Military History is a 12-volume series of books written and/or edited by former Confederate general Clement A. Evans that deals with specific topics related to the military personalities, places, battles, and campaigns in various Southern United States, including those of the Confederacy....
With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other
The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows,...
by CDR Michelle J. Howard USN
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This study examines Union slave policy in the Civil War. Prior to the initiation of hostilities, President Abraham Lincoln stated that the conflict between the states was over the preservation of the Union, and not over slavery. The administration was concerned that a war policy centered on slavery...
National Guard 101
A Handbook for Spouses
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The first time I attended a National Guard family event, I felt like I had been abducted by aliens!” recalls Mary Corbett, author of National Guard 101: A Handbook for Spouses. “I didn’t understand anything! I had never been in an armory before. I didn’t know the difference between an officer...
Deployed
How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
"Deployed is an important and deeply moving book. Here, in this story, the heroic tradition of the American citizen-soldier lives on."
---Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor, Boston University, and author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
"Whatever your...