Military category: 34701 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique publication covers a relatively obscure chapter in U.S. Marine Corps history—the activities of Marines in Vietnam between 1954 and 1964. The narrative traces the evolution of those activities from a one-man...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this paper examines the military career of Maj Gen Benjamin Foulois to determine how his personal qualities and professional skill enabled him to rapidly build up and lead the air arm of the American Expeditionary Forces...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This Worldwide Equipment Guide (WEG) describes the spectrum of worldwide systems and system trends in the Contemporary Operational Environment (COE), serving as an authoritative "encyclopedia" of weapons around the world. This is the newest edition revised in 2011. This handbook is one of...
Soviet Military Badges
A History and Collector's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
At its height in the late twentieth-century, the Soviet Armed Forces boasted one of the world’s largest armies. Yet, in the twenty-five years that have passed since the fall of the Soviet Union, much of its material culture has fast disappeared. Soviet Military Badges: A History and Collector’s...
Corporate Soldiers and International Security
The Rise of Private Military Companies
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This book traces the history of private military companies, with a special focus on UK private forces.
Christopher Kinsey examines the mercenary companies that filled the ranks of many European armies right up to the 1850s, the organizations that operated in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s,...
General Walter Krueger
Unsung Hero of the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
He made his name in the jungles of the Pacific theater, was featured on the cover of Time magazine, was tapped by Douglas MacArthur to lead the invasion of Japan, and made crucial contributions to the army's tactical and operational doctrine. Yet General Walter Krueger is still one of the least-known...
Gender, Power, and Military Occupations
Asia Pacific and the Middle East since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Military occupations and interventions have a gendered impact on both those engaged in occupying, and those whose lands have been occupied. Yet little is known about this gendered impact, in terms of both masculinities and femininities, either historically or in contemporary times. While research...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military is the first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military. In twenty-one original essays, the contributors tackle themes including gendering the "other,"...
by Laura Trentham
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
A young widow embraces a second chance at life when she reconnects with those who understand the sacrifices made by American soldiers and their families in award-winning author Laura Trentham’s The Military Wife.
Harper Lee Wilcox has been marking time in her hometown of Kitty Hawk, North...
Modernizing the American War Department
Change and Continuity in a Turbulent Era, 1885-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
An important study of the evolution of the U.S. War Department
Not a simple, linear administrative history, Modernizing the American War Department is a unique study of the adjustment of nineteenth-century military organizations to the managerial, technological, and policy challenges of a new...
Show No Fear
Daring Actions in Canadian Military History
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2008
Show No Fear is a collection of essays that captures the richness of Canadian military history. Although Canadians see their nation as a peaceable kingdom and themselves as an unmilitary people, the truth is that Canada has a proud military heritage. Moreover, the nations citizens and their descendants...
Beyond the Military Revolution
War in the Seventeenth Century World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history.By placing 17th century...
Military Incompetence
Why the American Military Doesn't Win
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1986
The history of American military operations in the post-Vietnam era has been marked by failure and near-disaster. Since 1970, American forces have been committed in five operations--in Sontay to rescue prisoners, in Cambodia on behalf of the crew of the Mayaguez, in Iran to rescue the American hostages,...
Red, White, or Yellow?
The Media & the Military at War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
War has always attracted journalists, such as Ernest Hemingway in the Spanish Civil War or David Halberstam in Vietnam. And war reporting has often been controversial as well as influential, like William Randolph Hearst's "yellow journalism" in the Spanish-American War. But what happens...