Military category: 34701 books
Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt
The First Modern Intelligence War
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt examines the use and exploitation of intelligence in formulating Britain’s strategy for the Arab Revolt during the First World War. It also presents a radical re-examination of the achievements of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) as an intelligence officer...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
From the foreword: When we co-authored the chapter, "As Time Goes By," The Expansion of Women's Roles in Police Work, in Quint C. Thurman's Controversies in Policing (2004), we were somewhat optimistic about the integration of women into policing. Both of us entered the world of policing...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This article surveys the historical military experience since the formation of modern Iraq and until the present time.The first unit of the Iraqi army was established on January 6,...
Military Robots
Mapping the Moral Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that unmanned warfare entails magnifies the moral and ethical challenges we face in conventional warfare and everyday society. Intrinsically linked are questions...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
This monograph places the Army's 2011 campaign of learning about the Army as profession after a decade of war into the context of the just-initiated Department of Defense (DoD) reductions. The exact shape of those reductions and the defense strategy our down-sized land forces are to execute in the...
While America Sleeps
Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In While England Slept Winston Churchill revealed in 1938 how the inadequacy of Britain's military forces to cope with worldwide responsibilities in a peaceful but tense era crippled its ability to deter or even adequately prepare for World War II.
In While America Sleeps, historians Donald...
The Pope's Army
The Papacy in Diplomacy and War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
For much of its 2,000-year history, the Roman Catholic Church was a formidable political and military power, in contrast to its pacifist origins and its present concentration on spiritual matters. The period of political and military activism can be dated to roughly between 410, when Pope Innocent...
British Military Operations in Aden and Radfan
100 Years of British Colonial Rule
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The book examines the military history of Aden Colony from 1839 including the fractious turn of the century Border Commissions with Turkey and the defeat of British forces near Aden by the Turks in 1915. Great Britain successfully defended the base for the rest of The Great War and throughout the...
The Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1902
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
An often overshadowed event in American military history, the Spanish-American War began as a humanitarian effort on the part of the United States to provide military assistance for the liberation of Cuba from Spanish domination. At the time, no one knew that this simple premise would result in an...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In January 2012, President Obama announced the US military would "pivot to the Pacific" to support and protect political and economic interests in the Region. To this end, the Joint Operational...
Military Realism
The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture...
Chasing Ghosts
A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn’t realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man—and herself—and the effect of his military...
Britain's 20 Worst Military Disasters
From the Roman Conquest to the Fall of Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Britain's biggest military blunders and defeats throughout history, including Hastings, Somme, and Singapore Crecy, Agincourt, Blenheim, Trafalgar, Waterloo, El Alamein—war and history buffs know plenty about the great British military victories, often won against the odds. But what of the defeats...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, the Camouflage, Concealment, and Decoys Field Manual (FM 20-3) covers the vital military tactics of camouflage, concealment, and decoys. According to this manual, CCD is the use of materials and techniques to hide, blend,...