Military category: 34701 books
The Origins of the Grand Alliance
Anglo-American Military Collaboration from the Panay Incident to Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
On December 12, 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay, which was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanjing, China. Although the Japanese apologized, the attack turned American public opinion against Japan, and President Roosevelt dispatched Captain Royal Ingersoll to London to...
Baldwin of the Times
Hanson W. Baldwin, a Military Journalist's Life, 1903-1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Hanson W. Baldwin was America's best-known military writer and analyst in the 20th Century covering conflicts from World War II to the Vietnam War. He was the military editor of the New York Times for forty years and his dispatches from Guadalcanal and the Western Pacific won him a Pulitzer Prize in...
Tactics and Procurement in the Habsburg Military, 1866-1918
Offensive Spending
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This book reveals the primary causes of Habsburg defeat both in the Austro-Prussian War and the First World War. The choice of offensive strategy and tactics against an enemy possessing superior weaponry in the Austro-Prussian War, and opponents with superior numbers and weapons in the Great War,...
The Great War in the Air
Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"For the general reader as well as the specialist, Morrow's history of the development and significance of airpower during WWI will be considered definitive. He compares the military, technological, and industrial aspects of the air services of the major powers--France, Germany, England, Italy,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
On January 24, 2013, restrictions against women in ground combat units, to include U.S. Army Special Forces (SF), were rescinded by the Department of Defense. The military services...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This book explores the role played by civilians in shaping the outcomes of military combat across time and place.
This volume explores the contributions civilians have made to warfare in case studies that range from ancient Europe to contemporary Africa and Latin America. Building on philosophical...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
The Test of War, the second volume in the comprehensive History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, follows the evolution of OSD from the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 to the end of the Truman presidency in January 1953. Like the first volume in the series (The Formative Years, 1947-1950),...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique USAF publication provides the proceedings of the eighth military history symposium at the U.S. Air Force Academy covering the earliest years of air power and World War II in the air.CHAPTER I - The State...
U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare 1775-2007: Selected Papers From the 2007 Conference of Army Historians
Selected Papers From the 2007 Conference of Army Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
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Presents fifteen papers from the 2007 Conference of Army Historians. Examines irregular warfare in a wide and diverse range of circumstances and eras.
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by J. Duncan Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
This catalog is a descriptive and interpretive listing of the insignia of the Army of the United States—other than buttons, epaulets, and horse furniture—in the National Collections that were prescribed or worn during the period 1800-1851. The subject of early American military buttons has been...
Military Intervention in Britain
From the Gordon Riots to the Gibraltar Incident
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The military is supposed to stand aside from British society. This book illustrates that from the earliest times the British have relied on the military for the preservation of law and order. The creation of the professional police force in Britain habitually met with the stiffest opposition, and...
Dangerous Grounds
Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war. In the first...
by Frank Aker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The first book to approach the Yom Kippur War from both Arab and Israeli perspectives, this is an analysis of the background, planning, and preparations for the war as well as a narrative of the campaigns during the attack, holding actions, counterattacks, flanking attack, and break through phases....
Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia
Burma 1941-1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia sheds light on attempts by royal engineers to introduce innovations devised in the UK to wartime India, Iraq, and Burma, as well as the initial resistance of local groups of colonial railwaymen to such metropolitan innovations.
Michael W. Charney...