Military category: 34701 books
The New Rules of War
Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu."
-Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO
Some of the principles of warfare are ancient, others are new, but all described in The New Rules of War will permanently shape war now and in the future. By following...
Special Ops
Four Accounts of the Military's Elite Forces
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Four military histories from a writer “whose fine work should be of great interest . . . both to casual readers and to uniformed students of special ops” (Publishers Weekly).
An expert in military affairs, Orr Kelly reveals the cutting-edge technology and jaw-dropping courage of the US...
Blueprints for Battle
Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
While scholarship abounds on the diplomatic and security aspects of the Cold War, very little attention has been paid to military planning at the operational level. In Blueprints for Battle, experts from Russia, the United States, and Europe address this dearth by closely examining the military planning...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
With the publication of Great Commanders, the Combat Studies Institute continues its mission of publishing exceptional scholarship and adding to the body of historical literature the thoughts and research of distinguished professors. These analyses are both interesting and useful in their discussion...
by Netanel Lorch
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Netanel Lorch, who fought as an officer in Jerusalem during Israel’s War of Independence and later founded the Israel Defense Forces’ Historical Section, offers a detailed military history of the years 1947-49. The book begins with the tensions of the British Mandate period in Palestine, including...
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary
At the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1: April 1861-July 1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Amidst the vast literature of the Civil War, one of the most significant and enlightening documents remains largely unknown. A day-by-day, uninterrupted, four-year chronicle by a mature, keenly observant clerk in the War Department of the Confederacy, the wartime diary of John Beauchamp Jones was...
Area 51 - Black Jets
A History of the Aircraft Developed at Groom Lake, America's Secret Aviation Base
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Area 51’s most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format.
When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It’s easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States’ famed extension of Edwards...
Soaring With the Eagles
Autobiography Area 51 Veteran TD Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
His family and friends never knew he worked on special projects for the CIA. Fifty years later, the CIA admits the existence of the top-secret facility known as Area 51. Barnes, an Area 51 and Cold War veteran tells what brought him from a desolate childhood on a remote ranch in the West Texas Panhandle,...
Defending Space
US Anti-Satellite Warfare and Space Weaponry
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
The United States has been developing space for many years, and satellites provide the US Military with an unparaleled advantage over its adversaries. Constellations of both military and civilian satellites provide protection and support for military operations; deliver ballistic missile early warning;...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
This is one of a series of systems engineering case studies prepared by the Air Force Center for Systems Engineering. This case study analyzes the C-5 cargo airplane.
The success of the C-5 transport aircraft is underscored by the performance of the fleet as an operational system and its heavy...
by Sally Drumm
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
War Stories, a collection of short stories written by veterans, touches upon every aspect of military life from hard combat to losing a comrade, to making love after being blown up by a mortar to honoring the war dead to remembering the Indian Wars, WWII, lost loves, and surrender to a medical system...
The Beginning of Futility
Diplomatic, Political, Military and Naval Events on the Austro-Italian Front in the First World War 1914-1917 Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Since Picketts failed charge at Gettysburg, the frontal infantry assault had been known as obsolete. Nevertheless fifty years later, Allied military leaders in the Great War persisted in using it as a military tactic. Italian military leaders were no exception not even accepting the deadly effect...
by Dennis M. Spragg
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
On December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere over the English Channel the plane vanished. No trace of the aircraft or its occupants has ever been...
by Jon Ronson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Bizarre military history: In 1979, a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known laws of physics and accepted military practice, they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and—perhaps most...