Military list 78

Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire

by Fred K. Drogula
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015

In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points. Beginning in the earliest years of the republic, Drogula argues, provincial command was not a uniform concept fixed in positive law but rather a...

The Generalship of Muhammad

Battles and Campaigns of the Prophet of Allah

by Russ Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012

There are many biographies of the Prophet, and they tend to fall into three categories: pious works that emphasize the virtues of the early Islamic community, general works for non-Muslim or non-specialist readers, and source-critical works that grapple with historiographical problems inherent in...

Operational Logic And Identifying Soviet Operational Centers Of Gravity During Operation Barbarossa, 1941

by Major David J. Bongi
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

This monograph examines Soviet operational centers of gravity during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Specifically, the examination focuses in two areas: (1) German planning for Operation Barbarossa; (2) the operational objectives selected for the second phase...

The Story of Black Military Officers, 1861-1948

by Krewasky A. Salter I
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

Black members of the military served in every war, conflict and military engagement between 1861 and 1948. Beyond serving only as enlisted soldiers and non-commissioned officers, many also served as commissioned officers in positions of leadership and authority. This book offers the first complete and conclusive work to specifically examine the history of black commissioned officers.

From Defeat to Victory

The Eastern Front, Summer 1944?Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 2

by Charles J. Dick
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first the Western then the Eastern Front, respected...

Auftragstaktik: The Basis For Modern Military Command

by Major Michael J. Gunther
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Gen. Helmuth von Moltke, the Chief of the Prussian General Staff during the Franco-Prussian War, defined Auftragstaktik as the actions a subordinate took in the absence of orders that supported the senior commander’s intent. The use of mission tactics allowed subordinate commanders like Crown Prince...

The Oxford Book of Canadian Military Anecdotes

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Beyond the ordered preparations of tactics and logistics, The Oxford Book of Canadian Military Anecdotes presents the realities of war the Canadians have experienced: the emotion and warmth of battle-formed friendships, the sudden anguish of loss, the disorder and staggering wastefulness of heavy-weapon...

British Military Respirators and Anti-Gas Equipment of the Two World Wars

by Thomas Mayer-Maguire, Brian Baker
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015

Poison gas was one of the most feared weapons of its day and added a terrifying new dimension to modern warfare. In 1915, the only item a soldier had to protect himself from the harmful effects of gas was a shell dressing, soaked in his own urine and then tied around his face. By 1918, the British...

Barbarossa Derailed

The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August-10 September 1941

by Glantz, David M.
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Führer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal...

The Swamp Fox

Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion

by Scott D. Aiken
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British control during the period between the capture of Charleston in May...

Generalship

Its Diseases and Their Cure

by J. F. C. Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012

Major-General J.F.C. Fuller has been called “the most brilliant, most stimulating, and most arrogant and aggravating military writer of the twentieth century.” This book helped end his military career, for in it he presents a devastating critique of the decline of Western military thought, and...

Twenty Years as Military Attaché

by Col. Thomas Bentley Mott
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

A memoir written by Colonel T. Bentley Mott, reflecting on his time as a U.S. military attaché, serving in France, among other locales, and relating personal anecdotes about many early 20th century military and political figures, including Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, Czar Nicholas, Theodore Roosevelt,...

On the Hunt

How to Wake Up Washington and Win the War on Terror

by Colonel David Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007

So says Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt in a book that cuts like a buzz saw through the half-measures and half-truths, the dangerous timidity, and the outright stupidity that—if left unchecked—will lead America to lose the War on Terror. In the hard-hitting On the Hunt, Colonel...

Why The North Won The Civil War

by David Herbert Donald
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015