Military Science category: 4493 books
Militarizing the Nation
The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Egypt's army portrays itself as a faithful guardian "saving the nation." Yet saving the nation has meant militarizing it. Zeinab Abul-Magd examines both the visible and often invisible efforts by Egypt's semi-autonomous military to hegemonize the country's politics, economy, and society...
Suicide Warfare: Culture, the Military, and the Individual as a Weapon
Culture, the Military, and the Individual as a Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Suicide warfare has expanded over the years and become a global phenomenon. In some parts of the world, it has become rooted in the fabric of society. Westerners often find it difficult to grasp why someone would be willing to sacrifice their life in order to take the lives of others. Suicide Warfare:...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2012
This study highlights elements of technology with which Henry H. Arnold and Theodore von Karman were directly involved. The biographical approach, emphasizing scientific and technological elements in Arnold's and Karman's lives, is essential because the interaction of personalities, as well as their...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
In November 2009, Gen Norton A. Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff, tasked the Air Force Research Institute (AFRI) to answer the following question: What critical capabilities—implemented by the combatant commanders—will the nation require of the Air Force by 2030? Preparing for the challenges...
Our Germans
Project Paperclip and the National Security State
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the...
The Chinese Army Today
Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works. This new, revised edition has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the institution.
In 1999, the military modernization...
Allies and Adversaries
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military...
The Sources of Military Doctrine
France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Part of our value-added professional format series, the Military Working Dogs Field Manual (FM 3-19.17) addresses the current capabilities of the Military Police Working Dog Program as well as the potential for future applications. As technology and world situations change, the MWD team will continue...
Military Forces in 21st Century Peace Operations
No Job for a Soldier?
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
A major new study of the realities of contemporary warfare, which presents a range of fresh insights and is essential reading for all students and professionals engaged in the field.
This book clearly shows us that:
neither military nor civilian agencies can act effectively alone in resolving...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This volume begins with some thinking about thinking. Mr. Kurt VanderSteen will help us with this by providing some insights into looking at military operations from a system's perspective;...
A Military Government in Exile
The Polish Government in Exile 1939-1945, A Study of Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
This work examines the nature of the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945. The relationship was extremely difficult owing to the extremity of the time and the situations of the two governments. Before 1939 there had been little contact between Poland...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Space power is arguably one of the most valuable, yet underappreciated and misunderstood components of U.S. national power. The effects derived from our presence in space have tremendous strategic...
The US Military
A Basic Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
This book provides a basic guide to the US military and will raise questions for further discussion by students and other curious readers.
The US Military provides an accessible starting-point for those with a limited knowledge of this institution. Covering a wide range of subject matter, and...