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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) seeks to adapt, reshape, and rebalance our military to prepare for the strategic challenges and opportunities we face in the years ahead. Building on the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance, the QDR prioritizes three strategic pillars: defending the homeland;...
American Military History
A Survey From Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book offers a chronology, subheadings, and terms to provide the reader a pedagogical framework for understanding the central themes and events in the American military experience and their relation to American history. It serves as a foundation for undergraduate courses in military history.
Warrior Pups
True Stories of America's K9 Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Portraits of love and courage
An inside look at America’s military working dog program
Heartwarming profiles of people who train these heroic dogs
Beautifully designed with more than 75 color photographs
Warrior Pups is an illustrated tribute to the dedicated people at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland...
War, Ethics and Justice
New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world.
There is a lively debate in contemporary international relations concerning the relationship between statist obligations to one’s own political community and cosmopolitan duties...
by Brian Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War (1997), Brian Victoria explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War.
Victoria reveals for the first time, through examination of the wartime writings of the Japanese military itself,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study reports on a preliminary effort to identify, evaluate, and document the historically significant roles Fort Bliss, Texas, has played in the history of the Southwest and the nation....
15 Years of War
How the Longest War in U.S. History Affected a Military Family in Love, Loss, and the Cost of Service
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
“First-time author Schellhaas presents a moving memoir of her life with her husband, Ross . . . after [he] is deployed to Iraq after the events of 9/11.” —Publishers Weekly
Less than 1 percent of our nation will ever serve in our armed forces, leaving many to wonder what life is really...
The Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War, 1945-49
An Analysis of Communist Strategy and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
This book examines the Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War of 1945–1949, which resulted in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over Chiang Kaishek and the Guomindang (GMD) and the founding of The People’s Republic of China in 1949. It provides a military and strategic history of...
Women Vietnam Veterans
Our Untold Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories, by Donna Lowery, a Vietnam veteran, chronicles the participation of American military women during the Vietnam War. This little-known group of an estimated 1,000 women from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force left its mark in Vietnam from 1962 to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
An easily accessible resource that showcases the links between using documented primary sources and gaining a more nuanced understanding of military history.
• Covers benchmark documents in U.S. diplomatic and military history from 14 conflicts
• Utilizes document introductions and...
Fighting Colors
The Creation of Military Aircraft Nose Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Since the early days of flight, military pilots have personalized aircraft with artistic creations, giving each plane a unique identity and aircrews a sense of pride in ""their war bird."" This comprehensive volume covers the technical aspect on how nose art was applied to vintage...
March to Victory: Washington, Rochambeau, and the Yorktown Campaign of 1781
Washington, Rochambeau, and the Yorktown Campaign of 1781
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Provides an in-depth account of the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, the most decisive operation of the American Revolution. Author Dr. Robert Selig examines how the Americans and French moved land and naval forces from Rhode Island to Virginia, where they gained the tactical advantage over their opponents...
The Civil War in Mississippi
Major Campaigns and Battles
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through Benjamin Grierson's last raid through Mississippi in late 1864 and early 1865, this book traces the campaigns, fighting, and causes and effects of armed conflict in central and North Mississippi, where major campaigns were waged...
by Don Tate
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Atrocities, Corruption, Murder. The Falsification of History.May 1969, the Vietnam War.Don Tate now provides an in-depth analysis of one of the most sordid matters in Australian military history, the deletion of the 2nd D&E Platoon from all the histories of the Vietnam War and his 38 year battle to...