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Book cover of What the Thunder Said

What the Thunder Said

Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar

by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009

By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada's Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test...
Book cover of Why Gallipoli Matters: Interpreting Different Lessons From History
by Lieutenant Colonel John M. Sullivan Jr USMC
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

After careful study of the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915, why did the British and the Americans come up to contradictory operational conclusions regarding the future applicability of amphibious operations? Divergent views from the lessons of Gallipoli campaign are the result of three differing operational...
Book cover of Allied Intelligence Bureau
by Daniel MacArthur, Colonel Allison IND
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

During the Second World War, there were many battles fought and won. Most were fought with weapons and soldiers. Others were fought with intelligence and schemes. The Allied Intelligence Bureau takes you inside the intelligence group that pulled together American, British, Australian and Dutch...
Book cover of DRIVE NORTH - U.S. Marines At The Punchbowl [Illustrated Edition]
by Colonel Allan R. Millett USMC
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Includes over 30 maps, photos and illustrations The Battle of the Punchbowl, was one of the last battles of the movement phase of the Korean War. Following the breakdown of armistice negotiations in August 1951, the United Nations Command decided to launch a limited offensive in the late summer/early...
Book cover of The British Experience In Iraq, 2007: A Perspective On The Utility Of Force
by Colonel Ian N. A. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Recent years have seen the US, UK and other ISAF and Coalition nations enmeshed in protracted, complex and intense campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Resilient and highly adaptable opponents have operated asymmetrically, and amongst the people, to negate the technological superiority of the West;...
Book cover of Through Hell And Deep Water
by Vice-Admiral Charles A Lockwood, Colonel Hans Christian Adamson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

WELCOME ABOARD THE U.S.S. HARDER… She was credited with sinking twenty Japanese ships, eight of them destroyers. Her captain, Sam Dealey, devoted son and loving husband and father, was a product of peace. Sam Dealey, deadly torpedo marksman and destroyer killer, was a product of war. Aboard...
Book cover of The Sling and the Stone

The Sling and the Stone

On War in the 21st Century

by Colonel Thomas X. Hammes, USMC
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006

4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare) is the only kind of war America has ever lost. And we have done so three times – in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia. This form of warfare has also defeated the French in Vietnam and Algeria, and the USSR in Afghanistan…As the only Goliath left in the world, we should...
Book cover of Thiet Gap! The Battle Of An Loc, April 1972. [Illustrated Edition]
by Lt-Colonel James H. Willbanks
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

[Illustrated with 1 table, 7 maps, 1 figure and 13 Illustrations] The Battle of An Loc was one of the most important battles of the Vietnam War. It took place during the 1972 North Vietnamese Spring Offensive, after most U.S. combat troops had departed South Vietnam. The battle, which lasted over...
Book cover of Churchill: The Making Of A Grand Strategist
by Colonel David Jablonsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Strategy is the calculated relationship of means to ends. At the highest military level, that relationship guides the use of the joint and combined military instrument of power to achieve national military strategic objectives. At the national or grand strategic level, the relationship becomes more...
Book cover of The Final Invasion

The Final Invasion

Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle

by David Colonel Fitz-Enz
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2001

A major event in both America's history and the European wars of the nineteenth century, the War of 1812's Battle of Plattsburgh saw the largest invasion ever of a foreign military into the United States, as the British army and navy, fresh from victories against Napoleon, attempted to conquer Lake...
Book cover of The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade (Volume II—Abridged): Gettysburg & Beyond
by George Gordon Meade (grandson), Colonel George Gordon Meade (son)
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

"It is high time that dispute should cease as to the award due him who won the greatest battle of the war, upon which it turned, saving the nation's capital, and giving to the Rebellion a blow from which it never recovered...it remains for history to record that, from the beginning to the end of the...
Book cover of Dachau
by Colonel William W. Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Written by the staff of the U.S. 7th Army soon after its liberation, this report stands as evidence of some of the worst crimes of the Holocaust. The images contained within also document the inhuman suffering inflicted at Dachau. “DACHAU, 1933-1945, will stand for all time as one of history’s...
Book cover of A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War

A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War

The SOE and the Canadian Connection

by Colonel Bernd Horn
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016

An inventive and ruthless covert force, the Special Operations Executive revolutionized sabotage and infiltration, and inspired many of the classic James Bond characters The first book about the Canadian connection to the WWI-era British black-ops group SOE.  Readers will know the SOE from classic...
Book cover of Enemy Inside The Gates: Snipers In Support Of Military Operations In Urbanized Terrain
by Lt.-Colonel Jeffery E. Dearolph USMC
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

As the world’s urban areas continue to increase in size the possibility of U. S. forces conducting military operations in urbanized terrain also increases. However, the weapon systems the U. S. procures and employs obtain maximum effectiveness in open terrain. These weapons prove less capable in...
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