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All In
The Education of General David Petraeus
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
General David Petraeus is the most transformative leader the American military has seen since the generation of Marshall. In the New York Times bestseller All In, military expert Paula Broadwell examines Petraeus's career, his intellectual development as a military officer, and his impact on the U.S....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
This significant historical book on a previously unexplored aspect of the Revolutionary War was produced by the Center of Military History, providing an important basic reference on the military history of the Revolution. The Continental Army details the basic military organization used during the...
Today's Best Military Writing
The Finest Articles on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Military
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Today's Best Military Writing is the first-ever collection of the finest articles on the military published in the past five years. Esteemed military historian and bestselling author Walter J. Boyne has gathered twenty-one writers, both military and civilian, and their published articles and essays...
Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers
Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865-1917
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African American men were seldom permitted to join the United States armed forces. There had been times in early U.S. history when black and white men fought alongside one another; it was not uncommon for integrated units to take to battle...
Between Threats and War
U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.S. interests, and that cannot be adequately addressed through economic or political pressure, American policymakers and opinion formers have increasingly resorted to recommending the use of limited military force: that is, enough...
by Colonel David Jablonsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
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...
Frustrated Ambition
General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910–1944
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Vicente Podico Lim (1888–1944) was once his country’s best-known soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Lim figured in every significant military development in the Philippines during his thirty years in uniform. Frustrated Ambition...
The Dragon's War
Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937-1947
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Making full use of significant new sources in Chinese-language materials, U.S. Naval Academy professor Maochun Yu provides Western readers with the first detailed account of military and intelligence operations conducted inside China by foreign powers between 1937 and 1945. He also addresses the profound...
A Military Miscellany
From Bunker Hill to Baghdad: Important, Uncommon, and Sometimes Forgotten Facts, Lists, and Stories from America#s Military History
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
For armchair generals, history buffs, and military enthusiasts everywhere, A Military Miscellany is an essential and entertaining collection of fascinating and little-known facts, anecdotes, lists, and stories from America’s rich military legacy. Forgotten heroes, amazing blunders, surprising trivia,...
by Archie Miyamoto
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The Japanese military is accused of abducting 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, and using them as sex slaves. WWII military records provide a completely different perspective. This is a compilation of primary source documents, mostly WWII military records of U.S., Allied, Dutch, Australian and...
by Peter G. Tsouras
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The vital role of the military all-source intelligence in the eastern theater of operations during the U.S. Civil War is told through the biography of its creator, George H. Sharpe. Renowned historian Peter Tsouras contends that this creation under Sharpe’s leadership was the combat multiplier that...
National Insecurity
The Cost of American Militarism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
"Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military, and now, in National Insecurity, he tells us what we must do to change the way the system works, and how to fix it. Goodman is not only telling us how to save wasted...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
The long counterinsurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan have made two facts abundantly clear about military contractors: 1) The U.S. Army has become dependent upon them; and, 2) They frequently create problems for, and sometimes actually interfere with, accomplishing the mission. In order to...
The Complete Art of War
The Art of War by Sun Tzu; On War by Carl von Clausewitz; The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli; The Art of War by Baron de Jomini
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Collected here in this 4-in-1 omnibus are the most important books ever written on the art of war: 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu; 'On War' by Carl von Clausewitz; 'The Art of War' by Niccolò Machiavelli, and 'The Art of War' by Baron De Jomini. These four books will give you as complete a view on the...