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Landing on a hostile beach is one of the most ancient forms and still most difficult forms of warfare. It requires unparalleled levels of planning, organisation, coordination and cooperation between the services. After the disasters of Gallipoli and Zeebrugge in the World War I, amphibious operations...

The Rhodesian War of 1965–80 is the battle for control of present day Zimbabwe. The former British colony of Southern Rhodesia rejected British moves towards majority rule and on 11 November 1965 the Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith announced his country's Unilateral Declaration of Independence...

The definitive account of the 1999 Kargil war - the strategy, the effects, the heroism - from the man in charge. In February 1999, Pakistani Army personnel, disguised as jehadi militants, infiltrated into mountainous Kargil and occupied key vantage points. Their intrusion triggered off a limited war...

It was the Mediterranean theatre which saw the blooding of the US Army against the German Wehrmacht, in North Africa in winter 1943/44. After this rough education the US forces pressed on to Sicily, the South of France and the Italian mainland. Here, faced by difficult terrain , they and their British...

This manual, Joint Publication JP 3-09 Joint Fire Support April 2019: Provides an overview of joint fire support, scheme of fires, and the relationship between joint fire support and joint targeting. It describes joint force command structure and function, component fires command and control organizations,...

This regulation establishes Army policies and responsibilities for life cycle management of the following areas only as they pertain to training: training aids, devices, simulators, and simulations (TADSS), including tactical engagement simulation (TES), targetry, combat training centers, gaming technologies,...

Though the 'Wehrmachtsgefolge' (Armed Forces Auxiliaries) were generally inferior to their armed forces equivalents, their contribution to the German war-effort was far from negligible. Auxiliaries including the NSKK, Transportkorps Speer, Reichsarbeitsdienst and Organization Todt supported the Wehrmacht...

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Even after the paint dries, there is still one important decision left to the modeller. How to display the finished work? In this new guide, expert modeller Richard Windrow covers all the common and many less common display techniques including dioramas, simple display cases, mirror stands, domes...

Training Circular TC 6-0.4 Training the Mission Command Warfighting Function for Division and Corps April 2019 This manual, Training Circular TC 6-0.4 Training the Mission Command Warfighting Function for Division and Corps April 2019, is a guide for division and corps commanders to use during...

A preface notes that current US missile defense missiles could not hit the broad side of a barn except under ideal conditions. Scope of essay laid out. Chapter 1 proposes that hyper-velocity ack-ack guns can destroy incoming warheads with high reliability and achievable technology. It lays out the...

Everyone nowadays seems to have problems—money, health, politics, personal commitment, sexual identity. But if you think things are tough in the present, wait till you experience the Middle Ages. None of that mythical Arthur-Galahad-Merlin stuff but the real thing—harsh laws, unruly peasants,...

Three years after the war to end all wars, the German Empire stands as the dominant power in Europe. The United States, isolated, is in a deep slumber reveling in it's relative peace and prosperity. Little did the people of America know, they were being watched, analyzed. In May of 1921 the mighty...

While Vietnam is usually perceived as an infantry war, with US forces deploying by helicopter, the long supply lines that led to their inland bases had to be traveled by ground vehicles. The 8th and 48th Transportation Groups were responsible for hauling supplies through the long, dangerous roads...