Military Science category: 4493 books
Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense: Role of Research and Development 1945-2000
The Role of Research and Development 1945-2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
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A broad historical overview of changing institutional patterns of technological innovation with the Defense Department's major weapons laboratories.
Examines...
by Matt Bassford, Hans Pung, Nigel Edgington
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence's Fixed Wing Sector Strategy Board commissioned RAND Europe to assist in the development of a strategy and sustainment plan for the military fixed wing sector. RAND focused on the health and sustainment of key skills in the sector's industrial base. This monograph...
The Weapon Wizards
How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
"A lively account of Israel's evolving military prowess...if The Weapon Wizards were a novel, it would be one written by Horatio Alger; if it were a biblical allegory, it would be the story of David and Goliath." —The New York Times Book Review
From drones to satellites, missile...
Master Sergeant
The Makaum War: Book One
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Fans of classics like Starship Troopers and The Forever War--as well as modern masters like Ian Douglas, Jack McDevitt, B.V. Larson, and Marko Kloos—will be sucked into Mel Odom’s military science fiction series, the Markaum War, starting with Master Sergeant.
They call it The Green Hell....
Legend
An Event Group Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Go down a river of no return, toward a fateful meeting with an animal that predates mankind's existence by ninety million years---after a treasure that has captured man's desires for centuries. This is what Legends are made of.
The year 1533: Sent by Francisco Pizarro, Captain Hernando Padilla...
Overlord
An Event Group Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In the stunning conclusion to the Matchstick Man saga that began with Event and continued with Legacy, the End of Days is upon humanity---invasion has arrived!
Some speculate that the war between the two worlds began 700 million years ago, while others say it started in 1947 over a small town...
by Nathan Hale
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Revised Edition October 2012
The world's financial system is collapsing and this crisis is being used to begin the coup in America that will finally end the "American Experiment".
Two related groups of prepared citizens have run to their survival retreats, one in southern Ohio, the...
Three Armies on the Somme
The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Yet in Three Armies on the Somme, William Philpott makes a convincing argument that the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the Western Front the knowledge and experience to bring World...
by Major Des Astor
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
How will we defeat the Taleban and bring peace to Afghanistan? What will the British soldier of the late 21st century look like? When will the next World War break out?
We're damned if we know, but if you want to find out what today's British Army is really like, then The Official Arrse Guide...
Navy Divers
The Incredible Story of the Australian Navy's Elite Unit
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The Incredible story of the Australian Navy's elite unit.Rising out of the Second World War, the Australian clearance diver has become one of the most respected and versatile operators in the military world. In cold, murky water, working by touch alone, the Australian clearance diver can defuse a...
by Robert Lyman
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Bill' Slim was one of the greatest British generals of World War II. In a career that stretched from 1914 until 1958, Bill Slim's greatest triumphs came in India and Burma in the long war against the Japanese. Thrust into a desperate situation, he orchestrated the longest retreat in British Army history...
by Barry Davies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
No matter if you’re being followed or stalked or need to get away as soon as possible, being able to disappear without a trace is something that you will need to know. Whether you’re an ordinary civilian or a military operative, having this skill is imperative to ultimate survival . . . and there’s...
Fighting Mac
The Downfall of Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
On a spring morning in 1903, Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of Britain's greatest military heroes, took his life in a hotel room in Paris. A few days later he was buried hastily in an Edinburgh cemetary as his fellow countrymen tried to come to terms with the fact that one of Scotland's most...
War Made New
Weapons, Warriors, and the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefield
Combining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four ?revolutions? in military affairs and describes how inventions...