Military Science category: 4493 books
Home Fires Burning
Married to the Military-for Better or Worse
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York’s Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It’s a ritual played out on military bases across the nation as the waiting wives of Karen Houppert’s extraordinary...
Irregular Army
How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard’s explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang members, criminals...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The Defense Nuclear Agency presents a comprehensive and informative history of the development and testing of nuclear weapons after World War II, from the earliest atomic bombs through the devastating hydrogen thermonuclear devices that were the centerpiece of the Cold War. It provides unique insights...
Deployed
How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
"Deployed is an important and deeply moving book. Here, in this story, the heroic tradition of the American citizen-soldier lives on."
---Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor, Boston University, and author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
"Whatever your...
Bacteria and Bayonets
The Impact of Disease in American Military History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
For hundreds of years men have fought and died to expand and protect the United States relying on martial skill and patriotism. Various powerful enemies, from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee have all fallen before the arms of the American soldier....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
A 1962 nuclear explosion in space contributed significantly to the creation and implementation of the Outer Space Treaty in 1967, which outlawed weapons of mass destruction in space. As technology evolved afterwards, this treaty influenced development of space-based military capabilities and the organization...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Accomplishing the space changes needed in the future requires a major national security (MNS) change. The term MNS change is coined in this thesis to define a change that requires multiple...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
This two-part compilation provides up-to-date information about military unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Department of Defense Report to Congress on Addressing Challenges for Unmanned Aircraft Systems - In lieu of creating an executive agent for UAS, the Deputy Secretary of Defense (DepSecDef)...
War! What Is It Good For?
Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
America's fleet of strategic nuclear and conventional bombers - the B-52, B-1, B-2 - is rapidly aging, and Air Force officials are pursuing a replacement bomber, currently called the Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B). Other ground attack options are being explored, including conventionally-armed ICBM...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
This is one of a series of systems engineering case studies prepared by the Air Force Center for Systems Engineering. This case study analyzes the E-10A MC2A program. The Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A was planned as a multi-role military aircraft to replace the Boeing 707 based E-3 Airborne Warning and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication presents technological developments that have produced new capabilities or opened new ways for achieving objectives.The Limitless Sky: Air Force Science and Technology Contributions to...
Front Toward Enemy
A Slain Soldier's Widow Details Her Husband's Murder and How Military Courts Allowed the Killer to Escape Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
A slain soldier’s widow details her husband’s murder by a fellow soldier . . . and exposes how the US military courts allowed the killer to escape justice.
June 7, 2005. A sandstorm obscured what light lingered in Iraq’s nighttime sky as Staff Sergeant Alberto Martinez tied a claymore...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This overview is designed to assist the reader in acknowledging and understanding the historical context of overt racist and discriminatory policies and practices in our military and how these...