Strategy category: 1253 books
Resurgent Russia
An Operational Approach to Deterrence
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Groundbreaking research on current Russian interference and aggression from six former US Army War College students who briefed the Pentagon.
Relations between the United States and Russia have recently escalated from strained to outright aggressive. From imperial expansion in Ukraine to intervention...
Ancient China on Postmodern War
Enduring Ideas from the Chinese Strategic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Sun Tzu and other classical Chinese strategic thinkers wrote in an era of social, economic and military revolution, and hoped to identify enduring principles of war and statecraft. The twenty-first century is a time of similarly revolutionary change, and this makes their ideas of particular relevance...
![Cover of Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers [2 volumes]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2013/october/300x300/9780313070334-hvXe_300x.jpg)
Philosophers of War: The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers [2 volumes]
The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Each culture has had its Machiavelli, its Sun Tzu; its own Mohammed-like or Napoleonic figure. This encyclopedia ranges across the world to provide entries on every significant military and strategic thinker in human history as well as a number of military cultures, covering Chinese, Western, Indian,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book reproduces twenty important government documents, reports, and studies dealing with World War Two military dramas involving the Chindits, Orde Wingate, the Burma Campaign, China and India.When asked...
Russia's Military Way to the West
Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power 1700-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book provides an historical perspective on the growth of Russian military power, studying the emergence of the Russian regular army from 1700 until the end of the eighteenth century. In the process he evaluates the relative importance of Western and native influences on the creation of this formidable...
Battle Tactics of the Western Front
The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1994
Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military...
Operation Market Garden
The Legend of the Waal Crossing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A new interpretation of the wider military context of the doomed operation features previously unpublished photographs and documents Using first hand accounts and official records, this history examines the legend of the Waal Crossing and the truth behind it, revealing how a culture of elitism mixed...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This monograph examines the imperial Russian campaign to quell rebellion in the North Caucasus from 1801 to 1864 and the Bolshevik suppression of the Basmachi rebellion in Central Asia from...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
This monograph is devoted to a consideration of Russia's military doctrine. Russia had long before the conference announced the impending release of a new defense or military doctrine, but its release date was always being delayed, signifying a sharp political struggle over its contents. Although...
by Philip Haythornthwaite
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In an age when infantry units manoeuvred and fought in rigid blocks, the idea of encouraging initiative and allowing a unit to 'skirmish' was regarded as revolutionary and fell out of favour in the years following the French-Indian and American Revolutionary wars. It was revived by far-sighted British...
Never Wars
The US War Plans to Invade the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Every major government’s military makes plans for waging wars, hoping that they never have to be employed. In the early part of the last century the US government prepared a number of war contingency plans for invading a number of nations—both hostile and friendly. These color-coded plans were...
BATTLEFIELD AFGHANISTAN
HURT LOCKER
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A MUST READ BOOK FOR ANYONE DEPLOYING TO AFGHANISTAN - SOLDIER MAGAZINE
For various political reasons, the story of the battlefields in Afghanistan has gone unreported - until now. From interviews with his numerous contacts among the coalition forces stationed in Afghanistan, Mike...
Greek Military Intelligence and the Crescent
Estimating the Turkish Threat - Crises, Leadership and Strategic Analyses 1974-1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
During the 1987 Greek-Turkish crisis, Greek military intelligence provided essential information on Turkey’s limited military preparations, so helping to prevent an escalation to confrontation. In the 1996 crisis, Greek military intelligence failed to provide tactical information and details of...
by Department of the Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The US Army field manual that provides tactics, techniques, and procedures for commanders, counterintelligence agents, and analysts.
The life of a counterintelligence (CI) operative has been immortalized in film and novels as being filled with glamour and excitement. While international travel,...