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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, addresses a question that is fundamental to the debate about the extent that airpower can function as a maneuver force in a theater campaign.The U.S. Air Force contends that airpower is a maneuver...
Cassandra in Oz
Counterinsurgency and Future War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book is a unique combination of intellectual history, personal memoir, and military theory. When Conrad Crane retired from twenty six years of active duty to become a research professor at the Army War College, he never expected to become a modern Cassandra, fated to tell truth to power without...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study examines the roles and missions of airpower in urban operations in smaller-scale contingencies. Urban operations, often referred to as military operations on urbanized terrain (MOUT),...
Syria under Bashar al-Asad
Modernisation and the Limits of Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Syria entered a new phase with the death of its long-serving leader, Hafiz al-Asad, and the accession of his son Bashar in 2000. While the new president has disappointed much of the hopes for political opening which he himself has created, Syria is clearly undergoing a process of change. The author...
Losing Vietnam
How America Abandoned Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
In the early 1970s, as U.S. combat forces began to withdraw from Southeast Asia, South Vietnamese and Cambodian forces continued the fight against the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF), more commonly known as the Viet Cong. Despite the...
by Christopher Duffy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been acclaimed as the classic period of artillery fortification. This was an era when fortresses and fortress systems shaped the calculations of strategists and statesmen, and often dictated the course of campaigns. The age was one of almost constant...
by Phillip Warner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Invasions are as old as the history of mankind. The possibility of Britain being invaded today is obviously very remote in spite of the disturbing memories of the Nazi's poised to swoop onto these shores in 1940 and previous attempts, both abortive and successful, reaching back into prehistoric times....
Operational Warfare at Sea
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This work explains and critically examines the main theoretical aspects of operational warfare at sea.
It utilizes diverse examples from naval history, ranging from the ancient era to the present day, to offer a comprehensive description and analysis of the key components of operational warfare...
Churchill's Army
1939–1945 The men, machines and organisation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Winston Churchill, Britain's iconic war time Prime Minister, is inextricably linked with the victorious British Army of 1939 to 1945. Yet hindsight, propaganda, and the imperative of the defeat of Hitler and Imperial Japan, have led to a tendency to oversimplify the image of Churchill the war leader,...
The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS: Volume One
On the Eastern Front, April 1943 to July 1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS – Volume One: On the Eastern Front, April 1943 to July 1944 is the first volume of a two-part set on the history of the Galician Division based on twenty-five years’ research by historian Michael James Melnyk. The author has sourced additional...
From Gazala to Tunis
422 Days in the Life of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
From Gazala to Tunisia: 422 Days in the Life of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade is the story of the riflemen and their battles of Gazala to the successful end of the North African campaign. These 422 days include the bitter battles of Gazala, the conflict around the Cauldron, the loss of Tobruk...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Due to the presence of weapons of mass destruction and the will to employ them in the Middle East, the operational commander of the next conflict must understand and employ a new deterrent...
China, the United States, and 21st-Century Sea Power
Defining a Maritime Security Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
China's rise on the world's oceans is attracting wide attention and may ultimately restructure the global balance of power during the course of the 21st century. Many books have described this phenomenon and the significant strategic implications that flow from Beijing's rapid maritime development. However,...
Rebalancing the Force
Basing and Forward Presence in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
merican seapower requires a robust constellation of bases to support global power projection. Given the rise of China and the emergence of the Asia-Pacific as the center of global economic growth and strategic contention, nowhere is American basing access more important than in this region. Yet manifold...