Brassey's Encyclopedia of Land Forces and Warfare
Author: Franklin D. Margiotta
Publisher: Booksales
Published: 2001-08-01
Total Pages: 1141
ISBN-13: 9780762851690
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Brassey's Encyclopedia of Land Forces and Warfare
Author: Franklin D. Margiotta
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781574882506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForeword by Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA (Ret.)
Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts
Author: Scott Fitzsimmons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1107026911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFitzsimmons argues that small mercenary groups must maintain a superior culture to successfully engage and defeat larger and better-equipped opponents.
Weapons and Warfare [2 volumes]
Author: Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 1289
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work covers major weapons throughout human history, beginning with clubs and maces; through crossbows, swords, and gunpowder; up to the hypersonic railgun, lasers, and robotic weapons under development today. Weapons and Warfare is designed to provide students with a comprehensive and highly informative overview of weapons and their impact on the course of human history. In addition to providing basic factual information, this encyclopedia will delve into the greater historical context and significance of each weapon. The chronological organization by time period will enable readers to fully understand the evolution of weapons throughout history. The work begins with a foreword by a top scholar and a detailed introductory essay by the editor that provides an illuminating historical overview of weapons. It then offers entries on more than 650 individual weapons systems. Each entry has sources for further reading. The weapons are presented alphabetically within six time periods, ranging from the prehistoric and ancient periods to the contemporary period. Each period has its own introduction that treats the major trends occurring in that era. In addition, 50 sidebars offer fascinating facts on various weapons. Numerous illustrations throughout the text are also included.
Camp Colt to Desert Storm
Author: George F. Hofmann
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-04-23
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 0813146585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history of American armored warfare through the twentieth century “boasts some of the best available analysis of mobile war as practiced by the US" (Publishers Weekly). Camp Colt to Desert Storm is the only complete history of US armed forces from the advent of the tank in battle during World War I to the campaign to drive Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991. With comprehensive analysis, it traces the development of doctrine for operations at the tactical and operational levels of war and assesses how this fighting doctrine translates into the development of equipment. Beginning with the Army’s first tank school, Camp Colt in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, this volume examines how armored warfare effected and was influenced by the evolution of twentieth-century combat. The tank revolutionized the battlefield in World War II. In the years since, developments such as nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, computer assisted firing, and satellite navigation have continued to transform armored warfare’s role in combat.
Erwin J.E. Rommel
Author: Earle Rice (Jr.)
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 1438148720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the life and career of Erwin Rommel, field marshal under Hitler during World War II, who is particularly remembered for his role in the campaign in northern Africa.
The World Factbook, 2000
Author:
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2000-06
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9781574882667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe annual, authoritative world guide produced by the Central Intelligence Agency and available to a general audience only through Brassey's
Political, Social and Religious Studies of the Balkans
Author: General Editor: Raphael Israeli, Jerusalem, Israel
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Published: 2021-01-08
Total Pages: 850
ISBN-13: 1682352900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the end of the Bosnia War in 1995, a tradition was embraced by the West of vilifying the Serbs as the villains, and the Muslims as their victims. This necessitated the military intervention of the U.S. and NATO on the Muslim side, which caused an untold travesty of justice to the Serbs. For indeed, there was enough blame to go around to condemn all parties in that war, including Serbs, Croats, and Muslims, of committing massacres and huge abuses of the other parties. To single out the Serbs as the bad guys simply distorts the facts. This collective volume, which is the product of a Commission of Inquiry, worked 18 months on this project, redressing the balance based on a meticulous and well-documented report about the process of this inquiry, step by step.
The Mind of War
Author: Grant Hammond
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2012-01-11
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1588343642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ideas of US Air Force Colonel John Boyd have transformed American military policy and practice. A first-rate fighter pilot and a self-taught scholar, he wrote the first manual on jet aerial combat; spearheaded the design of both of the Air Force's premier fighters, the F-15 and the F-16; and shaped the tactics that saved lives during the Vietnam War and the strategies that won the Gulf War. Many of America's best-known military and political leaders consulted Boyd on matters of technology, strategy, and theory. In The Mind of War, Grant T. Hammond offers the first complete portrait of John Boyd, his groundbreaking ideas, and his enduring legacy. Based on extensive interviews with Boyd and those who knew him as well as on a close analysis of Boyd's briefings, this intellectual biography brings the work of an extraordinary thinker to a broader public.
