Scrawny to Brawny
Scrawny to Brawny

Author: Michael Mejia

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2005-04-02

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1594860882

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A resource for "skinny" men looking to add mass and muscle offers a progressive workout program that emphasizes optimized workouts and an action-based perspective on nutrition, as well as vital information on understanding and preventing injury. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Military Interventions, War Crimes, and Protecting Civilians
Military Interventions, War Crimes, and Protecting Civilians

Author: Christi Siver

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 3319776916

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War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals. The protection of civilians, one of the most fundamental norms in the laws of war, appears to have weakened despite almost universal international agreement. Using insights from organizational theory, this book seeks to understand the process between military socialization and unit participation in war crimes. How do militaries train their soldiers in the laws of war? How do they enforce compliance with these laws? Drawing on evidence from the Korean War, the Malayan Emergency, and the Canadian peacekeeping mission in Somalia, the author discovers that military efforts to train soldiers about the laws of war are poor and leadership often sent mixed signals about the importance of compliance. However, units that developed subcultures that embraced these laws and had strong leadership were more likely to comply than those with weak discipline or countercultural norms.

Canada's Army
Canada's Army

Author: J.L. Granatstein

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 677

ISBN-13: 1487509480

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"Originally published in 2002, Canada's Army quickly became the definitive history of the Canadian military. In the twenty intervening years, we have seen major changes to how Canadians think about their military, and in the ways Canadians fight, train, and serve their nation in peace and in war. Written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the country's leading political and military historians, Canada's Army traces the full three-hundred-year history of the Canadian military. This thoroughly revised third edition brings Granatstein's work up to date with fresh material and new scholarship on the evolving role of the military in Canadian society, along with updated sources, maps, and illustrations. It explores the military from its origins in New France to the Conquest, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812; from South Africa and the two World Wars to the Korean War and contemporary peacekeeping efforts. The third edition includes new coverage of the War in Afghanistan; NATO deployments to Poland, Latvia, and Iraq; aid to the civil power deployments; and the role of the army reserve. Granatstein points to the inevitable continuation of armed conflict around the world and makes a compelling case for Canada to maintain properly equipped and professional armed forces. Masterfully written and passionately argued, Canada's Army offers a rich analysis of the political context for the battles and events that shape our understanding of the Canadian military."--

Fire Force
Fire Force

Author: Matt Lynn

Publisher: Headline

Published: 2010-03-04

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0755376048

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The new high-stakes, action-packed military thriller from the author of DEATH FORCE. Batota, Africa. A nation under the rule of a brutal, aging dictator. A group of businessmen believe there is only one way to save the country they still love: the President must be assassinated. And the men from Death Inc., the band of elite mercenaries for whom no job is too dangerous, have been hired for the task. Steve West, Ollie Hall and the rest of the unit from Death Force are plunged into a high-stakes battle for the future of one of Africa's most important yet tragic countries. But the mission is not what it seems. And soon they are fighting for their own lives against one of the most savage, ruthless regimes on the planet...

Vietnam
Vietnam

Author: Andrew Wiest

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-04-20

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1782003231

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From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the human experience during the conflict. Vietnam allows the reader a grunt's-eye-view of the conflict – from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands and the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ. It is the definitive oral history of the Vietnam War told in the uncompromising, no-holds barred language of the soldiers themselves.