Mechanized Warfare
Author: Simon Dunstan
Publisher: Chartwell
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780785819318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing full-color photography and informative text, this amazing book tells the history of mechanized warfare.
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AK273 WWI THE FIRST MECHANIZED WAR
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Publisher: AK-INTERACTIVE, S.L.
Published:
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive and complete view of the crude beginnings and fast evolution of armored warfare during the Great War. It includes historical texts illustrated with period photographs, and detailed colour profiles of each of the most outstanding models. Also included is a brief reference to the evolution of military aviation during the Great War, with colour profiles of the most important fighter planes used by all contenders. As a bonus, the book offers a worldwide exclusive; a fantastic collection of large format black & white photographs, never before published; surely, such an amazing photo collection will inspire modellers into making accurate dioramas and vignettes of the First World War; the first mechanized war.
Human Factors in Mechanized Warfare
Author: Richard E. Simpkin
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKToward Combined Arms Warfare
Author: Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1428915834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManeuver Warfare
Author: Richard D. Hooker
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Today, America's armed forces face massive change, a dramatically reduced force structure, and severe budget cuts. The concept of "maneuver warfare" has been put forth as one promising solution to this dilemma. Can a small, maneuver-oriented military establishment actually serve us better, as its proponents claim? This vexing question provides the basis for this important book." "The answers to this question will serve as the foundation for American military doctrine in the 21st century. Here, some of America's finest minds explore the idea of maneuver-based warfare, getting to the heart of the issues and engaging in an energetic and lively debate, with each essay making an independent contribution to the evolving thought. Whether a cure-all or an empty bag of tricks, maneuver warfare theory presents a formidable challenge to the American defense establishment. The synthesis of ideas presented in this volume will be critically important in shaping the post-Cold War world. Everyone in the military, or interested in national defense, should read these thoughtful and controversial essays."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The State at War in South Asia
Author: Pradeep Barua
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 0803213441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study offers a panoramic view of the evolution of the South Asian state's military system and its contribution to the effectiveness of the state itself."--BOOK JACKET.
War of Time
Author: Jan Hanska
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-07-08
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 3030455173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the meaning and management of time as a facet of the art of war in general but especially operational art. While force-time-place has for a long time been considered to be the essential trinity of warfare, the aspect of time remains largely under-researched. Relying on classic texts on art of war, the author engages with some of the top theorists and practitioners of art of war from the age of Sun Tzu to the network-centric warfare about the role of time and its management in operational art. Relying on Alvin Toffler’s theory of the “three waves,” the volume follows research into development of operational art through cycles from the agrarian age to the industrial age and into the information age.
Imagining War
Author: Elizabeth Kier
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 140088747X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this innovative theoretical book, Elizabeth Kier uses a cultural approach to take issue with the conventional wisdom that military organizations inherently prefer offensive doctrines. Kier argues instead that a military's culture affects its choices between offensive and defensive military doctrines. Drawing on organizational theory, she demonstrates that military organizations differ in their worldview and the proper conduct of their mission. It is this organizational culture that shapes how the military responds to constraints, such as terms of conscription set by civilian policymakers. In richly detailed case studies, Kier examines doctrinal developments in France and Great Britain during the interwar period. She tests her cultural argument against the two most powerful alternative explanations and illustrates that neither the functional needs of military organizations nor the structural demands of the international system can explain doctrinal choice. She also reveals as a myth the argument that the lessons of World War I explain the defensive doctrines in World War II. Imagining War addresses two important debates. It tackles a central debate in security studies: the origins of military doctrine. And by showing the power of a cultural approach, it offers an alternative to the prevailing rationalist explanations of international politics. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture
Author: Aaron Shaheen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-06-26
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0192599623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war's mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause, and attempt to remedy, hideous injuries. Such a relationship was also evident in the realm of prosthetic development, which by the second decade of the twentieth century promoted the belief that a prosthesis should be a spiritual extension of the person who possessed it. This spiritualized vision of prostheses proved particularly resonant in American postwar culture. Relying on some of the most recent developments in literary and disability studies, the book's six chapters explain how a prosthesis's spiritual promise was largely dependent on its ability to nullify an injury and help an amputee renew or even improve upon his prewar life. But if it proved too cumbersome, obtrusive, or painful, the device had the long-lasting power to efface or distort his 'spirit' or personality.
