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Author: Jim Storr
Publisher: Helion
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781914059964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at where and how the first battles of the Cold War would have been fought. It focusses on the American, British, West German, French and Soviet armies, and uses sources never previously translated into English. It will be uncomfortable reading for some, and contentious in places.
Author: Raghav Sharan Sharma
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-06
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1351056360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina’s territorial disputes with India have been a matter of debate since 1950s. While China has amicably resolved boundary disputes with twelve out of its fourteen neighbouring countries, it is yet to resolve its boundary disputes with India and Bhutan as also its maritime disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea. This volume looks at the complex dynamics of India–China boundary disputes which remains unresolved. It is still the biggest challenge to the relations between the two countries. From the Indian perspective securing Arunachal and the Indus Watershed is highly important. From the Chinese point of view Karakoram and Xinjiang–Tibet road must be respected. Secondary issues have always occupied a central and pivotal focus in the relations between India and China. This work also shows how British efforts to secure a defined and natural boundary began immediately after the creation of Jammu and Kashmir in 1846 after Amritsar treaty. In the eastern sector such an effort began only in the first decade of twentieth century. Relevant documents have been presented which examines the role of bureaucrats, diplomats, generals and surveyors. It examines the treaties, conventions, correspondence as well as internal debates between changing British officials and their conflicting British policies. Nehru refused Chou En Lai in 1960, which in turn led to the unilateralism in Chinese attitude after 1962. The volume breaks new ground by evaluating the differing policies, and explains how a secured boundary can ultimately be agreed upon. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Author: Robert Gilpin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-02-24
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521379557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis analysis of the origins of major wars, since the development of the modern state system in Europe centuries ago, also considers the problems involved in preventing a contemporary nuclear war.
Author: Daniel F. Owsley
Publisher: Booktango
Published: 2012-03-24
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1468901680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDynamite truly comes in a small package in this literature of the Dead Sea Scroll's most important prophecy of the ages. Not since the Book of Revelation and the Prayer of Jabez has there been such a power packed punch in Christian writing. For the time is just ahead when the devil shall no longer be the accuser of the brethren after the rapture is passed. At that time the pearly gates of Heaven shall be locked once and for all as all of the powers of the air are finally cast down upon the earth once and for all. And it's also predicted that those world shattering times will be filled with incredible gross spiritual darkness since the Holy Ghost shall no longer abide within anyone on the planet. And when that time comes forth all of the sulphuric stinkiness of Hell shall overflow the globe. For those shall be frightful days full of fright, and days of darkest night. It shall also then be days of fears, days of many fears, and days that shall burn as an oven. Only then shall the Apocalypse of Lazurus come forth like some perverse winds of destruction that shall cause the spirit of death to make the four horsemen of the book of Revelation to look like some clown rodeo riders in comparison to his nastiness, which will set the lands aflame with the kind of horror that true terror has always been full of. For that prophet who Christ raised from the dead penned this 2,000 years ago: 1"Behold the dreadful wailing of the sodomites who wallow in morbific blood issuing forth from the putrid bladder of Satan. Your guts will be spun on the loom of judgement, to drip like pus into the mouths of the unconverted. 2 You will become like shit on the shoe of Lucifer, the gristle in a pool of Demonic vomit. You will also become the genital warts that adorn the arse of Hades. 3 All of this and more shall you become in the final days of Man. The dragon and beast cast into Hell, Death into the valley of Jehoshaphat. 4 The earth shall shake at the end of days, Men will flee into holes and caves. 5 All hail the swarm of demons that cometh like flies from the bottomless pit. 6 Hark the horns of Armageddon for they herald the messianic oracle of slaughter and wrath. Apocalypse, an oracle of darkness, and brimstone and fire. 7 Apocalypse, the whore of Babylon and the Demonic holocaust. 8 Apocalypse, the shattered universe, and a fellowship of death. 9 Apocalypse, the number of the beast, and the devouring locust. 10 Apocalypse, a holy revelation, and the seventh seal of God. 11 Apocalypse, Seducer of earth, and pale horse of death from the flames of the Satanic war machine that's born of the dragon of chaos, way before the dead will be reborn."
Author: Jon Kimche
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael E. Brown
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004-10-15
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780262265270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of offense-defense theory, which argues that the relative ease of offense and defense varies in international politics. Offense-defense theory argues that the relative ease of offense and defense varies in international politics. When the offense has the advantage, military conquest becomes easier and war is more likely; the opposite is true when the defense has the advantage. The balance between offense and defense depends on geography, technology, and other factors. This theory, and the body of related theories, has generated much debate and research over the past twenty-five years.This book presents a comprehensive overview of offense-defense theory. It includes contending views on the theory and some of the most recent attempts to refine and test it.
Author: Jonathan K. Rice
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-02-23
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1456857711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe germ of this document began with two questions: how much does it take to supply aCivil War army(the Army of the Potomac has the best records so it is used as the exemplar) and since we are dealing with the 19th century man, the numbers for other armies; Northern Virginia, Cumberland, Tennessee, should be pretty much the same; and how does it work? The results of the study are more or less complete, but there is a host of unanswered questions. Are wagons designated by regiment, brigade, division, corps?(photographic evidence suggests that some wagons had some sort of designation painted on their white tops) Does the same wagon always carry the same supply? Forage( the single most common supply unit) rations, administrative furniture (desks, cooking equipment, files)ammunition (are wagons specifically designated by battery, are there general artillery ammunition wagons? Are wagons carrying mixed loads; 3” rifles 12 pound Napoleons, Parrot guns) I did no find the answers, and these questions are left for other writers to research and answer.
Author: Thomas J. Laub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0199539324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the internal conflicts between the German military government, the SS, and the Foreign Office during the occupation of France, showing how these battles developed and what they implied for the direction of German policy in occupied France from 1940 to 1944.
Author: John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1985-08-21
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1501713256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. Why do nations faced with the prospect of large-scale conventional war opt for or against an offensive strategy? John J. Mearsheimer examines a number of crises that led to major conventional wars to explain why deterrence failed. He focuses first on Allied and German decision making in the years 1939–1940, analyzing why the Allies did not strike first against Germany after declaring war and, conversely, why the Germans did attack the West. Turning to the Middle East, he examines the differences in Israeli and Egyptian strategic doctrines prior to the start of the major conventional conflicts in that region. Mearsheimer then critically assays the relative strengths and weaknesses of NATO and the Warsaw Pact to determine the prospects for conventional deterrence in any future crisis. He is also concerned with examining such relatively technical issues as the impact of precision-guided munitions (PGM) on conventional deterrence and the debate over maneuver versus attrition warfare.Mearsheimer pays considerable attention to questions of military strategy and tactics. Challenging the claim that conventional detrrence is largely a function of the numerical balance of forces, he also takes issue with the school of thought that ascribes deterrence failures to the dominance of "offensive" weaponry. In addition to examining the military consideration underlying deterrence, he also analyzes the interaction between those military factors and the broader political considerations that move a nation to war.
Author: Winston Churchill
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-01-23
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0486165159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn addition to his enduring fame as a statesman, Winston Churchill was a Nobel Prize-winning author whose military histories offer the unique perspective of a participant in world affairs. London to Ladysmith and Ian Hamilton's March reflect his early career as a Boer War correspondent for London's Morning Post in 1899 and 1900. London to Ladysmith chronicles the Boer War's first five months, from the author's arrival in South Africa to his capture during a Boer ambush of an armored train. Churchill's gripping narrative of his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp traces a grueling journey across enemy territory and back to British lines. Ian Hamilton's March picks up the action immediately afterward, documenting the eponymous general's 400-mile advance from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. The march saw ten major battles and numerous skirmishes, culminating in the release of prisoners from the camp where Churchill himself was held. Written mostly in the field, this book offers a vivid, personal account of the conditions under which the Boer War was fought, as well as a fascinating look at the formative years of one of the twentieth century's preeminent leaders.
