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How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-First CenturyAn indispensable guide to how wars are fought, James F. Dunnigan's classic text has been enormously popular with citizens, professional soldiers, and journalists alike. Now, it's been revised to include a stunning array of new subjects. From the cutting edge of cyberwar to the...
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Divided Not Conquered: How Rebels Fracture and Splinters BehaveFrom terrorist disputes to splinter offshoots, an inside look at how armed groups break apart. Terrorist, rebel, and insurgent groups are highly unstable. Amid fears of defeat and even death, intense disagreements have torn many organizations apart, from Syria to Iraq, Ireland to Spain....
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Minecraft Dungeons: GearBy taking the focus off mining and building and placing it squarely on exploration and action, Minecraft Dungeons offers players a whole new way to enjoy the colorful world of Minecraft. In this book, readers will get a closer look at the armor, weapons,...
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HMS London: From Fighting Sail to the Arctic Convoys & Tomorrow's WarsWarships named HMS London have been associated with some of the most controversial episodes in British naval history, from the bungled sea battle that lost King George III his American colonies, to the shambles of Gallipoli in WW1, and the notorious decision by the...
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Helping Soldiers Heal: How the US Army Created a Learning Mental Health Care SystemHelping Soldiers Heal tells the story of the US Army's transformation from a disparate collection of poorly standardized, largely disconnected clinics into one of the nation's leading mental health care systems. It is a step-by-step guidebook for military and civilian health care systems alike....
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A Technical History of America's Nuclear Weapons: Volume I - Introduction and Developments to 1960 - Second EditionThis is the Second Edition of A Technical History of America's Nuclear Weapons: Volume I - Introduction and Nuclear Developments Through 1960. It is called a technical history because it focuses on nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons (delivery) systems. The people, laboratories, and politicians...
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The Foundations of the Science of WarReprint of book originally published in 1926.Author: J. F. C. Fuller, Combat Studies Institute PressPublisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKPublished: 01/03/2012Pages: 340Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.71dISBN: 9781780396743This title is not returnable
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The Art of War (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RThe Art of War&&L/I&&R, by &&LB&&RSun Tzu&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R&&LI&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some...
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Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume I: 1909-1945Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar's revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations, and explains their impact on modern warfare....
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Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through ObjectsThe Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things--from spoons to tanks--to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the...
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CommandIn the wake of the troubled campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, military decision-making appears to be in crisis and generals have been subjected to intense and sustained public criticism. Taking these interventions as a starting point, Anthony King examines the transformation of military command...
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The Black WatchIn the wake of the Jacobite Rebellions, companies of trustworthy Highlanders were raised from royal clans to protect the populace, deter cattle stealing and guard against any possible Jacobite incursion. Soon after its formation, the companies organized into a regiment of foot known famously...
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at WarGrunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion, heat, noise--and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing...
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The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry: By Christine de PizanIt is unexpected in any era to find a woman writing a book on the art of warfare, but in the fifteenth century it was unbelievable. Not surprisingly, therefore, Christine de Pizan's The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry, written around 1410,...
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Unmanned Systems: Savior or ThreatThe threat of an attack involving an unmanned system armed with a weapon of mass destruction is a present one. With two million drones projected to be flying US skies in 2020, unmanned aircraft systems in the air domain pose a significant challenge to...
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The Abridged Guide to U.S. Special Forces Skills, Tactics, and TechniquesEveryone knows that members of the U.S. Special Forces are the top-shelf, crème de la crème, A-Number-Ones, specially hand-picked people to train and serve as the avant garde of the largest, most well-funded military on the face of the earth. But that doesn't happen...
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Zero-Sum Victory: What We're Getting Wrong about WarWhy have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in the United States's favor, significant capacity-building efforts, and repeated tactical victories by what many observers call the world's best military, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned intractable....
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The Command of The Air2020 Reprint of the 1983 Edition. This reprint of the 1942 English translation of Douhet's works, while titled Command of the Air, actually consists of five separate works: the original 1921 edition of Command of the Air, a second edition of 1927, a 1928...
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A Technical History of America's Nuclear Weapons: Volume II - Developments from 1960 Through 2020 - Second EditionThis is the Second Edition of A Technical History of America's Nuclear Weapons: Volume II -Nuclear Developments From 1960 Through 2020. Volume II takes up where Volume I ends. It is written in the same straightforward, easy to understand, manner as Volume I. American...
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The B-25 in the Backyard: My Father's Historic Airplane SanctuaryOnly in America could Walter A. Soplata, the son of penniless Czech immigrants, accomplish so much single-handedly saving historic aircraft from World War II and other periods. After a childhood spent building model airplanes while dreaming about having his own airfield, Soplata worked in...
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