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Press On!: Further Adventures in the Good LifeNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Roam the world with General Chuck Yeager and discover adventures that exemplify his special brand of living--full out and straight ahead "Fun and exhilarating."--The Wall Street Journal General Chuck Yeager has always been a restless adventurer, from flying daredevil...
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The Book of Five Rings"You can attain an understanding with which to win against ten thousand." Toward the end of his life, the great samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi set down the secrets of his legendary success--the timeless principles of craft, skill, timing, and spirit that result in victory....
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The History and Art of Personal CombatMore men have gone to their deaths in personal combat with the sword than with all other weapons put together, according to the author of this comprehensive history of classical and historical swordsmanship. Arthur Wise examines the sword's many uses and varieties, including the...
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Castles: Their Construction and HistoryThe art of fortification had reached a high state of development even at the dawn of history. Powerful military works, dating from the remotest periods, have been found in Asia Minor, in Greece, and in the basins of the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the...
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The Future of War: Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Future of War makes a brilliant case that the twenty-first century, even more than the twentieth, will be the American century, and that America's global dominance will be associated with a revolution in weaponry and warfare as basic as the one that arose...
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Administration and Organization of War in Thirteenth-Century EnglandThe essays brought together in this volume examine the conduct of war by the Angevin kings of England during the long thirteenth century (1189-1307). Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished administrative records that have been largely ignored by previous scholarship, David S. Bachrach...
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The War For All The OceansAuthor: Roy Adkins, Lesley AdkinsPublisher: Abacus (UK)Published: 08/02/2007Pages: 562Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 1.14dISBN: 9780349119168This title is only available via back order
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Independent Review of the Army Combat Fitness Test: Summary of Key Findings and RecommendationsThe U.S. Army is introducing a new fitness test for the first time in more than 40 years. The six-event Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) is designed to (1) ensure soldiers are ready to perform combat tasks, (2) reduce preventable injuries, and (3) promote...
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Architects of Continental Seapower: Comparing Tirpitz and GorshkovThis book describes and analyses two iconic figures in twentieth-century naval history: the German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and the Russian Admiral Sergei Gorshkov. It examines the men, what they thought and wrote about seapower, the fleets they created and the strategic consequences of...
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U.S. Navy Minecraft: A History and Directory from World War I to TodayIn modern naval warfare, offensive and defensive mine operations and the ships that perform them often take a back seat to the more glamorous carrier strike groups, strategic deterrence patrols and anti-submarine operations. Despite their relatively small size and numbers, minecraft have enormous strategic...
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Burden-sharing in NATOThis book, first published in 1983, analyses the debate around burden-sharing in NATO, where the main issue is the distribution amongst the allies of the burden of maintaining the security arrangement. This raises problems of defining, measuring and comparing the defence efforts of the...
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Generalship, Its Diseases and Their Cure; a Study of the Personal Factor in CommandThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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On Posthuman War: Computation and Military ViolenceTracing war's expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself As military and other forms of political violence become the planetary norm, On Posthuman War traces the expansion of war beyond traditional theaters of battle. Drawing on counterinsurgency field manuals,...
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The Defence Industrial Base and the WestThis book, first published in 1989, analyses the effect that interdependence has had on the defence industrial base, concentrating upon those defence industries situated at the hi-tech end, and paying particular attention to the procurement decisions that affect the production of sophisticated military aircraft....
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Tiere Im Krieg: Von Der Antike Bis Zur GegenwartDie Menschheitsgeschichte ist voll von Kriegen - und in den meisten waren Tiere wichtige Teilnehmer. Sie wurden (und werden) als Trag- und Zugtiere verwendet, um Güter und Waffen zu transportieren, als Reittiere, um schnelle und weiträumige Angriffe durchzuführen, und auch als Nachrichtenübermittler wurden sie...
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged.Author: Max HastingsPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 12/22/2021Pages: 652Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20dISBN: 9781432893545
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Developing the Naval MindThroughout the history of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, leading officers and strategists have advocated for formal colleges and schools for naval officers but have also made the case that true naval professionalism requires a career-long dedication to learning and to self-improvement. This...
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The Challenge to NATO: Global Security and the Atlantic AllianceThe post-Cold War order established by the United States is at a crossroads: no longer is the liberal order and U.S. hegemonic power a given. The Challenge to NATO is a concise review of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), its relationship with the...
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American Military Helicopters and Vertical/Short Landing and Takeoff Aircraft Since 1941Over the past eight decades, developments in vertical lift aircraft--both helicopters and vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) planes--have given the American military unparalleled capabilities on the modern battlefield. The U.S. has led the world in vertical lift technologies with the help of some of...
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Maritime Strategy and Naval Innovation: Technology, Bureaucracy, and the Problem of Change in the Age of CompetitionThe essays in this book highlight the connective tissue between maritime strategy and naval innovation. The cases and perspectives in this collection of essays by some of today's foremost strategic thinkers are both retrospective and prospective and carry on an intellectual tradition established by...
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