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Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb: Ambitions, Politics, and RivalriesIn Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb, author Mansoor Ahmed provides a groundbreaking account of Pakistan's rise as a nuclear power. By drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped primary sources, Ahmed reveals how bureaucratic politics shaped the nuclear program's development-and where it stands today.Author:...
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The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric WarfareToday more than one hundred small, asymmetric, and revolutionary wars are being waged around the world. This book provides invaluable tools for fighting such wars by taking enemy perspectives into consideration. The third volume of a trilogy by Max G. Manwaring, it continues the...
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Should We Ban Killer Robots?Images of killer robots are the stuff of science fiction - but also, increasingly, of scientific fact on the battlefield. Should we be worried, or is this a normal development in the technology of war? In this accessible volume ethicist Deane Baker cuts through...
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Military Engineer Field Data Manual FM 5-34Field Manual (FM) 5-34 provides engineer soldiers at all levels with a source of reference for doctrine; technical data; and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP). It also provides a source of reference for information most commonly needed by engineers. Although this manual contains some...
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U.S. Army Doctrine: From the American Revolution to the War on TerrorFrom the American Revolution to the global war on terror, U.S. Army doctrine has evolved to regulate the chaos of armed conflict by providing an intellectual basis for organizing, training, equipping, and operating the military. Walter E. Kretchik analyzes the service's keystone doctrine over...
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Tanks: World's Greatest Armoured Fighting Vehicles from World War I to the PresentTanks features 52 of the best armored fighting vehicles from World War I to the present day. Beginning with the prototype Mark V Male in 1917, the book ranges from World War I, World War II, through the Cold War, and up to the...
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The Art of War (Sun Tzu): Annotated editionThe Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun", also spelled Sunzi), is composed of 13...
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Seven TroopTHEY WERE LIKE A BAND OF BROTHERS... In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to the renowned SEVEN TROOP - a squadron within Great Britain's most elite military force, the Special Air Service. You know it as the SAS. This is the gripping account of...
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China's Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and SystemsChina's Strategic Arsenal brings together an international group of distinguished scholars to provide a fresh assessment of China's strategic military capabilities, doctrines, and political perceptions in light of rapidly advancing technologies, an expanding and modernizing nuclear arsenal, and an increased great-power competition with the...
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The Crisis in Western SecurityThis book, first published in 1982, examines the crisis of détente in Europe and between the superpowers, the crisis in arms control, and the heightening of tensions within NATO, and analyses the central precepts of Western policy and thought in these areas. These crises...
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The Quiet SoldierAt twenty-six, Adam Ballinger had a good degree, a fianc e, and a well-paid job. So what made him risk it all for the gruelling, year-long SAS Selection course, with a better than ninety per cent chance of failing to win the toughest badge...
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The Art of WarThis classic Chinese text, the earliest known treatise on war, offers strategy and tactics that can be applied to every type of human conflict. Central to Sun Tzu's philosophy is the concept of using deception and superior intelligence to minimize risk, which has made...
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Mars Adapting: Military Change During WarAs Clausewitz observed, In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect. The essence of war is a competitive reciprocal relationship with an adversary. Commanders and institutional leaders must recognize shortfalls and resolve gaps rapidly in the middle of...
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Cartridges: A Pictorial Digest of Small Arms AmmunitionCartridges: A Pictorial Digest of Small Arms Ammunition, first published in 1959, is a compendium of firearms ammunition beginning with the earliest paper and combustible cartridges, to the modern rim-fire and center-fire cartridges in use today. All calibers of small-arms ammunition are included, and...
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Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency WarfareIn Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning "hearts and minds" is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support, denies support to the insurgency, and makes military victory possible. Hazelton...
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Most Secret Weapons of Nations Remote ViewedThe Virus Directed Weather Bombs Spinning Orbs Delivering Electromagnetic Havoc over Vast Distances These are just three of today's fascinating and frightening weapon systems discovered over six years of investigation from 2012 to 2018 by Kiwi Joe, a trained remote viewer. Book Four in...
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U.S. Navy Patrol Vessels: A History and Directory from World War I to TodayDuring the past century, U.S. Navy patrol vessels have operated everywhere larger warships have--as well as in places where the big boats could not operate. These bantam warriors have performed in a variety of roles, from antisubmarine warfare to convoy escort and offensive operations...
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Spitfire V Vs C.202 Folgore: Malta 1942The inability of the Italians and Germans to invade Malta proved decisive for Allied victory in the Mediterranean during World War II, as the islands provided the Allies with a base from which to project air power. Early Italian efforts to pound the islands...
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Great Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century: Tsushima, Jutland, MidwayIn the history of civilizations, sea power has always played a preponderant role. This symbol of a nation's scientific and military genius has very often been the deciding factor during major conflicts, putting the names of several clashes down into legend. With this collection,...
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The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyThe U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition software, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most famously,...
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