Military Science
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Radio History Ship ShoreFrom flags and pennants to Morse code and complex telecommunications, Radio History Ship to Shore is a treatise on the navigational aids vessels have used over the centuries. Author Spurgeon "Spud" G. Roscoe takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of communication...
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Endurance and War: The National Sources of Military CohesionScholars and military practitioners alike have long sought to understand why some country's militaries fight hard when facing defeat while others collapse. In Endurance and War, Jasen Castillo presents a new unifying theory--cohesion theory--to explain why national militaries differ in their staying power. His...
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A Knight and His WeaponsTake an engaging journey back in time, when battles were fought with swords, lances, maces, and an array of well-crafted devices that could be elegant and ornate, brutal and efficient, or both. This accessible, lively, and informative book explores mAuthor: Ewart OakeshottPublisher: Dufour EditionsPublished:...
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Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and TacticsWeapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and...
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Oxford's Own: The Men and Machines of No.15/XV Squadron Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air ForceOxford's Own is the story of No.15/XV Squadron, Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force, of the men who served with it and the aircraft it flew. It is a story of determination, courage, fortitude and life. The life of a Squadron at war and play,...
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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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