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Guns of the Old West: An Illustrated GuideFirearms played an important role on the American frontier. Used to hunt animals for food and clothing, they also safeguarded one's home against outlaws and other hostile elements. This definitive, scrupulously researched work describes and illustrates the many different weapons that opened up and...
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Guidance Control of Ocean VehiclesThis comprehensive book details the design of control systems for ocean vehicles. Readers are shown how the implementation of mathematical models and control theory can reduce fuel consumption and improve reliability and performance.Author: FossenPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPublished: 08/23/1994Pages: 494Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.44h...
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If War Comes Tomorrow?: The Contours of Future Armed ConflictMilitary affairs have been affected by major changes in recent years. The bipolar world of two superpowers has gone. The Cold War and the global military confrontation that accompanied it have ended. A new military and political order has emerged in the world, but...
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Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft CarrierThey are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a...
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The GurkhasFilled with interesting and often highly entertaining historical anecdotes, and there are some rare photographs and illustrations. . . . Lucid, well written. . . . A very sound contribution to our understanding of British Empire and South Asian history. ChoiceAuthor: Byron FarwellPublisher: W....
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Jack Tar'An enthralling book' Sunday Telegraph'Fascinating' Sunday Times The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men...
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Russian Imperial Military Doctrine and Education, 1832-1914This work examines the evolution of military-scientific research and theory as it was taught to student-officers at the Nicholas Academy. It is the only work (in English or Russian) to focus on this intellectual-institutional dialogue in the context of evolving professional responsibilities of the...
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Armament and History: The Influence of Armament on History from the Dawn of Classical Warfare to the End of the Second World WarAlthough skill, leadership, strategy, and number of forces have been important factors in battles, armaments have played the most decisive role in determining ultimate military victory. Entranced by the power and precision of armaments, man has continuously invented faster, more accurate, and more devastating...
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Wings Over the Mexican Border: Pioneer Military Aviation in the Big BendAgainst a backdrop of revolution, border banditry, freewheeling aerial dramatics, and World War II comes this compelling look at the rise of U.S. combat aviation at an unlikely proving ground--a remote airfield in the rugged reaches of the southwestern Texas borderlands. Here, at Elmo...
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On ArtilleryGudmundsson tells the story of field artillery in the 20th century and its impact on the major conflicts of our time. Its purpose is to provide the reader--whether artilleryman or not--with hitherto unavailable insights on the role that artillery plays in the larger battle...
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The Enlightened Soldier: Scharnhorst and the Militarische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805This volume explores the essence of German military professionalism as exemplified by the nineteenth century Prussian German Staff. The study focuses on the most important Prussian military reformer--Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, who in 1801 founded the Militarische Gesellschaft (Military Society) in Berlin. The...
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The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea[The United States and Biological Warfare] is a major contribution to our understanding of the past involvement by the US and Japanese governments with BW, with important, crucial implications for the future. . . . Pieces of this story, including the Korean War allegations,...
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The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military MethodsCompiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the...
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Military Psychologists' Desk ReferenceThe psychological well-being of servicemen and women returning from war is one of the most discussed and contemplated mental health issues today. Media programs debate the epidemic of PTSD in returning veterans and the potential fallout of a less-than-adequate veteran mental health system. This...
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A Century of Conflict: War, 1914-2014The centenary of the start of World War One in 1914 provides an opportunity to assess the role and impact of conflict in the history of the last century, and also to consider how warfare has changed. A Century of Conflict offers a clear,...
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World Peace: (And How We Can Achieve It)For as long as there has been war, there have been demands for its elimination. The quest for world peace has excited and eluded political leaders, philosophers, religious elders, activists, and artists for millennia. With war on the rise once again, we rarely reflect...
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The Strategy Bridge: Theory for PracticeThe Strategy Bridge presents the general theory of strategy and explains the utility of this general theory for the particular strategies that strategists need to develop in order to meet their historically unique challenges. The book argues that strategy's general theory provides essential education...
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Planning to Fail: The Us Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and AfghanistanThe United States national-security establishment is vast, yet the United States has failed to meet its initial objectives in almost every one of its major, post-World War II conflicts. Of these troubled efforts, the US wars in Vietnam (1965-73), Iraq (2003-11), and Afghanistan (2001-present)...
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Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of ChangeNational security has been at the forefront of the Israeli experience for seven decades, with threats ranging from terrorism, to vast rocket and missile arsenals, and even existential nuclear dangers. Yet, despite its overwhelming preoccupation with foreign and defense affairs, Israel does not have...
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Social Science Goes to War: The Human Terrain System in Iraq and AfghanistanThe Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human...
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