Author not specified. — Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd, 1913. — 61 p. As the Introduction says, the History of the Regiment and its wonderful Traditions must the pride of every member of the Royal Welch. This book starts with the raising of the regiment in 1689, battles in Ireland and Flanders, the Seven Years War, the War of American Independence, the Peninsular War 1808-14, the...
Routledge, 2014. — 262 p. This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention. Since the end of the Cold War, US technological superiority has led to a more proactive and, some would argue, high risk approach to international military intervention. New technologies including the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 298 p. Ever wonder why militant groups behave as they do? For instance, why did Al Qaeda attack the World Trade Center whereas the African National Congress tried to avoid civilian bloodshed? Why does Islamic State brag over social media about its gory attacks, while Hezbollah denies responsibility or even apologizes for its carnage? This book...
Clarity Press, 2021. — 434 p. World War in Syria provides a comprehensive study of the first ten years of the Syrian War, as well as an extensive background into the history of Syria's longstanding conflict with the Western world and its regional strategic partners such as Turkey and Israel. It offers an analysis of the conflict through the paradigm of an international 'world...
Endeavour Press, 2017. — 264 p. Modern warfare in the twentieth century has advanced in far greater strides than any other century previously. And as the former political consultant for the Sunday Times, James Adams reveals increasingly political. In this thoroughly researched book, Adams’ details the different areas of warfare advancements in the modern era. With numerous case...
Routledge, 2017. — 230 p. This book explores contemporary military innovation, with a particular focus on the balance between anticipation and adaption. The volume examines contemporary military thought and the doctrine that evolved around the thesis of a transformation in the character of war. Known as the Information-Technology Revolution in Military Affairs (IT-RMA), this...
University of Minnesota Press, 2020. — 352 p. Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 320 p. This book tells the story of the battle for Goose Green--the first crucial clash of the Falklands War--through the eyes of the commanders, both British and Argentine, from brigadier to corporal. It follows in detail, with the aid of maps, the fourteen hours of vicious infantry as both sides struggled for the tiny settlement of Goose Green....
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 268 p. Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the...
Scribe Publications, 2021. — 704 p. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Britain has changed enormously. During this time, the British Army fought two campaigns, in Iraq and Afghanistan, at considerable financial and human cost. Yet neither war achieved its objectives. This book questions why, and provides challenging but necessary answers. Composed from...
London; New York: Routledge, 2007. — 620 p. — ISBN: 978-0-582-30807-7. The Ottoman Empire had reached the peak of its power, presenting a very real threat to Western Christendom when in 1683 it suffered its first major defeat, at the Siege of Vienna. Tracing the empire’s conflicts of the next two centuries, The Ottoman Wars: An Empire Besieged examines the social transformation...
Vij Multimedia, 2012. — 116 p. The book explains genesis, expansion, development, and modernisation of the Pakistan Army. It undertakes only the Pakistan Army and does not include the Pakistan Nay and the Pakistan Air Force. The book comprehensively explains and analyses the Pakistan Army. Initially, Pakistan had faced several challenges to meet its defence needs. Pakistan...
Harper Collins, 1995. — 320 p. An astute military historian's appraisal of what separates the sheep from the wolves in the great game of war."? Kirkus Reviews If a key to military victory is to "get there first with the most," the true test of the great general is to decide where "there" is? the enemy's Achilles heel. Here is a narrative account of decisive engagements that...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2003. — 320 p. An astute military historian's appraisal of what separates the sheep from the wolves in the great game of war? If a key to military victory is to "get there first with the most," the true test of the great general is to decide where "there" is? the enemy's Achilles heel. Here is a narrative account of decisive engagements that succeeded...
St. Martin's Press, 1999. — 256 p. The nature of warfare has changed! Like it or not, terrorism has established a firm foothold worldwide. Economics and environmental issues are inextricably entwined on a global basis and tied directly to national regional security. Although traditional threats remain, new, shadowy, and mercurial adversaries are emerging, and identifying and...
Routledge, 2013. — 239 p. The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides; rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war. The French Army 'Centre for Training and Preparation in...
The RAND Corporation, 1988. — 68 p. — ISBN: 0-8330-0893-5. Книга представляет собой анализ морально-психологической атмосферы среди личного состава 40-й общевойсковой армии в годы Афганской войны 1979-1989. Написана на основе опроса ветеранов боевых действий среди которых есть как отслужившие срочную службу так и офицеры. В качестве источников также использованы советские журналы...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 224 p. — (Osprey General Military). To the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Celtic warrior of the late Iron Age was the archetypal barbarian: savage, undisciplined, and bloodthirsty. In a clash of cultures that lasted almost 500 years, the rich and vibrant society in which he lived, fought, and died was virtually destroyed, becoming the...
Routledge, 2020. — 424 p. Now in its third edition, American Military History examines how a country shaped by race, ethnicity, economy, regionalism, and power has been equally influenced by war and the struggle to define the role of a military in a free and democratic society. Organized chronologically, the text begins at the point of European conflict with Native Americans...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 394 p. This is a long-awaited translation of a definitive account of the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Michael Alpert examines the origins, formation and performance of the Republican Army and sets the Spanish Civil War in its broader military context. He explores the conflicts between communists and Spanish anarchists about how...
Routledge, 2020. — 430 p. A detailed study by a team of researchers at the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. It assesses the strategic ramifications for Israel of military, political, economic and social aspects of the Gulf War, and concludes with a set of military policy recommendations for Israel.
History Division United States Marine Corps, 2017. — 275 p. Many histories have been written about the U.S. Marine Corps, although few histories about women in the Marine Corps exist. The author hopes the text, sidebars, and other contextual information included in this volume will make this history of female Marines easier to follow for new members of the military and...
U.S. Marine Corps History Division, 2012. — 52 p. On 23 March 2003, 5,800 U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Corpsmen—the warriors of Task Force Tarawa—began fighting a ferocious battle in the city of an-Nasiriyah, Iraq. As the first large-scale battle fought by U.S. Marines in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Nasiriyah became a test of the Coalition’s ability and resolve to defeat a...
Routledge, 2010. — 304 p. This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war. After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally have not been trained and equipped for, in environments...
Routledge, 2007. — 260 p. Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this new volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained. It does so by confronting two inter-related research problems: the nature of victory and defeat in modern war and the explanations of victory and defeat. By first questioning the extent to which the...
Routledge, 2007. — 272 p. Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) is the relationship between militaries and humanitarians. Largely conducted in post-conflict environments, CIMIC has become a key characteristic of military operations in the twenty-first century. However, the field is mostly understood through stereotype rather than clear, comprehensive analysis. The range and scope...
Casemate, 2022. — 159 p. The first full analysis of the second Nagorno-Karabakh War―the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems. The Second Nagorno-Karabakh war—fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between September 24 and November 10, 2020—was the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems. This 44-day war resulted in a decisive military victory for...
LSU Press, 2010. — 280 p. During the post--World War II era, American foreign policy prominently featured direct U.S. military intervention in the Third World. Yet the cold war placed restraints on where and how Washington could intervene until the collapse of the former Soviet Union removed many of the barriers to -- and ideological justifications for -- American intervention....
Texas University Press, 1990. — 416 p. In November, 1950, with the highly successful Inchon Landing behind him, Gen. Douglas MacArthur planned the last major offensive of what was to be a brief "conflict": the drive that would push the North Koreans across the Yalu River into Manchuria. In northern Korea, US forces assembled at Chosin Reservoir to cut behind the North Korean...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 228 p. The cradle of an insurgency that plunged Iraq into years of chaos and bloodshed, Fallujah conjures up images of the brutal house-to-house fighting that occurred during the 2004 U.S. invasion of the iconic city. But attacks in the area actually peaked two years later, when American and Iraqi government forces struggled with a reinvigorated...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 304 p. What makes people fight and risk their lives for countries other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as Lord Byron, George Orwell, Che Guevara, and Osama bin Laden all volunteer for ostensibly foreign causes? Nir Arielli helps us understand this perplexing phenomenon with a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers,...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 305 p. — ISBN 978-0674979567 What makes people fight and risk their lives for countries other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as Lord Byron, George Orwell, Che Guevara, and Osama bin Laden all volunteer for ostensibly foreign causes? Nir Arielli helps us understand this perplexing phenomenon with a wide-ranging history of...
Routledge, 2019. — 218 p. This book examines the evolution of African armed forces, their impact on the societies in which they operate, and their current capabilities, with special attention to their effectiveness as military institutions.
Depuis les temps les plus recules jusqu'a' l'introduction des armes a' feu; avec des observations critiques sur quelques-uns de plus celebres faits d'armes de l'Antiquite. — Paris: Librairie d’Amyot, 1843. — 570 p. Военная история слонов с древнейших времен и до изобретения огнестрельного оружия, с критическими замечаниями относительно нескольких наиболее знаменитых воинских...
Potomac Books, 2007. — 195 p. In Leigh Armistead's second edited volume on warfare in the Information Age, the authors explore the hype over possibilities versus actuality in their analysis of Information Operations (IO) today. First, leaders must better understand the informational element of national power, and second, their sole focus on technology must expand to include...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 369 p. A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day. We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to...
Toruń : Wydaw. Naukowe Wyższa Szkoła Oficerska im. gen. Józefa Bema WSO, 1994. — 323 s. Oddajemy do rąk Czytelników pierwszy numer wydawnictwa periodycznego „Artyleria w operacji i walce”. Zgodnie z intencją inicjatorów tego rocznika i Redakcji przeznaczeniem jego jest popularyzacja wyników badań, dociekań i przemyśleń pracowników naukowych Katedry Wojsk Rakietowych i Artylerii...
Routledge, 2013. — 250 p. This volume offers a wide-ranging examination of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), featuring fresh regional and international perspectives derived from recently available new archival material. Three decades ago Iran and Iraq became embroiled in a devastating eight-year war which served to re-define the international relations of the Gulf region. The...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. — 608 p. This definitive account of the Gulf War relates the previously untold story of the U.S. war with Iraq in the early 1990s. The author follows the 42-day war from the first night to the final day, providing vivid accounts of bombing runs, White House strategy sessions, firefights, and bitter internal conflicts.
Washington. Headquarters Department of the Army. Fort Bliss, Texas: 32nd Air and Missile Defense Command, 2004. — 15 p. «Нападение на 507ю ремонтную роту в Ан-Насирии, Ирак 23го марта 2003г.» [на английском языке]. Результаты oфициального расследования министерства обороны США по поводу событий, преведших к тому, что во время операции "Свобода Ираку", элемент 507й ремонтнoй роты,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 332 p. In this biography Rodney Atwood details the life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent (1864-1925), a distinguished British soldier whose career culminated in decisive victories on the Western Front in 1918 and command of the Indian Army in the early 1920s. He served his soldier’s apprenticeship in the Victorian colonial wars in Burma, the Sudan...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 370 p. This biography of Field Marshall Lord Roberts charts a remarkable life that spanned the apogee of the British Empire. During a diverse career, Roberts won the Victoria Cross, planned the strategic defence of India, turned the tide of war in South Africa, introduced army reform and campaigned for National Service before 1914. Rodney Atwood...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 177 p. Even powerful states face disaster if their armies do not adapt military doctrine to meet new challenges. Comparing the cases of the United States Army in Vietnam and the British Army during the Boer War and the Malayan Emergency, Deborah Avant offers a new account of the conditions that help shape doctrine within military organizations....
CQ Press, 2013. — 440 p. Mercenaries have been active in battle from the beginning of military history and, as private armies and military support firms, they are a major component of warfare today. Security, military advice, training, logistics support, policing, technological expertise, intelligence, transportation―all are outsourced to a greater or lesser degree in the U.S....
CQ Press, 2013. — 726 p. — ISBN 665-1-90781-241-0 Mercenaries have been active in battle from the beginning of military history and, as private armies and military support firms, they are a major component of warfare today. Security, military advice, training, logistics support, policing, technological expertise, intelligence, transportation―all are outsourced to a greater or...
Stanford University Press, 2012. — 212 p. Intervention in armed conflicts is full of riddles that await attention from scholars and policymakers. This book argues that rethinking intervention—redefining what it is and why foreign powers take an interest in others' conflicts—is of critical importance to understanding how conflicts evolve over time with the entry and exit of...
Northwestern University Press, 2014. — 328 p. The Ethiopian popular revolution of 1974 ended a monarchy that claimed descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and brought to power a military government that created one of the largest and best-equipped armies in Africa. In his panoramic study of the Ethiopian army, Fantahun Ayele draws upon his unprecedented access to...
Washington, DC: National Defense Universty Press, 1986. — 198 p. The Legacy of Korea The "New Look": Impact and Counterattack Design for a New Army Re-Equipping Reorganizing: The Pentomic Concept Reaction and Rejection
New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. — 223 p. More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus the military, political, and moral dilemmas confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global...
Routledge, 2002. — 186 p. The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered subjects one of the formative events of the post-Cold War era and a watershed in Middle Eastern international politics to a comprehensive reassessment. Considering military and political events from Arab, Israeli and American view points, the book examines the Gulf War's historical origins, conduct and legacy.
Routledge, 2008. — 378 p. A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of the nineteenth century in the face of increased infantry and artillery firepower, and that officers of the cavalry clung to both for reasons of prestige and stupidity. It is this view, commonly held but rarely supported...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 320 p. — ISBN: 1846033276. Throughout time, violent battles and bloody clashes have changed the course of history and shaped nations or empires. Battles of annihilation are rare, but ever since antiquity a stunning victory on the battlefield, even if it has failed to win the war, has captured the imagination of many. The battle of Cannae in 216BC,...
Routledge, 2013. — 404 p. British Generals in Blair's Wars is based on a series of high profile seminars held in Oxford in which senior British officers, predominantly from the army, reflect on their experience of campaigning. The chapters embrace all the UK's major operations since the end of the Cold War, but they focus particularly on Iraq and Afghanistan. As personal...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 287 p. How does one engage in the study of strategy? Strategy: Context and Adaptation from Archidamus to Airpower argues that strategy is not just concerned with amassing knowledge; it is also about recognizing our imperfect understanding of the environment and respecting the complex nature of adaptation to the unforeseen or unexpected. In...
University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 344 p. Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation―be it in the scale, scope, cost, or duration of the conflict. In this book, Spencer D. Bakich investigates a crucial...
Warszawa: Główna ksiegarnia wojskowa, 1921. — 284 s. Generał porucznik William Balck (1858–1924) był niekwestionowanym autorytetem w sprawach taktyki jeszcze przed I wojną światową – nie tylko w Niemczech ale i w całym ówczesnym świecie. Jego książki – a przede wszystkim wielotomowa Taktyka, wydawana wielokrotnie do 1915 r. – cieszyły się dużą popularnością wśród oficerów i...
Washington D.C.: U.S. Goverment Printing Office, 1982. — 326 p. Series "USA in Southeast Asia". The book describes the history of the creation of heavy attack aircraft on the basis of military transport aircraft during the Vietnam war. Foreword Illustrations and Photographs Maps and Charts Tables. Origin and Early Development Gunship I (AC- 47) Gunship II (AC-130) Advanced...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 224 p. From Kabul to Baghdad and Back provides insight into the key strategic decisions of the Afghan and Iraq campaigns as the United States attempted to wage both simultaneously against Al-Qaeda and its supporting affiliates. It also evaluates the strategic execution of those military campaigns to identify how well the two operations were...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 361 p. Covering both Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom as two campaigns within a single, if discontinuous, conflict, this book analyzes the strategic interaction between Iraq and the United States from 1990 to 2010 and the key operational decisions that determined the course of the war. The author’s assessment of the long war...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 638 p. A Walk Against The Stream takes a look at the experiences of a young national service officer in the Rhodesian army. This is a true story, encompassing all eighteen months the author spent at Victoria Falls, Rhodesia, facing enemy territory just across the Zambezi river in Zambia. Initially allocated to 4th platoon, 4 Independent company...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 248 p. We know that a revolution's success largely depends on the army's response to it. But can we predict the military's reaction to an uprising? 'How Armies Respond to Revolutions and Why' argues that it is possible to make a highly educated guess and in some cases even a confident prediction about the generals' response to a domestic...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 470 p. The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states. Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, Zoltan Barany argues that the military is the most important institution that states maintain, for without military...
Cassell, 2007. — 329 p. — ISBN 978-0-3043-6671-2. Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the 'Malayan...
Cassell, 2007. — 329 p. Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the 'Malayan Emergency'. Yet it was a war that...
Pen and Sword, 2001. — 224 р. All too little remembered today, the Korean War was bitterly fought out under atrocious conditions of weather and terrain. Greatly outnumbered by their Communist Chinese and North Korean enemy, the United Nations forces fought with extraordinary resolve and gallantry. The Hook, the name given to a prominent ridge on the Peninsula, saw more blood...
London: Ian Allan Publishing. 1979. — 128 p. — ISBN 0711008337 The Japanese Soldier 7 Organisation of the Japanese Army 13 Japanese Infantry Weapons 27 Armour 63 Artillery and Mortars 87 Engineer and Chemical Warfare Units 103 Special Forces 111 The Japanese Army in Action 115 Appendices Organisation of Japanese Infantry Divisions 123 Organisation of Japanese Independent...
London: Ian Allan Publishing. 1979. — 128 p. — ISBN 0711008337 The Japanese Soldier 7 Organisation of the Japanese Army 13 Japanese Infantry Weapons 27 Armour 63 Artillery and Mortars 87 Engineer and Chemical Warfare Units 103 Special Forces 111 The Japanese Army in Action 115 Appendices Organisation of Japanese Infantry Divisions 123 Organisation of Japanese Independent...
London: Ian Allan Publishing. 1979. — 128 p. — ISBN 0711008337 The Japanese Soldier 7 Organisation of the Japanese Army 13 Japanese Infantry Weapons 27 Armour 63 Artillery and Mortars 87 Engineer and Chemical Warfare Units 103 Special Forces 111 The Japanese Army in Action 115 Appendices Organisation of Japanese Infantry Divisions 123 Organisation of Japanese Independent...
Ashgate, 2010. — 446 p. Human-Robot Interactions in Future Military Operations is a novel book in this field. The volume aims at investigating the relationships emerging from the in-depth use of robots in military applications. The approach is that of analyzing the requirements of the interaction from multiple views. The book balances properly technological features of the...
Pen and Sword Books, 2014. — 224 p. Throughout history, there have been those who become leaders through effort, fate, violence, or simple luck. They are leaders of men, of armies, and of nations. Some strive for the best of humanity, while others spread death and destruction. But all change history. In this controversial study, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 415 p. Dave Barr had had a penchant for trouble since day one, born in the back of a car, shooting by the time he was five, riding a motorbike at seven, Dave regularly got into fights at school. The only reading Dave would do growing up involved motorbikes, shooting, westerns and the military. After reading Battle Cry by Leon Uris aged 12 he knew he...
Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 528 p. — ISBN10 1472831012. — ISBN13 978-1472831019. From the high-ranking officer who wrote the still-classified British military analysis of the war in Iraq comes the authoritative history of two conflicts which have overshadowed the beginning of the 21st century. Inextricably linked to the ongoing 'War on Terror', the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 208 p. This well-documented and hard-hitting biography of the thirteenth commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps succeeds in converting John A. Lejeune from a near mythical figure in corps history to a flesh and blood officer who helped build the service from a small appendage of the U.S. Navy to an important arm of naval warfare. Commandant from 1920...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 189 p. — (History of Warfare 88). Current military historiography has a tendency to portray the military effectiveness of non-western, post-colonial states in broad generalized stereotypes. This monograph examines the militaries of Nigeria, Argentina, Egypt and India in times of crisis to challenge these assumptions. The book shows that...
Lexington Books, 2021. — 364 p. The Indian Army was one of the most important colonial institutions that the British created. From its humble origins as a mercantile police force to a modern contemporary army in the Second World War, this institution underwent many transitions. This book examines the Indian Army during the later colonial era from the First Afghan War in 1839 to...
Routledge, 2021. — 346 p. This book critically examines the politico-military strategy of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. What began as a power struggle and cultural conflict between West and East Pakistan, later compelled India to intervene—an intervention that decisively shaped and influenced the geo-politics of the region and the...
Naval Institute Press, 2020. — 255 p. Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force documents the rapid development of nuclear ballistic missiles in the United States and their equally swift demise after the Cuban Missile Crisis, revealing how these drastic changes negatively influenced both the Air Force and the missile community. David W....
Helion and Company, 2011. — 82 p. France in Centrafrique explores the early colonial and post-colonial history of French Equatorial Africa with a particular emphasis on the role of the Central African Republic in the Second World War and the Free French Movement. One of the key figures to emerge from this period, and a man who would shape the modern destiny of the Central...
Helion and Company, 2013. — 72 p. South African Mirages and Cuban MiG-21s dogfighting over Cuito Cuanavale, the largest tank battle on African soil since El Alamein; Puma troopships shot out of the skies by Strela missiles and RPG-7 rockets; Alouette III gunships hovering menacingly above Koevoet tracker-combat teams as they close in for the kill; Hercules and Transall...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 255 p. It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as...
Routledge, 2020. — 241 p. During the few years prior to publication there had been a growing interest not only in the organisation and efficiency of the British Army, but also in its role in modern British society and the place of soldiering as a significant career. The time was therefore ripe for a book such as this, which looks objectively at the position of our Army whilst...
Auckland University Press, 2015. — 400 p. Although there have been recent works on the origins and consequences of the 19th-century New Zealand Wars, this is the first thorough reexamination of their course in over sixty years. According to the author, "The degree of Maori success in all four major wars is still underestimated--even to the point where, in the case of one war,...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 338 p. List of Tables Abbreviations Muster rolls Methodology The Peerage Age Length of service Frequency and type of service The Knights Trends in rhe numbers and proportions of knights serving in armies Why did rhe number and proportion of knights decline? Strenui milites: who were the fighting knights? Roles and careers The Men-at-Arms Ratios...
Transaction Publishers, 2010. — 455 p. For centuries international order has been troubled by small wars, insurrections, and revolts--low intensity conflicts. With the implosion of the Soviet empire many thought such violence could be eradicated through the growth of democracy, open societies, and increased productivity and education. Instead the world remains filled with...
Center of Military History, 2010. — 207 p. Leadership is of surpassing importance of arms. Judgment, competence, and courage often count for more than armed might alone in achieving success. Generalship is carefully studied by soldiers who will lead men in combat, whether or not they aspire to general-officer rank themselves. Over time our comparatively young army has developed...
Routledge, 2010. — 161 p. Women’s participation in the U.S. Armed Forces has grown over time in response to the national need for their services. Throughout each era of American history, patriotic women volunteered to serve their country in a wide variety of official and unofficially sanctioned capacities. When there was a call to duty, the United States Armed Forces always...
The New Press, 2013. — 384 p. Military service can shatter or give meaning to lives–it is rarely a neutral encounter―and it has resulted in a rich outpouring of personal testimony from the men and women who have literally placed their lives on the line. “A 'real' love letter to our military [that] will prove enlightening, even galvanizing” (Dissent), A People's History of the...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 320 p. Woodrow Wilson's presidential administration (1913-1921) was marked not only by America's participation in World War I, but also by numerous armed interventions by the United States in other countries. Spanning the globe, these actions included the years-long occupations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, a border war with Mexico, and the...
Routledge, 2007. — 239 p. — ISBN-13 9780415761994. — ISBN-10 0415761999. The once-neglected study of counter-insurgency operations has recently emerged as an area of central concern for Western governments and their military organizations. While counter-insurgency represents a hugely challenging form of contemporary warfare, there exists a considerable body of experience that...
Indiana University Press, 1998. — 296 p. With thoughtful use of primary sources, Uri Ben-Eliezer provides a serious, sustained, and critical look at the place of the military in Israeli society. He maintains that from the early days of the Yishuv, militarism and the military have become a way of life for Israelis. Focusing on the period between 1936 and 1956, The Making of...
Birlinn, 2011. — 320 p. Max Benitz reports from the front-line of a highly controversial war in a perceptive and revealing account of several months spent in Afghanistan with this world-famous infantry battalion. Training with them and living amongst them as they undertake their tour in Helmand province, Benitz gives a unique insight into the pressures faced by those who risk...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 320 p. British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars....
University of Toronto Press, 2002. — 288 p. Covering training, Manning, equipment, and combat efforts, this is first full non-offical history of the Canadian Army's military operations in Korea from the summer of 1950 to the peacekeeping ceasefire of 1953.
Actes du colloque organisé le 4 avril 1997 à Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan par le Centre de recherches des écoles de Coëtquidan par l'Institut de recherches sur les civilisations de l'Occident moderne (Université de Paris-Sorbonne) et par l'Institut de stratégie comparée. — Paris: Economica, 1998. — 164 p. En 1955, l'historien britannique Michael Roberts lançait le concept de révolution...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 494 p. Drones are the iconic military technology of many of today's most pressing conflicts. Drones have captured the public imagination, partly because they project lethal force in a manner that challenges accepted norms and moral understandings. Drone Wars presents a series of essays by legal scholars, journalists, government officials,...
Routledge, 2015. — 198 p. War and Drugs explores the relationship between military incursions and substance use and abuse throughout history. For centuries, drugs have been used to weaken enemies, stimulate troops to fight, and quell post-war trauma. They have also served as a source of funding for clandestine military and paramilitary activity. In addition to offering detailed...
Routledge, 2009. — 284 p. The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider international system. A key characteristic of the post-Cold War era, in which the US has emerged as the sole superpower, is the growing number of collapsing or collapsed states. A growing number of states are,...
New York: George H Doran Company, 1914. — 263 p. The secret of Modern War. Armies of Masses. Force and Numbers. Modern Arms and Appliances. The Importance of Cavalry. Self-Reliance, Method, and Command. Attack and Defence. The object and the conduct of war. Time, Space, And Direction. Principles of Command. Naval Warfare—. Retrospect and Prospect.
Frontline Books, 2017. — 584 p. The British Empire at its height stretched around the globe. From Asia to the Americas, scores of countries were conquered or assimilated into the greatest commonwealth of nations in history. Many of these countries were won, and held, at the point of the bayonet, and British soldiers and sailors fought long and hard campaigns in deserts,...
Salamander books, 1990. — 216 p. The Battle of Britain examines the strength of both sides on the eve of the battle, and its wider strategic implications fo the outcome of the war. The book looks at the German preparations for invasion, and the Luftwaffe's state of readiness after the Polish and French campaigns.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2011. — 400 p. The Illusion of Victory demonstrates that most of the rewards of victory in modern warfare are either exaggerated or false. When the ostensible benefits of victory are examined a generation after a war, it becomes inescapably evident that the defeated belligerent rarely conforms to the demands and expectations of the victor....
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 464 p. Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. In Nonstate Warfare, Stephen Biddle...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 477 p. — ISBN 978-0-691-20751-3 Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. In Nonstate...
Pen and Sword, 2004. — 344 p. This is, without doubt, the finest book about the crucial role that artillery played in the two World Wars of the Twentieth century. The authors, both former artillery officers who saw action in Word War Two, describe the development of their neglected, inadequate and class-ridden arm through the battles of the First World War and the eventual...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1986. — 148 s. Opis bitwy o Bolonię w kwietniu 1945 r. Bitwa o Bolonię — jedna z ostatnich bitew stoczonych przez wojska alianckie na froncie włoskim w 1945 roku. Spis treści: Wstęp Plany, decyzje i przygotowania do bitwy Bitwa Rodzaje wojsk i służb w bitwie o Bolonię Po bitwie Bibliografia Ilustracje Mapy
Pen and Sword Military, 2009. — 272 p. The book opens by setting the historic backdrop to The Troubles. In summer 1969 the annual Loyalist marching season sparked violence in Londonderry which spread rapidly. After three days of violence the British Government deployed troops in support of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Initially the Catholic community welcomed the Army s...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2012. — 192 p. 'My primary aim in writing this book is to demonstrate the importance of individual human beings in modern warfare. In the battle to drive the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, Coalition forces used every form of high-technology weapon available; yet in the end success depended on the performance of individuals, whether they were pilots,...
Rosen Publishing Group, 2022. — 50 p. The army is the largest and oldest service of the U.S. military. Tasked with protecting and defending the country on the ground, members of the U.S. Army go through tough training and work in many different fields. Readers of this gripping volume looks at the history of this branch, as well as the modern technology involved in the service....
Helion and Company, 2013. — 181 p. The book is organized into vignettes that provide insight on the nature of both Chechen and Russian tactics utilized during the two wars. They show the chronic problem of guerrilla logistics, the necessity of digging in fighting positions, the value of the correct use of terrain and the price paid in individual discipline and unit cohesion...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 272 p. Throughout history, warfare has transformed social, political, cultural, and religious aspects of our lives. We tell tales of wars—past, present, and future—to create and reinforce a common purpose. In this engaging overview, Jeremy Black examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 387 p. This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world’s finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars of the twentieth and twenty-first...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 288 p. This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial to ground contemporary experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a global framework. Unlike other studies that begin with the American and French...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 230 p. Origins to 1700. The eighteenth century. The nineteenth century. 1900 to 1918. 1919 to 1945. 1946 to 2017. List of maps and illustrations. Image credits.
Routledge, 2004. — 272 p. Professor Black has written an interesting and useful survey of military history. It is not a book for the casual reader but it will make those people with an interest in the study of military history think about that subject. He has a constant theme throughout the book about the Europe-centric nature of military history. This is not the only line of...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0521470331 ISBN13: 9780521470339.
The three centuries following the discovery of the New World was a period of unprecedented global expansion, spearheaded by the lusty armies of the imperial European powers. This volume of The Cambridge Illustrated Atlases of Warfare is a lively and elaborately illustrated study of warfare...
Routledge, 2001. — 225 p. This is a wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of warfare from the outbreak of the American War of Independence to the British conquest of Egypt. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources this book offers an unrivalled account of civil and international conflicts involving Western powers, integrating both naval and land warfare. This book covers...
Mirror Books, 2019. — 336 p. For the first time, a blistering, highly charged account from the man known as 'Marine A' who was at the centre of the controversial murder of a wounded Taliban fighter. His case led to an unprecedented wave of public support which raised over £800,000 to fund his appeal. The nerve-shredding situations Sgt. Blackman operated within, under sustained...
Third Edition. — Free Press, 1988. — 344 p. The third edition of Geoffrey Blainey’s highly acclaimed study on the causes of war has been expanded and updated to include a complete discussion of World War II and the road towards nuclear war. Analyzing all international wars since 1700, Causes of War solves the riddle of why some wars are long and some are short and demonstrates...
New York: The Dial Press Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, 1985. — 572 p. — ISBN: 0-385-27888-8. Designation: Airborne Sicily: Baptism of Fire Italy: Airborne to the Rescue England: Eve of Invasion Normandy: The Stuff of Instant Legend Holland: Disaster at Arnhem Bulge I: The German Attack Bulge II: The Allied Counterattack Germany: Destruction of the Third Reich Sources...
Praeger, 2007. — 265 p. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld arrived at the Pentagon in 2001 with an agenda that included the transformation of the American armed forces. His intent was to modernize the existing force while simultaneously developing high-tech innovations to revolutionize the military of the future.The primary architect of transformation, Arthur Cebrowski,...
Libraries Unlimited, 1995. — 192 p. Tackling and managing the massive array of reference tools in the field of U.S. military history, this selectively annotated bibliography covers land, air, and naval forces, with separate chapters on major American armed conflicts. Other chapters cover electronic resources, organizations and associations, museums, archives, and libraries. The...
Vij Books, 2014. — 225 p. During the First Indo-Pak War of 1947, many important battles were fought in Kashmir, which have become part of Indian military folklore. Amongst these, the Battles of Zojila hold pride of place. Our breakthrough at Zojila ensured the security of Ladakh which was gravely threatened by the hostiles at that time. During this period of armed conflict with...
Har-Anand Publications, 1997. — 259 p. History of operations of Jammu and Kashmir, Zojila sector, 1948. During the First Indo-Pak War, many important battles were fought in Kashmir, which have become part of Indian military folklore. Amongst these, the Battles of Zojila hold pride of place. Our breakthrough at Zojila ensured the security of Ladakh which was gravely threatened...
Policy Press, 2019. — 234 p. Through a range of case studies spanning the post-Cold War period in Iraq, Moldova and Serbia, this innovative book breaks new ground in its study of asymmetric conflicts where warring sides exhibit vast power differentials. It uses multiple theories to examine the different pathways that encourage minor powers to engage in both offensive and...
Pike & Shot Society, 2011. — 102 p.
As it is well known, there is not very much documentation on the organisation of the Spanish armies of the end of the 17th century. The principal reference is the "Historia Organica …" of Count de Clonard, written and published around the 1850’s. It is a monumental work (sixteen volumes), based on scrupulous researches, that were conducted...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. — 638 p. The theme of the book is the creation of tactics for littoral warfare – as opposed to the more common blue ocean perspective. Themes are how NATO perceived the goals of the enemy; the purposes of the NATO organisations, the military instruments they had to organise, the organization of cooperation among units from sovereign states, and how...
Poznań: Rebis, 2018. — 324 s. — ISBN 9788380624214 Od dronów po satelity, od systemów obrony przeciwrakietowej po wojnę cybernetyczną – Izrael przoduje w wykorzystywaniu nowych technologii militarnych. Czarodzieje broni mówią o tym, jak ten ośmiomilionowy naród, wyciągając wnioski ze swego bogatego doświadczenia wojennego, nauczył się adaptować do zmian w sposobie prowadzenia...
Clarendon Press, 1980. — 414 p. Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain's foreign and military policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. The role and evolution of the British Army in the Locarno world era 1924-1932. The Defence of India and the Cardwell military system. In 1919–1920 there was a...
New York, The Century co., 1919. — 428 p The great World War was more than two-thirds over when America entered the struggle; and yet in a sense this country was in the war from its very beginning. Three great inventions controlled the character of the fighting and made it different from any other the world has ever seen. These three inventions were American. The submarine was...
Crown Publishers, Inc, 1979. — 252 p. — ISBN: 0517536129 An account of the Vietnam War which includes stories of hand-to-hand combat and the advanced technology of war in the 20th century. Includes an index of American service personnel and civilians missing in South-East Asia, updated to November 1993. Foreword by General William Westmoreland, US Army Chief of Staff between...
New York University Press, 2012. — 320 p. The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a...
New York University Press, 2012. — 320 p. The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a...
Department of the Army, 2008. — 501 p. An outstanding work by a superb military historian who has been a professor for many years at the US Army War College. It is essential reading for anyone interested in either the history of US amphibious operations or the Korean War. In addition to detailing the US Army's amphibious operations during the war, which are much more extensive...
Gotham Books, 2007. — 624 p. An analysis of the pivotal role of technology in modern warfare focuses on four historical periods that shaped the rise and fall of empires, in a narrative account that covers such topics as gunpowder, the Industrial Revolution, and stealth aircraft. Boot describes a number of case studies to illustrate the effect that technology has had on military...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 252 p. More than one million men and women have received the Purple Heart since its creation as an award "for military merit" in 1932. This book provides a brief history of the Purple Heart, with a focus on how the decoration's award criteria have evolved over the last 75 years. The book then takes a representative look at Purple Heart recipients...
Mercier Press, 2011. — 152 p. By the sixth week of the Irish Civil War in 1922, all eyes turned to Cork, as the National Army readied its climactic attack on the 'rebel capital'. At 2 a.m. on Bank Holiday Monday, Emmet Dalton and 450 soldiers of the National Army landed at Passage West, in one of the most famous surprise attacks in Irish military history. Their daring...
Pen and Sword Military, 2005. — 331 p. It is a curious paradox that, while for many centuries there has been deep antagonism between the British and the Irish, the latter have fought the former's wars with exemplary courage and tenacity. This has never been better demonstrated than when, as a result of the Irish regiments' superb service in the South African War (Boer War) at...
Barnes&Noble, 1994. — 166 p. В книге рассказывается о самых знаменитых воздушных сражениях в которых принимала участие американская авиация во второй Мировой войне.
Pen and Sword Books, 2016. — 288 p. This book explores the era of the 1970s right up to the present day, illustrating how fighter-bombers and tactics have developed and evolved during this time. It covers all the most significant military conflicts that have characterised this era, including the Eleven Day War of Christmas 1972 in Vietnam and the Falklands War of 1982, when...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 659 p. The Influence of Air Power upon History makes a startlingly new analysis of the far-reaching implications flight has had on warfare, politics, diplomacy, technology and mass culture. Author Walter Boyne examines the application of air power from the very earliest days of the balloon down to the current era of space warfare and postulates some new...
Potomac Books, 2005. — 352 p. Showcasing the twentieth century's best writing on the topic of air combat from World War I through the Gulf War, Brassey's Air Combat Reader examines the evolution of air combat strategy and tactics. It includes extracts from memoirs by such legends as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, hair-raising third-person accounts by such great pilots as Douglas...
Boydell & Brewer, 1992. — 362 p. In medieval warfare, the siege predominated: for every battle, there were hundreds of sieges. Yet the rich and vivid history of siege warfare has been consistently neglected. Jim Bradbury's panoramic survey takes the history of siege warfare in Europe from the late Roman Empire to the 16th century, and includes sieges in Byzantium, Eastern Europe...
Boydell & Brewer, 1992. — 362 p. In medieval warfare, the siege predominated: for every battle, there were hundreds of sieges. Yet the rich and vivid history of siege warfare has been consistently neglected. Jim Bradbury's panoramic survey takes the history of siege warfare in Europe from the late Roman Empire to the 16th century, and includes sieges in Byzantium, Eastern Europe...
Praeger, 2001. — 334 p. Most studies of ancient warfare focus only on the Greeks and the Romans, but this sweeping study covers the whole of the ancient world from Greece and Rome to the Near East, then eastward to Parthia, India, and China. Bradford transports the reader into the midst of ancient battles behind such great leaders as Thutmose III, Ashurbanipal, Alexander,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 384 p. Over the course of his 75 year career Field Marshal Bramall – or Dwin as he is universally known – has been in the forefront of military thinking. Clearly destined to reach the pinnacle of his profession he shone in a succession of prestigious appointments both in command and on the staff. He fought in Normandy, saw active service in...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 125 p. In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive, three-pronged attack into South Vietnam that was eventually repulsed by South Vietnamese forces, United States (US) advisors and massive amounts of American airpower. The problem is determining what factors were key to South Vietnam's successful defense. To that point, this...
Routledge, 2017. — 520 p. From the end of the Second World War and throughout the era that came to be known as the Cold War, the Middle East was a battleground for Great Power rivalries and constant wars. These were fought between Israelis and Arabs, Arabs and Iranians, Arabs and Arabs and also between regional players and outside powers; the region was also the scene of...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. — 248 p. For three thousand years, the horse soldier has played a key role in both war fighting and in peace keeping all over the world, not only as a highly mobile strike force in battle but also as an instrument of reconnaissance and occupation, exploration, and irregular warfare. The American tradition of the mounted warrior is a proud one. But in...
Verso Books, 2020. — 448 p. The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other. It was the instrument that might transform a diverse population into a new people. Since the foundation...
Harper Collins Canada, 2014. — 208 p. On the tenth anniversary of Canada's involvement, a leading journalist offers a fascinating assessment of Canada's past and present role in the Afghan war. Of the 33,000 troops under NATO command in Afghanistan in October 2006, 12,000 were Americans and 2,500 were Canadians. Deployed to southern Afghanistan, the Canadian forces were charged...
Casemate, 2017. — 360 p. The final twelve months of the Cuban–South African conflict has been christened here ‘the War for Africa’ because its consequences reverberated far beyond Angola’s frontiers. The war was one of the most important turning points in the history and development of the continent. It spelled the end of the last great neo-colonial attempts at African...
Biteback Publishing, 2022. — 368 p. When Taliban forces took Kabul on 15 August 2021, it marked the end of the Western intervention that had begun nearly twenty years earlier with the US-led invasion. The fall of Afghanistan triggered a seismic shock in the West, where US President Joe Biden announced an end to America’s involvement in conflicts overseas. In Afghanistan itself...
Routledge, 2020. — 195 p. This volume explores and develops new social-scientific tools for the analysis and understanding of contemporary military missions in theatre. Despite the advent of new types of armed conflict, the social-scientific study of militaries in action continues to focus on tools developed in the hey-day of conventional wars. These tools focus on such classic...
Routledge, 2020. — 152 p. Airpower remains the cornerstone of NATO’s military advantage, so maintaining the ability to win air superiority over peer opponents in a conflict is key to long-term deterrence stability in both Europe and the Pacific. This Whitehall Paper examines the various modernisation and future capability development efforts being undertaken within NATO, and...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 159 p. This is the story of an attempted coup d'etat more than twenty years ago on the Seychelles, an idyllic but obscure group of islands in the Indian Ocean. At the time, the attempt made headlines across the world, partly because it involved names still famous or notorious from the mercenary involvement in the Congo in the 1960s, partly because it...
Potomac Books, 2014. — 288 p. In 1944 U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair was accidentally killed by USAAF bombers that dropped their bombs short of the target, thus becoming the highest-ranking American casualty of World War II. Union Gen. Daniel Sickels was the first person to be successfully acquitted of murder by pleading temporary insanity after he shot and killed the son...
Hachette Books, 2020. — 320 p. When we think about the future of war, the military and Washington and most everyone gets it backwards. We think in terms of buying single military systems, such as fighter jets or aircraft carriers. And when we think about modernizing those systems, we think about buying better versions of the same things. But what really matters is not the...
Pen & Sword Military, 2021. — 309 p. — ISBN 978 1 526790 37 8. The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is constantly reinforced in literature and in the media, where seemingly brainless operating German units led by fanatical officers predominate. Nothing was as far from the...
Pen & Sword Military, 2021. — 309 p. — ISBN 978 1 526790 38 5. The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is constantly reinforced in literature and in the media, where seemingly brainless operating German units led by fanatical officers predominate. Nothing was as far from the...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 132 p. Major Carter explores three case studies that have important similarities: the doctrine of Great Britain's Royal Air Force from 1918 to 1938, the Israeli Air Force's strategy from 1967 to 1973, and the United States Air Force's strategy from 1953 to 1965. He begins by establishing the theoretical background necessary for case study...
Greenwood Press, 1983. — 219 p. This work is important because it is the first book-length effort in a century to look seriously at this specific element of U.S. military history and thought. For this reason alone it is of great moment. Compact and readable, yet comprehensive, the book is an exceptional achievement and of considerable value to anyone professionally involved...
Bruce Books, 2016. — 275 p. Following World War II America made a bold stand against the ambitions of an aspiring USSR. Taking the lead with the recently formed NATO and UN in resisting Communist incursions, the US found itself entrenched in the Korean War, fighting the North Koreans, Chinese and Russians simultaneously. Soon afterward America once again assumed the role of...
Stanford Security Studies, 2011. — 288 p. This book develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the armed forces in fulfilling roles & missions, and on their efficiency in terms of cost. The approach is applied to the United States using official documents and interviews with policy-makers. In addition to analyzing the...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 138 p. Fairly or unfairly, the stalemate on the First World War’s Western Front is often attributed to the intellectual stagnation of the era’s military officers. This paper traces the development (or absence of development) of combined arms and fire & maneuver tactics and doctrine in the period prior to WW I, focusing on the Russo-Japanese...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 618 p. The Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within the former Russian Empire. As such, it commands the attention of the military specialist and layman alike as we mark the one hundredth...
Routledge, 1998. — 273 p. This is an excellent, thoughtful, and thorough summary of the history of air power. Professor Buckley artfully and succinctly weaves the national strategies, technological, and aeronautical industry capabilities of the major air power countries (and their respective and often competing air services) into a coherent story of the progression of air warfare...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 224 p. The 'poor bloody infantry' do the dirty front-line work of war. It bears the brunt of the fighting and often suffers disproportionately in combat in comparison with the other armed forces. Yet the history of infantry tactics is too rarely studied and often misunderstood. Stephen Bull, in this in-depth account, concentrates on the fighting methods...
Routledge, 1985. — 228 p. In recent years the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has relinquished much of its political power to China's civilian leadership and has turned to the task of professionalizing the military. The transition of the PLA into a relatively apolitical force in Chinese society has occurred alongside great progress toward military modernization, with the...
Ashgate, 2015. — 216 p. There are many different types of power practice directed towards making soldiers obedient and disciplined inside the field of insurgency. While some commanders punish by inflicting physical pain, others use re-educative methods. While some prepare soldiers by using close-knit combat simulations, others send their subordinates immediately into battle....
Routledge, 2002. — 208 p. The intent behind this book was to bring together a team of defence and national security scholars and real-world military and law enforcement operators to focus on the topic of "Non-State Threats and Future Wars". The book is divided into four main sections: The first concerns theory. The second section concerns non-state threats and case studies,...
NYU Press, 2001. — 311 p. In Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from Achilleus to Lawrence of Arabia gays and lesbians have played a crucial but often hidden role in military campaigns. But recent debates over the legality of gay...
Second Edition. — Georgetown University Press, 2022. — 345 р. Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower introduces contemporary strategy at the operational level of war, particularly as it relates to airpower. Developed as foundational reading for all US Air Force Academy cadets, Air Force ROTC students, and Officer Training School candidates, this intermediate textbook...
Westview Press, 1999. — 320 p. This is a military history of the longest conflict between Libya and her neighbours, and their own internal problems. Chad and Sudan's difficulties with the Muslim arab north and Christian african south were complicated by Libya's territorial ambitions, and by coups and politically exacerbated famine.
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 336 p. From the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, a small band of military activists waged war against corruption in the Pentagon, challenging a system they believed squandered the public's money and trust. The book examines the movement and its proponents and describes how the system responded to the criticisms and efforts to change accepted...
Howgate Publishing, 2020. — 224 p. Extensive research, including interviews with ministers and generals, fieldwork with army reserve units, and surveys underpins this definitive account of Future Reserves 2020 (FR20). A central tenet of recent British defence policy, FR20 sought to radically transform the role and function of the British Army Reserve by making it more capable...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 224 p. Covering the period from the re-establishment of the Irish militia during the Crimean War until the disbandment of the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1992, this book examines the Irish amateur military tradition within the British Army, distinctive from a British amateur military tradition. Irish men and women of both religions and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 392 p. Ever since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, fighters from abroad have journeyed in ever-greater numbers to conflict zones in the Muslim world to defend Islam from-in their view-infidels and apostates. The phenomenon recently reached its apogee in Syria, where the foreign fighter population quickly became larger and more diverse...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 568 p. This book considers how and why the United States won World War II as part of a global coalition, fought to a stalemate in Korea, lost in Vietnam, and failed in Iraq. The author uses the World War II victory as the historical benchmark against which to evaluate conflicts after 1945. The Korean, Vietnam, and Iraqi wars were...
Routledge, 2013. — 200 p. This book charts the development of the First Vietnam War the war between the Vietnamese Communists (the Vietminh) and the French colonial power considering especially how relations between the Vietminh and the Chinese Communists had a profound impact on the course of the war. It shows how the Chinese provided finance, training and weapons to the...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 264 p. The first biography of Marine General Raymond Davis, who was decorated for bravery in both WWII and Korea, and went on to serve as a commanding general in Vietnam. Ray Davis was a hardened combat veteran. This was brought home to me one day while visiting a remote Army firebase in the jungle south of Khe Sanh. As the two of us strode along...
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 225 p. — ISBN: 1846030196. The great warleaders and generals, including Darius, Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius Caesar successfully used siegecraft to gain their objectives. As siege tactics became integral to success in war, generals employed the minds of engineers and scientists to develop tactics, and offensive and defensive technology to...
Leo Cooper, 1986. — 301 p. This title gives a complete history of the British Kenya Regiment from 1937-1963. The Kenya Regiment was a unit of the British Army recruited among white settlers in Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate. Formed in 1937, it was disbanded at the outbreak of World War II in 1939. It was reformed in 1950 and participated in the suppression of the Mau...
University of Missouri Press, 2019. — 375 p. After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army’s re-embrace...
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The trebuchet is a medieval machine designed to hurl objects into the interior of castles under siege or even knock down castle walls. Our model trebuchet uses a swinging counterweight, instead of the simpler fixed counterweight. The swinging counterweight, though more complex to build, transfers more energy to the projectile.
Helion and Company, 2014. — 74 p. In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces in Africa. Following the uprisings of March of 1961 in the north of...
University Press of Kentucky, 2022. — 310 p. Horses and horsemen played central roles in modern European warfare from the Renaissance to the Great War of 1914-1918, not only determining victory in battle, but also affecting the rise and fall of kingdoms and nations. When Shakespeare's Richard III cried, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" he attested to the importance...
Penguin Random House, 2021. — 224 p. An under-strength Gorkha battalion undertakes the Indian Army's first heliborne operation deep behind enemy lines, defeating a Pakistani force twenty times its strength. Fighters of the Indian Air force target the Government House in Dhaka in a daring air raid, forcing the Pakistani government in Dhaka to capitulate and surrender. Four...
A paper submitted to the Faculty o f the Naval War College in partial satisfaction of the requirements of the Department of Operations. — Newport: Naval War College, 1999. — 24 p. This research effort reviews the Soviet military's involvement in Afghanistan from 4 general perspectives: systemic problems in Soviet military culture, the use of surprise, operational maneuver and...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 129 p. Throughout history, states have tried to create the perfect combatant with superhuman physical and cognitive features that are akin to those of comic book superheroes. However, the current innovations have nothing to do with the ones from the past and their development goes beyond a simple technological perspective. On the contrary,...
Routledge, 2020. — 135 p. Supported by genuine historical cases, this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory, but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective. Technological developments raise questions about the manner in which wars ought to be fought. The growing use of drones,...
ABC-CLIO, 2008. — 200 p. This work is a bridge between the failed/weak states' literature and that which examines issues relating to small arms proliferation. Carr investigates the cultural impact of the availability of these easy-to-come-by weapons. This cultural dynamic has a direct, and deadly impact on issues such as arms control, illegal and illicit trading, gun cultures,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 320 p. For much of its 2,000-year history, the Roman Catholic Church was a formidable political and military power, in contrast to its pacifist origins and its present concentration on spiritual matters. The period of political and military activism can be dated to roughly between 410, when Pope Innocent I vainly tried to avert the sack of Rome...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 144 p. This volume is the result of an academic initiative organized by the Center for International Historical Studies of the University of Barcelona (CEHI-UB) in April 2012, with the purpose of bringing Military History to the center of the attention of university and historiographical debate. This choice is based on the idea that, too...
Stanford Security Studies, 2014. — 325 p. Scholars 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 argument builds on insights...
Routledge, 2008. — 255 p. This volume analyzes the conduct of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) counter-insurgency military operations during the two major Palestinian uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2005) in the Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It employs primary and secondary resources to produce a comprehensive analysis on whether or not the IDF has been able to adapt it
Editions Autrement, 2013. — 235 p. Aussi ne faut-il pas voir derrière la guerre une opposition qui serait d'abord passionnelle, pulsionnelle et irrationnelle. Sa source n'est pas à chercher, comme cela est souvent évoqué, dans des haines millénaires ou dans un prétendu penchant naturel de l'homme à la destruction. Non, le conflit repose d'abord et avant tout sur des clivages...
Arcturus, 2012. — 295 p. Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring as they do where cultures and ideologies clash. While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds. All the great battles in this book are pivotal in history: if any one of them had gone the other way,...
Warszawa: Bellona, 2008. — 221 s. Przegląd największych bitew w historii świata, które wyznaczały jednocześnie punkty zwrotne w dziejach ludzkości. Książka zawiera m.in. opisy bitew pod Kannami, Jerozolimą, Cresy, Cambrai, Wiedniem, Grunwaldem i Stalingradem. Książka zawiera ponad 60 fotografii oraz mapy. Przedstawiono w niej także sylwetki uczestniczących w bitwach dowódców.
Mursia, 1990. — 371 p. L'Autore, partendo dai tempi biblici, dalle rivolte degli ebrei contro i romani culminate nell'epopea di Masada, compie una lunga seppur sintetica carrellata sulle gesta di Vercingetorige, di Arminio, dei ribelli nelle isole britanniche, dei «guerriglieri» spagnoli, dei montanari tirolesi e dei contadini russi contro Napoleone; continua con i movimenti...
Chartwell books, 1975. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0890090483 A photographic and narrative survey of Nazi Germany's deployments of men, machines, and technology, the initial conquests, the political and strategic planning, and Hitler's war leadership.
University of California Press, 2014. — 312 p. Military history has long been a popular subject for general readers, at least the male gender among us. Most everyone regrettably recognizes that war has shaped the fates of peoples and places in the dimly distant past and is violently visible in our global present. For all its manifest importance, scholars have, however, produced...
ABC Clio, 2009. — 209 p. Military Doctrine: A Reference Handbook takes a thorough look at 20th- and 21st-century military doctrines around the world. It excerpts relevant English-language scholarly and governmental literature to paint a picture of how military doctrine has developed in recent history, what military doctrines are currently operating on the world stage, and where...
Routledge, 2022. — 505 p. Explaining America's rise as a global military power challenges the methodologies of military history. This volume looks beyond the major conflicts covered elsewhere in the Library to explore the operational, conceptual, technological and cultural forces that shaped the United States military after the American Civil War. Individual articles reflect...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 230 p. Unpacking the most important component of the Canada-US defence relationship, both in the present and into the future. Wide-ranging changes have been made to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) since 2006, when the binational agreement was signed in perpetuity. NORAD traces the joint command’s recent history – one...
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1922. — 276 p. The wonderful and brave story of ships and men here presented needs but the briefest introduction. The deeds will forever remain one of the most glorious chapters in the chronicles of the sea. No excuse is offered for adding another volume to the literature of the war, for the subject is deserving of greater attention than has hitherto...
London: Mills & Boon, 1911. — 371 p. It is then the object of this book to provide for the general reader an opportunity of realising in a volume of moderate dimensions, and in the most attractive manner at my command, some idea of the enviable heritage which the past ages have bequeathed to us as sons of the sea. There are in existence excellent volumes, closely written, the work...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 246 p. From the middle of the 16th century to the early years of the 18th century, cavalry experienced significant changes in doctrine, deployment, and the equipment it used. The Men-at-Arms, carrying lances and arranged in large formations, were replaced by more lightly-armed cavalrymen fighting with swords and pistols in new and more flexible...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023. — 239 p. Focusing on the period during the 1964-1980 Indochina wars, Min Chen examines the "big power" triangular relationship involving China, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Introduction. Historical Overview of Big-Power Involvement in Indochina. The First Stage: 1964-1969. The Second Stage: 1970-1975. The Third Stage: 1976-1980....
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 275 p. Frequently characterized as either mercenaries in modern guise or the market's response to a security vacuum, private military companies are commercial firms offering military services ranging from combat and military training and advice to logistical support, and play an increasingly important role in armed conflicts, UN peace...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 132 p. This book breaks down the outcomes of stabilization operations including those related to establishing or enhancing safety and security, institutions of governance, rule of law, social well-being, economic development, access to education and health care, infrastructure development, reducing corruption and all the associated elements for...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 370 p. This book seeks to critically review and evaluate the changes and consistencies in how warfare is interpreted and represented by academics, mass media outlets and political actors in the 21st century. The authors suggest that it is essential to understand the evolution and transformation of contemporary warfare's conceptualisation and...
London: Cassell & Co, 2001. — 232 p. — ISBN: 0-304-35289-6. During the 17th century, technological evolutions in fortifications and arms meant that wars grew longer, armies larger, and military formations more disciplined. Yet, militias remained primarily mercenary; although armaments developed from the pike to the socket bayonet and uniforms began to appear, professionalism...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 232 p. This book explores the ways in which affect, colonial histories, and militarism organise global security workforces within private military and security companies (PMSCs). It locates its analysis with Gurkhas; a group of militarised men from Nepal with over 200-years of military experience with the British and Indian armies and the...
Routledge, 2020. — 308 p. This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse texts constitute a genre (sometimes unsatisfactorily classified as "technical literature"), and the degree to which they reflect the practice of warfare. With contributions from a diverse group of...
Knowledge World Publishers, 2018. — 286 p. A coup attempt in the Maldives in November 1988 sent President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom into hiding. Operation Cactus was India’s military intervention in the island nation at Male’s behest to rescue President Gayoom and restore his democratically elected government. Launching an airborne operation more than 2,500 km away––at short notice...
Matador, 2018. — 480 p. Defence of Europe by Sikh Soldiers in the World Wars is a fascinating history of the much-forgotten Sikh contribution to the two World Wars. Containing much new research and modern ideas, the book explores how an alliance with Britain enabled Sikhism to spread across the globe and Sikhs to step forward as global partners. Mohindra S. Chowdhry begins his...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 360 p. Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time - those in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Lebanon, and Iraq, among others - involve the rapid formation and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fractionalization within them. It would be natural to suppose that warring groups form alliances based on shared...
Routledge, 2014. — 280 p. At the end of the Cold War security concerns are more about regional and civil conflicts than nuclear or Eurasian global wars. Stephen Cimbala argues that deterrence characteristics of the pre-Cold War period will in the 21st century again become normative. Cimbala has embraced a complex subject, and his thorough analysis is indicative of the...
Indiana University Press, 1998. — 221 p. Insurgencies or guerrilla movements have come to occupy a prominent place in the politics of modern Africa. This book analyzes the relationship between African insurgencies and the local societies in which they are set, the organizational principles upon which the insurgencies are based, and the relationship between the insurgencies and...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 352 p. The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically over time. J. P. Clark traces the evolution of the Army between the War of 1812 and World War I, showing how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of professional...
Grove Atlantic, 2022. — 432 p. From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II. Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the 20th century. However, as acclaimed...
Public Affairs, 2001. — 479 p. The Supreme Allied Commander who directed and won NATO's war in Kosovo offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at how the war was actually fought, and explains the conflict's surprising implications for how war will be waged in the decades to come. Ugly, shocking, frightening, war came to Europe once more in March 1999. The world watched in dismay...
Public Affairs, 2003. — 240 p. General Wesley K. Clark's Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat, a Washington Post bestseller, examined his experience directing the NATO-led war in Kosovo. As Clark saw it, the Kosovo war - limited in scope, measured in effect, extraordinarily complex in execution, waged with an uneven coalition, with instantaneous media...
Casemate Publishers, 2013. — 120 p. An Army marches on its stomach, observed Napoleon, a hundred and fifty years later General Rommel remarked that the British should always be attacked before soldiers had had an early morning cup of tea. This book, written to raise money for the Army Benevolent Fund and with a Foreword by General Lord Dannatt, sets out the human story of the...
Sunflower University Press, 1984. — 73 p. The Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, the Kenya Emergency, and the Mau Mau Revolt, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as Mau Mau, and the British authorities. Dominated by the Kikuyu people, Meru people and Embu people, the KLFA...
Routledge, 2014. — 245 р. This ambitious survey draws together the two major wars of decolonization fought by France in Indochina and Algeria (as well as the lesser but far from insignificant military operations in Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco) into a single integrated account. It examines traditional French attitudes to empire, and how these changed under the pressure of...
Free Press, 2010. — 290 p. Now, during the 40th anniversary of the Korean War, distinguished historian D. Clayton James offers a brilliant reinterpretation of that conflict. Focusing on the critical issue of command, he shows how the Korean War is a key to understanding American decision-making in all military encounters since World War II. Korea, the first of America's limited...
Shambhala, 1999. — 109 p. Here is an illustrated treasury of selections from the Chinese classics of strategy, a concise and user-friendly presentation of ancient principles of leadership in the words of the masters themselves. Written originally for rulers and generals, these Taoist-influenced texts contain wisdom that is universally applicable to all kinds of modern human...
Boston; London: Shambhala, 1992. — 112 p. — ISBN10: 0877739072 / ISBN13: 978-0877739074. "The Japanese Art of War should be required reading for modern-day missionaries of Western business, politics, and culture."—San Francisco Chronicle "'Set aside all the slogans you have learned and all the intellectual views that stick to your flesh.' Cleary quotes Chinese Zen master Yuanwu...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 480 p. This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train Vietnamese pilots, and with conflict in Laos, and finally ended in 1972 with the B-52 bombing of Hanoi,...
Casemate Publishers, 2014. — 264 p. In our wars since 2001, the term "front line" has lost its meaning. Our opponents have not been able to stand against conventional forces in battle, and resort to guerrilla tactics, engaging our forces with IEDs and ambushes. Into this mix of behind-the-lines attacks, combat logistics have played a larger role than ever. In Afghanistan...
Pen & Sword Military, 2016. — 202 p. — ISBN-10 9781473829565. — ISBN-13 978-1473829565. The military historian presents a fascinating reassessment of Britain’s Singapore Naval Base and the WWII Battle of Singapore. The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 was arguably the greatest disaster suffered by the British Empire. Between 1923 and 1938, the Singapore naval base had been...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 255 p. — ISBN 978-1526760920. Why did the Spanish Republic lose the Spanish Civil War – and could the Republic have won? These are the key questions Alexander Clifford addresses in this in-depth study of the People’s Army and the critical battles of Brunete, Belchite and Teruel. These battles represented the Republic’s best chance of military...
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2017. — 825 p. Geographic designations used to effect the following arrangement are in some cases (e.g., “Eastern Europe”) compromises aimed at enhancing reference use; they are not meant to have political implications nor are they rigidly the same from one century to the next. Wars involving several geographic regions ( for example, World War I)...
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1900. — 267 p. None know so well the value of a good Bibliography as those who have had to work at the same time on two topics, one of which has and the other has not been dealt with by a competent bibliographer. In the first case the student knows the obvious books, but he is fully aware that others exist, and it is his duty to...
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Belknap Press, 2004. — 528 p. In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this definitive social history of America's standing army, military historian Edward Coffman...
University Press of Kentucky, 1998. — 412 p. The War to End All Wars is considered by many to be the best single account of America's participation in World War I. Covering famous battles, the birth of the air force, naval engagements, the War Department, and experiences of the troops, this indispensable volume is again available in paperback for students and general readers.
New York: Doubleday, 1966. — 372 p. As this book has shown, there is no scientific way of assessing the worth of the fighting man of the nation over those of others. For courage, that most vital element of the combat soldier, we have seen to be drained away by continuous use. Also, like a battery, it can be recharged. the ancient world. the greeks. the romans. the vikings. the...
Free Press, 2012. — 453 p. Since it was first published in 1990, Military Misfortunes has become the classic analysis of the unexpected catastrophes that befall competent militaries. Now with a new Afterword discussing America's missteps in Iraq, Somalia, and the War on Terror, Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch's gripping battlefield narratives and groundbreaking explanations of...
Free Press, 2002. — 304 p. Using the example of great modern leaders - Lincoln, Clemenceau, Churchill and Ben Gurion - all of whom were without military experience, Supreme Command argues that, in fact, civilian statesman can be brilliant commanders in times of war. Supreme Command is about leadership in wartime, or more precisely about the tension between two kinds of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 200 p. This book is devoted to Israel's asymmetric wars, those conducted against irregular armed groups that have attacked it. It seeks to understand the Israeli strategy in the fight against terrorists acting under the guise of civilians or using the population as human shields. The army has implemented a loosely devised, if not simplistic, doctrine...
Routledge, 2007. — 181 p. This is the first scholarly book to look at the role of the 'warrior' in modern war, arguing that warriors' actions, and indeed thoughts, are increasingly patrolled and that the modern battlefield is an unforgiving environment in which to discharge their vocation. As war becomes ever more instrumentalized, so its existential dimension is fast being...
East View Press, 2016. — 252 p. Brothers Armed: Military Aspects of the Crisis in Ukraine is the latest book from the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), a Moscow-based think tank focused on military and security issues. Presenting a collection of essays by leading Russian and Ukrainian military, security and political analysts, Brothers Armed charts the...
Routledge, 2021. — 128 p. This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare. Minimising the use of force and winning over the population’s opinion is said to be the cornerstone of success in modern counterinsurgency (COIN). Yet, this tells only one side of the story. Drawing upon primary data collected during interviews with...
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. — 265 p. A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines – through...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 359 p. What can we learn about leadership and the experience of war from the best combat leaders the world has ever known? This book takes us behind the scenes and to the front lines of the major wars of the past 250 years through the words of twenty combat commanders. What they have to say-which is remarkably similar across generational,...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 359 p. What can we learn about leadership and the experience of war from the best combat leaders the world has ever known? This book takes us behind the scenes and to the front lines of the major wars of the past 250 years through the words of twenty combat commanders. What they have to say-which is remarkably similar across generational,...
Special Edition Books, 2013. — 438 p. Military Strategy Classics of Ancient China presents modern translations of eight of the most important and relevant military texts from antiquity, which have gained new prominence among Western students of Eastern military strategy and philosophy. In a collection spanning twenty centuries, each text in Chen Song’s groundbreaking...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 262 p. At the height of the bitter battle for Mount Longdon during the Falklands War, 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment's assault has stalled in the face of determined resistance. With his platoon held up by an Argentine machine gun, it falls to Sergeant Ian McKay to act. The machine gun has to be silenced to break the deadlock. Gathering a small...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 272 p. On the outskirts of west Belfast in Northern Ireland, and in the shadow of the Black Mountain, is situated the predominantly Catholic community of Andersonstown. Between November 1971 and March 1972 this small area of land, which is just two miles long by one mile deep, became the scene of many gun-battles between the men of 9(Plassey)...
Praeger, 2006. — 432 p. The reality of the Arab-Israeli balance now consists of two subordinate balances: Israel versus Syria and Israel versus the Palestinians. The book analyzes these two balances in detail and their impact on defense planning in each country and on the overall strategic risk to the region as a whole. It covers military developments in each of six...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. — 455 p. There is a wide spectrum of potential threats to the U.S. homeland that do not involve overt attacks by states using long-range missiles or conventional military forces. Such threats include covert attacks by state actors, state use of proxies, independent terrorist and extremist attacks by foreign groups or individuals, and...
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2015. — 145 p. The Arabian Gulf is now involved in a massive arms race, triggered largely by the fear that Iran will try to use its military forces to intimidate or dominate its neighbors. Iran has threatened to close the Gulf and carried out a wide range of large military exercises to show its capabilities. And Iran has steadily...
Westview Press, 1996. — 1040 p. The fog of war is inevitably followed by the “fog of analysis.” This has certainly been true of the most important military conflict of the post–Cold War era, the Gulf War between Iraq and the allied coalition led by the United States. A variety of studies of this conflict have appeared, many within just months of the end of hostilities and many...
Routledge, 2020. — 155 p. — ISBN 0-8133-3245-1; ISBN 0-8133-3246-X; ISBN 13: 978-0-367-21248-3. This volume provides the first detailed military analysis of the trends in U.S. forces contingency capabilities since the end of the Gulf War, the impact of the Bush administration's "Base Force" policy, and the Clinton administration's "Bottom Up Review" of current U.S. contingency...
Paris: Librairie Militaire, Maritime et Polytechnique, 1853. - 159 p.
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Stackpole Books, 2011. — 288 p. The air campaign that opened the Gulf War in January 1991 was one of the most stunning in history. For five weeks, American and other Coalition aircraft pounded enemy targets with 88,000 tons of bombs. Sorties—more than 100,000 of them—were launched from bases in Saudi Arabia, from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, and even from...
Random House, 2011. — 208 p. Equally courageous, equally deadly, the British mercenaries in Bosnia have a story to tell as amazing as 'The One That Got Away', but a story without official blessing. 'War Dogs' follows the fortunes of a gang of eight British mercenaries, a mixed bunch, old and cynical, young and naive, mean and psychotic, two idealists, and the rest just in it...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 272 p. How and why the three losers of the Second World War reconsidered their pacifism, embraced a more active military role and transformed their armed forces after the Cold War: Analysis of the process of military transformation in Italy, Germany and Japan. Addresses the impact of historical legacies on the pacing and direction of...
Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2013. — 255 p. South African Battles describes 36 battles spread over five centuries. These are not the well-trodden battlefields of standard histories, but generally lesser-known ones. Some were of critical importance, while some were infinitely curious. Who, for instance, has heard of the battles of Nakob, Middelpos, Mome Gorge or Mushroom Valley?...
Potomac Books, 2018. — 280 p. Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee wore six stars on his helmet, three in front and three in back—an unusual affectation. He was a stickler for discipline and a legendary military figure whom servicemen and historians loved to hate. Yet Lee was an intensely religious person and an advocate of opportunity for African Americans in the era of Jim Crow, setting...
Cambridge University Press, 1977. — 297 p. Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Were the railways vital to Prussia's victory over France in 1870? Was the famous Schlieffen Plan militarily sound? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only a few of the questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively...
Presidio Press, 2008. — 436 p. One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past hundred years of global conflict. The Changing Face of War is the book that reveals the path that led to the impasse in Iraq, why powerful standing armies are now helpless against ill-equipped...
Routledge, 2010. — 184 p. — ISBN13 9781138881976. — ISBN10 113888197X. This book provides a rigorous critical analysis of how the US military operates in Iraq, exploring the spatial practices of violence. Contemporary critical analyses of the United States’ involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan emphasise the hegemonic nature of the US military experience, while conventional...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 290 p. Dirty War is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists. Having declared its independence from Great Britain in 1965, the government--made up of European settlers and their descendants--almost immediately faced a...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 332 p. The physical conditions of jungle warfare and the closeness of contact with the enemy pose unique problems and call for special soldiering skills. Colonel John Cross, a life long Gurkha officer, has an unrivalled knowledge of this demanding warfare and uses it to best advantage in this instructive yet personal account of techniques and...
Harper Collins, 2011. — 255 p. This superbly illustrated book has the full support of the Royal British Legion and will tell the complete story of its history through exclusive access to its archives, thus providing a celebratory, as well informative, tribute to their work over the past 90 years. It will be the definitive history of this much-loved organization, charting its...
Routledge, 2005. — 225 p. Success in war has always been difficult to measure. What is judged successful by military leaders may not be judged so by political leadership, nor by the wider public, at least in a Western-style democracy. The public is generally inclined to applaud military victory, but it instinctively reserves the right to ask afterwards: Was it really worth it?...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 239 p. Covers amateur armies during the French Revolutionary Wars, the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the pre-1914 conflict in Ireland, the Spanish Civil War and the Bay of Pigs. Amateur Armies examines the military and social history of volunteer armies around the western world from the failed French invasion of South Wales...
Pen and Sword Books, 2010. — 208 p. These are fascinating memoirs of a British officer who fought the legendary Pathan tribesmen of the Northwest Frontier, right up to the beginning of WW2. He describes desperate battles against this highly skilled and ruthless enemy. Pathan atrocities were commonplace and no prisoners were taken. Cummings served in two Frontier units, the...
Watkins Publishing, 2018. — 424 p. Part of the acclaimed Book of Samurai series, which presents for the first time the translated scrolls of the historical Natori-Ryū samurai school of war, this volume offers an exceptional insight into the weaponry and armour of the samurai era, as well as tactical advice for use on and off the battlefield. Two secret scrolls by the samurai...
Watkins Publishing, 2018. — 424 p. Part of the acclaimed Book of Samurai series, which presents for the first time the translated scrolls of the historical Natori-Ryū samurai school of war, this volume offers an exceptional insight into the weaponry and armour of the samurai era, as well as tactical advice for use on and off the battlefield. Two secret scrolls by the samurai...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2012. — 288 p. Long before they took to the sea and air, warring factions engaged in land-based conflicts that involved close-range combat with rudimentary defenses and weapons. As civilizations have advanced, so too have their military strategies, tactics, and weaponry. Eventually this led to the development of sophisticated land...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2012. — 320 p. Although conflict was once restricted to land, the introduction of warships and planes eventually expanded the theater of war to include both water and sky. New combat strategies emerged with these changing technologies and dramatically impacted such events as the First World War. This comprehensive volume examines the various...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2012. — 175 p. War, while often gruesome and devastating, can also be viewed as a science or art, involving the translation of theory into practice. Even as weapons grow in sophistication over time, war has always involved careful calculations and balancing the interests of the involved party with effective combat techniques against an enemy....
Brookings Institution Press, 2001. — 362 p. After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo. Serbian troops were forced to withdraw, enabling an international military and political presence to take charge in the region. But was this war inevitable or was it the product of failed western diplomacy prior to the...
Georgetown University Press, 2013. — 255 р. How can the United States avoid a future surprise attack on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, in an era when such devastating attacks can come not only from nation states, but also from terrorist groups or cyber enemies? Intelligence and Surprise Attack examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though, in most cases, warnings...
Profile, 2016. — 252 p. On Lüneberg Heath in 1945, the German High Command surrendered to Field Marshall Montgomery; in 2015, seventy years after this historic triumph, the last units of the British Army finally left their garrisons next to Lüneberg Heath. Boots on the Ground is the story of those years, following the British Army against the backdrop of Britain's shifting...
Georgetown University Press, 2019. — 112 p. Why do women go to war? Despite the reality that female combatants exist the world over, we still know relatively little about who these women are, what motivates them to take up arms, how they are utilized by armed groups, and what happens to them when war ends. This book uses three case studies to explore variation in women's...
Juggernaut Books, 2020. — 181 p. What happened when India and China last went to battle with each other? China won? Wrong, India won. The sole India–China conflict that remains etched in our collective memory is the 1962 war, which India tragically lost. But five years later, in 1967, India and China faced off once again in the heights of Cho La and Nathu La at the Sikkim...
McFarland and Company, 2009. — 456 p. The planning that allowed for the successful amphibious landings at the end of World War II actually began during the 1880s as the Marine Corps sought to define its role in the new Steel Navy. Officers braved skepticism, indifference and outright opposition to develop an amphibious warfare doctrine, with each service contributing. From the...
Back Bay Books, 2017. — 464 p. The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David. On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by a group of Arab and German terrorists who demanded the release of 53 terrorists. The plane was forced to divert to Entebbe, in...
Back Bay Books, 2017. — 464 p. The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David. On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by a group of Arab and German terrorists who demanded the release of 53 terrorists. The plane was forced to divert to Entebbe, in...
University of Michigan Press, 2010. — 257 p. Lifting the Fog of Peace is a captivating study of an agile and adaptive military evolving through the chaos of the post-9/11 world. In what is certain to be regarded as the definitive analysis of the reshaping of American combat power in the face of a complex and uncertain future, Dr. Janine Davidson firmly establishes herself as a...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 208 p. This book is a history of public information and personal ideas about war and the military over the last century. It examines the interplay between popular media coverage of the nation's wars and the perceptions of ordinary Americans regarding military issues. Davidson studied Americans who produced a wealth of proposals to solve some of...
Voyageur Press, 2009. — 255 p. Our combat readiness to fight a conventional war is in freefall. This is the alarm sounded with clarity, authority, and conviction in Victory at Risk, a veteran Army officer and policymakers deeply disturbing critique of todays U. S. military establishment. Major General Michael W. Davidson, a decorated combat veteran and one of our most...
New Degree Press, 2022. — 205 p. Colonel Jones's vivid memories of himself as a young second lieutenant, Infantry Platoon Leader conducting a routine mission in Vietnam 1967 set the tone for Lieutenant Colonel Davis's stories. Her journey began the day she assumed company command at the rank of captain in 1989. Davis's stories guide readers through the ups and downs of her...
ABC-CLIO, 2000. — 453 p. — ISBN10: 1576070751, 13 978-1576070758. Key battles have shaped history since time immemorial. This handy reference work spotlights 100 of the world's most important military confrontations, from 1469 B.C.-A.D. 1991. Describes the historical context and goals of each conflict, with detailed statistics and information on every aspect of each battle.
ABC-CLIO, 2001. — 369 p. — ISBN10: 1576071952, 13 978-1576071953. Besieged examines the most important sieges in history-the actions and motivations of attackers and defenders along with conditions inside and outside the city walls. Examines 100 great sieges, from Jericho in 1405 B.C. to Grozny in 1997 Establishes the historical background of each siege, describes the siege...
Routledge, 2021. — 475 p. For seventy years Douglas Haig had been portrayed on the one hand as the ‘Butcher of the Somme’ – inept, insensitive and archaic; and on the other as the ‘Saviour of Britain’ – noble, unselfish and heroic. This polarised, strident and ultimately inconclusive argument had resulted in Haig becoming detached from his own persona; he had become a shallow...
Zone Books, 1991. — 280 p. In the aftermath of the methodical destruction of Iraq during the Persian Gulf War, the power and efficiency of new computerized weapons and surveillance technology have become chillingly apparent. For Manuel DeLanda, however, this new weaponry has a significance that goes far beyond military applications; he shows how it represents a profound...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 256 p. Based on official records held at the National Archives and other published sources, Hunters over Arabia presents an in-depth account of the operations performed by the Hawker Hunter squadrons policing the desert wastelands and high mountain ranges of the Middle East. Copiously illustrated with color and black and white photographs, a high...
ANU Press, 2021. — 224 p. In the first two decades of the Cold War, Australia fought in three conflicts and prepared to fight in a possible wider conflagration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In Korea, Malaya and Borneo, Australian forces encountered new types of warfare, integrated new equipment and ideas, and were part of the longest continual overseas deployments in...
ANU Press, 2021. — 224 р. In the first two decades of the Cold War, Australia fought in three conflicts and prepared to fight in a possible wider conflagration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In Korea, Malaya and Borneo, Australian forces encountered new types of warfare, integrated new equipment and ideas, and were part of the longest continual overseas deployments in...
University Press of Kentucky, 2018. — 304 p. — ISBN 9780813174945, ISBN 9780813174952, ISBN 9780813174969. John R. Deane Jr. (1919–2013) was born with all the advantages a man needs to succeed in a career in the US Army, and he capitalized on his many opportunities in spectacular fashion. The son of one of George C. Marshall's closest assistants, Deane graduated from West Point...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 280 p. Western academics, politicians, and military leaders alike have labelled Russia's actions in Crimea and its follow-on operations in Eastern Ukraine as a new form of “Hybrid Warfare.” In this book, Kent DeBenedictis argues that, despite these claims, the 2014 Crimean operation is more accurately to be seen as the Russian Federation's modern...
Routledge, 2020. — 310 p. This book deals with the basic facts of the military-industrial complex, examining its institutional dynamics and constitutional barriers to change. It shows how simplistic journalistic prescriptions and trivial observations fail to do justice to the enormous complexity of an industrial military economy.
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 318 p. In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is...
Barnes and Noble, 2011. — 524 p. In this global work, Denison examines an entire history of cavalry, starting with the earliest chariots, then touching on Greek and Roman cavalry, cavalry in Europe and under Napoleon, following the history through the American Civil War and beyond. He also looks at armament, equipment, and employing cavalry in a campaign.
Center of Military History U.S. Army, 1984. — 312 p. The preceding observations give an indication of the problems involved in preparing the German field forces for an encounter with an opponent whose pattern of behavior and thinking was so fundamentally different from their own that it was often beyond comprehension. Moreover, the peculiarities of the Russian theater were such...
University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 336 p. After drilling troops during the American Revolution, Baron Friedrich von Steuben reportedly noted that although one could tell a Prussian what to do and expect him to do it, one had to tell an American why he ought to do something before he would comply. Although such individualistic thinking is part of the democratic genius of...
CQ Press, 2014. — 312 p. An Introduction to Civil Wars provides a comprehensive overview of the civil wars that have taken place globally since World War II. A discussion of the human and economic costs of civil war is followed by a systematic examination of all aspects of these conflicts: civil war patterns, types, and causes; the effect of natural resources; conflict...
Transworld Publishers, 2011. — 128 p. The up-to-the minute, irreverent (but extremely informative) insider's guide to the British Army today. How will they defeat the Taliban and bring peace to Afghanistan? What will the British soldier of the late 21st century look like? When will the next World War break out? We're damned if we know, but if you want to find out what today's...
Routledge, 2010. — 248 p. Americans grow up expecting that in a time of need, their country can depend on its people for volunteer service to the military. Indeed, this has been a social and at times legal expectation for the citizenship of this country since 1776. Yet, since the end of World War II United States forces have been caught up in many long term military...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 208 p. Sergeant Major Devaney's They Were Heroes presents moving portraits of warriors who have not been fully celebrated. His stories recognize the heroism of those who fought in these deadly conflicts and placed their lives at risk to assure the safety of their fellow Marines. For these Marines, no Medal of Honor is enough for their bravery....
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. — 366 p. First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of...
Boston: Brill, 2002. — 438 p. The idea for this book was first discussed with Professors Thomas Allsen, Peter Golden, and Reuven Amitai in Leiden, at the Symposium on Nomads in Sedentary Societies (2–3 July 1998), organized by Professors Anatoly Khazanov and André Wink at the Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden University). To Professors Khazanov and Wink, therefore, I am...
London: Almark Publishing Co. 1970. — 50 p. — ISBN 855240040 Whilist, particularly in recent years, a great deal of information has been published concerning the dress and equipment of the German Wehrmacht, the Japanese Army has, for the most part, been sadly neglected. The object of this book therefore is to give a concise idea of the Japanese Army's background, together with...
London: Almark Publishing Co. 1970. — 50 p. — ISBN 855240040 Whilist, particularly in recent years, a great deal of information has been published concerning the dress and equipment of the German Wehrmacht, the Japanese Army has, for the most part, been sadly neglected. The object of this book therefore is to give a concise idea of the Japanese Army's background, together with...
London: Almark Publishing Co. 1970. — 50 p. — ISBN 855240040 Whilist, particularly in recent years, a great deal of information has been published concerning the dress and equipment of the German Wehrmacht, the Japanese Army has, for the most part, been sadly neglected. The object of this book therefore is to give a concise idea of the Japanese Army's background, together with...
Westholme Publishing, 2008. — 416 p. For more than four thousand years, the horse and rider have been an integral part of warfare. Armed with weapons and accessories ranging from a simple javelin to the hand-held laser designator, the horse and rider have fought from the steppes of central Asia to the plains of North America. Understanding the employment of the military horse is...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 232 p. Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare, from sieges to street-fighting, from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed, although strategists have advised against it across the millennia, armies and generals...
CQ Press, 2015. — 816 p. Sourcing data and analyses from the rigorous Correlates of War Project, A Guide to Intra-state Wars describes how civil war is defined and categorized and presents data and descriptions for nearly 300 civil wars waged from 1816 to 2014. Analyzing trends over time and regions, this work is the definitive source for understanding the phenomenon of civil...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 182 p. If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization―or military abolition―would seem to be the appropriate course to take. On the other hand,...
Amstelodam: Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1647. — 54 p. Varius Hiftorijs, tam veteribus quam novis confirmata, et praecipuis totius Europae mu nimentis, ad exemplum adductis exornata. Планы крепостей и фортификационных сооружений.
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 239 p. After celebrating St. Patricks Day 2008, 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup deployed to Afghanistan's Helmand province as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade. For six months the Royal Irish fought the Taliban in Helmand in some of the most difficult country on earth. At the same time the Battlegroup was training the nascent Afghan National Army (ANA)...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. — 208 p. Who tried to bomb Japan with bats? Who invented the air-gun in 250 BC? Which stories should we believe? The so-called Dambusters raid was all but ineffective; the Hurricane not the Spitfire was the champion of the Battle of Britain; Singapore did not fall because all the guns were pointing the wrong way' and who would go to war over a game...
Texas University Press, 2001. — 320 p. Between 1950 and 1953, 138,600 Army National Guardsmen -- 43 percent of the force -- were called up for federal service. In Under Army Orders William M. Donnelly illuminates one of the more obscure aspects of U.S. involvement in the Korean conflict, focusing on what it meant to be a citizen soldier caught up in an international struggle...
Routledge, 2011. — 168 p. In a tradition that dates back to the time of Thucydides, and the Peloponnesian War, the systematic examination of conflict and war has long been a preoccupation of political scientists seeking to resolve the enduring question: Why do wars occur? This study directly engages this question with a specific focus on explaining the conflict between Iran and...
Pen and Sword Books, 2011. — 255 p. A career soldier's remarkable journey. The contrast between soldiering in peace and war is well illustrated by "Nap" Murray's experiences. It took him sixteen years to reach the substantive rank of Major in 1938, but by 1944 he was an acting Lieutenant General. Murray's fascinating memoirs, skillfully edited by his nephew, cover an...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 227 p. With the end of the Cold War, perceptions of the role of armed forces in the international environment changed dramatically and have led to a critical re-evaluation of defence budgets, defence bureaucracies and defence roles. The Changing Face of Military Power brings together some of the most eminent scholars in the field of defence studies...
Authors : Dickie Ian, Jestice Phyllis, Jorgensen Christer, Rise Rob S. — Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 0312554532, ISBN-13 978-0312554538. Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare analyzes the tactics, techniques, and weaponry of naval warfare from the ancient period to the modern day. Beginning with Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III's victory over the piractical Sea...
Thunder Bay Press, 2008. — 328 p. Since 1914 the art and increasingly science of warfare has become ever deadlier. Tanks have become more mobile and more protected, artillery has come to dominate battlefields and even ordinary infantrymen are now equipped with body armour and lightweight fully automatic weapons, usually fitted with magnifying scopes. Containing full-color...
US Army Command and General Staff College, 1979. — 63 p. This paper focuses on the formulation of doctrine since World War II. In no comparable period in history have the dimensions of the battlefield been so altered by rapid technological changes. The need for the tactical doctrines of the Army to remain correspondingly abreast of these changes is thus more pressing than ever...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 255 p. A career soldier, veteran of both World Wars, and British war hero remembers the campaigns he fought—and his worthy foes. Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Field Marshal Sir William Slim came to admire “all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me.” Among...
Springer Netherlands, 2002. — 385 p. Terrain has a profound effect upon the strategy and tactics of any military engagement and has consequently played an important role in determining history. In addition, the landscapes of battle, and the geology which underlies them, has helped shape the cultural iconography of battle certainly within the 20th century. In the last few years...
University Press of Kansas, 2009. — 344 p. Popular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor. Edward Drea looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how that army came to power and extended its influence at home and abroad to become one of the...
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990. — 208 p. Multi-ethnic armed forces have existed since ancient times. The armies of the ancient empires of the Middle East, of the Roman Emperors, and the Mongol Khans, all tended to be conglomerations of diverse ethnic, religious, or racial groups. A fundamental reason for their existence in the past and present is that nations, from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 296 p. This edited volume deals with the reintegration and trajectories of intrastate or interstate war veterans. It raises the question of the effects of the war experience on ex-combatants with regards, in particular, to the perpetuation of a certain level of violence as well as the maintaining of structures, networks, and war methods after the...
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1979. — 304 p. Prologue: The Earliest Artillery Fortification Fortress Warfare in Renaissance Italy Later Italian Wars and the Origins of Permanent Artillery Fortification 1530-1600 The Frontiers of France 1513-59 The Eighty Years War in the Netherlands 1566-1648 The Apprenticeship of France 1560-1660 The English Civil War and the Subjugation of...
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. — 336 p. One Louis XIV and the Apogee of the Old Fortress Warfare 1660-1715 Two The Masters: Coehoorn and Vauban Three The Resolution of the Conflict: the Last Struggles of Habsburg and Bourbon Four The Age of Frederick the Great 1740-86 Five A Time of Doubt: the Standing of Permanent Fortification in the Eighteenth Century Six The Subjugation of...
Stanford University Press, 2011. — 252 p. At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.S. troops. Yet, no book has so far assessed the impact of private security companies on military effectiveness. Filling that gap, Molly Dunigan reveals how the increasing tendency to outsource missions to PSCs...
Routledge, 2020. — 236 p. This book examines the proposal by Samuel Huntington, who advocates that NATO adopt a conventional counter-retaliatory strategy based on offensive military actions deep into Eastern Europe. Using Huntington's concept, it addresses several issues associated with defense and deterrence in the 1980s.
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 410 p. A unique and comprehensive insight into the highlights of American military achievements and failures from the Revolution during the Korean War.From Bunker Hill to Choshin Reservoir, the action is fast-paced and enthralling; the analysis is clear and precise. The varying personalities – gifted, heroic, or bumbling – who have led American troops...
McFarland, 2015. — 312 p. Throughout human history, technological innovation has functioned as a driver of civilization and inspired many people's belief in progress. When it comes to warfare, where technology is applied with a cruel and deadly logic, a nuanced view is needed. From siege engines to drones, innovation has often served a less enlightened aim: elimination of the...
Old Street Publishing, 2021. — 280 p. n this timely addition to the bestselling shortest history series, acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer tells the story of war from its prehistoric -- perhaps pre-human -- origins up to the present age of algorithms and atom bombs. Dyer chronicles the spread of warfare in the world's first cities; the rise of inequality and tyranny as human...
Routledge, 2019. — 275 p. Drawing upon extensive original research, this book explores best practice in army lessons-learned processes. Without the correct learning mechanisms, military adaptation can be blocked, or the wider lessons from adaptation can easily be lost, leading to the need to relearn lessons in the field, often at great human and financial cost. This book...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 228 p. Nights in the Pink Motel is the first historical account of the strategic process that sought to reverse the negative consequences of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. It offers details and insights into the Iraqi insurgency and Coalition counterinsurgency available nowhere else. This book is a sustained, comprehensive account of all the...
Praeger, 2007. — 152 p. Rapid and momentous technological changes at the turn of the 20th century forced military professionals and educated civilians to envision the future of war and warfare, especially during an age where nations found themselves aggressively competing for dominance on the world stage. Antulio J. Echevarria II offers a comparative study of these predictions...
Georgetown University Press, 2014. — 219 p. Challenging several longstanding notions about the American way of war, this book examines US strategic and operational practice from 1775 to 2014. It surveys all major US wars from the War of Independence to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as most smaller US conflicts to determine what patterns, if any, existed in...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. - 219 p.
While many scholars agree that Clausewitz's On War is frequently misunderstood, almost none have explored his methodology to see whether it might enhance our understanding of his concepts. This book lays out Clausewitz's methodology in a brisk and straightforward style. It then uses that as a basis for understanding his...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 198 p. Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services, training, maintenance, and combat troops. In Outsourcing War, Amy E. Eckert examines the ethical implications involved in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether they can fit within customary ways...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 218 p. Between James’ accession in February 1685 and flight in December 1688 the British Armies increased four fold (the English, Scots and Irish Armies were still separate institutions and were to remain so until the early 18th Century, in the case of the Scots, and the early 19th Century in the case of the Irish); from a small force of little more...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 265 p. This book comprises of a range of case studies of military strategy, based on UN documents, observing and concluding the effectiveness of each individual case. Edstrom and Gyllensporre analyse the UN's military strategy, its consequences and its potential to fulfil political ambitions. This is a valuable work in gathering and synthesizing key...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 217 p. Formulating a strategy involves complex interactions between politicians, strategic commanders and generals in the field. The authors explore the strategic decisions made during NATO missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan, Somalia and Libya.
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 90 p. The British campaign in Northern Ireland remains one of the most controversial actions in recent history. This new book by Aaron Edwards considers the strategic, operational and tactical aspects of what become the longest ever campaign embarked upon by British troops. The 38-year campaign, codenamed Operation Banner, went through a number of...
McFarland and Company, 2009. — 200 p. This reference work provides information on all known military operations carried out under United Nations command as part of the Korean War, from June 1950 through 22 July 1954. Following an introductory history of the Korean War and a precise chronology of all Korean War operations, entries are arranged by operation name in five sections:...
Routledge, 2009. — 239 p. This book explores the impact of different civil-military structures on operational effectiveness in complex peace operations. Recent operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia are examples of grand failures to enforce peace and to promote democracy and development through international interventions. A missing variable in analyses of these conflicts...
Independently Published, 2018. — 454 p. The successful track record of Israeli innovation policies, told from within. This is the inside story on how Israel became a military technology powerhouse within less than two generations, told by Brigadier Uzi Eilam. The story blends the broad view of a person who led the creation of incredibly far-sighted R&D programs, with intimate...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 287 p. This book is based upon a journal Jim Schreiner kept during his deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. Building upon that record and the recollections of other F-4G Wild Weasel aircrew, the authors show a slice of what life and war was like during that time. The pawns in the game, the ones that had to...
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990. — 195 p. An overview of conflict and intervention in the three African states of Nigeria, Angola and Zaire. Topics covered include the self-determination, territorial integrity and the inviolability of post-colonial borders. The influence of countries such as the USA, USSR and Cuba are also examined. Conflict and intervention in Africa - an...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 370 p. Why do powerful intervening militaries have such difficulty managing comparatively weak local partners in counterinsurgency wars? Set within the context of costly, large-scale military interventions such as the US war in Afghanistan, this book explains the conditions by which local allies comply with (or defy) the policy demands of...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 288 p. In tracing the ebb and flow of the conflict from the rugged mountains and Savannah forests of central Mozambique across the hot, humid Zambezi River valley and down to the very outskirts of the Mozambican capital in the far south, it examines the operational strategy of Frelimo and Renamo commanders in the field, the battles they fought and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 136 p. As the Cold War raged on in the 1970s and 1980s, much of southern Africa, from Angola to Mozambique, became caught up in the superpower competition as local and regional proxies for both Moscow and Washington fought it out on the battlefield. Thus, the struggle to determine the future of a newly independent Mozambique was shaped by...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 136 p. By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was being transformed into a Cold War battleground for global superpower competition, having been born out of the chaos following the French military defeat and withdrawal from Indochina in 1954. The country was soon engulfed in a rapidly evolving civil war as rival forces jockeyed for power...
Flammarion, 2011. — 368 p. Soixante-quatre stratèges et batailles comme les soixante-quatre cases d'un échiquier. De Ramsès II à la guerre du Golfe, des ruses de César et de Xénophon aux théories nucléaires de Kissinger et de Mao, de la légende de Ronceveaux à celle de Valmy, la stratégie a toujours été perçue et menée à la manière d'un art. Comment Alexandre le Grand...
Routledge, 2009. — 225 p. American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition. Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves as a voice for their experience. It provides the reader with...
Potomac Books, 2010. — 224 p. Private military contractors, especially those in Iraq, have taken on far more than their original mandates required. Initially intended for combat support, they have become full-fledged warriors, many with little experience, scant oversight, and no accountability to the rules of engagement that constrain the U.S. military and coalition forces....
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. — 214 p. This book examines culture, the "bedrock of military" effectiveness, from a theoretical and a practical point of view. In comparing Canadian and American military cultures, it concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been "Americanized" to a certain extent, the culture of the US armed forces, due to changes in...
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 372 p. General Bernard Law Montgomery, affectionately known as "Monty," exerted an influence on the Canadian Army more lasting than that of any other Second World War commander. In 1942 he assumed responsibility for the exercise and training of Canadian formations in England, and by the end of the war Canada’s field army was second to none...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 0199607893; ISBN13: 978-0199607891. Warfare is the most dangerous threat faced by modern humanity. It is also one of the key influences that has shaped the politics, economics, and society of modern times. But what do we mean by modern war? What causes modern wars to begin? Why do people fight in them, why do they end,...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 318 p. Joshua M. Epstein argues that prevailing assumptions about the East- West balance of power rest on erroneous measures of military strength. He develops a method for analyzing military capabilities and applies that general procedure to the Soviet tactical air threat to NATO.
London; New York: Routledge, 2007. — 256 p.
This volume examines how the Ottoman Army was able to evolve and maintain a high level of overall combat effectiveness despite the primitive nature of the Ottoman State during the First World War.
Structured around four case studies, at the operational and tactical level, of campaigns involving the Ottoman Empire and the British...
ABC-CLIO, 2021. — 428 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4408-7841-1 It is exceedingly rare to run across a major historical event that has no comprehensive English-language history, but such was the case until The Turkish War of Independence brought together all the main strands of the story, including the chaotic ending of World War I in Asia Minor and the numerous military fronts on which the...
ABC-CLIO, 2021. — 428 p. It is exceedingly rare to run across a major historical event that has no comprehensive English-language history, but such was the case until The Turkish War of Independence brought together all the main strands of the story, including the chaotic ending of World War I in Asia Minor and the numerous military fronts on which the Turks defied odds to...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 89 p. The purpose of this monograph is to examine the use of indigenous surrogates by both the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia in Southern Africa’s Bush Wars from 1975 to 1989. The Bush Wars are of significance because the use of surrogates in each case represents policy and doctrine that is outside of the United States military’s...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 182 p. Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the development of organization and uniforms not only for the British Colonies of North...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 182 p. Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the development of organization and uniforms not only for the British Colonies of North America...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 294 p. This three-volume series will describe and analyses the ‘Swedish Deluge’ (potop szwedski), the devastating 1655–1660 series of wars fought between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Brandenburg-Prussia, Muscovite Russia, Transylvania, Cossack Ukraine, the Tatar Khanate of Crimea, and the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Swedish...
Allen and Unwin, 2004. — 394 p. Contributions from some of the world's leading strategic thinkers on land warfare are collected in the work. The operational, strategic, and ethical conundrums that soldiers, their commanders, and the societies they serve will have to wrestle with in the future are analyzed by the experts, paying close attention to the impact of the information...
University Press of Kentucky, 2017. — 328 p. The Yom Kippur War pitted Israel against Syria in the north and Egypt in the south in October 1973. Caught by surprise and surrounded by enemies, Israel relied on the flexibility and creative thinking of its senior field commanders. After Israeli forces halted the Egyptian troops on the Sinai Peninsula, Major General Ariel Sharon...
Springer VS, 2019. — 325 p. This book analyzes both NATO’s and the EU’s military crisis management operations and provides an explanation for the fact that it is sometimes NATO, sometimes the EU, and sometimes both international organizations that intervene militarily in a conflict. In detailed case studies on Libya, Chad/Central African Republic, and the Horn of Africa,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 368 p. Since Pakistan was founded in 1947, its army has dominated the state. The military establishment has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with India, with the primary aim of wresting Kashmir from it. To that end, Pakistan initiated three wars over Kashmir - in 1947, 1965, and 1999 - and failed to win any of them. Today, the army...
Stanford University Press, 2013. — 364 p. When NATO took charge of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan in 2003, ISAF conceptualized its mission largely as a stabilization and reconstruction deployment. However, as the campaign has evolved and the insurgency has proved to more resistant and capable, key operational imperatives have emerged,...
50Minutes.com, 2016. — 50 p. Get to grips with the events of the Iran-Iraq War in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Iran-Iraq War. On 22 September 1980, Saddam Hussein attacked the Shatt al-Arab with the aim of annexing territories around it. This marked the start of a protracted war between Iraq and Iran. After...
New York: Avon Books, 1999. — 295 p. For as long as armies have clashed on fiery fields of battle, professional soldiers of fortune have fought, bled, and died. They are the ultimate warriors, sharing skills few men possess, a pride few men can merit, and an unassailable courage in the face of overwhelming numbers and superior weaponry. These are the men who take the risks that...
Open Road Integrated Media, 2000. — 212 p. Ten major wars and two hundred minor actions comprise the history of the United States Marine Corps, and parallel the history of America itself. U.S. Marines in Action provides a comprehensive and stirring account of the activities of the military corps that has become synonymous with guts and glory. Fehrenbach dramatizes the...
VR Unipress, 2022. — 172 p. This monograph presents issues related to the armed conflict in Ukraine, which began in 2014 and is still ongoing. It shows the socio-historical background of warfare; the factors determining the distribution of adaptive resources (assigning them meaning, as well as experienced gains and losses of a subjective, state, material and energy nature). It...
Red. nauk. Tadeusz Peterson. — Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1972. — 444 s. Sztuka wojenna Polskich Sił Zbrojnych w okresie dwudziestolecia poprzedzającego drugą wojnę światową stanowi nader interesującą problematykę najnowszej historii naszego kraju, a zwłaszcza historii wojskowości. Takie momenty jak geneza powstania i tworzenia sił zbrojnych w państwie...
Routledge, 2024. — 370 p. Placing Alexander the Great’s leadership, command skills, and grand strategy within the context of twenty-first century military challenges, and thus showing continuities in leadership and warfare since his time, this volume demonstrates how and why Alexander is relevant to the modern world by emphasizing the need for human leadership in our digital...
Mariner Books, 2006. — 400 p.
If the Marines are the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick’s career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances to the pinnacleRecon two years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. His vast skill set puts him...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 232 p. Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror offers an in-depth analysis of US/UK military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to the present day. It explores the development of contemporary military strategy in the West in the modern age before interrogating its application in the Global War on Terror. The book...
New York University Press, 2017. — 368 p. More so than in the past, the US is now embracing the logic of preventive force: using military force to counter potential threats around the globe before they have fully materialized. While popular with individuals who seek to avoid too many “boots on the ground,” preventive force is controversial because of its potential for...
Stanford University Press, 2014. — 304 p. Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in the...
Stanford University Press, 2014. — 298 p. Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in the...
University of the Pacific Press, 2004. — 363 p. Different essays examine leadership shifts under way in the People's Liberation Army and how the Chinese armed forces are coping with dramatic change in economic and social life, the Chinese Communist Party's search for relevance, developments in the global security environment, and the revolution in military affairs.
Praeger, 2001. — 318 p. Finding the manpower to defend democracy has been a recurring problem. Russell Weigley writes: The historic preoccupation of the Army's thought in peacetime has been the manpower question: how, in an unmilitary nation, to muster adequate numbers of capable soldiers quickly should war occur. When the nature of modern warfare made an all-volunteer army...
Field Manual. — Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1991. — 456 p. The book contains a description of the staff structure of associations, formations and military units of the Soviet Army by 1991. There are graphic files in the form of diagrams showing the organizational and staff structure of formations, as well as tables with quantitative parameters by units and...
Potomac Books, 2006. — 228 p. The Highway War is the compelling Iraq War memoir of then-Capt. Seth Folsom, commanding officer of Delta Company, First Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps. Mounted in eight-wheeled LAVs (light armored vehicles), this unit of 130 Marines and sailors was one of the first into Iraq in March 2003. It fought on the front lines for...
University of Missouri Press, 2017. — 559 p. My purpose is a narrative history of the 1st Infantry Division from 1970 through the Operation Desert Storm celebration held 4th of July 1991. This story is an account of the revolutionary changes in the late Cold War. The Army that overran Saddam Hussein’s Legions in four days was the product of important changes stimulated both by...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 396 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 410 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 392 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 398 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 396 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 406 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 264 p. This book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and might seem unlikely technologies for investigating the trajectory of military-technical change. Their relative...
Wien; Leipzig, 1917. — 202 S. Bevor man etwas schreibt, soll man sich immer die Fragen vorlegen, ob es notwendig ist über den Gegenstand Worte zu verlieren und ob der Inhalt der Schrift einen Wert haben wird. Wird die erste Frage im bejahenden Sinne beantwortet, d. h. hat der Gegenstand in praktischen oder wissenschaftlichen Kreisen eine Bedeutung erlangt, die mit allem bisher...
Routledge, 2018. — 268 p. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, also known as the 'Sepah', has wielded considerable and increasing power in Iran in recent decades. Established in 1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini as a paramilitary organisation charged with protecting the nascent Islamic regime and countering the untrustworthy Imperial army (or 'Artesh'), the Sepah has evolved into one of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 252 p. From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generalship and the dedication and resilience of the officers and men, the security forces eventually broke the terrorists' resolve. 1st Battalion The Suffolk Regiment was just one of many British units...
McFarland and Company, 2016. — 208 p. During his 2009-2010 combat tour in Afghanistan, battalion commander Lt. Col. Michael J. Forsyth kept a daily journal. In it he candidly wrote about his daily interactions with the Afghan government, citizens, security forces, and his intermittent conflict with the enemy. As the deployment progressed, the journal reveals that his initial...
Baraka Books, 2013. — 345 p. A comprehensive analysis, this book examines all the justifications and myths about the war on Libya and methodically dismantles them. It delineates the documentary history of events, processes, and decisions that led up to the war while underscoring its resulting consequences. Arguing that NATO's war is part of a larger process of militarizing U.S....
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2013. — 576 p. Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life's work "The History of the British Army", issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large...
Stroud: Sutton Publishing. 2003. — 288 p. — ISBN 0750931965 This is an insight into the most feared army of World War II. The Japanese Imperial Army grew from 1.5 million men in 1939 to 5.5 million men by the end of the war. Their highly successful campaigns in the Far East and the Pacific at the beginning of World War II were every bit as spectacular as those of the Germans in...
Stroud: The History Press, 2013. — 182 p. — ISBN 978-0-7509-5413-6. An insight into the most feared army of World War II. The Japanese Imperial Army grew from 1.5 million men in 1939 to 5.5 million men by the end of the war. The author describes how they mobilized and trained their soldiers, looks at their organisational structures, uniforms, weapons and equipment.
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 424 p. When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941 it heralded the beginning of a period of intense fighting over the Crimea. In this remarkable work, acclaimed author Robert Forcyzk assembles new research to investigate the intense and barbaric fighting for the region in World War II, where first Soviet and then German armies were surrounded and...
Praeger Security, 2005. — 200 p. Transnational politics, modern communications, and access to the tools of warfare have combined to give political movements the ability to wage global war to promote their own agendas, a development that has changed the face of both politics and warfare. Fowler examines current aspects of conducting war, including mobilization, funding, training,...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 290 p. Learning, innovation and adaptation are not concepts that we necessarily associate with the British army of the First World War. Yet the need to learn from mistakes, to exploit new opportunities and to adapt to complex situations are enduring and timeless. This revealing work is the first institutional examination of the army's process...
Potomac Books, 2002. — 228 p. Intrigued by the mystique and challenge of the Marine Corps, eighteen-year-old Wesley Fox enlisted in the summer of 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. He saw action with the First Marine Division in Korea and was wounded in 1951. After Korea, Fox advanced steadily in the enlisted ranks, reaching the rank of first sergeant, and,...
UNSW Press, 2017. — 208 p. Helping neighbours and partners stabilise their political systems and work towards peace and security is a core activity for the modern Australian Defence Force. The Long Road analyses the successes and failures of ADF's 'train, advise, assist' missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, the Solomon Islands, South Vietnam and...
Bur Rizzoli, 2016. — 244 p. Lasciare tutto – l’amore, gli amici, la propria vita in Italia – per andare a combattere l’Isis con il popolo curdo: questa è stata l’avventura di Karim Franceschi, figlio di un ex partigiano italiano e di sua moglie marocchina. Dopo aver partecipato alla carovana umanitaria Rojava calling e aver visto con i propri occhi la sofferenza dei curdi, nel...
Bombardier Books, 2021. — 288 p. Drones are transforming warfare through the use of artificial intelligence, drone swarms, and surveillance—leading to competition between the US, China, Israel, and Iran. Who will be the next drone superpower? In the battle for the streets of Mosul in Iraq, drones in the hands of ISIS terrorists made life hell for the Iraq army and civilians....
McClelland and Stewart, 2018. — 272 p. From the Canadian in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, this is the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations: The battle of Panjwayi, the defining moment of "Operation Medusa." In the summer of 2006, David Fraser was the Canadian general in charge...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. — 255 p. This exceptional memoir by one of Britain's most distinguished living soldiers describes a life lived against the backdrop of the most significant military events of the last century. David Fraser was raised in a military family deep in the shadow of the First World War. He absconded from school to enlist at the earliest possible moment...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 395 p. Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China s military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of threats that China has faced, M. Taylor Fravel illuminates the nation s past and present military goals, and offers a rich set of cases for deepening the study of how and why states...
Newton Compton Editori, 2011. — 324 p. Da millenni crocevia e punto di confluenza di miriadi di civiltà, culture e popoli, il Medioriente rappresenta il terreno di scontro tra entità geopolitiche di volta in volta differenti, ma anche un cantiere sempre aperto di esperimenti politici. Dal disfacimento dell’impero turco la storia bellica del Medioriente passa attraverso...
Princeton University Press, 1991. — 512 p. The 1982 Falklands War was not only one of the most extraordinary military confrontations of recent years but also a turning point in the politics of Britain and Argentina. This unusual book makes it possible for us to follow the development of the war from both sides, as two leading experts from the belligerents present an integrated,...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 624 p. Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively but also to understand the political context in which they are operating. Command in war is about forging effective strategies and implementing them, making sure that...
Routledge, 2022. — 89 p. Rapid developments in information technology and precision weaponry are said to herald a 'revolution in military affairs' (RMA), making possible quick and decisive victories with minimal casualties and collateral damage. But has such a revolution taken place? The issues that drive conflict will persist, and many of the technical advances associated with...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 346 p. The veterans of the Fourteenth Army who fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945 called themselves 'the forgotten army'. But that appellation could equally well be applied to the whole of the British army after 1945. Histories of Britain's post-war defence policy have usually focused on how and why Britain acquired a nuclear deterrent. David...
Routledge, 2016. — 265 p. First published in 1990, this title examines British defence policy from 1688 onwards; the year in which Britain was successfully invaded for the final time, and which marked a generation of warfare that lasted until 1714, during which Britain came to be known as a major European power. David French considers the strategic alliances that formed and...
Rienner Publishers, 2019. — 281 p. What is hybrid warfare? And what role does information play in today's conflicts? In the context of the technological/information revolution of the last two decades—which has greatly amplified the danger posed by non-military means of political struggle—Hybrid Conflicts and Information Warfare addresses these questions from the perspectives of...
Routledge, 2008. — 227 p. — (Middle Eastern Military Studies). This book analyzes Palestinian attempts to create an organized military force from the period of the Mandate up to the present day. Beginning with a comparative overview of the relationship between insurgent movements and the quest to build up a standard military, the book looks, first, at how the 1936 revolt...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 208 p. As a RAF Chinook crewman, Mick Fry’s exposure to Afghanistan spanned over 10 years and countless deployments, from watching 9/11 unfold in Australia, leaving the deck of HMS Ocean off the coast of Pakistan under the cover of darkness all the way through numerous fighting seasons and the chaos of Helmand Province. The Chinook helicopter was...
Presidio Press, 1984. — 464 p. Based on primary Russian and German sources, the author investigates Soviet strategy and tactics involved in the June 22, 1941 defense of their frontier against the Wehrmacht. This is an excellent book on German and Russian military tactics during the first year of the German- Russian war in 1941. It also takes a deep look at the overall strategic...
Pen and Sword, 2004. — 224 p. 'Shan' Hackett is remembered by his own and succeeding generations for a variety of achievements and attributes. A superb fighting soldier, he served with the Trans-Jordan Force, had fought through North Africa and was involved in the formation of the Long Range Desert Group, the SAS and Popski's Private Army. He went on to raise 4th Parachute...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 205 p. A collection of essays military profiling: Alexander the Great; Genghis Khan; Napoleon Bonaparte; Horatio Nelson; John J. Pershing; Erwin Rommel; Curtis LeMay. From the foreword: "In selecting the seven great commanders presented in this volume, the contributors sought to cover a wide spectrum of military endeavor, encompassing a very...
University Press of Kansas, 1990. — 282 p. — (Modern War Studies). In World War II, few American soldiers equalled the gallantry of the Army's airborne divisions. These forces were often dropped behind enemy lines, and despite casualties they triumphed in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, including the Battle of the Bulge. One such paratrooper was Kurt Gabel, and this...
Routledge, 2018. — 412 p. The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars. Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for and go to war. Whereas security studies has been broadened and stretched to cover at times the near...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 248 p. An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged―and how to adapt to this new reality Hybrid War, Grey Zone Warfare, Unrestricted War: today, traditional conflict―fought with guns, bombs, and drones―has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe...
University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 232 p. When four-star general John Rogers Galvin retired from the US Army after forty-four years of distinguished service in 1992, the Washington Post hailed him as a man "without peer among living generals." In Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's Memoir, the celebrated soldier, scholar, and statesman recounts his active participation in...
Routledge, 1986. — 181 p. In examining the forces that made the Indo-Pakistani relationship prone to conflict, Dr. Ganguly focusses first on the nature of the British colonial disengagement policy, a hasty and ill-conceived procedure that served to exacerbate the ideological differences between India's major political parties, the Congress and the Muslim League. Their competing...
Orell Füssli Verlag, 2016. — 373 S. Wir, die Völker der Vereinten Nationen – fest entschlossen, künftige Geschlechter vor der Geißel des Krieges zu bewahren, die zweimal zu unseren Lebzeiten unsagbares Leid über die Menschheit gebracht hat –, haben beschlossen: Alle Mitglieder unterlassen in ihren internationalen Beziehungen jede gegen die territoriale Unversehrtheit oder die...
Fazi, 2022. — 590 p. Dopo gli orrori della seconda guerra mondiale, con l’istituzione nel 1945 delle Nazioni Unite allo scopo di mantenere la pace, la guerra è stata bandita dalla politica internazionale. Uniche due eccezioni a tale divieto: il diritto all’autodifesa o un’azione bellica su mandato del Consiglio di sicurezza dell’ONU. Tuttavia, la realtà è stata tragicamente ben...
Pen and Sword Books, 2007. — 224 p. A memoir of how a small number of British officers led Muslim soldiers in the hard-fought anti-insurgency war that has shaped today's Gulf. While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: The Sultanate of Oman stood guard at the entrance to the Arabian Gulf,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 138 p. — ISBN: 0-333-77348-9 Liddel Hart s Theory of Armoured Warfare British Influence and the Evolution of the Panzer Arm: Origins : the 1920s and early 1930s The creation of the Panzer Arm
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 291 p. — ISBN: 0-19-820257-1 The Military School of Enlightment. The German Movement, Clausewitz and German Military School.
Reaktion Books, 2004. — 226 p. In Sky Wars, David Gates examines the history of military aerospace power. He examines technical developments between the First and Second World Wars, and the use of air power in subsequent wars. At the same time he explores the military and civil applications of air power in the contemporary world, some of which have led to scientific and technical...
Routledge, 2011. — 407 p. Unconventional war is an umbrella term which includes insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, terrorism and religious conflicts. Insurgencies and communal conflicts have become much more common in this region since 1947, and more people have died in South Asia due to unconventional wars than conventional warfare. The essays in this volume are organized in...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 336 p. — ISBN-10 0700632581, ISBN-13 978-0700632589. Physical training in the US Army has a surprisingly short history. Bodies for Battle by Garrett Gatzemeyer is the first in-depth analysis of the US Army’s particular set of practices and values, known as its physical culture, that emerged in the late nineteenth century in response to...
Routledge, 2010. — 192 p. This book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts. The author challenges the assumption that multiethnic composition leads to weakness of the military, and shows how a multiethnic army is frequently the impetus for peacemaking in multiethnic societies. Three...
Manas Publications, 2001. — 407 p. On the Partition of India wrong policies of the two main political parties of the Sub-Continent and leadership of Kashmir - all the three acted against their respective interests and these contributing elements created Kashmir imbroglio which resulted into three wars and finally into a prolonged proxy war. Militants concentrated at...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 288 p. To every member of the 82nd Airborne Division who dropped as part of the American paratroopers landings during World War Two, they breathed a little easier knowing their commander "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin would be dropping with them. General Gavin would drop into the fierce fighting along with his men in Sicily, Normandy on D-Day and during...
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute, 1990 — 202 p. — (Leavenworth Papers No. 17).
In the fall of 1944, some 56,000 German troops of the XIX Mountain Corps were occupying a strongpoint line just 70 kilometers northwest of Murmansk, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. To clear these enemy forces from Soviet territory, STA VKA ordered General K. A....
Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2015. — 394 p. General Jannie Geldenhuys is widely regarded as one of the leading military commanders South Africa has produced. As Chief of the South African Defence Force from 1985 to 1990, he brought his experience to bear on the Border War in Namibia, and was part of the negotiating team that brought an end to the conflict in 1989. In this...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2016. — 224 p. This comprehensive volume covers more than 2,500 years of world history, from when wars were fought with spears and axes to beyond the point in which nuclear weapons first threatened humankind with total annihilation. It features military leaders both good and evil who represent nations throughout the world and the most...
RAND Corporation, 2020. — 117 p. Tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a “traditional” U.S. military policy. Rather, the laws that authorize, empower, and govern the U.S. armed forces emerged from long-standing debates and a series of legislative compromises between 1903 and...
Routledge, 2005. — 372 p. A new examination of why Cuba, a Caribbean country, sent half a million of its citizens to fight in Angola in Africa, and how a short-term intervention escalated into a lengthy war of intervention. It clearly details how in January 1965 Cuba formed an alliance with the Angolan MPLA which evolved into the flagship of its global 'internationalist'...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 159 p. One of the most difficult types of warfare to master, landing on a hostile beach requires scrupulous planning and intense coordination between the air, sea, and land forces. With a history reaching back to the Persians landing on the Greek shores at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, it was the First World War that marked the beginning of...
Regnery Gateway, 2021. — 255 p. — ISBN-13 9781684512171. — ISBN-10 1684512174. The British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the anti-colonial reaction that condemned millions to despotism under the regimes that replaced it. Sir Alan Burns was among them. In this lively and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 245 p. What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? This book examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security, and asks whether we might expect the emergence of armed forces that exist to serve the wider human...
Croom Helm, 1985. — 270 p. First published in 1985, this is a book written at the height of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Based on five clandestine trips into Afghanistan with the resistance, the book examines why the Soviets invaded in 1979 and what they were seeking to defend. The author analyses their deliberate policy of migratory genocide through a...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 336 p. How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement's extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban's external sources of support include foreign governments and non-state groups, both of which have affected the Taliban's military campaigns...
Frank Cass, 2005. — 320 p. Colonel David M. Glantz deeply examines the Soviet study of war, the re-emergence of the operation level and its connection with deep battle, the evolution of the Soviet theory of operations in depth before 1941, and its refinement and application in the European theatre and the Far East between 1941 and 1945.
Routledge, 2015. — 330 p. This book critically examines the Western approach to counter-insurgency in the post-colonial era and offers a series of recommendations to address current shortfalls. The author argues that current approaches to countering insurgency rely too heavily on conflicts from the post-World War II years of waning colonialism. Campaigns conducted over half a...
UBC Press, 2011. — 257 p. The Cold War space race between the United States and the Soviet Union is well documented, but few are aware of Canada's early activities in this important arena of global power. Defence and Discovery represents the first comprehensive investigation into the origins, development, and impact of Canada's space program from 1945 to 1974. Meticulously...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 228 p. China's aircraft carrier program is making major waves well before the first ship has been completed. Undoubtedly, this development heralds a new era in Chinese national security policy. While the present volume presents substantial new insight on that particular question, its focus is decidedly broader in scope. Chinese Aerospace Power...
London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. — 228 p.
The Roman army was one of the most successful fighting forces in history. Its organization and tactics were highly advanced and were unequaled until the modern era. Spectacular monuments to its perseverance and engineering skill are still visible today, most notably Hadrian’s Wall and the siegeworks around the fortress of Masada.
This...
Routledge, 2018. — 352 p. This omnibus brings together some old and some recent works by Jos Gommans on the warhorse and its impact on medieval and early modern state-formation in South Asia. These studies are based on Gommans’ observation that Indian empires always had to deal with a highly dynamic inner frontier between semi-arid wilderness and settled agriculture. Such inner...
Pluto Press, 2012. — 272 p. Looking at a range of global historical experiences, Arms and the People examines the relationship between mass movements and military institutions. Some argue that it is impossible to achieve and protect a revolution without the support of the army, but how can the support of the army be won?Arms and the People explores the impact of profound social...
University of California Press, 2022. — 270 p. — ISBN-10 0520384768, ISBN-13 978-0520384767. A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare--and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and...
Routledge, 2017. — 298 p. This book, originally published in 1980, is a study of the nature and purposes of peace-time military organization in Europe, and of the characteristics and outcome of the major wars fought during these years. It charts the rise of mass armies and the role of conscription as a socializing agent and a military instrument, as well as discussing the...
Routledge, 2014. — 162 p. The essays collected together in this volume deal, for the most part, with the two themes which have seemed to the author the most significant and the most intriguing in the passage made by the military in Britain from the Victorian age to World War. The major theme is that of the transition of military strategy and policy from a preoccupation with the...
Praeger Publishers, 2001. — 232 p. A nation's fighting forces are often believed to embody a country's qualities of determination, resourcefulness, and courage. This study examines the influences of these qualities from the viewpoint of the American Army in Vietnam, the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the Israeli Army throughout its struggle in the Middle East. It is a...
Elsevier, 1981. — 187 p. Electronic Warfare: Element of Strategy and Multiplier of Combat Power describes how the application of electronic warfare allowed the Allies to multiply combat power during World War II in order to accomplish strategic objectives. This book is composed of eight chapters that also consider how the United States had best prepare a strategy to fight on...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — 495 p. An essential account of the struggle against ISIS―and of how Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden have waged war. In the summer of 2014, President Barack Obama faced an unwelcome surprise: insurgents from the Islamic State had seized the Iraqi city of Mosul and proclaimed a new caliphate, which they were ruling with an iron fist and using...
Arc Humanities Press, 2021. — 314 p. Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe's Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By...
Le Grand Continent, 2020. — 56 p. La victoire militaire récente de l’Azerbaïdjan contre la République du Haut-Karabakh (ou Artsakh) et l’Arménie a pu surprendre ceux qui étaient restés sur sa défaite humiliante des années 1990. Comme tous les résultats surprenants, celui-ci mérite une attention particulière, car il est peut-être révélateur de phénomènes nouveaux ou...
University Press of Kentucky, 2012. — 344 p. Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist regimes of the twentieth century....
Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 2009. — 364 p. — ISBN 9781405344203. This is a soldier's life, on and off the battlefield, in a new compact format. From the Samurai of Japan to US riflemen, explore the dramatic experiences of soldiers who've fought battles and paid the price of warfare. This book lets you experience life on the front line through personal accounts of the...
Dorling Kindersley, 2010. — 360 p.
Focusing on the frontline soldiers who fought for their tribes, their cities, their overlords and their countries-from the Ancient Greeks who repelled the invading Persians in the 5th century to the US Marines in action in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, this visual history paints a compelling portrait of the frontline soldier through...
Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 2011. — 362 p. — ISBN: 0756667364, 9780756667368 From Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world to the generals leading today's campaigns in Afghanistan, Commanders casts new light on the leaders who have forged history on the battlefield. Focusing on the greatest leaders in naval, field, and aerial warfare, such as Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and...
Arcadia Publishing, 2013. — 192 p. Join local author Harry Gratwick as he uncovers stories of adventure and bravery from the forts of Maine. Whether dotting the coastline, guarding the banks of the Kennebec or defending the Canadian border, Maine's many forts have sheltered its towns and people since the seventeenth century. Both Fort Kent and Fort Fairfield were built after...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 279 p. Commanding Military Power offers a new explanation of why some armed forces are stronger than others. Ryan Grauer advances a 'command structure theory' which combines insights from organization theory, international relations, and security studies literatures to provide a unique perspective on military power. Specifically, armed forces...
Phoenix, 2006. — 430 p. How the wars of the near future will be fought and who will win them. Many nations, peoples and special interest groups believe that violence will advance their cause. Warfare has changed greatly since the Second World War; it continued to change during the late 20th century and this process is still accelerating. Political, technological, social and...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 272 p. In 2006, 1st Lt. Wesley Gray was deployed as a U.S. Marine Corps military adviser to an Iraqi Army battalion in the Haditha Triad. For 210 days, he lived and fought beside Iraqi soldiers in the most dangerous and austere province of western Iraq. Al-Anbar was filled with an insurgent population traumatized by a recent massacre of...
Routledge, 2016. — 231 p. The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at disrupting insurgency networks, and the intensive media and...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 192 p. Fallujah Redux is the first book about the Fallujah Awakening written by Operation Iraqi Freedom military veterans who served there, providing a comprehensive account of the turning of Fallujah away from the al-Qaeda insurgency in 2007. The city of Fallujah will long be associated with some of the worst violence and brutality of the Iraq...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2021. — 226 p. On June 25, 1950, the North Korean Army invaded South Korea. Among the US forces sent to South Korea was the 1st Marine Division. In September 1950, the Division audaciously landed deep behind enemy lines at Inchon port, throwing the North Korea Army into disarray. In November 1950, the Chinese Army invaded North Korea with eight divisions...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 216 p. In 1942 the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were formed and three more followed. 17th and 92nd (All American Division) and 101st (Screaming Eagles) fought in Sicily, D-Day, Market Garden, and the Rhine Crossing (VARSITY). The 11th served in the Far East. The 13th did not see combat. Only the 82nd survived the postwar cull. The Screaming...
Pen and Sword Books, 2010. — 224 p. This book covers the inception, growth and employment of Britains airborne forces (parachute and glider-borne formations) between June 1940 and March 1945. It takes a comparative approach and follows tailored lines of development. Each of these lines—politics and policy, equipment and technology, personnel and training, command and control...
London: Macdonald and Jane's. — 161 p. — ISBN: 0-385-04247-7. Introduction and Acknowledgements. Parachute Commando. Training and Organisation. Insignia, Clothing, Weapons, Equipment and Air Transport. Military Operations - The Red Devils. Military Operations - A Bridge Too Far!
Potomac Books, 2015. — 208 p. After the United States, along with NATO allies, bombed the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic for seventy-eight days in 1999, Milosevic withdrew his army from Kosovo. With no troops on the ground, political and military leaders congratulated themselves on the success of Operation Allied Force, considered to be the first military victory won...
Frontline Books, 2023. — 432 p. From the warmer climate of the Mediterranean to the frozen wastes of Norway’s Arctic islands, the Combined Operations organization was a persistent thorn in the side of Hitler’s Third Reich. From mounting attacks against enemy-held coastlines with small teams of less than a dozen men, through to huge expeditions involving thousands of troops and...
Air Force History & Museums Program, 1985. — 396 p. — ISBN: 0912799242. This book describes the struggle to desegregate the post-World War II U. S. Army Air Forces and its successor, the U. S. Air Force, and the remarkable advances made during the next two decades to end racial segregation and move towards equality of treatment of Negro airmen. The author, Lt. Col. Alan L....
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 342 p. As insurgencies rage, a burning question remains: how should insurgents fight technologically superior state armies? Commentators rarely ask this question because the catchphrase 'we fight by the rules, but they don't' is nearly axiomatic. But truly, are all forms of guerrilla warfare equally reprehensible? Can we think cogently about...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 307 p. Airborne warfare reached its peak during World War II - the only war in which the potential gains of using airborne tactics ever justified the great costs, both material and human. The revolutionary developments in tactics and equipment meant that whole divisions could now be inserted behind enemy lines to initiate surprise attacks. However,...
Casemate, 2018. — 252 p. Although he missed combat in World War II and Korea, Donn Starry became one of the most influential commanders of the Vietnam War, and after Vietnam was one of the “intellectual giants” who reshaped the US Army and its doctrines. Throughout his career he worked to improve training, leadership and conditions for the men who served under him. Starry was a...
Routledge, 2010. — 241 p. This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be said to serve the 'political'. In light of the emerging theories and doctrines of Network-Centric War (NCW), this book traces the philosophical backdrop against which the more common theorizations of war...
Brill, 2020. — 314 p. — (Thinking in Extremes 3). Machiavelli's experience in organizing a Florentine militia shaped the composition of his book Art of War (1521), a book that is now less well known than The Prince, but that had a huge impact on sixteenth-century cultures of warfare. Comparisons and Relationships between Machiavelli’s 1506 Militia and the Ordinanza of...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 132 p. Since 20 December 2001 - the date which marked the authorization of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to assist the Afghan Government - hundreds of thousands of coalition soldiers from around 50 different states have physically been and served in Afghanistan. Roughly 20 rotation periods have been experienced; billions of US...
Scribner, 2000. — 312 p. The Kinder, Gentler Military is a devastating critique of how and why the military—the most tradition-bound, masculine institution in the United States—spent the 1990s in a tortured attempt to reform its time-proven warrior culture in favor of a new, politically correct value system, a system that is decimating morale in our armed forces. "Our armed...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 272 p. In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration. In the age of H.G. Wells and Biggles, the opening up of the air to balloons and planes- the Royal Flying Corps was founded in 1912 - appealed to concepts of courage and bravery which would be both encouraged and...
Springer, 2020. — 247 p. This book will make a first contribution to identify the gaps in current practices and provide alternative mechanisms to conceptualize professionalism that is reflective of changing requirements, culture, and demographics of the contemporary military force.The military profession promotes the development, sustainment, and embodiment of ethos, which...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 340 p. — (Cambridge Military Histories). The Malayan Emergency of 1948–1960 has been scrutinised for 'lessons' about how to win counterinsurgencies from the Vietnam War to twenty-first century Afghanistan. This book brings our understanding of the conflict up to date by interweaving government and insurgent accounts and looking at how they...
Smithsonian, 2016. — 288 p. By the middle of the nineteenth century, industrialization and military-technological innovation were beginning to alter drastically the character and conditions of warfare as it had been conducted for centuries. Occurring in the midst of these far-reaching changes, the American Civil War can justly be labeled both the last great pre-industrial war...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 297 p. — ISBN: 978-0-87021-060-0. In Fire on the Water, Robert Haddick contends that much of the general public and many U.S. policy experts are unaware of the threat that China’s military modernization poses to America’s national interests in the Asia-Pacific region. He maintains that within a decade China will have the military power to place...
Routledge, 2019. — 289 p. This book offers a strategic, organizational, and logistical analysis in a historical context of the planning of conventional forces to meet a limited contingency. The central question is: Why, from 1960 to 1982, did the U.S. fail to construct a coherent limited contingency force? Analysis of a series of comparative case studies reveals that the...
Simon Schuster, 2014. — 320 p. The urgent truth about the privatization of America’s national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it operates, where it's heading—and why we should be concerned. Thirty years ago there were no private military and security companies (PMSCs); there were only mercenaries. Now the PMSCs are a bona-fide industry, an indispensable...
Columbia University Press, 2021. — 239 p. When civil conflicts break out in plural societies, violence often occurs along group divides―running the risk of spiraling into ethnic cleansing. Yet for militants who do not seek ethnic separation as a political goal, indiscriminate attacks are detrimental to their cause. Under what circumstances are such combatants more or less...
Routledge, 2016. — 252 p. This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors. War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize that a boundary is being crossed. The participants are...
The History Press, 2013. — 682 p. The Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) was the longest war waged by British and Commonwealth forces in the twentieth century. Fought against communist guerrillas in the jungles of Malaya, this undeclared 'war without a name' had a powerful and covert influence on American strategy in Vietnam. Many military historians still consider the Emergency an...
McFarland and Company, 2020. — 132 p. Drawing on a range of sources, including original interviews with the commanders ordered to fight a land war in Southeast Asia, a former U.S. Army infantry captain recounts his company's experiences carrying out those orders in Vietnam and Cambodia. The crucial flaws of the Johnson Administration's strategy of attrition in are analyzed-the...
Zenith Press, 2004. — 342 p. The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century (Zenith Military Classics) by Colonel Thomas X. Hammes USMC argues that Ongoing events in Iraq show how difficult it is for the world's only remaining superpower to impose its will upon other peoples. From Vietnam, French and US, to Afghanistan, Russian and US, to Israel and the Palestinians, to...
Zenith Press, 2004. — 342 p. The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century (Zenith Military Classics) by Colonel Thomas X. Hammes USMC argues that Ongoing events in Iraq show how difficult it is for the world's only remaining superpower to impose its will upon other peoples. From Vietnam, French and US, to Afghanistan, Russian and US, to Israel and the Palestinians, to...
Zenith Press, 2004. — 342 p. The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century (Zenith Military Classics) by Colonel Thomas X. Hammes USMC argues that Ongoing events in Iraq show how difficult it is for the world's only remaining superpower to impose its will upon other peoples. From Vietnam, French and US, to Afghanistan, Russian and US, to Israel and the Palestinians, to...
Zenith Press, 2004. — 336 p. Colonel Thomas Hammes discusses how the ongoing events in Iraq show how difficult it is for the world's only remaining superpower to impose its will upon other peoples, and cites other recent incidents of powerful military forces being tied up by seemingly weaker opponents.
Routledge, 2014. — 241 p. The U.S. Armed Forces started integrating its services in 1948, and with that push, more African Americans started rising through the ranks to become officers, although the number of black officers has always been much lower than African Americans' total percentage in the military. Astonishingly, the experiences of these unknown reformers have largely...
Routledge, 2000. — 422 p. This is the first comprehensive study based on a detailed textual analysis of the classical works on war by Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Mao Tse-tung, and to a lesser extent, Jomini and Machiavelli. Brushing stereotypes aside, the author takes a fresh look at what these strategic thinkers actually said—not what they are widely believed to have said. He finds...
N.Y.: Alfred A.Knopf, 1989. — ISBN: 0520260090, 0394571886. The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics—that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens—but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, or combat between individual heroes, the Greeks of the...
Casemate Publishers, 2019. — 336 p. A military studies professor and former combatant “rationally dissects the strategies and mindsets on both sides” of this thirty-year conflict. Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, there have been much discussion of why (and whether) America lost the war in Vietnam. The common belief is that the war was lost not on the battlefield but in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 408 p. For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 224 p. In the 1930s James Hill was forced to leave the Army because he was under 26 when he married. Recalled to the colors, he won his MC with the BEF in 1940. He was one of the first to volunteer for airborne forces and became second-in-command of 1 PARA. He was in the thick of the expansion of Airborne forces in 1941-42 and took command of 1 PARA in...
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2010. — 412 p.
The Red Army's leading operational theorist in the 1930s, Georgii Samoilovich Isserson was the mastermind behind the "deep operation"--the cornerstone of Soviet offensive operations in World War II. Drawing from an in-depth analysis of Isserson's numerous published and unpublished works, his arrest file in the...
Routledge, 2001. — 284 p. This book explores a new way for students of International Relations to look at war, peace and world orders throughout European history. The contributors argue that the predominant 'realist' paradigm that focuses on states and their self-interest is not applicable to the largest period of European history, because states either did not exist or were...
Nation Books, 2012. — 305 p. Enthralling and explosive, Prophets of War is an expos' of America's largest military contractor, Lockheed Martin. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a company could accumulate the kind of power and influence now wielded by this behemoth...
Nation Books, 2012. — 305 p. Enthralling and explosive, Prophets of War is an expos' of America's largest military contractor, Lockheed Martin. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a company could accumulate the kind of power and influence now wielded by this behemoth...
Little, Brown Book Group, 2009. — 192 p. In an age of backroom generals who command from far behind troop lines, it is often forgotten that wars have been won or lost by the personality and leadership of a maverick commander. In twelve riveting portrait, best-selling historian, Robert Harvey, explores the mind and the action of such men. From the the Mediterranean sea Harvey...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 280 p. — ISBN 978-0-8122-4452-6. For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 392 p. ISIS’s astonishing and unexpected military victories in 2014 and 2015 redrew the geopolitical map of the Middle East. Media attention focused on the organisation’s savage treatment of its enemies and its ability to attract foreign fighters, but as this dispassionate book demonstrates it also made important innovations in strategy,...
Routledge, 2016. — 307 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-12520-9 Civilians in Gaza and Israel are caught up in complex, violent situations that have overstepped conventional battle lines. Both sides of the conflict have found ways to legitimate the use of violence, and continually swap accusations of violations of domestic and international humanitarian laws. Israel’s Military Operations in...
Routledge, 2016. — 220 p. Civilians in Gaza and Israel are caught up in complex, violent situations that have overstepped conventional battle lines. Both sides of the conflict have found ways to legitimate the use of violence, and continually swap accusations of violations of domestic and international humanitarian laws. Israel’s Military Operations in Gaza provides an...
Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press, 2008. — 358 p. Foreword, by Carnes Lord Maritime Strategy Presentation (for the Secretary of the Navy, 4 November 1982) The Maritime Strategy, 1984 The AmphibiousWarfare Strategy, 1985 TheMaritime Strategy: Global Maritime Elements for U.S. National Strategy, 1985 The Maritime Strategy, 1986 Looking beyond the Maritime Strategy...
Rob Young NASIC Historian Wright Paterson Air Force Base Ohio United States 1 p. National Air and Space Intelligence Center The Have Nose project took place in the last days of the operation desert storm on 9 March 1991. A team of the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) of the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center landed at Jalibah Air...
Montvert Publications, 1992. — 64 p. The Achaemenid Persian empire dominated the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean for about two centuries, from the mid-sixth century BC to the mid-fourth. It was the largest empire the world had yet seen, and in many ways the most successful. For a long time we have seen Persia mainly through the eyes of the classical Greeks; Greeks...
Routledge, 2016. — 280 p. Lord Kitchener and Lord Haig are two monumental figures of the First World War. Their reputations, both in their lifetimes and after their deaths, have been attacked and defended, scrutinized and contested. They have been depicted in film, print and public memorials in Britain and the wider world, and new biographies of both men appear to this day. The...
Robert Laffont, 2021. — 441 p. Vingt ans, déjà, que les tours du World Trade Center se sont effondrées. Qui aurait cru alors que, deux décennies plus tard, la guerre globale contre le terrorisme se poursuivrait sans issue en vue ? Des sables du Sahara aux jungles d'Asie du Sud-Est, des plaines irakiennes aux montagnes afghanes, les pays occidentaux et leurs alliés continuent de...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 233 p. This book addresses the technological evolution of modern warfare due to unmanned systems and the growing capacity for cyberwarfare. The increasing involvement of unmanned means and methods of warfare can lead to a total removal of humans from the navigation, command and decision-making processes in the control of unmanned...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 615 p. This volume, a collection of eleven original essays by many of the foremost U.S. military historians, focuses on the transition of the Army from parade ground to battleground in each of nine wars the United States has fought. Through careful analysis of organization, training, and tactical doctrine, each essay seeks to explain the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2004. — 1005 p. The island of Cyprus, long troubled by inter-communal strife, exploded onto the world stage with the Athens-inspired coup against President Makarios and Turkey's invasion that followed. This resulted in the partition of the Island, which was policed by UNFICYP under the most testing conditions. These dramatic events are described here for...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 228 p. In this revealing work, Dag Henriksen discloses the origins and content of NATO's strategic and conceptual thinking on how the use of force was to succeed politically in altering the behavior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). The air campaign, known as Operation Allied Force, was the first war against any sovereign nation in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 224 p. The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period, both Democrat and Republican governments intervened, fought insurgencies, and changed regimes. In America's Wars, Thomas Henriksen explores how America tried to remake the world by militarily invading a host of nations...
Amberley Publishing, 2021. — 320 p. Americans know about the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the world wars, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq/Afghanistan, but the many in-between conflicts have been erased from public memory. Many of the forgotten conflicts have a particular resonance now. The Texas-Mexico border conflict (1917) saw Hispanic farmers murdered as America prepared to...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 594 p.
Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial new account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political...
Routledge, 2018. — 256 p. This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking. There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern definition existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz. The case studies featured in this book show that strategic...
Praeger, 2010. — 232 p. Today's military strategists and tacticians may be familiar with the writings and teachings of Carl von Clausewitz, but The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society, 1650-1850 reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of those whose contributions to the study of war and society are just as important. Beginning in the 16th century with Bernardino...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 224 p. In 1984 the first edition of the British Army Guide was published. This invaluable information resource which deals with all aspects of British Army organization, recruitment and training, has been extremely popular with service personnel, the defense industry, military libraries and other groups who are interested in the British Army worldwide....
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001. — 273 p. The author's focus is primarily China and Taiwan. However, I learned the most from his coverage of Japan and North Korea. I commend him on his selection of material and consistency of scope. The writing is direct and to the point, nothing fancy. The book is both concise and well written enough to read straight through. A scholar of any...
Routledge, 2017. — 654 p. Designed to fill an overlooked gap, this book, originally published in 1972, provides a single unified introduction to bibliographical sources of British military history. Moreover it includes guidance in a number of fields in which no similar source is available at all, giving information on how to obtain access to special collections and private...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 758 p. In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 273 p. For more than a decade, international troops have been deployed to Afghanistan. Out of all NATO members, this mission was the most difficult for Germany that had thus far never engaged in combat and offensive military activities. This book analyses how Germany's experiences in Afghanistan have changed the country's strategic culture.
Routledge, 1991. — 323 p. When President Saddam Hussein of Iraq attacked Iran in September 1980 he expected victory within three weeks. Eight years and more than a million casualties later, the conflict ended, with the same regimes in power. The fortunes of war brought great changes, with the involvement not just of the Arab states of the Gulf, but also the nations and...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. — 259 p. A multi-disciplinary study on wartime decision-making, with a focus on how Canada and its allies engage in conflict. War Made New? Cycles of Revolutions in Military Affairs and Intervention. Disasters as Security Threats: Mapping Humanitarian Assistance Needs and Priorities for the Canadian Armed Forces. The Strategic Impact of...
Routledge, 2017. — 319 p. By exploring the role of military officers and chronicling the sequences of events, Soldiers and Politics in Southeast Asia offers insight into the conditions that fostered military governments specifically in Thailand, Burma, South Vietnam, Indonesia, and Cambodia. Critically comparing these case studies and statistics, this volume provides readers...
Durban: Partners in Publishing, 2018. - 306 p. Colonel Mike Hoare led 300 ‘Wild Geese’ across the Congo to crush a communist rebellion, rescue 2000 nuns and priests from barbarity, beat Che Guevara … and become a legend. Of Irish blood, Mike was schooled in England and, during World War 2, was the ‘best bloody soldier in the British Army’. He demobbed as a major, qualified in...
Pen and Sword, 2022. — 208 p. 'I make no apologies for being a mercenary soldier. Quite the reverse. I am proud to have led 5 Commando. I am proud to have fought shoulder to shoulder with the toughest and bravest band of men it has ever been my honor to command. I am proud that they stood when all else failed.' In July 1964, four years after gaining independence from Belgium,...
University Press of Kentucky, 2012. — 304 p. While scholarship abounds on the diplomatic and security aspects of the Cold War, very little attention has been paid to military planning at the operational level. In Blueprints for Battle, experts from Russia, the United States, and Europe address this dearth by closely examining the military planning of NATO and Warsaw Pact member...
Washington: Center of Military History, 2009. — 171 p. The U.S. Army has a long record of fielding innovations that not only have enhanced its effectiveness on the battlefield but also sometimes had an impact far beyond warfare. General Editor Jon T. Hoffman has brought together eleven authors who cover the gamut from the invention of the M1 Garand rifle between the world wars...
University Press of Kentucky, 2006. — 595 p. The U.S. Cavalry, which began in the nineteenth century as little more than a mounted reconnaissance and harrying force, underwent intense growing pains with the rapid technological developments of the twentieth century. From its tentative beginnings during World War I, the eventual conversion of the traditional horse cavalry to a...
MacDonald & Jane's, 1978. — 189 p. — ISBN-10 0354011634, ISBN-13 978-0354011631. In this history, Ian Hogg can give only an introductory treatment as he attempts to cover the complete history of anti-aircraft theory and practice from the improvised anti-balloon guns of the 1870 Franco-Prussian war to the guided missiles of the nuclear age.
St Martin's, 1977. — 160 p. — ISBN-10 031229977X, ISBN-13 978-0312299774 Fortification is the oldest military science, and the this splendidly illustrated book tells the story of fortification from the days when prehistoric men tool cover behind ramparts of earth, to the days when the allied air forces blasted rocket-propelled bombs into hitler's submarine pens and the concrete...
Routledge, 2013. — 270 p. This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science. Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing 'War on Terror', serious divergences over what the message of the 'new' military doctrine ought to be were expected...
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1993. — 544 p. This revised edition of Maj. Gen Jeanne Holm's classic work on the history and role of women in the U.S. armed forces brings the reader up-to-date by covering the role of American military women in all post-Vietnam military operations -- including the recent Persian Gulf War. Much coverage of legislation and policy decisions.
Routledge, 2016. — 212 p. This book delivers on two analytical levels. First, it is a broad study of Sweden as an international actor, an actor that at least for a brief period tried to play a different international role than that to which it was accustomed. Second, the book problematizes the role of international military missions as drivers for change in the security and...
Stanford University Press, 2014. — 272 p. In response to the irregular warfare challenges facing the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005, General James Mattis—then commander of Marine Corps Combat Development Command—established a new Marine Corps cultural initiative. The goal was simple: teach Marines to interact successfully with the local population in areas of conflict....
Routledge, 2011. — 192 р. This edited volume addresses the relationship between the essential nature of war and its character at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The focus is on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, situations that occupy a central role in international affairs and that have become highly influential in thinking about war in the widest sense. The...
Routledge, 1992. — 208 p. In February 1979, China launched a full scale attack on Vietnam bringing to the surface the deep tension between the two socialist neighbours. The importance of the resultant war is often overlooked. Millions of people throughout the region were affected, and the frictions that remain in the wake of the war threaten the prospects for peace not only in...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 82 p. Early in the morning of 2 August 1990, aircraft of the Iraqi Air Force bombed Kuwaiti air bases, and then the Iraqi Republican Guards stormed into the country. Thus began what would be called the ‘Gulf War’ – or the ‘II Gulf War’ or ‘II Persian Gulf War’ – fought between January and March 1991. Although encountering some problems, the Iraqi...
Dundurn Press, 2009. — 252 p. Many Canadians see the role their country's military plays in Afghanistan as an anomaly. However, this assumption is far from the truth. As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has commented, "Canadians are fierce fighters." Fortune Favours the Brave certainly proves this point in a collection of essays that showcases the fighting spirit and...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 320 p. In Strategy and Command, David Horner provides an important insight into the strategic decisions and military commanders who shaped Australia's army history from the Boer War to the evolution of the command structure for the Australian Defence Force in the 2000s. He examines strategic decisions such as whether to go to war, the nature...
The Libertarian Institute, 2017. — 317 p. Fool’s Errand is a hidden history of America’s forgotten war, laid bare in damning detail. Scott Horton masterfully retells the story of America’s failed intervention, exposes how Obama’s troop surge did not bring Afghanistan any closer to peace, and warns that the conflict could go on in perpetuity — unless America ends the war. As...
Combat Studies, 1984. — 235 p. The history of ground combat in the twentieth century is to a large extent the history of the evolution of combined arms warfare. The impact of technology, the expansion of armed forces, the advent of complex controlling, planning, and organizational structures, and the attendant growth of functional specialization, are all developments which have...
Springer, 1975. — 350 p. This volume brings forth a set of selected papers from the Conference on Modeling Land Sattle Systems for Military Planning. Sponsored by the Special Programme Panel on Systems Science of the NATO Science Committee, the conference took place in Ottobrunn, Germany, at the War Gaming Centre of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft. The idea to organize a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 264 p. This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and unconventional war across time and around the globe. The use of non-uniformed and often civilian combatants, with tactics eschewing pitched battles, is the most common form of warfare throughout history and comes in many forms. The collection works back in time beginning with the "Long...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 264 p. This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and unconventional war across time and around the globe. The use of non-uniformed and often civilian combatants, with tactics eschewing pitched battles, is the most common form of warfare throughout history and comes in many forms. The collection works back in time beginning with the "Long...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 102 р. Japan is emerging as a more prominent global and regional military power, defying traditional categorisations of a minimalist contribution to the US-Japan alliance, maintaining anti-militarism, seeking an internationalist role, or carving out more strategic autonomy. Instead, this Element argues that Japan has fundamentally shifted its...
Presidio Press, 1995. — 288 p. Count Helmuth von Moltke is most famous for his accomplishments as a field commander during the Prussian army’s victories over the Austrians in 1866 and, with other German contingents, over the French in 1870–71. His celebrated victories have been the subject of numerous studies, including at least two of the best single-volume campaign studies...
Arcturus Digital, 2013. — 192 p. Wars, raids and rebellions have driven the history of Canada forward from the earliest days of New France, through the two world wars to the present day. Beginning with the Battle of Lake Champlain in 1609 and ending with the second Battle of Panjwaye in 2006 (part of the war in Afghanistan), Great Canadian Battles features conflicts in Canada...
Pen and Sword Military, 2016. — 352 p. This account, following on from Unicorns - The History of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry 1794- 1899, covers the Regiment’s war service between 1900 and 1945. During the Boer War the SRY formed part of the first volunteer unit to see active service overseas fighting the Boer Commandos as cavalry. For its role in the ill-fated 1915 Gallipoli...
Da Capo Press, 2018. — 352 p. The West and Islam--the sword and scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Roman emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a centuries-long jihad on Christendom. Sword and Scimitar chronicles the decisive battles that arose from this...
Henry Holt and Company, 1998. — 228 p. This is a Spanish language's version of this book. Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's Honor is a report and a reflection on what he has seen in the places where ethnic war has become a way of life. Ignatieff charts the...
Stanford University Press, 2019. — 328 p. During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, known as the "Martial Races", including British Christians, Hindustani Muslims, Punjabi Sikhs, Hindu Rajputs, Pathans from northwestern India, and "Gurkhas" from...
The History Press, 2017. — 224 p. The Field Marshal was a born commander and, besides being a gifted linguist, was mobilised as a Subaltern for the Boer War to act as a secret agent and to streamline the peace process. With an appetite for battle, in WW1 he became the Allied C-in-C of the Expeditionary Force in North Russia and, being ranked as a knighted Major General at the...
Naval Institute Press, 2007. — 320 p. One of the leading voices on national security issues in the U.S. Congress demonstrates how words have been sharp and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great military speeches that helped turn the tide of history. Among the dozens of inspirational speeches featured are: Moses instructing his followers to cross the Jordan...
Motorbooks Intl, 1998. — 160 p. — ISBN-10 076030551X, ISBN-13 978-0760305515 This fascinating book tells the story of the planes and pilots who fought for air supremacy over Korea from June 1950 through July 1953.
Guinness World Records Ltd., 1993. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 0851127010, ISBN-13 978-0851127019 This chronology of military aviation offers a blend of facts, figures, personalities and achievements. Tracing the major developments in military aircraft from Ancient China to the state-of-the-art technology employed in the Gulf War, and with a particular emphasis on the two World Wars,...
Zenith Press, 2001. — 448 p. Afghan Guerrilla Warfare - In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters by Ali Ahmad Jalali and Lester W. Grau tells the story of the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, few experts believed the fledgling Mujahideen resistance movement had a chance of withstanding the modern, mechanized...
United States Marine Corps, Studies and Analysis Division, 1995. — 404 p. The Other Side of the Mountain is a compilation of after action reports on tactical operations in Afghanistan in the 1980s, from the Mujahideen perspective. The descriptions of the action and commentary from the single most knowledgeable American on the Soviet army, a man who spoke with leaders from both...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 655 p. The history of Afghanistan is largely military history. From the Persians and Greeks of antiquity to the British, Soviet, and American powers in modern times, outsiders have led military conquests into the mountains and plains of Afghanistan, leaving their indelible marks on this ancient land at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and the...
Corona, 2007. — 202 p. This publication aims to provide the reader primarily equipment Czechoslovak Army artillery material. For information and familiarization with the theme is given a short chapter dealing with the organizational development of artillery in the 1918-1939, which of course is conducted in conformity with the overall construction of the army.
South End Press, 1983. — 159 p. The Battle of Beirut is an indictment of what Israel has done in Lebanon: it explodes the myth that this was a ‘limited’ operation, that Israel did not intend to harm civilians, that casualties were minimal and that the PLO was ‘Holding Beirut hostage’. This book is not an instant history of Israel’s fifth war. It is a study, and an indictment,...
U.S. War Department, 1945. — 61 p. Training Training Aims Paratroop Qualifications Training in Technique Parachute Jumping Technique Use of Emergency Chutes Mass Jumps Use of Cargo Chutes Maneuvers Faults Organization Army Paratroop Units History Raiding Group (Teishin Shudan) Raiding Brigade (Teishin Dan) Raiding Regiment (Teishin Rentai) Raiding Flying Brigade (Teishin...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. — 314 p. For centuries, mounted cavalry dominated the battlefield through shock and mobility. Man maintained a symbiotic relationship with the horse, which became particularly sacrosanct on the battlefield and even created a new, exalted social class. These mounted warriors sought to preserve their prestige despite the advent of new technologies...
Routledge, 2020. — 125 p. Only two years after Sputnik, weapons were created for attacking spacecraft. These were based on land. But now there is talk of weapons in space-instant-kill beams like lasers. President Reagan has offered a vision of new inventions that could stop nuclear missile attacks. But will they work? Can lasers make nuclear weapons obsolete? Or would they...
Lyons Press, 2018. — 232 p. During the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863, Sgt. William Harvey Carney picked up the fallen flag from his lifeless comrade. He waved the flag for all of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry to see and led the way to the parapet to plant the colors. After Col. Robert Gould Shaw was mortally wounded, Carney inspired his infantry forward. Even after...
Ashgate, 2012. — 244 p. The sheer size and influence of the British Indian Army, and its major role in the Allied War effort between 1939 and 1945 on behalf of a country from which it was seeking independence, maintains its fascination as a subject for a wide variety of historians. This volume presents a range of papers examining the Indian Army experience from the outbreak of...
Routledge, 2019. — 322 p. This book examines the extent, nature, and political implications of professionalization in the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). It provides a description and evaluation of the military, political, economic, and social context within which PLA officers have functioned since the civil war. Originally published in 1982.
Reaktion Books, 2021. — 336 p. Spanning countries and centuries, a "how-not-to" guide to leadership that reveals the most maladroit military commanders in history. For this book, fifteen distinguished historians were given a deceptively simple task: identify their choice for the worst military leader in history and then explain why theirs is the worst. From the clueless Conrad...
Stanford University Press, 2016. — 216 p. As entrenched bureaucracies, military organizations might reasonably be expected to be especially resistant to reform and favor only limited, incremental adjustments. Yet, since 1945, the U.S. Army has rewritten its capstone doctrine manual, Operations, fourteen times. While some modifications have been incremental, collectively they...
Routledge, 2017. — 252 p. Although ostensibly a time of peace, one of the richest and most fascinating periods in military history falls between the two world wars. With good reason, even today military theorists look to these years for relevant lessons. The articles and papers collected together in this volume highlight the major themes and developments of interwar military...
Routledge, 2016. — 263 p. The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding race in the American military establishment from the French and Indian War to the present day. By broadly incorporating the latest research on race and ethnicity into the field of military history, the book explores the...
New York University Press, 2001. — 409 p. Technology of one kind or another has always been a central ingredient in war. The Spartan king Archidamus, for instance, reacted with alarm when first witnessing a weapon that could shoot darts through the air. And yet during the past two centuries technology has played an unprecedented role in military affairs and thinking, and in the...
Washington: Army Center of Military History, 1979. — 497 p. Over the years the study of military history has had its upsand downs within the Army. In the education of the World War IIgeneration of military leaders it played an important part, for thestudy of past operations held a preeminent place in the Armyschools' curricula in the period between the two great worldwars. In the...
Hong Kong: Hai Feng Publishing Co., 1993. — 251 p. Overawing the Foe with Bluff and Bluster — Defeating the Enemy Without Fighting a Battle. Go to the Mountains and Learn from the Bandits — Political Power Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun. Establishing an Independent Regime by Armed Force — A Huge Vat Can Be Broken with a Small Rock. The Enemy Advances, We Retreat — Concealing...
University Press of Kentucky, 2006. — 360 p. In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes's discussion of insurgencies ranges across five continents and spans more than two centuries. Analyzing examples from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, he identifies recurrent patterns and offers useful lessons for future policymakers. Insurgencies arise from many...
University Press of Kentucky, 2010. — 255 p. This work provides comprehensive analysis of military collaboration between the United States and Great Britain before the Second World War. William T. Johnsen sets the stage by examining Anglo-French and Anglo-American coalition military planning from 1900 through World War I and the interwar years. He also considers the formulation...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 304 p. The U.S. Army entered World War II unprepared. In addition, lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and public apathy for the army's unprepared state. David E. Johnson...
RAND Corporation, 2014. — 174 p. In 2008, U.S. and Iraqi forces defeated an uprising in Sadr City, a district of Baghdad with ~2.4 million residents. Coalition forces' success in this battle helped consolidate the Government of Iraq's authority, contributing significantly to the attainment of contemporary U.S. operational objectives in Iraq. U.S. forces' conduct of the battle...
National Defense Research Institute, 2009. — 314 p. The U.S. military training system is the envy of many countries around the world, so what can the United States learn from other militaries about how better to prepare for full-spectrum operations and deployments? The authors examine the militaries of China, France, the UK, India, and Israel to identify different approaches to...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2012. — 208 p. In the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. Army was on the verge of employing a weapon that had never before been seen on its native soil: a cavalry mount that would fare better than both mules and horses in the American Southwest. Against the Mojave in the Arizona Territory, against the Mormons in Utah Territory, during the early stages of...
Routledge, 2009. — 214 p. This book examines the local and international dynamics and strategies that have come to define the often violent relationship between Israel and Lebanon. Since the end of the Cold War, academic debate over the nature of war in the contemporary world has focused upon the asymmetric nature of conflict among a raft of failed or failing states, often held...
William Kimber & Co, 1986. — 211 p. In WWII fifteen U-boats were sunk by British submarines and three British submarines were lost to U-boats. This book examines these eighteen episodes chronologically, describing the careers of the boats and their commanders, and unfolding their final actions.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 356 p. This book offers a biography of the most glamorous and powerful NATO Supreme Commander of the Cold War, General Lauris Norstad, as both a "nuclear" general and an "international" general. His primary goal was to keep the Alliance together as he accommodated British and French nuclear ambitions while forestalling the same in West Germany. He...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 119 p. "Soft" Counterinsurgency reviews the promises and achievements of Human Terrain Teams, the small groups of social scientists that were eventually embedded in every combat brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Vij Books, 2019. — 491 p. Military forces have long been the arbiters of national security and continues to be at the vanguard of assuring the sovereignty and stability of a nation. This is an enduring fact. However, in the past few decades, the role of the military forces have undergone an evolutionary change and now spans a much broader spectrum of activities than ever...
Create Space Publishers, 2010. — 654 p. The chapters presented in this volume have demonstrated first, Chinese and PLA leaders have a strong sense of mission and concern for China’s security and well-being. Second, the PLA is committed to the transformation in military affairs with Chinese characteristics. Third, the PLA is eager to learn from the U.S. military to expand and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 264 p. Coups from Below represents the first major effort at studying coups carried out by the lumpen section or the subalterns of the armed forces of African states. No previous study has attempted to examine coup making by those in the bottom ranks of the military as a distinct pattern of intervention in African studies. Kandeh examines this...
New York; Abingdon: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group, 2002. — xiv, 158 p. — eISBN 9780203815144. This book establishes beyond doubt that China is building up manttme power in all its dimensions. The main units of its sea-going Navy are expanding in number, reach and military capacity. China's fishing and merchant fleet is now huge, and its leaders are developing the shore-side...
Routledge Group, 2007. — 193 p. — (Cass Military Studies). Sun Tzu and other classical Chinese strategic thinkers wrote in an era of social, economic and military revolution, and hoped to identify enduring principles of war and statecraft. The twenty-first century is a time of similarly revolutionary change, and this makes their ideas of particular relevance for today’s strategic...
Duke University Press, 2018. — 329 p. From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future. In Aerial Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 192 p. The tank is such a characteristic feature of modern warfare that its difficult to imagine a time when its presence wasn't felt on the battlefield in some form or another. Rolling Thunder, from eminent historian and author Philip Kaplan, traces the history of the vehicle from its developmental early days on the battlefields of the Great War, to...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 164 p. The Mesopotamia Campaign of World War I and Operation Iraqi Freedom of the Global War on Terrorism took place on the same geographic and human terrain. Though separated by nearly a century, a significant number of points of comparison are evident, particularly with regard to strategic and operational missteps. In both cases Western...
Brookings Institution Press, 2021. — 320 p. Exploring how the U.S. military can move beyond Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the U.S. military has been fighting incessantly in conflicts around the globe, but with inconclusive results. The legacy of this long involvement in war without end includes a military that is bitter and frustrated. The public...
Routledge, 1998. — 224 p. Organization for warfare has for millennia been one of humankind’s central activities. Indeed, our kinship-centered cooperative propensities, coupled with our effective use of verbal communication, offer better explanations of the military effectiveness of early human communities than those relying on theories of aggressiveness alone, or so Robert...
Ashgate, 2010. — 486 p. This research collection provides a comprehensive study of important strategic, cultural, ethical and philosophical aspects of modern warfare. It offers a refreshing analysis of key issues in modern warfare, not only in terms of the conduct of war and the wider complexities and ramifications of modern conflict, but also concepts of war, the crucial shifts...
St. Martin’s Press, 2017. — 304 p. From drones to satellites, missile defense systems to cyber warfare, Israel is leading the world when it comes to new technology being deployed on the modern battlefield. The Weapon Wizards shows how this tiny nation of 8 million learned to adapt to the changes in warfare and in the defense industry and become the new prototype of a 21st...
Potomac Books, 2012. — 243 p. Drawing on in-depth research and invaluable access to the Israeli defense establishment, including interviews with key decision makers, Israeli military correspondent Yaakov Katz and Israeli military historian Yoaz Hendel describe behind-the-scenes Israeli strategic military deliberations and intelligence analysis since the Second Lebanon War of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 308 p. The Maginot Line, the complex system of strong-points constructed between the world wars by the French to protect against attack from Germany, is one of the most famous, extensive and controversial defensive schemes in all military history. It stretched from Belgium to Switzerland, and from Switzerland to the Mediterranean, and it...
Vintage, 1994. — 510 p. The acclaimed author and preeminent military historian John Keegan examines centuries of human conflict. From primitive man in the bronze age to the end of the cold war in the twentieth century, Keegan shows how armed conflict has been a primary preoccupation throughout the history of civilization and how deeply rooted its practice has become in our...
Vintage, 2012. — 432 р. — ISBN: 9780307828576. The acclaimed author and preeminent military historian John Keegan examines centuries of human conflict. From primitive man in the bronze age to the end of the cold war in the twentieth century, Keegan shows how armed conflict has been a primary preoccupation throughout the history of civilization and how deeply rooted its practice...
Random House, 2011. — 384 p. The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Through portraits of four generals - archetypal hero Alexander the Great, anti-hero Wellington, the unheroic Ulysses S. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler - John Keegan propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricable linked with the...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 304 p. There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructive war is in both human and economic terms? Why do the efforts of aid organizations and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. — 340 p.
Warfare was a formative influence on the civilization and the social structures of the European middle ages. Its history in that period is in consequence of high significance alike for those who are interested in the mid- dle ages for themselves and for their legacy, and for those whose interest is in war and its place in the...
The History Press, 2013. — 192 p. More than 100,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953, of which just over 1,000 died, with a further 1000 being captured and held in atrocious conditions by the Chinese or Koreans. At least half of those captured died in prison camps. More than 70 per cent of those who fought were teenagers doing national service. They were...
The Collins Press, 2009. — 384 p. Dispossessed and oppressed for so long, it is no surprise many Irish ended up fighting in other people's wars. For many men a career as a soldier was the last hope for a better life and the great armies have always been a home to those on the bottom rungs of society. Courage and Conflict tells of extraordinary people and events,...
History Division Marine Corps University, 2006. — 354 p. This volume presents a collection of 47 articles describing different aspects of U.S. Marine Corps participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom during 2003. As with the previously published anthologies on the Spanish American, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars, our intent is to provide a general overview that will serve as an...
Routledge, 1998. — 268 p. In this new edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the author provides a comprehensive and well-documented survey of the evolution and growth of the remarkable military enterprise of the Roman army. Lawrence Keppie overcomes the traditional dichotomy between the historical view of the Republic and the archaeological approach to the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 232 p. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran's IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian Revolution, and how they have skilfully transformed Iran's defense doctrine to fight an irregular...
Abrams, 2022. — 192 p. A timely and searing account of the American war in Afghanistan. In Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of a combat-hardened parachute infantry regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division. A decade ago, the soldiers of Bravo Company deployed to...
Three Essays Collective, 2003. — 141 p. India s military, paramilitary, and the police constitute one of the largest security forces around the globe. Who constitutes these forces? What is the ethnic and religious background of these troops? Does the composition of these forces mirror the diversity of the Indian society? Have their composition undergone any change since...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 250 p. In this innovative theoretical book, Elizabeth Kier uses a cultural approach to take issue with the conventional wisdom that military organizations inherently prefer offensive doctrines. Kier argues instead that a military's culture affects its choices between offensive and defensive military doctrines. Drawing on organizational...
Pen & Sword Books, 2015. — 370 p. Napoleonic artillery can usually be divided into two types: field, or light artillery which was employed by the armies on campaign and in the field and siege, or heavy artillery, which was employed in siege operations and against opponents holding the fortresses against them. While field artillery consisted of calibers up to and including...
Manchester University Press, 2000. — 270 p. This book explores the ways in which armies and armed forces were involved in the making, the maintenance and the loss of overseas empire. The volume ranges widely in time and space. Besides chapters on the British Empire in Africa, Asia and Oceana, there are also essays on Algeria, the Dutch East Indies, the Germans in Africa and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 505 p. In 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 in the twenty-first century. Focusing on...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 359 p. Since 2001, Western forces have been involved in a series of major military campaigns, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan but also in Africa. For all the sophistication of the contemporary Western way of war with its digital technologies and precision weapons, infantry soldier have been frequently involved in close combat of an intensity...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 560 p. How do small groups of combat soldiers maintain their cohesion under fire? This question has long intrigued social scientists, military historians, and philosophers. Based on extensive research and drawing on graphic analysis of close quarter combat from the Somme to Sangin, the book puts forward a novel and challenging answer to this...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 326 p. As a result of new strategic threats, Europe's land forces are currently undergoing a historic transformation which may reflect wider processes of European integration. Europe's mass, mainly conscript armies are being replaced by smaller, more capable, professionalised militaries concentrated into new operational headquarters and rapid...
Routledge, 2006. — 209 p. — ISBN10: 0–415–36583–X This book is the first to explore comprehensively the rise of UK private military companies on the international stage. After illustrating early examples of private force, such as mercenary companies, which fi lled the ranks of European armies right up to the 1850s, Christopher Kinsey traces the development of UK private...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 400 p. When Hitler ordered the start of Operation Barbarossa, millions of German soldiers flooded into Russia, believing that their rapid blitzkrieg tactics would result in the an easy victory similar to the ones enjoyed by the Wehrmacht over Poland and France. But the huge human resources at the disposal of the Soviet Union, and the significant...
Routledge, 2003. — 224 p. This study analyzes the effectiveness of the U.S. military attaché corps in Latin America from the end of World War II to the President Johnson administration. This well-crafted and path-breaking study carefully reconstructs the roles played by U.S. military and naval attaches in America's relations with three Latin American nations experiencing coups...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 291 p. Foreign military intervention has had a profound impact on post-colonial African history and politics. Interventions have destabilized borderlands, overthrown governments, and taken a devastating toll on populations. Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering advance a new theoretical framework and combine quantitative, qualitative, and...
ABC-CLIO, 2011. — 410 p. This book pays tribute to the unrecognized warriors and unsung heroes of human warfare: millions of animals from a surprising variety of species, ranging from rodents to dolphins to llamas. When one thinks of war, armies of soldiers and assaults with bullets and bombs delivered by deadly machinery typically come to mind. Throughout human history,...
Center Street, 2021. — 128 p. An award-winning military journalist tells the amazing stories of twenty-five soldiers who've won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. In the Company of Heroes will feature in-depth narrative profiles of the twenty-five post-9/11 Medal of Honor awardees who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. This book will focus on the stories of...
London: Faber, 2010. — 306 p. Bunch of Five is General Sir Frank Kitson's military autobiography. In it this expert in counter insurgency describes his experiences in Kenya 1953-55, Malaya 1957, Muscat and Oman 1958, as well as his peacekeeping activities during two stints in Cyprus, 1963-64 and 1967-68. He wanted to write about Northern Ireland also but at the time of first...
Duke University Press, 2021. — 307 p. Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology. In these essays, public lectures, interviews, literary analyses, and autobiographical musings, Kittler outlines how war has been a central driver of media's evolution, from Prussia's wars against...
Pantheon Books, 1988. — 259 p. Nine essays examine the nature and future of the increasing involvement of the United States in counterinsurgency, proinsurgency, and antiterrorism campaigns conducted overtly and covertly under the Reagan administration's doctrine of 'low-intensity conflict.' Their analysis notes that a policy of low-intensity conflict represents a strategic...
Routledge, 2006. — 208 p. This new study considers military space strategy within the context of the land and naval strategies of the past. Explaining why and how strategists note the similarities of space operations to those of the air and naval forces, this book shows why many such strategies unintentionally lead to overemphasizing the importance of space-based offensive...
Bellona, 2021. — 197 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). W serii "Historyczne Bitwy" zazwyczaj prezentujemy bitwy i kampanie wojenne z mniej lub bardziej odległej przeszłości. Tym razem tematem tomu jest konflikt na wschodniej Ukrainie, który zaczął się siedem lat temu i trwa - częściowo zamrożony - do dziś. Wszystko zaczęło się w lutym 2014 roku, gdy pod wpływem protestu na kijowskim...
Routledge, 2021. — 170 p. This book examines the motivations of military interventions in civil wars, with a focus on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the arms trade. The book assumes a state-centric view of international relations, whereby states remain the dominant actors on the world stage. It breaks away from the conventional wisdom that military...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 288 p. In this gripping collection of first-hand accounts, Ian Knight presents the adventure of nineteenth-century warfare – from the thrill of the cavalry charges at Balaklava and Omdurman, to the terror of battle against an overwhelming odds such as Rorke’s Drift – in the words of the men actually there. These eyewitness accounts provide a vivid and...
Routledge, 2009. — 239 p. This book analyzes the way Israel has coped with nine wars of attrition from the 1950s to the recent Second Lebanon War (2006), questioning the belief that Western democracy cannot sustain prolonged wars of attrition. Challenging Israel with attrition has been compatible with the 'Arab way of war', which emphasizes staying power, and with the belief...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 190 p. — (History of Warfare 107). This book suggests a general framework for the analysis of formative factors in military thought and offers an account of the Israel Defense Force’s state of intellectualism and modernity. This account is followed by an attempt to trace the factors that have shaped Israeli military thought. The explanations...
University Press of Kansas, 1996. — 392 p. Beating Plowshares into Swords inaugurates an extraordinarily ambitious effort by Paul Koistinen to compose a comprehensive and wide-ranging study on the economics of American warfare from the colonial period to the present. When completed, this multi-volume project will stand as the definitive work on a complex subject that until now...
University Press of Kansas, 1997. — 405 p. Although the military-industrial complex became familiar to most Americans during the Cold War, Paul Koistinen shows that its origins actually go back to the dawn of this century. ""Mobilizing for Modern War"", the second of a five-volume study on the political economy of American warfare, highlights the emergence of this pivotal...
University Press of Kentucky, 2021. — 527 p. The military expert and author of Leadership presents “the most thoughtful analysis yet of America’s recent conflicts—and future challenges. Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in America’s favor, capacity-building efforts, and tactical victories, the wars in...
Brill, 2017. — 272 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 409; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 409). What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield? Were their tactics defined by unwritten moral rules, or was all considered fair in war? In Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History, Roel Konijnendijk re-examines the literary evidence...
Toruń : Dom Wydawniczy Duet, 2011. — 253 s. Praca ta obejmuje czasy panowania Stefana Batorego, jest to okres istotnych przemian zapoczątkowanych już za panowania dwóch ostatnich Jagiellonów, oraz prezentuje lata panowania Zygmunta III Wazy, i okres reform Władysława IV Wazy, czasy kiedy wojsko Rzeczypospolitej odnosiło swoje największe sukcesy.
Translated from Russian. О sovetskoy voyennoy nauke. Vtoroye, pererabotannoye i dopolnennoye izdaniye. Козлов Святослав, Смирнов Михаил, Базь Иван, Сидоров Петр. О советской военной науке. М.: Воениздат, 1964. This book will acquaint the reader with the fundamental questions of Soviet military science. In it there is a report on the history of nascence and development of...
U.S. Marine Corps History Division, 2012. — 52 p. The city of an-Najaf, Iraq, is a provincial and market center located on the western branch of the Euphrates River approximately 100 miles south of Baghdad. Its population (prewar) of 563,000 expands at times with pilgrims to this important center of Islamic scholarship and theology. It is the location of several significant...
Praeger Security Reference, 2007. — 216 p. America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a new, faceless enemy and the rules of war and the torture of POWs are open to reconsideration. Until very recently, there has been astonishingly little written...
University Press of Kansas, 2015. — 392 p. From 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 three centuries to reveal that the army's...
Georgetown University Press, 2019. — 244 p. Surrogate Warfare explores the emerging phenomenon of "surrogate warfare" in twenty-first century conflict. The popular notion of war is that it is fought en masse by the people of one side versus the other. But the reality today is that both state and non-state actors are increasingly looking to shift the burdens of war to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 309 p. Exploring volunteering as a characteristic of modern wars, this book examines why individuals go to war. It studies the motivations, social backgrounds and military experiences of war volunteers in a wide range of conflicts since the French Revolution, and helps to interpret the relationship between war and society in modern times.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 290 p. This book examines the U. S. Army’s presence in Germany after the Nazi regime’s capitulation in May 1945. This presence required the pursuit of two stated missions: to secure German borders, and to establish an occupation government within the assigned U.S. zone and sector of Berlin. Both missions required logistics support, a critical aspect...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 320 p. Marine general Victor "Brute" Krulak offers here a riveting insiders's chronicle of U.S. Marines - their fights on the battlefield and off, and their extraordinary esprit de corps. He not only takes a close look at the Marine experience during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam - wars in which Krulak was himself a participant - but also...
Praeger, 2014. — 334 p. This comprehensive volume traces the evolution of Japanese military history―from 300 AD to present day foreign relations―and reveals how the country's cultural views of power, violence, and politics helped shape Japan's long and turbulent history of war. • Compiles Japan's complete military history in one volume; • Reveals the strategic blunders and poor...
Harper Collins, 2022. — 280 p. Kulkarni's reminiscences of valour, heroism and courage on the Siachen glacier are like an action-packed thriller. The reader will find operational details, including many 'fog of war' situations, informative. Even more interesting are his stories of human nature in the battlefield. - Gen. V.P. Malik It is a very different war that Indian soldiers...
History Division United States Marine Corps, 2014. — 419 p. U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2001-1009: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography: presents a collection of 37 articles, interviews, and speeches describing many aspects of the Corp's participation in Operation Enduring Freedom from 2001 to 2009. This history Division publication is intended to serve as a general overview...
Brill, 2011. — 272 p. — (History of Warfare 67).
This book examines Byzantine attitudes towards warfare at a time of crisis when the empire ceased to be a first rate power in the Mediterranean. It investigates the correspondence between official rhetoric and propaganda, on the one hand, and military realities, on the other. It explores the military ethos of the late Byzantine...
Praeger, 2003. — 234 p. For more than 40 years, U.S. defense policy and the design of military capabilities were driven by the threat to national security posed by the Soviet Union and its allies. As the Soviet Union collapsed, analysts wondered what effect this dramatic change would have upon defense policy and the military capabilities designed to support it. Strangely...
Kangaroo Press Ltd.,1993. - 108p. Author's Note. Digging Up a War. The Inspiration. The Western Front. Where to Search. Today's Evidence of Yesterday's Battle. The Practice of War Archaeology. Battlefields in their 'Natural' State. Clues from Letters and Records. Bones and Poems of War. Digging Up Diggers. Illustrations. Images of War. Battle Debris. Military Memorabilia....
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 217 p. The 1982 Lebanon War, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee by the Israeli government, later known in Israel as the Lebanon War or the First Lebanon War, and known in Lebanon as "the invasion", began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) invaded southern Lebanon, after repeated attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 200 p. In May 2011, after a Mediterranean exercise to prove the Apache's ability to work shipborne, HMS Ocean and her embarked Apache attack helicopters from 656 Squadron, Army Air Corps were about to head home. But the civil war in Libya and the resulting NATO air campaign intervened. A few days later the author and his fellow Apache pilots were in...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 99 с. — ISBN: 1841763136
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Самый успешный тяжелый бомбардировщик ВВС Великобритании во Второй мировой войне, Авро Ланкастер сформировал костяк бомбардировочной авиации во время крупномасштабной кампании ночных бомбардировок против оккупированной Европы.
Vij Books India, 2012. — 434 p. Transformation should lie at the heart of our new approach to defense. The development of transformational capabilities, processes, and force structures should be given strategic focus to meet the principal challenges under our defense strategy. India is already ceased with the necessity of transformation albeit without any documented national...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 543 p. How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914—but shaped Britain’s success in the Second World War and beyond. Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett brought a new level of logic, advocacy, and intellectual precision to the development of strategy. Corbett skillfully...
University of North Texas Press, 2005. — 296 p. Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and academia. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both worlds by presenting the viewpoints of senior, eminent military historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the modern war being discussed. Editors Peter Lane and Ronald...
Kensington Publishing, 2012. — 320 p. More than five thousand blacks joined the rebel Americans in the war as soldiers, sailors, and marines; many more supported the rebellion as laborers. Their service went largely unrecognized and unrecorded. Few letters, journals, or other narratives by blacks about the Revolution exist because whites had denied most African Americans an...
Kensington, 2002. — 224 p. This compelling study by retired US Army Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning lists the hundred most influential military leaders—not by their victories, their combat prowess, or even their legacies, but by the lasting impact their lives had upon the world, the lives they affected, and the historical significance of their actions in war. Warriors from every...
Routledge, 2020. — 332 p. This book brings together a wide range of case studies to explore the experiences and significance of women warriors in Southeast Asian history from ancient to contemporary times. Using a number of sources, including royal chronicles, diaries, memoirs and interviews, the book discusses why women warriors were active in a domain traditionally preserved...
Burzaco, Ricardo Buenos Aires: Da Vinci, 1995. Editorial Da Vinci, 1995. Spanish Language Within a particular global geopolitical framework, the government (Argentine) General Juan Domingo Peron decides from 1946, hiring technicians and scientists abroad, especially German scientists to develop the aviation industry and nuclear research. Thus, in a few years, with the...
Vintage, 2017. — 208 p. An urgent, prescient, and expert look at how future technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead. Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous systems that can process information and strike violently...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 426 p. The 1999 conflict between India and Pakistan near the town of Kargil in contested Kashmir was the first military clash between two nuclear-armed powers since the 1969 Sino-Soviet war. Kargil was a landmark event not because of its duration or casualties, but because it contained a very real risk of nuclear escalation. Until the Kargil...
Casemate, 2015. — 375 p. While the past half-century has seen no diminution in the valor and fighting skill of the U.S. military and its allies, the fact remains that our wars have become more protracted, with decisive results more elusive. With only two exceptions―Panama and the Gulf War under the first President Bush―our campaigns have taken on the character of endless slogs...
Routledge, 2014. — 200 p. This book examines the United States military’s use of concepts from non-linear science, such as chaos and complexity theory, in its efforts to theorise information-age warfare. Over the past three decades, the US defence community has shown an increasing interest in learning lessons from the non-linear sciences. Theories, strategies, and doctrines of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. — 297 p. Political scientist James H. Lebovic establishes that the size, strength, flexibility, and adaptability of the U.S. military cannot ensure victory in asymmetrical conflicts. In The Limits of U.S. Military Capability, Lebovic shows how political and psychological factors trumped U.S. military superiority in Vietnam and Iraq, where...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 317 p. Partly on the strength of their apparent success in insurgencies such as Malaya and Northern Ireland, the British armed forces have long been perceived as world class, if not world-beating. However, their recent performance in Iraq and Afghanistan is widely seen as - at best -disappointing; under British control, Basra degenerated into a...
Potomac Books, 2016. — 315 p. Colonel Frank Wolford, the acclaimed Civil War colonel of the First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, is remembered today primarily for his unenviable reputation. Despite his stellar service record and widespread fame, Wolford ruined his reputation and his career over the question of emancipation and the enlistment of African Americans in the army....
Praeger Security International, 2008. — 408 p. From the introduction of gunpowder to the reigning era of nuclear weapons, military technological advances have been at the forefront of change. These changes in weaponry have influenced the outcome of many historical events and the downfall or success of major civilizations. All nations have sought to improve military technologies...
2nd Edition. — New York University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Ideas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few decades, a stronger focus has been placed on how societies conceptualize war, weapons, violence,...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 272 p. Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they lacked triumphant clarity, they are the focus of the...
Routledge, 2017. — 264 p. This book looks at the militaries of the late-Soviet and post-Soviet republics. Beginning with the end of the Soviet era, it recognises that the successor states did not spring from nowhere, but inherited a legacy that influenced all that followed. The book discusses how politicians control the instruments that are the manifestation of the state’s...
Washington: Brassey’s, 1999. — 296 p. Origins of the Modern Military Working Dog A Historical Perspective Early American Ideas The World War I Experience The Mercy Dogs 1914-1918 Fleet-footed Messengers Final Participant Stubby: American Mascot Hero Aftermath Between the Wars Starting from Scratch Another War and Still No Dogs The Volunteer Effort Establishment of War Dog...
ISEAS Publishing, 2010. — 238 p. This is the first study by a Western scholar of a significant facet of the history of the Second World War - Japanese-trained independence and volunteer armies as agents of revolution and modernization. At the time, the Japanese did not see that their military imprinting would affect a whole generation of political/military leadership of nations...
Routledge, 2019. — 200 p. This book discusses the existing literature on military doctrines in general, and offensive doctrines in particular, as well as on causes of their stagnation and sources of innovation. It provides the backdrop for an analytical historical review of Israel's offensive military doctrine.
Routledge, 2014. — 184 p. Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War had a traumatic effect on the Middle East and its implications were particularly serious for Israel, which felt obliged to reassess its strategic and military perspectives. This is an examination of the lessons that the Gulf War holds for Israel.
University Press of Kentucky, 1983. — 232 p. The apparently accelerating arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union and the precarious political conditions existing in many parts of the world have given rise to new anxiety about the possibility of military confrontation between the superpowers. Despite the fateful nature of the risk, we have little knowledge, as...
Da Capo Press, 1998. — 288 p. During the last century and a half, in fact, there has been no one in the British Army to surpass him for sheer professionalism or sustained success in the field: and that is why, in spite of all his weaknesses and limitations, he has every claim to be accepted, without cavil, as Wellington's heir.Wartime friction with American commanders has led...
Routledge, 2006. — 543 p. The American Culture of War presents a sweeping critical examination of every major American war since 1941: the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam, and the First and Second Persian Gulf Wars. As he carefully considers the cultural forces that surrounded each military engagement, Adrian Lewis offers an original and provocative look at the motives people...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 368 p. The goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue. Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged carnage, indecision, and stalemate. Taking...
Stanford University Press, 2022. — 575 p. An untold story that reshapes our understanding of Chinese and Tibetan history. From 1956 to 1962, devastating military conflicts took place in China's southwestern and northwestern regions. Official record at the time scarcely made mention of the campaign, and in the years since only lukewarm acknowledgment of the violence has...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 320 p. Western historians have long speculated about Chinese military intervention in the Vietnam War. It was not until recently, however, that newly available international archival materials, as well as documents from China, have indicated the true extent and level of Chinese participation in the conflict of Vietnam. For the first time in the...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 344 p. Between November 1950 and the end of fighting in June 1953, China launched six major offensives against UN forces in Korea. The most important of these began on April 22, 1951, and was the largest Communist military operation of the war. The UN forces put up a strong defense, prevented the capture of the South Korean capital of Seoul,...
Georgetown University Press, 2014. — 320 p. Peace settlements after civil wars frequently involve power sharing among the former opponents to attempt to fuse a new representative society. International mediators often recommend that these agreements also merge the competing armed groups into a single national army. The presumed merits of this strategy have become common wisdom...
Watkins Publishing, 2024. — 465 p. — ISBN 978-1-78678-845-0 Aimed at a self-development market, this timely and fresh take on that perennial bestseller the Art of War challenges us to see the text not as a tool for warfare but as a guide to inner harmony and personal fulfilment. Sun Tzu’s Art of War has been read mostly as a book of war strategies that teaches us how to beat...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 312 p. Russian Information Warfare: Assault on Democracies in the Cyber Wild West examines how Moscow tries to trample the very principles on which democracies are founded and what we can do to stop it. In particular, the book analyzes how the Russian government uses cyber operations, disinformation, protests, assassinations, coup d'états, and...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 296 p. Science and violence converge in modern warfare. While the finest minds of the twentieth century have improved human life, they have also produced human injury. They engineered radar, developed electronic computers, and helped mass produce penicillin all in the context of military mobilization. Scientists also developed chemical weapons,...
Granta Books, 2002. — 224 р. An unconventional history on aerial bombing, and the profound and terrible effects of its aftermath on the modern world. On November 1, 1911, Lieutenant Cavarotti leaned out of the cockpit of his delicate aircraft and, holding a Haasen hand grenade, began one of the most devastating military tactics of the 20th century: aerial bombing. This is but...
Brookings Institution Press, 2001. — 200 p. Arms control and missile defense are once again at the forefront of the American national security agenda. Not surprisingly, the debate has broken down along well-worn lines. Arms control advocates dismiss the idea of missile defense as a dangerous and costly folly. Missile defense advocates argue that the U.S. should move...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 320 p. From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, wars have defined the United States. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts, developing the strategies, weapons, doctrines, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee future victory. Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie...
Routledge, 2018. — 354 p. War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World presents a broad variety of interdisciplinary and social scientific perspectives on the causes, processes, cultural representations, and social consequences of the armed conflicts between and within nations and other politically organized communities. This book provides theoretical...
Leo Cooper, 1992. — 329 p. This history of the British Life Guards traces the regiment's story right to the end of its existence and its amalgamation with the Blues and Royals. The Life Guards grew from the four troops of Horse Guards (exclusively formed of gentlemen-troopers until the transformation of the last two remaining troops into Regiments of Life Guards in 1788) raised...
Routledge, 2017. — 252 p. This book examines the impact of foreign intervention in the course and nature of warfare in civil wars. Throughout history, foreign intervention in civil wars has been the rule rather than the exception. The involvement of outside powers can have a dramatic impact on the course and nature of internal conflicts. Despite this, there has been little...
University of North Carolina Press, 1996. — 455 p. Lomperis, a former army intelligence officer in Vietnam and currently an instructor in political science at West Point, places the war within the broader context of Communist insurgency against Western-supported regimes throughout the Cold War. Lomperis examines and compares the Chinese liberation struggle; civil wars in...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 288 p. For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component of security policy during the Cold War and, along with counterterrorism, has been the greatest security challenge after September 11, 2001. In The Soul of Armies, Austin Long compares and contrasts counterinsurgency operations during the Cold War and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 424 p. The American Military: A Narrative History presents a comprehensive introduction to more than four centuries of American military history. Presents a chronological account of American military history from clashes between militias and Native Americans to 21st-century operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Features personal vignettes to put a human...
McGraw-Hill, 1969. — 797 p. Prologue. The Gaza Raid (28 February 1955). Foremath (1948 to 28 February 1955). The Turning Point (28 February 1955 to 19 July 1956). A Common Enemy (1830 to 19 July 1956). The Lion and the Sphinx (1798 to 19 October 1954). Eden For and Against Nasser (1954 to 20 July 1956). Enter, The Bear (1237 a.d. to 19 July 1956). The Pistol (1820 to 16 May...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 242 p. The US military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan made use of private military and private security companies on an unprecedented scale. In this environment, actions and operations can greatly affect the efficacy of the US military - creating unintended diplomatic and tactical consequences. Lovewine combines an insider's perspective on the use...
Savas Beatie, 2010. — 312 p. Fallujah. Few names conjure up as many images of blood, sacrifice, and valor as does this ancient city in Al Anbar province forty miles west of Baghdad. This sprawling concrete jungle was the scene of two major U.S. combat operations in 2004. The first was Operation Vigilant Resolve, an aborted effort that April by U.S. Marines intent on punishing...
Universe Books, 2003. — 312 p. There is no single source that contains the detailed minute-by-minute description of Operation Desert Storm available in The Gulf War Chronicles. Richard S. Lowry, an accomplished military historian, went to great lengths to compile the most accurate information available about each battle, and even each encounter, of the first war with Iraq. The...
St. Martin’s Press, 2021. — 477 p. Just as U. S. soldiers and diplomats pulled out of Afghanistan, supposedly concluding their role and responsibility in the two-decade conflict, the country fell to the Taliban. In The Long War, award-winning BBC foreign correspondent David Loyn uncovers the political and military strategies―and failures―that prolonged America’s longest war....
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021. — 464 p. Just as U. S. soldiers and diplomats pulled out of Afghanistan, supposedly concluding their role and responsibility in the two-decade conflict, the country fell to the Taliban. In The Long War, award-winning BBC foreign correspondent David Loyn uncovers the political and military strategies―and failures―that prolonged America’s...
Ventura Publications». – 2000. – 74 с. Книга посвящена камуфляжу и обозначениям американских самолётов Spitfire. Издание богато иллюстрировано и содержит много иллюстраций, включая цветные рисунки самолетов и различных обозначений.
Editions du Rocher, 2013. — 408 p. Avec la conquête coloniale, les Afriques furent confrontées à la modernité européenne. À l'exception de l'échec italien en Éthiopie, les guerres y tournèrent toutes à l'avantage des colonisateurs, même si, ici ou là, des batailles retardatrices furent occasionnellement remportées par les Africains. Durant la période coloniale, l'Afrique connut...
Harper and Row Publishers, 1971. — 284 p. A guide to deciphering the vocabulary of modern warfare, "The Dictionary of Modern War" brings the knowledge of expert military analysts to the general reader in simple, accessible language. With over 1100 articles and entries, it includes: general military concepts weapons and weapon systems, military organizations military...
Harvard University Press, 2023. — 288 p. Why is Israel’s relatively small and low-budget military also the world’s most innovative, technologically and logistically? Edward Luttwak and Eitan Shamir look to the IDF’s unique structure: integrating army, air force, and navy in one service, under an officer class constantly refreshed by short tenures, the IDF is built for agility...
Simon and Schuster, 1985. — 326 p. Our outmoded military establishment is in need of drastic, fundamental reform. So argues the nation's most incisive military expert, Edward N. Luttwak.
Abt Books, 1983. — 411 p. The Israeli Army by Edward Luttwak is a dated book on the military history of the Israeli Army from its inception in 1948 through its participation in the October War of 1973 is covered in this book. Its utility to persons interested in light forces/airborne forces is found in its limited discussions of the development, training, equipment, force...
Basic Books, 2009. — 459 p. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the conduct of warfare. Drawing its examples from Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and America, John A. Lynn challenges the belief that technology has been the dominant influence on combat from ancient times to the present day. In...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 284 p. This is a biographical pairing of two of the greatest conquerors in human history, drawing its inspiration from Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Like Plutarch, the purpose of the pairing is not primarily historical. While Plutarch covers the history of each of the lives he chronicles, he also emphasizes questions of character and the larger lessons of...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 255 p. This is a biographical pairing of two of the greatest conquerors in human history, drawing its inspiration from Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Like Plutarch, the purpose of the pairing is not primarily historical. While Plutarch covers the history of each of the lives he chronicles, he also emphasizes questions of character and the larger lessons of...
Hamilton Books, 2016. — 140 p. The authors of this book are uniquely qualified to analyze the contemporary security landscape and promote necessary and pressing change. Each is a thought leader in his or her field. Four out of six authors are seasoned military professionals who share the view that the over-reliance on kinetic approaches over influence operations account for...
McFarland and Company, 2020. — 255 p. For more than seven decades, homing pigeons provided the U.S. military with its fastest most reliable means of communication. Originally bred for racing in the early 1800s, homing pigeons were later trained by pigeoneers to fly up to 60 mph for hundreds of miles, and served the United States for almost 75 years, through four wars on four...
Hurst, 2017. — 320 p. When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size and conventional military superiority. Yet in the years that followed Pakistan went on to lose decisively to India. It lost any...
New York: Gallery Books, 1986. — 191 p. Explores what it means to make and become a mercenary soldier; detailing the history of these soldiers of fortune from a variety of landscapes: Nepal, Germany, Britain, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, and America. Introduction: what is a mercenary? The French Foreign Legion Soldiers from Nepal Germany's multiracial SS Britain's "small wars"...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 288 p. In Margin of Victory Douglas Macgregor tells the riveting stories of five military battles of the twentieth century, each one a turning point in history. Beginning with the British Expeditionary force holding the line at the Battle of Mons in 1914 and concluding with the Battle of Easting in 1991 during Desert Storm, Margin of Victory...
Naval Institute Press, 2001. — 224 p. On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of "Cougar Squadron," the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq's Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the "73 Easting." Taken by surprise, the...
Kent State University Press, 2001. — 232 p. Fifty years after America’s involvement in the Korean War began, Richard E. Mack’s memories of his time spent on the front lines are still strong and clear. In Memoir of a Cold War Soldier, he recalls his service in front-line combat infantry units in Korea and Vietnam as rifle platoon leader, adviser, and battalion commander. His...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 320 p. Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has appeared in other times and places in very different forms – and has taken on a range of politics in doing so....
Manchester University Press, 1992. — 239 p. This collection of essays is concerned with the interactive culture of colonial warfare, with the representation of the military in popular media at home, the manner in which these images affected attitudes towards war itself and wider intellectual and institutional forces. Attempts to justify and understand war were naturally...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 311 p. The sacrifice of the "Glorious Glosters" in defense of the Imjin River line and the hilltop fights of Australian and Canadian battalions in the Kapyong Valley have achieved greater renown in those nations than any other military action since World War II. This book is the first to compare in depth what happened and why. Using official...
Stanford University Press, 2020. — 332 p. Learning the Lessons of Modern War uses the study of the recent past to illuminate the future. More specifically, it examines the lessons of recent wars as a way of understanding continuity and change in the character and conduct of war.The volume brings together contributions from a group of well-known scholars and practitioners from...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 304 p. This volume provides the first comprehensive history of the arms racing phenomenon in modern international politics, drawing both on theoretical approaches and on the latest historical research. Written by an international team of specialists, it is divided into four sections: before 1914; the inter-war years; the Cold War; and...
Collier Macmillan, 1983. — 397 p. A study of American militia and the National Guard traces the history of such regiments from the Revolutionary War to the present. A good book for those interested in the history of citizen soldiers in America, especially the National Guard. One of the most interesting aspects of this book is the description of the Guard's testy relationship...
Harper Collins India, 2012. — 468 p. The definitive account of the 1999 Kargil war - the strategy, the effects, the heroism - from the man in charge. In February 1999, Pakistani Army personnel, disguised as jehadi militants, infiltrated into mountainous Kargil and occupied key vantage points. Their intrusion triggered off a limited war between the world's newest nuclear states....
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 495 p. The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon ― but only after a stay of nearly two...
New York: Macmillan, 1979. — 216 p. Profiles the character and motivation of the American mercenary soldiers-adventurers, former Green Berets and other Vietnam-era soldiers, and ex-CIA agents--who sell their military experience and expertise. Who are the mercs? William Morgan: from intrigue to frogs David "Mickey" Marcus: a true hero The French Foreign Legion: a tradition of...
Pegasus Books, 2022. — 224 p. A distinguished military historian tells the dramatic story of six defining battles in world history. Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context—the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the centuries, whether fought with spears and swords or advanced technology, have much in common. Fighting is, after all,...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 224 p. While there is a vast amount of literature available on Iraqi operations, until now little has been written about the counterinsurgency and stabilization operations in Afghanistan. With this book, a Canadian military historian, who has observed field operations in Afghanistan since 2003, offers a clear view of what is happening in that...
University Press of Kentucky, 2017. — 987 p. As long as there have been wars, victors have written the prevailing histories of the world's conflicts. An army that loses―and especially one that is destroyed or disbanded―is often forgotten. Nevertheless, the experiences of defeated forces can provide important insights, lessons, and perspectives not always apparent to the winning...
Praeger, 2007. — 171 p. Transformation has become a buzz word in today's military, but what are its historical precursors—those large scale changes that were once called Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA)? Who has gotten it right, and who has not? The Department of Defense must learn from history. Most studies of innovation focus on the actions, choices, and problems faced...
I.B. Tauris, 2022. — 192 p. How did the Israeli military learn to cope with the ubiquity of media technologies that routinely document their power abuses? Why did they re-appropriate these to tighten their grip on Palestinian civilians? This book explains why a high-tech nation with advanced military technologies came to rely on the everyday media habits performed by soldiers...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 304 p. The climactic death-throes of Soviet Communism during the 1980s included a last-gasp attempt at strategic franchise expansion in Southern Africa. Channeled through Castro's Cuba, oil-rich Angolan armed forces (FAPLA) received billions of dollars of advanced weaponry including MiG 23 and Sukhoi fighter jets, SAM 8 missile systems and thousands...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 486 p. — ISBN10 1108485731. — ISBN13 978-1108485739. Culture has an enormous influence on military organizations and their success or failure in war. Cultural biases often result in unstated assumptions that have a deep impact on the making of strategy, operational planning, doctrinal creation, and the organization and training of armed...
Routledge, 2020. — 154 p. This volume aims to operationalize General John R. Galvin's call for a new military paradigm to fight the most prevalent form of conflict in the world today-insurgency. It contributes to the understanding needed to formulate and implement efforts in the contemporary international security arena.
U.S. Marine Corps FMFRP 12-18, Department of the Navy, Hadquarters United States Marine Corps, Washington, DC, 1989. — 128 p. What Is Guerrilla Warfare. The Relation of Guerrilla Hostilities to Regular Operations. Guerrilla Warfare in History. Can Victory Be Attained by Guerrilla Operations? Organization for Guerrilla Warfare. How Guerrilla Units Are Originally Formed. The Method...
Routledge, 2020. — 382 p. Why do reasonable people lead their nations into the tremendously destructive traps of international conflict? Why do nations then deepen their involvement and make it harder to escape from these traps? In Paradoxes of War, originally published in 1990, Zeev Maoz addresses these and other paradoxical questions about the war process. Using a unique...
Routledge, 2009. — 172 p. The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of the people in the Central Asian states from the early twentieth century until the present. This book is the first major, in-depth study of the military institutions in Central Asian states. It examines their hidden story, the...
Amber Books Ltd., 2013. — 265 p. — (Encyclopedia of Warfare Series). — ASIN B00HAS4TCA The Encyclopedia of Warfare Series is an authoritative compendium of almost five millennia of conflict, from the ancient world to the Arab Spring. Written in a style accessible to both the student and the general enthusiast, it reflects the latest thinking among military historians and will...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 342 p. The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of Hezbollah during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the early 1980s. He critically evaluates events including Israel's long...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 342 p. The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of Hezbollah during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the early 1980s. He critically evaluates events including Israel's long...
In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein ’t Hart assesses the success of
the Dutch in establishing their independence through their eighty years’ struggle
with Spain – one of the most remarkable achievements of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Other rebellions troubled the major powers of this epoch,
but none resulted in the establishment of an independent,...
Routledge, 2021. — 275 p. Perspectives on the American Way of War examines salient cases of American experience in irregular warfare, focusing upon the post-World War II era. This book asks why recent misfires have emerged in irregular warfare from an institutional, professional, and academic context which regularly produces evidence that there is in fact no lack of...
Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1999. — 83 p. — (History of Warfare). The History of Warfare series relates the story of conflict from earlist times to the present. Much more than a blow-by-blow account of wars, it explores all of the world’s major conflicts through the centuries. The series also deseribes the great commanders, key weapons, and decisive battles on lan, at...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 304 p. Through history armies of occupation and civil power have been repeatedly faced with the challenges of insurgency. US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has highlighted this form of conflict in the modern world. Armies, sometimes reluctantly, have had to adopt new doctrines and tactics to deal with the problems of insurgency and diverse...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 400 p. The Partition of British India in 1947 resulted in the establishment of the independent states of India and Pakistan and the end of the British Raj. The decision to divide British India along religious lines led to widespread upheaval and communal violence in the period leading up to and following the official day of independence, 15...
Faber and Faber, 1981. — 378 p. On 21 December 1972, soon after Salisbury's Rotary Club heard Ian Smith again pronounce that Rhodesia had the 'happiest Africans in the world', a communiqué from Security Force headquarters announced a guerrilla attack on a remote farm that signalled the beginning of the decisive phase of the war. Seven years later to the day the signing of the...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 288 p. This book presents a critical reflection on the major armed conflicts that occurred during the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. Conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria all involved the use of terrorism by one or more groups. Looking to the future, the book asks what this means for...
Routledge, 2020. — 200 p. Focusing on the views of security and military power adopted by elites in China, India, and Japan, this book points out that each of these states has been moving steadily toward military autonomy and away from dependence on major powers.
University of Minnesota Press, 2015. — 320 p. As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of environmental concerns, engaging in “climate change war games,” and preparing for the effects of climate change—from conflicts due to loss of food, water, and energy to the mass...
Mondadori, 1995. — 401 р. Da Maratona a Waterloo, da Canne al Little Big Horn, alcune grandi battaglie, per la peculiarità del momento storico, della situazione politica o semplicemente del luogo in cui sono avvenute, hanno sensibilmente modificato il corso della storia. L’approfondita analisi svolta in questo volume ci parla di avvenimenti bellici profondamente radicati nella...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 352 p. Since World War II, civil wars have replaced interstate wars as the most frequent and deadly form of armed conflict globally. How do we account for when and where civil wars are likely to occur, when and how they are likely to end, and whether or not they will recur? In this timely book, leading scholars guide us through what...
Duke University Press, 2015. — 320 p. Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption, which he characterizes as the operative logic of our time....
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 334 p. General Douglas MacArthur’s storied career is inextricably linked to Asia. His father, Arthur, served as Military Governor of the Philippines while Douglas was a student at West Point, and the younger MacArthur would serve several tours of duty in that country over the next four decades, becoming friends with several influential...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022. — 197 p. War is changing. The cybersphere, civil society, outer space all are emerging as domains in which battles are fought. What drives this shift? How is it affecting the character and conduct of war? What are the implications for military strategy? As they address these fundamental questions, Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha show how...
Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press,US Army Combined Arms Center, 2011. — 77 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9841901-9-5 Over the course of the last eight years, a plethora of new primary research material related to the Soviet war in Afghanistan has emerged. With Lester W. Grau and Michael A Gress’s important translation and editing of the Russian General Staff history, titled...
Amber Books, 2020. — 304 p. 'The Armed Forces Security Agency responsible for ranking current threats listed Korea fifth as an area of potential danger, behind Indochina and other countries.' So admitted US military analysts the day North Korean communist forces crossed the partition line and invaded South Korea. By 28 June 1950, Seoul had been captured by the North Korean...
Random House, 2000. — 394 p. This is one of those rare books that puts an entirely new light on a chapter of history, and it must be read by anyone concerned with international affairs. Although cool and scholarly it unrolls like a fascinating thriller. It is an important work of revisionist history and a gruesome study of the way in which wars start, superbly documented...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 365 p. What makes a war just? What makes a specific weapon, strategy, or decision in war just? The tradition of Just War Theory has provided answers to these questions since at least 400 CE yet each shift in the weapons and strategies of war poses significant challenges to Just War Theory. This book assembles renowned scholars from around the...
Chartwell books, 1976. — 255 p. — ISBN-10 0725403322, ISBN-13 978-0890090817 The story of the Japanese War Machine is the tragic and noble history of a gallant people led into a misguided war. The millons who suffered in Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the Japanese War Machine bear silent tribute to its folly.
Lyons Press, 2017. — 272 p. American Guerrillas is a compelling narrative history of how Americans have fought unconventional warfare from the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution through the anti-insurgent campaigns of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A timely volume, the author provides the reader with a concise and engaging story of how the American approach to...
Routledge, 2019. — 221 p. Desert Storm aims to examine the lessons of the Gulf War from a high-level, strategic defense perspective. It opens up an informed debate concerning the true military and geopolitical lessons of the Middle East's conflict.
Solihull: Helion & Company, 2015. — 287 p. Peter McAleese needs little introduction... His classic book "No Mean Soldier" was an immediate bestseller and set the bar for the modern military memoir. Few have since met its match. This completely revised and expanded edition sees a philosophical McAleese revisiting his time with Britain's Parachute Regiment, the SAS, Rhodesia's...
Simon & Schuster, 2014. — 364 p. — ISBN 978-1-4767-5967-8. As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and a long-time student of history, John McCain brings a distinctive perspective to this subject. Thirteen Soldiers tells the stories of real soldiers who personify valor, obedience, enterprise, and love. You’ll meet Joseph Plumb Martin, who at the...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 288 p. A history of the Israeli Air Force, featuring photographs of aircrafts past and present. The Israeli Air Force has seen involvement in some of the most dramatic and important conflicts of post–World War II history. In action during the Suez crisis, decisive during the Six-Day War, and on call during the Gulf War, the Israeli Air Force...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 424 p. This is the true story of 21 young men desperately trying to survive the most brutal leadership course of modern times. A throw back to the Highland Fieldcraft Training Center, the revolutionary brain child of Lord Rowallan during the Second World War, this fascinating insight explains the extraordinary lengths Sandhurst goes to in pursuit...
London: Faber & Faber, 1966. — 349 p. Lt Col John J McCuen’s 1966 book was allegedly the bases of South Africa’s “Total Strategy”, the apartheid government’s scheme to fight a so-called “Total Onslaught”. If so, it certainly was a good guide on the subject, though the reviewer is not qualified to say to what extent the former establishment stuck to the script or ad libbed....
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1998. — 74 p. — ISBN: 0897473930. Reflecting the P-47's use by the 8th, 9th, 12th and 15th Air Forces and misc. Allied units, McDowell's book offers an operator-by-operator summary of the Jug-equipped fighter groups in each. The 12th AF listing, for example, includes the 27th, 57th 79th, 86th, 324th and 350th FGs. The accompanying group histories,...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1999. — 66 p. — ISBN: 0897473981. P-47s were flown by fighter groups in the 5th, 7th, 10th, 14th and 20th Air Forces as well as the RAF, Mexican Air Force, etc. Twentieth AF fighter groups included the 413th, 414th and 507th FGs, each group's combat exploits - and markings - being summarized in a 1/2- to full-page history. Naturally there's photos...
Routledge, 2010. — 452 p. The Korean War is the most comprehensive and detailed bibliography compiled to date on the American involvement in "The Forgotten War." In this revised and expanded second edition, Keith D. McFarland’s clearly written annotations provide concise descriptions of more than 2,600 of the most important books, articles, and documents written in English on...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 452 p. The Modern Mercenary Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order by Sean McFate is the go-to reference guide for private armies. It is a most useful handbook for the history and capabilities of private military units. It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 452 p. The Modern Mercenary Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order by Sean McFate is the go-to reference guide for private armies. It is a most useful handbook for the history and capabilities of private military units. It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 452 p. The Modern Mercenary Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order by Sean McFate is the go-to reference guide for private armies. It is a most useful handbook for the history and capabilities of private military units. It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 452 p. The Modern Mercenary Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order by Sean McFate is the go-to reference guide for private armies. It is a most useful handbook for the history and capabilities of private military units. It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from...
National Defense University Press, 2019. — 61 p. When people think of private military contractors, they imagine Blackwater Security Consulting in Iraq circa 2007. However, the market for force has moved on. Firms like Blackwater are quaint compared to the Wagner Group and other contemporary mercenaries. Curiously, this trend is overlooked by scholars, the mainstream media, and...
William Morrow, 2019. — 336 p. The New Rules of Waris an urgent, fascinating exploration of war—past, present and future—and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne veteran, former private military contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University. War is timeless. Some things change—weapons, tactics, technology, leadership,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 472 p. This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together into one coherent volume a range of international authors, who firmly establish the relevance of war within the discipline of criminology. The chapters address emerging and prevailing issues in the criminological study of war, including state crime, corporate crime, victimology, genocide,...
Arcadia Publishing, 2014. — 144 p. No city is as proud of its military heritage as San Diego, known as "Navy Town, USA." Congress also has designated San Diego as "the Birthplace of Naval Aviation." However, its community fabric reflects a more diverse and tightly woven relationship with our nation's defense. Over the past century, the city has invented and then reinvented...
First published in 1988 by Unwin Hyman, Ltd. — Routledge, 2021. — 255 p. The twentieth century was dominated by war and by preparations for war in a way that is unparalleled in history. Originally published in 1988, this textbook highlights key themes of warfare throughout the world and emphasizes the gulf between the theory of war and its practice. The contributors are...
Routledge, 2021. — 221 p. This book, first published in 1990, is an incisive examination of NATO's strategy for the defence of the central front - the concern that has lain at the heart of NATO since its formation. Politically, the central front marked the post-war division of Europe into two competing blocs; militarily, it has represented the area of greatest force...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 270 p. Theodore McLauchlin's Desertion examines the personal and political factors behind soldiers' choices to stay in their unit or abandon their cause. He explores what might spur widespread desertion in a given group, how some armed groups manage to keep their soldiers fighting over long periods, and how committed soldiers are to their...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 208 p. — ISBN10 1473860733; ISBN13 978-1473860735. Fifty years on, this superb and exciting book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of UDI by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. There are vivid accounts of the operations against...
Pegasus, 2009. — 384 p. From a gladiator to a renegade Conquistador to England's greatest warrior-king—six men who changed the course of history. In the history of warfare, an elite group of men have attained legendary status through their courage, ambition, and unrivaled military genius. But many of these same men possessed deep personal character flaws. In Heroes and Villains...
Harper, 2020. — 560 p. — ISBN-10 0063056232; ISBN-13 978-0062899460. Now with new text from McMaster addressing the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol and recommending how citizens across the free world can work together to restore confidence in democratic institutions and processes From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, U.S. Army, ret., the former National Security Advisor and...
New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2005. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0-7607-7090-1. В книге рассматриваются 70 величайших поражений и катастроф в военной истории человечества: от древних сражений под Кадешом и Марафоном, до самых последних военных операций в Сомали и Ираке. Книга включает в себя подробный анализ событий, приведших к каждой катастрофе и его губительные последствия.
Silverdale books, 2003. — 264 p. The invasion of Poland, the Fall of France, the Battle of Britain, the North Africa campaign, the siege of Stalingrad, Pearl Harbor, Midway,New Guinea, Guadalcanal, the Russian offensive at Kursk, Normandy, the Ardennes offensive, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. These and dozens more campaigns of World War II are chronicled with concise...
Sirius, 2021. — 255 p. This lavishly illustrated full-color hardback explores the dark but compelling story of warfare, from its emergence in prehistoric tribal disputes, through great imperial and global wars, to present-day counter-insurgency and 'hybrid' conflicts. Two factors sit at the heart of this story: technology - including weapons, vehicle systems and vehicles - and...
TAMU Press, 1994. — 232 p. Why is war, with all its terror and destruction, so seemingly attractive to humankind? The Antique Drums of War provides a deeply thoughtful and provocative consideration of the sources of war: in archaic instincts, social ritual, animal behavior and evolutionary logic, mythmaking, and psychology. It traces the continuity of such aspects of war as...
Helion and Company, 2011. — 82 p. Battle for Cassinga is written as a firsthand account by an ordinary South African paratrooper who was at the 1978 assault on the Angolan headquarters of PLAN, the armed wing of SWAPO. The book relates why the South African government took the political risk in attacking the fortress in an external operation and examines the SWAPO claims that...
U.S. Marine Corps History Division, 2014. — 88 p. This is a study of the Second Battle of Fallujah, also known as Operation Al-Fajr and Operation Phantom Fury. Over the course of November and December 2004, the I Marine Expeditionary Force conducted a grueling campaign to clear the city of Fallujah of insurgents and end its use as a base for the anti-coalition insurgency in...
Pen and Sword Books, 2010. — 298 p. Sam Elworthy's career was remarkable by any standards. Born in New Zealand in 1911 and educated in England, he was called to the Bar. After learning to learning to fly he joined the RAAF. During the Second World War he won the DFC, DSO and AFC and, after commanding 82 Squadron, worked closely with 'Bomber' Harris and General Eisenhower. He...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 398 p. This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events of America’s major armed conflicts, offering...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 379 p. This second part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the Spanish-American War to the Vietnam War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events of America’s major armed conflicts, offering...
Air University Press, 1997. — 672 p. Airpower is not widely understood. Even though it has come to play an increasingly important role in both peace and war, the basic concepts that define and govern airpower remain obscure to many people, even to professional military officers. This fact is largely due to fundamental differences of opinion as to whether or not the aircraft has...
Casemate Academic, 2021. — 336 p. This academic book looks at the conflicts involving Rhodesia, South Africa and Portugal in conflict with the so-called Frontline states. From the 1960s through 1970s there were a series of conflicts in Africa involving Rhodesia, South Africa, and Portugal in conflict with the so-called Frontline States. There was an international element with...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. — 335 pgs. In a comprehensive institutional and operational history of the Imperial Russian Army during the crucial period of its modernization, Bruce W. Menning surveys the development of organization, doctrine, and strategy from the aftermath of Russia's defeat in the Crimean War through the wars against Turkey in 1877-1878 and...
Routledge, 2001. — 984 p. This book contains some 600 entries on a range of topics from ancient Chinese warfare to late 20th-century intervention operations. Designed for a wide variety of users, it encompasses general reviews of aspects of military organization and science, as well as specific wars and conflicts. The book examines naval and air warfare, as well as significant...
Potomac Books, 2008. — 288 p. Today the U.S. military is more nimble, mobile, and focused on rapid responses against smaller powers than ever before. One could argue that the Gulf War and the postwar standoff with Saddam Hussein hastened needed military transformation and strategic reassessments in the post–Cold War era. But the preoccupation with Iraq also mired the United...
Columbia University Press, 2012. — 177 p. Master Sun's The Art of War is by no means the only ancient Chinese treatise on military affairs. One chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century BCE, synthesizes the entire corpus of military literature inherited from the Chinese classical era. Drawing on all major,...
University of North Texas Press, 2000. — 183 p. Hanging Sam chronicles the life of Lt. General Samuel T. “Hanging Sam” Williams, who, after being relieved of his duties as Assistant Division Commander of the 90th Infantry Division and demoted from the rank of brigadier general following the 1944 Normandy invasion, persevered to recover not only his lost star but two additional...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 112 p. Volume 4 of Air Power and the Arab World continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab world. The earliest of the Arab air forces to be established trace their histories back to the 1920s and 1930s when the overwhelming majority of Arab countries, and an even larger majority of the...
Routledge, 2014. — 286 p. First published in 1988, this historical and quantitative analysis of war defines systemic world wars as conflicts of wide scope and intensity, which leave profound historical legacies in their wake. Manus Midlarsky examines various possible explanations for the onset of such past wars as the Peloponnesian War, the Thirty Years’ War, and World Wars I...
U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service, 1942. — 50 p. This book, originally published in 1942 by the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service, contains information based on German and British reports explaining German survival and adaptation to the desert. Desert operations have much in common with operations in the other parts of the world. The unique aspects of desert...
Zenith Press, 2003. — 128 p. — ISBN-10 0760315922, ISBN-13 978-0760315927 Nothing has dominated the headlines and news bulletins to rival the impending war with Iraq. As politicians anticipate and pave the way for military action, readers are constantly reminded of the horrors that could be perpetrated by Saddam Hussain's weapons of mass destruction (WMD). As thousands of...
Greenhill Books, 1998. — 112 p. — ISBN-10 1853672998, ISBN-13 978-1853672996 A collection of fifty accounts of the battles that changed the course of World War II, from Dunkirk to The Battle of Britain, includes background facts, commentary, quotes from the major participants, and more than two hundred color and duotone photographs.
St. Martin's Press, 2000. — 136 p. This exciting book, written by an acknowledged expert in the field, presents a detailed historical account of two of the most respected and fearsome groups of fighting men in history: the samurai and the ninja. The book pinpoints the cultural origins of these warriors, tracing their development and placing them in their historical and...
Thomas Dunne Books, 1999. — 480 p. From 1949 to 1991 the terrible potential of the Cold War loomed over the United States, the Soviet Union, and by extension, the rest of the world. The seeming-certainty of global nuclear conflict defined and articulated the cultural, political, and in particular, the military evolution of both nations. The Cold War provoked an unprecedented...
Enigma Books, 2014. — 208 p. The Indochina and Vietnam Wars followed one another over thirty-five years, from 1940 to 1975, yet these two closely related conflicts are usually treated separately. This book seeks to tell the story of those wars as a single historical event. Within days of France's defeat by Nazi Germany and Japan's military expansion into Southeast Asia in July...
Office of the Chief of Military History, 1987. — 514 p. This account of the Army Service Forces in World War II had its origin in the general effort of the Federal Government to record wartime administrative experiences. On 4 March 1942 President Roosevelt wrote to the director of the Bureau of the Budget expressing his interest in the steps taken to keep a "current record of...
ABC-CLIO, 2019. — 320 p. Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues tells the captivating stories of dozens of escapes and rescues from conflicts dating from the 16th century to present, with extensive coverage of the world wars of the 20th century and the Vietnam War. In addition, escapes and rescues related to terrorist activities and regional conflicts are featured. Some stories of...
Pen and Sword, 1994. — 185 p. The brevity of the ground war in the Gulf is well known, just 100 hours. By the end of the war, press reports of the massive numbers of Iraqi prisoners taken, and equipment destroyed, compared to our own losses, suggested that it was a walkover. In hindsight it would seem so; however, the experts', not to mention the media's, estimates of the...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 152 p. Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Is religion a force for war, or a force for peace? Some of the most terrible wars in history have been caused and motivated by religion. Much of the violence that fills our screens today springs from the same source. Yet some of the bravest pacifists have also been deeply religious...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 237 p. The Armed Forces of North Korea: On the Path of Songun seeks to bring order and coherence to the chaotic state of affairs in the intelligence community of North Korea-watchers, as well as to disprove the much-echoed stance that there is little to fear from the DPRK by providing information on a plethora of never-before described weapons...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 228 p. During a dark period of U.S. military history in the late 1960s, North Korean forces captured an American naval vessel and shot down an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, taking the lives of thirty-one U.S. sailors and Marines and striking a damaging blow to American honor. This look back to that earlier time of crisis provides serious food...
Scribner, 1980. — 160 p. — ISBN-10 0684167026 ISBN-13 978-0684167022 USAAF at war in the Pacific» — это книга авторов Дэвида Мондейя и Льюиса Наллса. Она является частью серии «At War». Книга была выпущена в январе 1980 года издательством Scribner. В книге описывается военная авиация США и ее участие в Тихоокеанском театре действий во второй мировой войне
Montagu J.D. reenhill Books, 2006. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1853676853. — ISBN13: 978-1853676857 Greek and Roman Warfare: Battles, Tactics and Trickery is a uniquely detailed work which explores the tactics and battle strategies of the Graeco-Roman period. This incisive study goes beyond the arms and armour to reveal the psychology behind history's most emblematic battles. The...
Armoured Tracked Vehicles, Armoured Wheeled Vehicles, Tractors, Transporters, "B"-vehicles, Trailers. — Branch of the QMG Canadian Military Headquarters, December 1944. — 209 p. Справочник транспортных средств армии Канады периода Второй Мировой войны, содержащий краткие характеристики гусеничной бронетехники, бронированных колесных машин, тракторов, транспортеров, прицепов,...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 370 p. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has attracted the attention of countless historians over the last 70 years but, despite this coverage, views of his character remain controversial and contradictory. His younger brother Brian, himself a successful soldier, enters the fray with this charming and revealing book examining the background of...
Pen and Sword Books, 2008. — 255 p. A military history of the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia—now Zimbabwe—spanning from 1890 to the 1970s. In this exciting book, authors Paul Moorcroft and Peter McLaughlin examine the military history of Southern Rhodesia, from the first resistance to colonial rule through the period of UDI by the Smith government to the Lancaster...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 487 p. The end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were weakened by the cost of war and a string of wars challenged colonial rule in countries such as Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia. Once independence was achieved, civil wars between rival factions...
Magnum Books, 2017. — 228 p. Hal Moore led his life by a set of principles – a code developed through years of experience, trial-and-error, and the study of leaders of every stripe. In a career spanning more than thirty years, Moore’s life touched upon many historical events: the Occupation of Japan, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the refashioning of the US Army into an...
Independent Institute Press, 2008. — 192 p. Considering the historical background of space militarization and providing an overview of the United States' efforts to militarily dominate space since the dawn of the space age, this book argues that America must either ensure that space-related weapons are verifiably banned for all nations through an international treaty or...
Ballantine Books, 2009. — 336 p. In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War's biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine...
Pen&Sword Books, 2024. — 256 p. This book delves into the controversial actions of British prisoners of war during World War II, exploring cases of alleged betrayal, collaboration, and espionage. During the Second World War over 200,000 British prisoners of war were detained by the Third Reich. A large proportion of these PoWs were members of the Royal Air Force, or airmen who...
Random House Publishing, 2021. — 634 p. Of the many battlefields on which US troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 450 p. This book looks at the development of Israeli-Arab relations during the formative years 1949 to 1956, focusing on Arab infiltration into Israel and Israeli retaliation. Palestinian refugee raiding and cross-border attacks by Egyptian-controlled irregulars and commandos were a core phenomenon during this period and one of the chief causes...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 320 p. Japan's post-war armed forces are a paradox, both embarrassing remnants of the past and valuable repositories of experience. This book charts the development of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) from 1954 as both unorthodox military institutions and servants of a civil society that decries militarism. Investigating JSDF contributions...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. — 192 p. On the 29th of June 2014 ISIS declared the establishment of a caliphate stretching across territories in Iraq and Syria. In response, Operation Inherent Resolve, a US-led 77 nation coalition, was launched to respond to the threat of Islamic State. The West's War Against Islamic State offers the first history of Operation Inherent Resolve...
McFarland, 2022. — 259 p. During two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, U.S. service members confronted numerous challenges in their mission to secure the country from the threat of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and assist in rebuilding efforts. Because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan occurred simultaneously, much of the American public conflated them or failed to notice the...
RAND Corporation, 2012. — 202 p. The U.S. Marine Corps, which has long recognized the importance of influencing the civilian population in a counterinsurgency environment, requested an evaluation of the effectiveness of the psychological operations element of U.S. military information operations in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2010 based on how well messages and themes were...
Greenwood, 2009. — 225 p. By definition, the unforeseeable cannot be seen, but one way to bring more variables under consideration when planning a military action is to review those instances where the unforeseeable changed everything. For professionals and enthusiasts alike, Imponderable But Not Inevitable: Warfare in the 20th Century does just that, reviewing specific...
Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2011. — 648 p. Many books have been written about Singapore's much vaunted position as a crucial maritime centre along the East-West trading route, but one aspect of its history—the military perspective—has, for the most part, escaped serious scholarly attention. Between Two Oceans plugs this historical gap. Drawing on an impressive range of...
Routledge, 1993. — 357 p. This book juxtaposes Australian understandings of Vietnam with a description of colonial and postcolonial history that establishes the dynamics of revolutionary warfare in Phuoc Tuy. It evaluates the Australian army's 'counter-revolutionary warfare' strategy developed from Cold War prescriptions.
Cambridge: CUP, 2006. - 299 p. Military history and the history of war. The influence of history on the military profession. The relevance of history to the military profession: a British view. The relevance of history to the military profession: an American Marine’s view. post–world war ii professional military education. an early interest in military history. finding a wider...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 409 p. The Iran-Iraq War is one of the largest, yet least documented conflicts in the history of the Middle East. Drawing from an extensive cache of captured Iraqi government records, this book is the first comprehensive military and strategic account of the war through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 408 p. The Iran-Iraq War is one of the largest, yet least documented conflicts in the history of the Middle East. Drawing from an extensive cache of captured Iraqi government records, this book is the first comprehensive military and strategic account of the war through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders. It...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 255 p. This is the true story of a young guerrilla commander brought up in a Christian family in Rhodesia, a former colony of Britain. Exposed to the excesses of a colonial regime where race and racism determined one’s status in society, and influenced by the radical anti-racial views of his parents and later of fellow students and work mates, his...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 248 p. Humankind has always sought out innovative and new ways of waging war, establishing new forms of warfare. Set against a background of global strategic instability this process of innovation has, over the last two decades, produced a new and complex phenomenon, hybrid warfare. Distinct from other forms of modern warfare in several key aspects, it...
Routledge, 2009. — 220 p. This volume analyzes the successes and failures of foreign interventions in intrastate ethnic wars. Adding value to current research in the fields of international security and conflict resolution, it adopts the unique approach of considering successes of third party actions not by durable peace established in a target country (which is the more...
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1862. — 482 p. Биографические материалы об английском адмирале Нэпире, участнике наполеоновских войн и командующем Балтийской эскадрой в Крымскую войну. На английском языке.
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1862. - 454 p. Биографические материалы об английском адмирале Нэпире, участнике наполеоновских войн и командующем Балтийской эскадрой в Крымскую войну. На английском языке.
Rand, 2002. — 172 p. An examination of the 1999 conflict in Kosovo, with a focus on joint military operations.The 1999 military operation against the Yugoslav Army in Kosovo suggests several areas in which Joint military operations were deficient. This study examined all aspects of the Kosovo conflict,including its political and historical underpinnings, in an attempt to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 434 p. The combatants in the three Vietnam wars from 1945 to 1975 employed widely contrasting supply methods. This fascinating book reveals that basic traditional techniques proved superior to expensive state of the art systems. During the Indochina or ‘French’ war, France’s initial use of wheeled transport and finally air supply proved...
Leiden: Brill, 2011. — 285 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 68). These essays honor Dennis Showalter, a pioneer in the field of military history and a mentor to an entire generation of scholars. The essays themselves are written by some of the best-known and most highly-respected scholars in the field. They span the globe and cover a wide range of military history topics from...
Routledge, 2021. — 285 p. To understand the Chinese military, and thereby the dynamics of China’s peacetime army, one must understand its organizational system. To that end, Harvey Nelsen has written a book that examines in detail the entire organization of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Dr. Nelsen studies the PLA from top to bottom. Throughout, he challenges the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 216 p. In this highly unusual role for a lawyer, the author found himself in 1998 having to learn on his feet at a frightening pace as the newly promoted senior legal advisor to the charismatic General Sir Mike Jackson, the commander who led the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps into strife-torn Kosovo the following year to restore some sort of...
Westholme Publishing, 2021. — 328 p. While it is in the eastern United States where most Americans identify our military history, the vast, resource-rich Pacific Northwest, stretching from Northern California through British Columbia, endured a series of battles and wars over the course of the nineteenth century that were of regional and national importance. It was here where...
Arms & Armour; First Edition, 1996. — 432 p. — ISBN-10 1854093495, ISBN-13 978-1854093493 An omnibus edition comprising "Celtic Warriors", "Barbarians" and "Medieval Warlords", this book offers an introduction to ancient and medieval military history. It features characters such as Vlad Dracula, Owen of Wales and warriors from the Greeks, the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans,...
Blandford Pr., 1990. — 160 p. — ISBN-10 0713719656, ISBN-13 978-0713719659 Surveys the history of female military leadership in ancient and medieval warfare.
Thunder Bay Press, 2008. — 320 p. — ISBN 1592238254, 9781592238255 For centuries battles took place on the land and the sea; with the advent of flying machines, war found a new front -- the skies. First taking place in 1911, air warfare revolutionized the art and science of war forever. Air Warfare is a comprehensive history of airborne combat, from pre-WWI skirmishes to...
Routledge, 2014. — 406 p. This comprehensive new Handbook explores the significance and nature of armed intrastate conflict and civil war in the modern world. Civil wars and intrastate conflict represent the principal form of organised violence since the end of World War II, and certainly in the contemporary era. These conflicts have a huge impact and drive major political...
Routledge, 2014. — 217 p. This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective. Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests that these conflicts reflect and are also a driving force for major societal...
Book Baby, 2011. — 812 p. This biography, a reader would notice at the outset, was not written by a historian, an investigative reporter, or a professional biographer. It originates instead from the pen of a younger sibling seeking to resolve the mystery surrounding his brother's untimely death. This legitimate curiosity has evolved into a collection of articles depicting...
Montvert Publications, 1996. — 74 pages. In about 226 AD the strong and fearsome grandson of the Persian leader Sassan overthrew and killed the last of the Parthian Arsacids and proclaimed himself Ardashir I, Emperor of Iran. So began the renowned Sassanid line which was to last, despite wars against invading Huns and the Romano-Byzantines, until the mid-7th century when the...
Axis Europa Books, 1998. — 312 p. Oversized book, with color dust jacket, including dozens of detailed battle maps, excruciatingly researched and organized orders of battle, on the history of the Hungarian Armed Forces from 1920-1945. Has sections on Hungarian military operation (even the invasion of Yugoslavia). If you are interested in the details and nitty gritty of the...
Texas University Press, 1995. — 240 p. The French Indo-China War of 1946-1954 was one of the longest and bloodiest conflicts of the twentieth century. The French had attempted to reinstate their colonial rule over the region after World War II, but by 1953 it was obvious that they were slowly losing the war to the Viet-Minh, supported by Communist China. In late 1953 the French...
Routledge, 2015. — 257 p. This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in multinational operations in the 21st century. Expanding on Rupert Smith's The Utility of Force, the volume assesses the changing parameters within which force as a political instrument is ultimately carried out. By analysing nine carefully selected mission types, the volume presents a...
PSI Books, 2007. — 212 p. From Chechnya in Russia to Kashmir in India to the Basque region in Spain, secessionist movements remain a serious threat to international security. Despite the importance of this issue, the causes that bring about external military intervention in a secessionist war have not, until now, been adequately addressed. In this book, Dos Santos identifies...
The History Press, 2012. — 208 p. Military drummers have played a crucial role in warfare throughout history. Soldiers marched to battle to the sound of the drums and used the beat to regulate the loading and re-loading of their weapons during the battle. Drummers wre also used to raise morale during the fight. This is the first work to chart the rise of drums in military use...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2009. — 255 p. — ISBN 978-1602397088. Pirates, warlords, guerillas, criminal organizations, drug cartels, apocalyptic religious extremists, police agencies, terrorists: these are classic insurgents whose past, present, and future is dissected in this important book. Contributing writers including Martha Crenshaw, T. X. Hammes, Russell Howard, Gene Cristy,...
Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press, 2008. — 504 p. Contains a discussion of armed groups which are considered to include classic insurgents, terrorists, guerrillas, militias, police agencies, criminal organizations, war-lords, privatized military organizations, mercenaries, pirates, drug cartels, apocalyptic religious extremists, orchestrated rioters and mobs, and...
Oakville: David Brown Book Co., Oxbow Books, 2012. - 144p. Wearing the Cloak contains nine stimulating chapters on Roman military textiles and equipment that take textile research to a new level. Hear the sounds of the Roman soldiers' clacking belts and get a view on their purchase orders with Egyptian weavers. Could armour be built of linen? Who had access to what kinds of...
New York: Hippocrene, 1990. — 395 p. This is an exhaustive study of how warfare was conducted on the 18th century European battlefield. It is a scholarly yet readable book, very probably the best ever on this particular subject. The main parts are on French theory and practice, and then Frederick the Great's development of a Prussian system. The time period covers the...
Routledge, 2018. — 205 p. This book offers an in-depth study on the deployment of military operations in the framework of the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy (ESDP/CSDP). While existing studies of the subject are either descriptive or focused on a single level of analysis, this book incorporates factors from three different levels of analysis to explain the...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 288 p. Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II examines the rise of autonomy in air warfare from the inception of powered flight through the first phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive in World War II. Raymond P. O’Mara builds a conceptual model of humans, machines, and doctrine that demonstrates a distinctly new...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 201 p. This book is the only dedicated study available in English that covers all of the armed factions that took part in the Wars of Religion as well as the whole period of these conflicts. It draws on contemporary French, Spanish and English accounts, as well as the best of more recent scholarship, to provide an account of the Wars and armies that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 134 p. Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanotech, robotics, cyberwar, human enhancement, and, non-lethal weapons, weaving a historical, legal, and sociopolitical fabric into a discussion of their development, deployment, and, potential regulation.
Routledge, 2018. — 195 p. This book contributes to an increasingly important branch of critical security studies that combines insights from critical geopolitics and postcolonial critique by making an argument about the geographies of violence and their differential impact in contemporary security practices, including but not limited to military intervention. The book explores...
Stanford Security Studies, 2012. — 279 p. The very existence of diversionary wars is hotly contested in the press and among political scientists. Yet no book has so far tackled the key questions of whether leaders deliberately provoke conflicts abroad to distract the public from problems at home, or whether such gambles offer a more effective response to domestic discontent...
Arcadia Publishing, 2014. — 192 р. The mission at Fort Campbell has changed over the past seventy-five years, and the city has grown and adapted to meet new challenges. It was conceived before Pearl Harbor as the Tennessee-Kentucky Armor Camp and has progressed in recent years to meet changing national security needs and the transformation of the U.S. Army. The fort is home to...
Rand Publishing, 2004. — 55 p. Although military power is only one component of the portfolio of instruments that can be brought to bear in the fight against terrorist groups, military capabilities play unique and crucial roles in the overall strategy. These capabilities will call for a mix of forces somewhat different from those fielded today as well as new concepts and...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 380 p. The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America’s smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps’ uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines...
Routledge, 2007. — 257 p. This well-researched volume examines the Sino-Vietnamese hostilities of the late 1970s and 1980s, attempting to understand them as strategic, operational and tactical events. The Sino-Vietnamese War was the third Indochina war, and contemporary Southeast Asia cannot be properly understood unless we acknowledge that the Vietnamese fought three, not two,...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 192 p. Committing one's country to war is a grave decision. Governments often have to make tough calls, but none are quite so painful as those that involve sending soldiers into harm's way, to kill and be killed. The idea of 'just war' informs how we approach and reflect on these decisions. It signifies the belief that while war is always a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 352 p. In this ground-breaking new book, Alan Ogden brings to life Lt Gen sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, soldier, statesman and an often-overlooked figure in British Military and Diplomatic History. Framed through the life of Carton de Wiart this book also offers an exploration of important topics and developments in the first half of the 20th-century,...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 264 p. In book Defense 101, a concise primer for understanding the United States' $700+ billion defense budget and rapidly changing military technologies, Michael O'Hanlon provides a deeply informed yet accessible analysis of American military power. After an introduction in which O'Hanlon surveys today's international security environment,...
Brookings Institution Press, 2015. — 270 p. Offers an analysis of the future of the world's ground forces: Where are future large-scale conflicts or other catastrophes most plausible? Which of these could be important enough to necessitate the option of a US military response? And which of these could in turn require significant numbers of American ground forces in their...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 278 p. The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates its resources have enormous implications for national defense and the economy. The Science of War is the only comprehensive textbook on how to analyze and understand these and other essential...
Brookings Institution Press, 2023. — 416 p. The recent conclusion to the war in Afghanistan — America’s longest and one of its most frustrating — serves as a vivid reminder of the unpredictability and tragedy of war. In this timely book, esteemed military expert Michael O’Hanlon examines America’s major conflicts since the mid-1800s: the Civil War, the two World Wars, Korea,...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 320 p. American Amphibious Warfare offers analysis of the early amphibious landing operations from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. Through a case study approach, the operational and strategic significance of each action is analyzed and its impact on the development of the United States is assessed. By focusing on seven major campaigns, Gary...
The O'Brien Press, 2013. — 208 p. Pádraig O'Keeffe joined the elite and secretive French Foreign Legion at the age of twenty, seeking a challenge that would absorb his interests and intensity. He served with the Legion in Cambodia and Bosnia, then returned to civilian life, but military habits would not allow him to settle. His need for intense excitement and extreme danger...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 174 p. This paper is an historical study of the strategy, tactics, and weapons employed by Israel, Egypt, and Syria in the battle for air superiority from 1967 through 1973. The study is developed chronologically beginning with the 1967 War, through the War of Attrition, and ending with the cease-fire in the 1973 War. It has been compiled...
Naval Institute Press, 2017. — 432 p. Airpower Applied reviews the evolution of airpower and its impact upon the history of warfare. Through a critical examination of twenty-nine case studies in which various U.S. coalitions and Israel played significant roles, this book offers perspectives on the political purpose, strategic meaning, and military importance of airpower. The...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 288 p. This book project, initiated and sponsored by the Swedish National Defence College’s Department of Military Studies, began in the summer of 2008 with the objective of producing a one-volume anthology that would focus on the essence and development of operational art, with equal attention to theory, practice, and utility. The book would be...
Potomac Books, 2014. — 344 p. European Air Power examines the current state of eight separate European air forces and their prospective air power capabilities in a manner that will appeal to a wide audience of air force enthusiasts. Included are perspectives from independent air power experts reviewing the air forces of France, Germany, Turkey, and Great Britain as well as from...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 296 p. The Practice of Strategy focuses on grand strategy and military strategy as practiced over an extended period of time and under very different circumstances, from the campaigns of Alexander the Great to insurgencies and counter-insurgencies in present-day Afghanistan and Iraq. It presents strategy as it pertained not only to wars, campaigns,...
Routledge, 2003. — 345 p. In response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on the second of August 1990, a small group of air power advocates in the Pentagon proposed a strategic air campaign - "Operation Desert Storm" designed to drive the Iraqi army from Kuwait by a sustained effort against the major sources of Iraqi national power. John Andreas Olsen provides a coherent and...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 257 p. Airpower Reborn offers a conceptual approach to warfare that emphasizes airpower’s unique capability to achieve strategic effects. Six world-leading theorists argue that a viable strategy must transcend the purely military sphere, view the adversary as a multi-dimensional system, and pursue systemic paralysis and strategic effects rather than...
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. — 313 p. This is the first scholarly study of the subject for twenty years, and the only one based on extensive archival research. The Indian Army conquered India for the British, and protected the Raj against its enemies within and without. In this evocative and compassionate work, David Omissi examines the origins, motives and protests of the...
Dorrance Publishing, 1984. — 212 p. Preface. The Conquest of Roman Dalmatia, Pannonia, and Illyricum in 626. The Croatian Non-Aggression Treaty With The Holy See (680). Frankish Wars. Bulgarian Wars. Arabic Wars. Hungarian Wars. Byzantine Wars. Wars With Tatars (1241-1242). Venetian Wars. Turkish Wars Outside of Croatia Turkish Wars in Croatia Croatian Wars for Austria...
Grub Street Publishing, 2008. — 252 p. Making full use of archival sources, studies by other scholars, and information provided by family members, Vincent Orange has completed the first biography of Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding to cover his entire life. Soldier, pilot, wireless pioneer, squadron commander, spiritualist, champion skier, ‘Stuffy’ Dowding is perhaps best known as...
Rosetta Books, 2004. — 446 p. This is the most complete history to date of the Six Day War of 1967, in which Israel entered and began its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. While no account can be definitive until Arab archives open, Oren, a Princeton-trained senior fellow at Jerusalem's Shalem Center who has served as director of Israel's department of inter-religious...
Praeger, 2010. — 250 p. Private Armed Forces and Global Security: A Guide to the Issues is the first book to provide a comprehensive yet accessible survey of the private military groups involved in conflicts worldwide. Organized around four themes, it covers the history of private military forces since 1600, the main contemporary actors and their defining characteristics, the...
The History Press, 2011. — 228 p. Based on the author's experiences as a serving soldier and European Commission Monitor, a narrative account of the civil war in the former Yugoslavia Brendan O'Shea had access to both EU and UN official documents for his research and used these to unravel the complex story of the Bosnian war. He tells the tragic story of what happened at the...
Illustrator: Harry Dempsey. — Osprey Publishing, 2008 — 128 p. Starting operations in the relatively quiet Toul sector in March 1918, the 1st Pursuit Group initially flew Nieuport 28s, given to the Americans because the French did not want them. Expanded by the arrival of additional squadrons, the 1st Pursuit Group went to war in earnest over Château Thierry in July, initially...
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 96 p. Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years. The Crusades gave rise to the Military Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, and were a backdrop to the careers of some of history's most famous leaders including Richard 'The Lionheart' and Saladin. On occasion the savagery of the...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2014. — 384 р. — ISBN: 978-0007452507. From Alexander the Great's 331 BC rout of Darius III to Great Britain's 1982 re-conquest of the Falkland Islands, the author of the Second World War Experience series examines some of history's pivotal battles to determine the human factors that decided their outcomes. Stressing the importance of leadership,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 410 р. From Alexander the Great's 331 BC rout of Darius III to Great Britain's 1982 re-conquest of the Falkland Islands, the author of the Second World War Experience series examines some of history's pivotal battles to determine the human factors that decided their outcomes. Stressing the importance of leadership, courage, deception, and good...
Casemate Publishers, 2021. — 288 p. A unique assessment of American military involvement in Syria, written by three very different authors who between them participated in all large Kurdish operations between late 2014 and mid-2016, experiencing first-hand the impact America had on the battlefield. With America’s War on Terror and the subsequent democracy experiments in...
Duke University Press, 2020. — 281 p. In Killer Apps Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves provide a detailed account of the rise of automation in warfare, showing how media systems are central to building weapons systems with artificial intelligence in order to more efficiently select and eliminate military targets. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of political and media...
Routledge, 2013. — 120 p. First originally published in 2005. Since the breaching of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent end of the Cold War, there has been a marked increase in attention paid to multinational military forces. Adelphi Paper 294 looks at the problems facing multinational forces and operations and the prospects for the future.
Helion and Company, 2021. — 250 p. Earlier Polish experience from the war against Ottoman Turks in 1672-1676 made their contribution vital for the coalition’s war effort in 1683. No surprise then, that Sobieski was chosen as commander of the joint forces and that the Poles deployed on the ancient place of honour in an army’s order of battle – on the right wing. Many Polish...
Routledge, 2020. — 264 p. This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars. In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians and security forces) is used to achieve political objectives....
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 252 p. These essays provide an authoritative introduction to Carl von Clausewitz and enlarge the history of war by joining it to the history of ideas and institutions and linking it with intellectual biography. The essays are divided into three parts. The first part is primarily about war from the ancien régime to the early decades of the...
Cambridge University Press, 1972. — 309 p. — ISBN: 0521084628, 0521099072. — Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
The publication of The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road in 1972 marked the birth of the "new military history", which emphasized military organization--mobilization, pay, supply, morale and, above all, logistics--rather than military "events" such...
Duke University Press, 2017. — 448 p. This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare. They show how drones generate particular ways of visualizing the spaces and targets of war while acting as tools to exercise state power. Essays...
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2013. — 416 p. A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell's stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan. Acclaimed for its vivid, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen brutal months of nearly continuous battle in the deadly...
Parragon Books, 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 1472357604, ISBN-13 978-1472357601 Explores the key armies and battles from ancient times to the present day. Using beautiful photographs and cutaway illustrations, Great Armies delves into the tactics put forward by the boldest military geniuses as well as the courage of soldiers who formed the most powerful armies in history. The...
Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 224 p. The North Koreans’ attack on their Southern neighbors shocked and surprised the World. The conflict rapidly escalated with China soon heavily involved on one side and the United States and United Nations on the other. The author, then a young Gunner officer, found himself in the midst of this very nasty war. He describes first hand what it...
Burtyrki Books, 2020. — 216 p. Journey into Hazard: Marines on Mission, 1804-1945, first published in 1962 as Hazard: Marines on Mission, is a recounting of some of the most notable personalities and events in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps: from its humble beginnings in the early 1800s and the fight in the North African Barbary Wars, to the “ideal Marine” Lou Diamond, to...
Independently Publishers, 2020. — 498 p. On 3 September 1939 France had proclaimed war on Germany, following the German invasion of Poland. Toward the beginning of September 1939, France started the restricted Saar Offensive. By mid-October, the French had pulled back to their beginning lines. In about a month and a half from 10 May 1940, German forces crushed Allied forces by...
Berghahn Books, 2016. — 345 p. Long a topic of historical interest, wartime captivity has over the past decade taken on new urgency as an object of study. Transnational by its very nature, captivity's historical significance extends far beyond the front lines, ultimately inextricable from the histories of mobilization, nationalism, colonialism, law, and a host of other related...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 270 p. Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things ― with dramatic consequences for international affairs. This book explores the evolutionary origins of human strategy, and makes a provocative argument that Artificial Intelligence will radically transform the nature of...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2017. — 252 p. Originally published in 1951, this is the story of the life and mind of George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman, as told by a distinguished writer whose own background makes him particularly qualified to discuss some of the more controversial aspects of General Marshall's work since World War II. Robert Payne carefully places George...
London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta: Longmans, Green, And Co. 1907. – 46 р. Since my recent book on mediæval archery and ancient weapons was issued, I have obtained a considerable amount of information concerning the projectile engines of the Greeks and Romans. I now print a concise account of the history, construction, and effects in warfare of these engines. In this summary...
Arms&Armour, 1988. — 176 p. — ISBN-10 1854094017, ISBN-13 978-1854094018 This carefully crafted volume introduces the reader to the personalities of Chinese military history and the turning-points in weapon and tactical advancement. Each character is placed in context with the era in which he lived, and his description is broadened to encompass the politics, strategies and...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 352 p. — (General Military Series). From the American War of Independence to World War II, the history of the military combat marksman is one of indifference and cost cutting. Despite the proven effectiveness of the rifleman in battle, for most of the 20th century snipers were regarded as little more than paid assassins. It was not until the Vietnam War...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 301 p. Following the success of Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper, sniper expert Martin Pegler gives us an in-depth study of the emergence of American rifleman, sharpshooter and sniper, examining the evolution of the rifle in America from the earliest firearms of the 15th century to the highly accurate sniping rifles of the 21st...
Frontline Books, 2012. — 206 p. For the first time, leading Second World War authors from around the world have collaborated on a definitive anthology of the greatest snipers of the war. Each author supplies full details of their chosen sniper, including illustrations that have never been published before, to construct a complete and varied picture of sniper warfare. The...
Diane Publishing, 1991. — 164 p. Lessons Learned: The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988, provides useful information to the reader about the Iran-Iraq War, particularly the lessons that can be drawn from it. This manual starts with an overview of the Iran-Iraq War. It also discusses the strategy followed by both sides and the tactics which evolved as the war unfolded.
Basic Books, 2023. — 422 p. The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca’s rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Some formed all-female armies, like the Dahomey Mino of West Africa; some fought disguised as men; some mobilized in times of...
Georgetown University Press, 2017. — 310 p. Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict—including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns—require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink twenty-first-century warfare. Yet because cyber capabilities are so new and continually...
Yale University Press, 1977. — 352 p. The importance of Amos Perlmutter's study lies in the fact that it supplies a long-felt about deeply study of the different sides for modern military corporatism. The author distinguishes three types of modern military corporatism: the professional, the praetorians, and the noncorporate revolutionary soldiers.
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014. — 228 p. Visions of War provides a historical survey, an anatomy, an interpretation, and a polemic about the ways human beings have created pictures of battle and conflict from the Stone Age to the Gulf War. From the dawn of time to the present, from the days of mammoth hunting to the era of Scud-busting, pictures of war constitute the most...
Arms and Armour, 1993. — 221 p. What do soldiers do when all is lost? They keep fighting! In this best-selling anthology, Bryan Perrett provides gripping accounts of close-quarter battles and hard fought victory against all the odds. His journey from Napoleonic Europe through to the Korean War highlights thirteen episodes of incredible bravery and sacrifice in unbelievable...
Arms and Armour Press, 1994. — 248 p. "Seize and hold" operations--or the capture of a bridge or castle in order to debilitate the enemy--have been vital ploys in warfare throughout history. Speed, surprise, and sufficient firepower are necessities to accomplish the task. From the bungled attempt by the Russians to destroy Japanese facilities in 1904 to the Ia Drang Valley...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 312 p. South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People's Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho's experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 208 p. Lt. General Frank E. Petersen's autobiography provides a critical examination of this remarkable Marine's career, from his accomplishments as the first black pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps to his promotion to Lieutenant General and final service as Commander U.S. Marine Corp Base Quantico, Virginia. At the time of his retirement in 1988,...
Brill, 2013. — 851 p. — (History of Warfare, 91).
Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States is the first study to comprehensively treat an aspect of Byzantine, Western, early Islamic, Slavic and Steppe military history within the framework of common descent from Roman military organization to 800 AD. This not only encompassed the army proper, but also a...
The Crowood Press Ltd., 1998. — 96 p. — (The Europa-Militaria Special № 2). — ISBN: 1-86126-264-7. The accurate reconstruction and wearing of military costume of an earlier age is a tradition at least as old as ancient Rome itself.
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 75 p. In 1954 the French Armed Forces began a campaign in Algeria against the insurgent Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) which had started a bloody uprising against French sovereignty. Initially, the French military did not have a viable counterinsurgency doctrine that was effective in defeating the FLN and destroying its network. It took...
Harper, 2023. — 545 p. Two leading authorities--an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time--collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin's invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past--and anticipate...
Presidio Press, 1986. — 384 p. Traces the history of Vietnam's Army, the largest per capita in the world, explains why it has been so successful, and examines its role in Vietnam's future. Pike, whose scholarly works on the Vietcong (History of Vietnamese Communism, etc.) are widely admired, describes the creation of the People's Army of Vietnam as "probably the most astounding...
Pen and Sword Books, 2009. — 224 p. From the Frontline is an extraordinary record of a family military service over the last 100 years. Thanks to careful editing, each individual tells his story through letters and diaries which capture the military scene and reflect family ties that bind them all closely. The eight family members served in South Africa, West Africa, Korea,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 336 p. In Masters of Warfare, Eric G. L. Pinzelli presents a selection of fifty commanders whose military achievements, skill or historical impact he believes to be underrated by modern opinion. He specifically does not include the household names (the "Gods of War" as he calls them) such as Alexander, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Napoléon, Rommel...
Warszawa : AON, 2002. — 344 s. — ISBN: 8388062786 "Warto podkreślić, że Autor uwzględnił wszystkie rodzaje działań obronnych jakie wyróżniano w ówczesnych regulaminach i instrukcjach. Skupił się jednak głównie na obronie stałej (bowiem do takiej formy obrony przygotowywały się Wielkie Jednostki i oddziały Grupy Operacyjnej "Bielsko od marca 1939 r.). Druzgocąca przewaga...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 304 p. Steven A. Pomeroy has authored the first history of the American mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a technology the United States spent four decades and billions of dollars creating but never deployed. An Untaken Road showcases how the evolution of a technology that ultimately never existed and the politics that surrounded it...
International Publishers, 1973. — 325 p. A collection of different writings from Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin to the present marxist-authors on armed guerilla struggles for liberation and for socialism.
Longanesi, 2018. — 177 p. Grazie alla sua esperienza di inviato, Meo Ponte racconta, attraverso la voce dei protagonisti e il contenuto di documenti mai resi pubblici prima, le vite perse e le battaglie vinte dei soldati italiani attivi nelle cosiddette “missioni di pace”. A partire dagli anni Ottanta, con la prima missione in Libano, l’esercito italiano è stato impegnato in...
Columbia University Press, 2009. — 256 p. Westerners have long fetishized the idea of "Oriental" warfare, hoping to either emulate the strategies of foreign armies or assimilate members of Eastern and "martial races," such as Sikhs or Gurkhas, into their ranks. Samurai warriors, obedient to an ancient code of chivalry and honor, and the Mongol hordes thundering across the...
Savas Beatie, 2009. — 336 p. The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. The company's life span covered ten months, from selection and training through a seven-month combat deployment in Korea, after which the unit was deactivated. The 2nd and 4th Rangers were among the units initially...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 270 p. Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors throughout Time and Space takes the many, long-standing dimensions of military history, including the various modalities of warfare across cultures and periods, and integrates them with the more recent and very substantial contributions of social history, women’s history, black history,...
Pen and Sword Books, 2001. — 255 p. A Testimony to Courage is the history of the Ulster Defence Regiment from its inception in 1969 until its merger with the Royal Irish Rangers in 1992. It describes its development from a part-time, amateur, under-trained force into a professional regiment composed both of part-time and full time soldiers, both men and women, responsible for...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 200 p. — (Scholarly Presentations at the Conference on Coalition Warfare at the Royal Danish Defence College, 2011). It is unquestionable that the warfare of various post-Cold War 'coalitions-of-the-willing' has drawn much attention over recent years. However, we may also notice that associations of nations fighting, or preparing to fight,...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 384 p. Examining the continuous French military interventions in Chad in the two decades after its independence, this study demonstrates how France's successful counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of François Tombalbaye would ultimately weaken the Chadian state and encourage Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to intervene. In covering the...
Diversion Books, 2014. — 228 p. This is the little known story of how the American President and his cabinet carried the United States to the brink of war in Indochina and potentially China—in 1954! Americans and the U.S. were intimately involved in the key battle that ended the French occupation of Vietnam. Operation Vulture tells the story of secret U.S. efforts to sustain...
University Press of Kansas, 2009. — 665 p. The Vietnam war continues to be the focus of intense controversy. While most people--liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, historians, pundits, and citizens alike--agree that the United States did not win the war, a vocal minority argue the opposite or debate why victory never came, attributing the quagmire to everything...
Historical Section, Ministry of Defence India, 1972. — 237 p. Operation Polo was the code name of the Hyderabad "military police action" in September 1948, by the then newly independent Dominion of India against Hyderabad State. It was a military operation in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the Nizam-ruled princely state, annexing it into the Indian Union. At the time of...
Vision Books, 1982. — 482 p. The 4th Indian Infantry Division, also known as the Red Eagle Division, is the infantry division of the Indian Army. This division of the British Indian Army was formed in Egypt in 1939 during the Second World War. During the Second World War, it took part in campaigns in East Africa (Eritrea and Sudan), Syria, North Africa and Italy. Post...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 162 p. The League of Cambrai was an alliance stipulated in December 1508 between the main European powers with the purpose of halting the expansion of the Republic of Venice. The war that followed was one of the major conflicts in the Italian wars: it lasted from 1508 to 1516, and saw several stages. The major States involved were the Kingdom of...
Chartwell books, 1977. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 0906286026, ISBN-13 978-0890090916 Книга рассказывает о наиболее важных битвах в которых принимал участие Вермахт.
4th edition. — New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. — 449 pgs. An overview of the development of war in Western society from its beginnings to classical times to the present. Shows the social and technical changes that caused war to evolve, and the social, economic, political, and technical consequences that stemmed from it. Now in its fourth edition since first...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2012. — 384 p. Walk with America's generals, grunts, and Green Berets through the maze of unconventional wars and unsettled peace.Four-star generals who lead the military during wartime reign like proconsuls abroad in peacetime. Secretive Green Berets trained to hunt down terrorists are assigned to seduce ruthless authoritarian regimes. Pimply young...
Solihull: Helion & Company, 2014. — 266 p. On 23 November 1977, an armada of helicopters and airplanes took off from Rhodesian airbases and crossed the border into Mozambique. Their objective: to attack the headquarters of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, where thousands of enemy forces were concentrated. Codenamed Operation Dingo, the raid was planned to coincide...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 242 p. On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small children, survived the crash only for most of them to be gunned down in cold blood shortly after...
University of Missouri Press, 2020. — 448 p. Colonel Pat Proctor's long overdue critique of the Army's preparation and outlook in the all-volunteer era focuses on a national security issue that continues to vex in the twenty-first century: Has the Army lost its ability to win strategically by focusing on fighting conventional battles against peer enemies? Or can it adapt to...
University of Missouri Press, 2020. — 448 p. Colonel Pat Proctor's long overdue critique of the Army's preparation and outlook in the all-volunteer era focuses on a national security issue that continues to vex in the twenty-first century: Has the Army lost its ability to win strategically by focusing on fighting conventional battles against peer enemies? Or can it adapt to...
Government Institutes Press, 2011. — 152 p. Iraq in 2009 was a strange netherworld, not quite war but not yet peace. The country teetered on the threshold of great change with the impending national elections and the promised withdrawal of all US combat forces. These changes would usher in either an era of irreversible stability or a return to the sectarian carnage that nearly...
Progressive Management Books, 2014. — 198 p. A superb Department of Defense publication, the Marine Corps Handbook providing an illustrated recognition guide to North Korean weapons. The handbook is described as "providing essential information on North Korea, intended to provide Marines and other U.S. military personnel with a base of information for conducting effective...
Penguin Random House, 2021. — 192 p. Did you know that 233 soldiers of the Indian Army were cordoned off for almost three months without food in the jungles of Africa? How did a UN peacekeeping mission turn into a war for dignity, a war for the Indian tricolour? The year was 2000. Sierra Leone, in West Africa, had been ravaged by years of civil strife. With the intervention of...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 568 p.
Medieval warfare was dominated by the attack and defence of fortified places, and siege methods and technology developed alongside improvements in defences. This book uses both original historical sources and evidence from archaeology to analyse this relationship as part of a comprehensive view of the whole subject, tracing links across three...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 550 p.
The siege dominated warfare during the medieval period. Contemporary evidence - from both accounts of sieges, and records of government - survives in relatively large quantites for the later medieval period; together with archaeological evidence, it is used here to offer a full and comprehensive picture of siege warfare. The book shows how similar...
Pen and Sword Books, 1998. — 302 p. The issue of military executions during the war has always been controversial and embargoes have made it difficult for researchers to get at the truth. Now these two writers give us a vast amount of information. They show that trials were grossly unfair and incompetent. Many of the condemned men had been soldiers of exemplary behaviour,...
Zeughausverlag, 2019. — 64 p. In der Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts wurde das Heilige Römische Reich deutscher Nation durch eine Reihe von Konflikten erschüttert, die bereits die konfessionellen Auseinandersetzungen des Dreißigjährigen Krieges vorweg nahmen. 1546/47 erhob sich der Schmalkaldische Bund gegen Kaiser Karl V. Nach einigen ergebnislosen Feldzügen wurden die Truppen des...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 156 p. This is the first detailed study of the origins of the standing Saxon army. Created by elector John George III (r. 1680-1691), it quickly won its laurels in the battle of Vienna (1683) and later in military campaigns against the Ottomans and the French. This book gives a broad analysis on this army, dealing with topics like finances and...
Pavilion Books, 2015. — 320 p. Military campaigns, pivotal battles and extraordinary leaders have collectively shaped the course of history and in this fascinating book, author Tom Quinn examines some of the most remarkable campaigns, incidents and characters from the earliest recorded histories to the second Gulf war. These strange but true stories include figures both famous...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 350 p. This is an eyewitness account of the political and military upheaval in East Pakistan in 1971, which was in the grip of Bangla nationalism. The book covers the period from general elections in December 1970 to the break up of Pakistan in December 1971. Its main focus is on the 1970 elections and the subsequent developments, the civil...
Cornell University Press, 1984. — 244 p. Chronology. The Lebanese Paradox. The Second Civil War, 1975-1976. Political Parties and Factions. The Lingering Crisis. War, June-September 1982. An Interim Assessment. Postscript. Appendix: Speech by President Asad of Syria, July 20, 1976. Notes.
Routledge, 1990. — 311 p. The appearance of ideologically motivated anti-communist insurgent groups in the Third World is an important new phenomenon that has received little serious attention. Analysis has focused on American attitudes, while the indigenous roots and motivations of such groups have remained largely unexplored. Michael Radu fills in the gap in The New...
Routledge, 2022. — 364 p. This book studies the wars Pakistan has fought over the years with India as well as other non-state actors. The Military in Decision-Making. The Kashmir War 1947–1948. The 1965 War: Decision-Making and Consequences. The 1971 War: The Pakistani Experience. The 1971 War: The Bangladeshi Experience. Siachen and Kargil. Low-Intensity Operations. War and...
Tangmere Productions, 2002. — 423 p. Gunther Rall was the elite of the elite. The third ranking German fighter ace of World War II with 275 kills, Rall and his fellow fighter pilots were feared and respected in the war-torn skies of Europe. Now, with author Jill Amadio, Gunther Rall recalls his years as a fighter pilot in the Luftwaffe on both the Eastern and Western fronts in...
Harper Collins India, 2022. — 293 p. Heroes of 1971 tells the stories of the fearless warriors who fought heroic battles to liberate Bangladesh, redrawing the map of South Asia in what is still considered the most conclusive military victory - in a 'just war' - in contemporary history. Written by serving and retired officers of the three services to celebrate the memory of the...
Routledge, 2023. — 247 p. This book offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed technologies in shaping the archival records of war. Despite thriving scholarship on the history of war, the history of Operational Record Keeping in the British Army remains unexplored. Since World War I,...
New York: State University of New York Press, 2017. — viii, 233 p. — ISBN: 9781438465180 (eBook). The present study partakes of this impetus, and also adopts the view—now widely held among specialists—that military thought in early China, like other intellectual strands of that era, should not be described as the output of a discrete school of military philosophers (bingjia...
2010. Слово “рейнджер” з'явилося в англійській мові декілька століть тому. Воно виникло за часів Середньовіччя, тоді “рейнджери” охороняли ліси англійських королів. Від пляжу Юта до кривавих вулиць Могадішо рейнджери брали участь в усіх крупних конфліктах, захищаючи інтереси США.
Five Minute Books, 2013. — 151 p. Gives a good overview of generals all throughout history and a brief biography of each general. Good in explaining the main theme that a good general is not one who wins a battle in a war but the good general is one who converts that battle to a political & diplomatic objective. Thus generals like Caesar, Napoleon and Khalid ibn-al-Walid were...
Routledge, 2004. — 286 p. As mankind finds ever more impious ways to kill and maim, some look to non-lethal weapons as a fix. Author Brian Rappert discusses the technologies involved and the ethics of, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright.
Casemate Publishers, 2011. — 288 p. Today's Arab-Israeli conflict is merely the latest iteration of an unending history of violence in the Holy Land—a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world and throughout the millennia. Holy Wars describes three thousand years of war in the Holy Land with the unique...
Routledge, 2015. — 234 p. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the global diffusion of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and its impact on military innovation trajectories in small states. Although the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA) concept has enjoyed significant academic attention, the varying paths and patterns of military innovation in divergent...
Routledge, 2021. — 268 p. Originally published in 1989, this is an empirical study of the impact of global war on the expansion and shaping of nation-states. Individual chapters examine the effects of such wars, and the preparation for them, on debt financing, expansion, military spending, welfare spending, GNP and domestic violence. The authors conclude that by virtue of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 144 p. This book argues that the US Army has made four significant shifts in the content of its capstone operations doctrine along a spectrum of war since the end of WWII: 1) in 1954 it made a shift from a doctrine focused almost exclusively on mid-intensity conventional warfare to a doctrine that added significant emphasis to high-intensity nuclear...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 384 p. The great nineteenth century French military thinker, Ardant du Picq, argued that selfless courage is rooted in a higher moral purpose, and is found among "Elite Souls." This is a book about five such "Elite Souls," all highly decorated young West Point graduates and recipients of the USMA's Nininger Medal. Elite Souls outlines the...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 246 p. This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence ― warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone. What role does physical risk and material threat play in the justifications for killing in war? And...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 294 p. This book surveys the history of armed conflict in Africa in the period since decolonization and independence. The number of post-independence conflicts in Africa has been considerable, and this book introduces to readers a comprehensive analysis of their causes and character. Tracing the evolution of warfare from anti-colonial and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 279 p. Inside Defense brings together scholars, policy experts and practitioners to provide a comprehensive view of the U.S. military to understand the military's role in international politics and its relationship with domestic institutions and society.
Marshall Cavendish, 1977. — 392 p. Маркс говорил что труд сделал из Обезьяны человека. Но есть и другая точка зрения. Эволюция человека началась с того что он взял палку и превратился из жертвы в хищника. Затем палка сменилась копьем которое любезно уступило место основного оружия мечу, но где то еще был лук и толстые шкуры сменили доспехи. Война за территорию, стычки между...
Casemate Publishers, 2014. — 320 p. Growing up during the Second World War, Mike Reynolds became so interested in soldiering that he decided to make the Army his life. Joining as a National Serviceman, to see if he would really like being a soldier, he made the decision to become a professional and was commissioned into The Queens Royal Regiment. He saw action and was wounded...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2014. — 205 p. The leader of the Chinese communist revolution, Mao Zedong, was once asked by a journalist what he thought was the lasting impact of the French Revolution. He allegedly responded that he did not know the answer to this question as it was "too early to tell." In this same vein, field historian Colonel Nicholas E. Reynolds' book...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 304 p. The Queen’s Royal Hussars (The Queen’s Own and Royal Irish) (QRH) traces its origins back to 1685 when King James II formed a standing army. The Regiment was created in 1993 with the amalgamation of the Queen’s Own Hussars and the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars. The Author tells the history of these celebrated regiments who fought alongside each other...
Harward: Harvard University Press, 1999. — 309 p.
In this impressive study, David Rich demonstrates how the modernization of Russia's general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century reshaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and at times dominant, role in shaping Russian foreign policy.
Rich weaves together several...
Routledge, 2019. — 268 p. This path-breaking collection of papers examines the phenomenon of jihadist insurgent movements in the Middle East and North, East and West Africa. It argues that military and strategic analysts have paid insufficient attention to the phenomenon of jihadism in insurgent movements, partly due to a failure to take the role of religion sufficiently...
Penguin Press, 2009. — 434 p. The Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the...
Penguin Press, 2012. — 575 p. History has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—and less kind to the generals of the wars that followed. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In part it is the story of a widening gulf between performance and accountability. During the Second World War, scores of...
Stackpole Books, 2018. — 192 p. During World War I, Oxford-trained archeologist Lawrence of Arabia used his knowledge of the Middle East to help organize the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. In this entertaining and insightful book, Jason Ridler profiles the intellectuals, outsiders, and eccentrics who followed in Lawrence’s footsteps across the next hundred years of...
CDISS and Herrick/Telic Publications, 2015. — 350 p. Operation Deliberate Force is the first authoritative account of the military events of 1995 that draws on the accounts of the key participants. In exclusive interviews - Lieutenant General Rupert Smith, the British commander of UN forces inside Bosnia; Lieutenant General Bernard Janvier, the French commander of UN forces in...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 256 p. The first six months of the war in Afghanistan were incredibly confused. Few journalists or civilians had access to the main events and the result was the creation of many urban myths that persist to this day. This book reveals the truth behind Operation Enduring Freedom, its objectives, successes, failures and consequences. Tim Ripley has...
Telic-Herrick Publications, 2014. — 472 p. The campaign in Iraq between March 2003 and June 2009 deeply polarised British politics, contributing to the fall from power of Prime Minister Tony Blair and seriously damaging the reputation, at home and abroad, of the British armed forces. Eleven years on from the start of the war, it is now possible to learn real lessons from the...
Potomac Books, 2013. — 187 p. The days of large force-on-force engagements with conventional fielded armies are seemingly gone. Today’s persistent conflict, conducted among civilian populations and fought by small bands of combatants, will be remembered for this alteration in the tapestry of war and for the first large-scale use of unmanned vehicles. According to M. Shane Riza,...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 288 p. Grunt 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 loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design...
State University of New York Press, 2020. — 248 p. Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence. Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare explores the complex relationship between just war theory and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). One of the challenges facing ethicists of war, particularly just war theorists, is...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2019. — 241 p. Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest and deeply insightful look at nine major figures in modern military history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Margaret...
The History Press Ltd., 2013. — 192 p.
According to Napoleon, an army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too. Yet, have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed under fire or in the trench lines? During the Great War troops were trained to make meals out of the bare minimum of ingredients, to feed a company of men from only a mess tin and...
Routledge, 2016. — 177 p. This book looks at the evolving relationship between war and international law, examining the complex practical and legal dilemmas posed by the changing nature of war in the contemporary world, whether the traditional rules governing the onset and conduct of hostilities apply anymore, and how they might be adapted to new realities. War, always messy,...
Sussex Academic Press, 2019. — 172 p. Combined arms warfare (CAW) – the integration of different arms on the battlefield (e.g., armor, infantry, artillery, aircraft, and engineers) in order to achieve maximal efficiency there–is as old as war itself. Every army across both time and space that has engaged in combat has practiced one version or another of CAW, whether consciously...
Sussex Academic Press, 2017. — 182 p. The State of Israel faced one of its most difficult challenges during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Though the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eventually emerged as the clear victor in the war, it suffered serious reverses at the outset of hostilities, as well as substantial losses in men and equipment. This book revisits the Yom Kippur War by...
Sussex Academic Press, 2013. — 185 p. The Israel Air Force (IAF) has accumulated as much battle experience as any air force in the world during the post-Second World War era. It has recorded many outstanding accomplishments throughout a seemingly endless string of interstate wars, asymmetrical wars, counterinsurgency campaigns, and special operations. Sword and Shield of Zion...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 250 p. The book aims to explain the factors that brought about a high degree of similarity between American and Canadian foreign and security policies during the Afghanistan intervention. Specifically, it seeks to explain why, despite their different positions in the international distribution of power, the United States and Canada embraced similar...
CRC Press, 2016. — 312 p. A collection of original works covering all aspects of insurgency and counterinsurgency through a multinational lens, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Modern War addresses the need to look beyond the United States and other prominent counterinsurgency actors in the contemporary world. It also reassesses some of the latent and burgeoning insurgent...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 224 p. When I was first asked to write about Miles Dempsey I knew very little of him. I had studied the Normandy Campaign at Staff College, and walked the course for the D-Day landings and Operation GOODWOOD. I had heard his name and had a hazy idea of his position in the hierarchy. In that respect, I suspect I shared my ignorance with the great majority...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 320 p. While Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after being told to cede her job to returning World War II veterans, her sisters and daughters found new work opportunities in national defense. The 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act created permanent military positions for women with the promise of equal pay....
Routledge, 2012. — 370 p. This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians’ identity in times of war. Underpinning the physicality of war’s tumult are structural forces that create landscapes of civilian vulnerability. Such forces operate in four sectors of modern warfare:...
Routledge, 2021. — 279 p. This book examines the military histories of the regions beyond Western Europe in the pre-modern era. Existing works on global military history mainly focus on the western part of Eurasia after 1500 CE. As regards the ancient period, such works concentrate exclusively on Greece and Rome. So, ‘global’ military history is actually the triumphal story of...
Springer, 2022. — 195 p. This book addresses the global history of technology, warfare and state formation from the Stone Age to the Information Age. Using a combination of top-down and bottom-up methodologies, it examines both interstate and intrastate conflicts with a focus on Eurasian technology and warfare. It shows how human agency and structural factors have intertwined,...
Routledge, 2015. — 253 p. This book uses cross-cultural analysis across Eurasia and Afro-Asia to trace the roots of contemporary border disputes and insurgencies in South Asia. It discusses the way frontiers of British India, and consequently the modern states of India and Pakistan, were drafted through negotiations backed up by organized violence, showing how this concept...
Routledge, 2020. — 294 p. Military Thought of Asia challenges the assertion that the generation of rational secular ideas about the conduct of warfare is the preserve of the West, by analysing the history of ideas of warfare in Asia from the ancient period to the present. The volume takes a transcontinental and comparative approach to provide a broad overview of the evolution...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 288 p. A substantial amount of work has been carried out to explore the military systems of Western Europe during the early modern era, but the military trajectories of the Asian states have received relatively little attention. This study provides the first comparative study of the major Asian empires' military systems and explores the extent of...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 216 p. The army in India was the principal pillar of British power in South Asia from the mid-nineteenth century until Indian independence. This volume aims to evaluate the combat effectiveness of the army in British India from the mutiny of 1857 until the British departed India in 1947. It examines how the army in India developed from a colonial...
Mainstream Publishing, 2011. — 182 p. The Gordons recruited from the north-east of Scotland and the regiment's character was moulded by men from the farming counties of Aberdeenshire, Moray and Nairn. It was raised in 1794 by an aristocratic landowner, the Duke of Gordon, whose wife played a major role in attracting recruits by riding through her husband's estates and offering...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 204 p. As of September 2017, the United Nations alone deployed 110,000 uniformed personnel from 122 countries in fifteen peacekeeping operations worldwide. Soldiers in these missions are important actors who not only have considerable responsibility for implementing peace and stability operations but also have a concomitant influence on...
Stanford University Press, 2010. — 270 p. Within a year of President George W. Bush announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May 2003, dozens of attacks by insurgents had claimed hundreds of civilian and military lives. Through 2004 and 2005, accounts from returning veterans presaged an unfolding strategic debacle--potentially made worse by U.S. tactics being...
Methuen Publishing, 1991. — 304 p. The newest, and now the largest, regiment in the British Army, the UDR was raised in 1970 to replace the infamous, all-Protestant auxiliary policy force, the "B Specials". Despite a substantial number of Catholics originally joining the Regiment, it is now, after a campaign of intimidation and murder by the IRA, 97 per cent Protestant, and its...
Chatham House, 2021. — 334 p. The decline of the West is once again a frequent topic of speculation. Often cited as one element of the alleged decline is the succession of prolonged and unsuccessful warsmost notably those waged in recent decades by the United States. This book by three Danish military experts examines not only the validity of the speculation but also asks...
Casemate, 2016. — 192 p. Simo Hayha (1905 - 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers all over the world and paved the way for them by demonstrating their significance on the battlefield. Simo...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 416 p. Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life. In this book, Philip Sabin explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation as a topic in its own right, based on his thirty years of experience in designing wargames and using them in...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 592 p. In surprise attacks on Israel in October 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, igniting what became known as the Yom Kippur War. In the north, Israel succeeded in blocking the Syrian advance, but in the south, it failed to achieve an operational decision...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2015. — 826 p. The Afghanistan War achieved many firsts. It was the first trillion dollar war and Britain's longest war in a century. At its height it sucked in some fifty allied nations into a central Asian country of no strategic significance. It was undeniably a war, yet the civilians outnumbered the combined military manpower of all...
Routledge, 2013. — 340 p. This is a comparative study of the fighting systems of the British and German armies in The Great War. Taking issue with revisionist historians, Samuels argues that German success in battle can be explained by their superior tactical philosophy. The book provides a fascinating insight into the development of infantry tactics at a seminal point in the...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2017. — 103 p. By applying Cohen and Gooch’s model to the Battle of Mogadishu, this paper shows that the failure of the TFR mission on 3-4 October 1993 was the result of a system failure. Secretary Aspin received far more blame than he deserved for making the decision. Misperception of the real impact tanks and APCs could have had on the overall...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 356 p. Twenty-three countries currently allow women to serve in front-line combat positions and others with a high likelihood of direct enemy contact. This book examines how these decisions did or did not evolve in 47 countries. This timely and fascinating book explores how different countries have determined to allow women in the military to take on combat...
Random House Publishing Group, 2011. — 208 p. Required reading for anyone seeking a valid perspective on America's military over the past three decades. Fifty-six combat veterans, from senior sergeants to generals, reveal in their own words how a small group of courageous, determined men and women brought the U.S. military from the wounds of Vietnam back to high standards of...
Routledge, 2009. — 219 p. This book explains how the US military reacted to the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), and failed to innovate its organization or doctrine to match the technological breakthroughs it brought about.
Pergamon Press, 1981. — 287 p. Introduction to The Dimensions of Military Professionalism. Professions and Professionalism. An Empirical Reassessment of Military Professionalism. The Dimensions of American Military Professionalism: Two Scholarly Viewpoints. Introduction to Military Professionalism in a Changing Security Environment. American Policy and Low Intensity Conflict:...
Routledge, 2006. — 250 p. This brand new edition of The US Military Profession into the Twenty-First Century re-examines the challenges faced by the military profession in the aftermath of the international terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. While many of the issues facing the military profession examined in the first edition remain, the 'new war' and...
Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2003. - 52 p.
Иллюстрированный очерк немецких бронепоездов на Восточном фронте. Также есть материал о бронепоездах РККА и перечень бронепоездов вермахта.
Язык английский.
Nation Books, 2007. — 241 p.
This book dedicated to fenomen of mercenary private armies and in particular - Blackwater, the most famous and bloodiest. Author deals with its origin,organisation, contingent and conflicts, which this "soldiers of fortune" took part in.
Nation Books, 2013. — 680 p. In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies....
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 191 p. Scales on War is a collection of ideas, concepts and observations about contemporary war taken from over 30 years of research, writing and personal experience by retired Major General Bob Scales. The book melds Scales’ unique style of writing that includes contemporary military history, current events and his philosophy of ground warfare to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 234 p. In Conflict and Soldiers’ Literature in Early Modern Europe, Paul Scannell analyses the late 16th-century and early 17th-century literature of warfare through the published works of English, Welsh and Scottish soldiers. The book explores the dramatic increase in printed material on many aspects of warfare; the diversity of authors, the...
Regnery Publishing, 2013. — 252 p. Not since Robert McNamara has a secretary of defense been so hated by the military and derided by the public, yet played such a critical role in national security policy—with such disastrous results. Donald Rumsfeld was a natural for secretary of defense, a position he'd already occupied once before. He was smart. He worked hard. He was...
Penguin Publishing, 2006. — 224 р. Does a corporal have to salute a lieutenant or is it the other way around? What are forward-deployed units? Is an "armored cow" a type of tank or something soldiers eat? Are Polaris missiles dropped from the air or launched from a submarine? If someone calls you a "Cat 4" should you be honored or offended? Do you feel lost when it comes to all...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — 397 p. This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Technology, Arms Race and Disarmament which took place at Castiglioncello, Italy, in September 1987. The papers examine strategic defence policies, nuclear weapons proliferation and arms control among many other topics.
W.W. Norton and Company, 2018. — 448 p. A Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death. What happens when a Predator drone has as much autonomy as a Google car? Or when a weapon that can hunt its own targets is hacked? Although it sounds like science fiction, the technology...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 440 p. In Private Military and Security Contractors (PMSCs) a multinational team of scholars and experts address a developing phenomenon: controlling the use of privatized force by states in international politics. Robust analyses of the evolving, multi-layered tapestry of formal and informal mechanisms of control address the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 330 p. The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much attention from both scholars and practitioners since the start of the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ensuing legal and political problems concerning detainees in those conflicts. This book analyzes these contemporary problems and...
Routledge Group, 2009. — 173 p. — (Cass Military Studies). The intervention of the military in national politics and the everyday lives of citizens is a key question in civil-military relations. This book explains how concordance theory can provide a model for predicting such domestic intervention. Models dealing with the relationship between the military and society are usually...
U.S. Marine Corps History Division, 2014. — 83 p. Includes more than 30 photos, maps and plans This study examines a counterinsurgency campaign conducted during the Iraq War between the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006 in the district of al-Qaim on the Syrian border. In many ways, the struggle to clear and hold the district marked a turning point for the U.S. Marines fighting to...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Annotated edition, 2012. — 308 p. — ISBN-10 1470095246, ISBN-13 978-1470095246. This anthology presents a collection of 21 articles describing the full range of U.S. Marine Corps operations in Iraq from 2004 to 2008. During this period, the Marines conducted a wide variety of kinetic and non-kinetic operations as they fought to...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 284 p. Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956-1975) and the Cold War (1945-1991), as well as during the periods of state collapse (1991-2001) and the "global war on terror" (2001-2010). In the first two periods, the most significant...
Routledge, 2017. — 552 p. Introduction The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Context Indies Revenues and Naval Spending: The Cost of Colonialism for the Spanish Bourbons, 1763-1805 Who's Afraid of the French Revolution? Austrian Foreign Policy and European Crisis 1787-1797 The Origins, Causes and Extensions of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon The Collapse of...
Jonathan Ball, 2020. — 223 p. “A shooting war is often followed by a second war. This war is not fought with bullets or artillery shells, not with tanks or bombers, but rather with words. The war is, in effect, fought again on paper.” In 1987–1988 the dusty Angolan town of Cuito Cuanavale was the backdrop for the final battles of the Border War. Ever since the war ended, the...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 540 p. The SADF in the Border War 1966-1989 offers the first comprehensive analysis of the South African Defense Force's role in the Border War in Namibia and Angola since the end of this conflict in 1989. It investigates the causes of the Border War and follows its progress and escalation in the 1980s. It also considers the broader international...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 217 p. Why did the British win the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902? Although there is truth in the simple statement that they were much stronger than the Boers, it does not explain everything. Therefore, the main focus of this book is to analyze the most important strategic and operational decisions made on both sides, and to measure them according to...
Bayerisches Armeemuseum, 2020. — 250 p. „Forms of War 1600-1815“ is the title of the Bavarian Army Museum’s latest permanent exhibition, opened in 2019 and housed in the New Castle of Ingolstadt. With exhibits from the museum‘s own collection and some important loans, it illustrates the forms of warlike violence in the early modern period. Focal points are the fighting in the...
General Books, 2010. — 122 p. The Balkan Wars consisted of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan Peninsula in 1912 and 1913. Four Balkan states defeated the Ottoman Empire in the First Balkan War. In the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria fought against all four original combatants of the first war. It also faced an attack from Romania from the north. The Ottoman Empire lost the...
Strategic Studies, 2007. — 191 p. North Korea's Military Threat: Pyongyang's Conventional Forces, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, and Ballistic Missiles - North Korea is a country of paradoxes and contradictions. Although it remains an economic basket case that cannot feed and clothe its own people, it nevertheless possesses one of the world's largest armed forces. Whether...
London: Arrow, 1993. — 340 p. Chronicles the inside story of the world's most ruthless terrorist and his international network, which includes links with Iraq, Libya, Syria, as well as with a number of European intelligence agencies. The story of Jorde Abu Iyad's obsession Childhood traumas A black September Made in Baghdad The sponsors The colonel's crony Murder of the...
Helion, 2014. — 598 p. The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age. It was in the skies of North Korea where Soviet and American pilots came together in fierce aerial clashes. The best pilots of the opposing systems, the most powerful air forces, and the most up-to-date aircraft in the world in this period of history came together in...
Stanford University Press, 2014. — 241 p. It Takes More than a Network presents a structured investigation of the Iraqi insurgency's capacity for and conduct of organizational adaptation. In particular, it answers the question of why the Iraqi insurgency was seemingly so successful between 2003 and late 2006 and yet nearly totally collapsed by 2008. The book's main argument is...
Georgetown University Press, 2011. — 224 p. During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory. Iraq plunged into a complex insurgency, and defeating this insurgency required beating highly adaptive foes. A competition between the hierarchical and vertically integrated army and networked and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 257 p. The People’s Republic of China is the only large country in the world that does not have a “national” military; its military answers only to a political party, the Chinese Communist Party. For a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the makings of a professional, apolitical military force. The Rise and Fall of an...
Brassey, 1997. — 144 p. — (Brassey's History of Uniforms). A guide to the arms and armour of the barbarian armies. From the disintigration of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th century to the 11th century. With 150 illustrations & photographs.
University of California Press, 2002. — 394 p. David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when international attention is increasingly...
Edinburgh University Press, 2008. — 255 p. Is terrorism ever morally justified? How should historical and cultural factors be taken into account in judging the morality of terrorist acts? What are the ethical limits of state counter-terrorism? For three decades the Provisional Irish Republican Army waged an 'armed struggle' against what it considered to be the British...
Routledge, 2016. — 228 p. This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Since the beginning of the 21st century the IDF has undergone an intensive process of mediatization that has transformed the media into an interpretative grid for many of its military activities and...
3 vol. set. — ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 1195 p. Containing some 500 entries covering the interaction between war and religion from ancient times, the three-volume War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict provides students with an invaluable reference source for examining two of the most important phenomena impacting society today. This all-inclusive reference work will...
Routledge, 2020. — 95 p. The nature and role of paid foreign forces have altered considerably in the late twentieth century. ‘Military companies’ – private firms providing active military assistance, in some cases involving combat – have exploited the increasing reluctance of Western governments and multilateral organizations to intervene directly in civil conflicts. As a...
Routledge, 2021. — 537 p. This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe. Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since 9/11, with the Islamic State often described as a pseudo-state, a terrorist group, and insurgency all at the same time. While...
Collins Press, 2006. — 210 p. The Irish war of Independence has generated a wealth of published material but very little from a British perspective. Many British soldiers, sailors and airmen who served in Ireland from 1918-1921 left accounts of their service. Most describe military operations, views on the IRA, the Irish, the actions of their own forces, morale and...
ABC-CLIO, 2015. — 250 p. This fascinating saga follows the story of the Buffalo Soldiers as they participated in key events in America's history. Author Debra J. Sheffer discusses the impetus for the earliest black military service, how that service led to the creation of the Buffalo Soldiers, and how these men—and one woman—continued to serve in the face of epic obstacles. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 225 p. The command and control of military operations is a difficult art. The Challenges of High Command explores British ideas of how this should be done and, with the guidance of some of Britain's leading military historians, looks at the practicalities of British experience in the First and Second World Wars. The contributors cast new light on themes...
Continuum, 2010. — 269 p. This is a broad ranging reader in the growing subject of War Studies. It includes respected contributors, with each chapter set out clearly and with contextual background. War Studies is an increasingly popular subject at degree, masters and doctorate level, as well as aspects of it being taught at A level. Here at last is a subject reader that will...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 68 p. The war fought in northern Oman from 1954 until the mid-1960s is almost completely forgotten. Even amongst contemporary military historians, it is considered less frequently than the subsequent – and widely published – Dhofar War. Though ‘small’, it was a conflict of crucial importance for the nation on the south-eastern side of the Arab...
United States Department of Defense, 2008. — 243 p. The U.S. Army underwent a decade of significant transformation between 1987 and 1997 that affected strategy, force requirements, structure, and basing requirements. The end of the Cold War provided the initial impetus for defense reshaping and drove the pace and depth of change. Reductions in forces and installations, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 263 p. Many saw the United States' decisive victory in Desert Storm (1991) as not only vindication of American defense policy since Vietnam but also confirmation of a revolution in military affairs (RMA). Just as information-age technologies were revolutionizing civilian life, the Gulf War appeared to reflect similarly profound changes in...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 304 р. Arguing that Israel's conflicts with Egypt and Palestinian infiltrators from Jordan were defensive in nature, Jonathan Shimshoni illuminates the strategy and ethos of guerilla conflict and thereby contributes to our general understanding of non-nuclear deterrence.
Ashgate, 2009. — 232 p. "Is This a Private Fight" explores why some countries join interstate wars well after the war has begun, waiting months and often years before joining wars and thus changing their beliefs about the wisdom of entering a war. It argues that unexpected or 'surprising' events in wars cause neutral players to update their expectations about the trajectory of...
Ashgate, 2012. — 232 p. National leaders often worry that civil wars might spread, but also seem to have little grasp on which civil wars will in fact draw in other states. An ability to understand which civil wars are most likely to draw in outside powers and when this is likely to happen has important policy implications as well as simply answering a scholarly question....
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 288 p. Oliver P. Smith fought at Peleliu and Okinawa and then commanded the 1st Marine Division in Korea during the assault at Inchon, the recapture of Seoul, and the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir. Called one of the twentieth century's great Marine leaders, Smith was known as an outstanding combat commander and a man of great intellect and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 271 p. This book documents the political ecosystem that legitimized violent military action against military-age males in US military operations after September 11, 2001. It first introduces the military-age male as a category used to identify insurgent combatants who have blended into civilian environments. Though US officials maintained that...
Routledge, 2013. — 232 p. This book presents the current history of United States military strategy in Afghanistan as an example of dysfunctional policy discourse among the nation’s elites. The legitimacy of a country’s military strategy can become a subject of intense public debate and doubt, especially in prolonged conflicts. Arguments typically hinge on disagreements about...
Grub Street, 1990 - 456 p.
Above the Trenches remains the foremost work ever published on the subject of the British Air Forces during WWI.
ISBN10: 0948817194 (eng)
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 216 p. The Royal Marines are renowned for their military skill and also for having one of the finest military bands in the world. These highly trained and talented musicians are equally at home parading at Buckingham Palace, playing at the Royal Albert Hall, or on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in a foreign port. Why then when the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 272 p. On 1 January 2006, soldiers from across Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered to mark the official formation of a unified army; and yet, little over a decade before, these men had been each other's adversaries during the vicious conflict which left the Balkan state divided and impoverished. Building a Multi-Ethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia...
Amber Books, 2013. — 215 p. — (Encyclopedia of Warfare). Even as the last shots of World War II were being fired, new conflicts were springing up around the globe. The wars that followed 1945 ranged from minor insurgencies through to full-blown conventional conflicts, and they have changed the political and social map of the world while creating millions of casualties and...
Praeger, 1999. — 304 p. Using recently released French official documents and a variety of other sources, this study explains how the French Army, so recently defeated by the Viet Minh insurgents in Indochina, was able to successfully defeat the Algerian nationalist rebels on the battlefield, while nevertheless losing the war at the conference table. This French success,...
University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 514 p. Following the French reoccupation of Indochina at the end of World War II, the pro-Communist Vietnamese nationalists, or Viet Minh, launched a grassroots insurgency that erupted into a full-fledged war in 1949. After nearly ten years of savage combat, the western world was stunned when Viet Minh forces decisively defeated the French...
Jacana, 2014. — 200 p. For almost 15 years, South Africa was involved in a civil war in Angola: the so-called Bush War on behalf of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola faction. The climax of the conflict portrayed in this history was the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, the largest military engagement on African soil since World War II. This book provides the...
Columbia University Press, 2006. — 327 p. Since the end of the Cold War, conventional militaries and their political leaders have confronted a new, brutal type of warfare in which non-state armed groups use asymmetrical tactics to successfully fight larger, technologically superior forces. In order to prevent future bloodshed and political chaos, it is crucial to understand how...
University Press of the Pacific, 1992. — 387 p. Air University is proud to have joined the Air Staff and the International Security Studies Program of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in sponsoring the April 1991 conference on aerospace challenges and missions that produced this collection of essays. Written by a distinguished group of specialists...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 166 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
Greek and Roman warfare was unlike that of any other culture before or since. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practiced a "Western Way of War," in which the aim is an open, decisive battle - won by courage instilled, in part, by discipline. Here, Harry Sidebottom looks at how...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 176 p. Which army used camels disguised as war elephants? Which illustrious warlord was killed by a midget ninja hidden in his latrine? How did live cows dropped by the Soviet air force sink a Japanese vessel? And just what kind of weapon was the Bohemian Ear Spoon? These are just a few of the important questions of military history answered in...
London-New York: Hutchinson, 1942. — 176 s. Władysław Sikorski (1881 – 1943) was a Polish military and political leader. His most famous work was his 1934 book "Przyszła wojna – jej możliwości i charakter oraz związane z nimi zagadnienia obrony kraju" ("War in the Future: Its Possibilities and Character and Associated Questions of National Defense", published in English in 1943...
Harper Collins, 2010. — 304 p. Master of War is the riveting true story of Eric Prince, the ex-Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater and built the world’s largest military contractor, privatizing war for client nations around the world. A CNN producer and anchor, Suzanne Simons is the first journalist to get deep inside Blackwater—and, as a result of her unprecedented access, Master...
Manchester University Press, 2010. — 264 p. Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain’s long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict. The Colonial Police Service was created in 1936 in order to standardise all imperial...
Author P. W. Singer. Language English. Publisher Penguin. Publication date 2009. Pages 400 pages. In Wired for War, P. W. Singer explores the greatest revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: the dawn of robotic warfare. We are on the cusp of a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make real the stuff of I, Robot and The Terminator. Blending...
Cornell University Press, 2008. — 360 p. Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando...
Konark Publishers, 2020. — 227 p. Making of a General is about the unique journey of a village boy from a small hamlet of Manipur and his ascendance to become the first Three Star General of the Indian Army from North East India. The book takes the reader through the myriad places traversed by the author during his eventful career in the army. The chapter on the Kargil War and...
Vij Books India, 2005. — 169 p. The Second India Pakistan War of 1965 ended in a clear victory for India not only thwarted Pakistan's designs of annexing Kashmir but annexed large tract of Pakistani territory and inflicted heavy damage on Pakistani War machine. If there was one aspect in which Pakistan redeemed itself, it was the role played by Pakistan Air Force- a much...
Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1990. — 338 p. A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war between India and Pakistan. Much of their data derive from interviews...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 348 p. In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)―the post–World War II Japanese military―and specifically the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to their very existence. From the early iterations of the GSDF...
Manuscript from Lessing J. Rosenwald collection. — Ca. 17th century. — 275 p. In Italian. Subjects: Military topography, military engineering. Notes Manuscript on paper. Leaves 4-81 so numbered. Mainly pen and ink diagrs. and drawings, some painted with water colors. The text accompanying part of the illus. is in Italian, a few pages are in Spanish. Francesco Tensini, whose...
Mcgill Queens University Press, 2002. — 200 p. The new campaign in Afghanistan, the Gulf war, and the NATO bombardment of Kosovo show clearly how advances in information technology are driving a high-tech revolution in military affairs (RMA) and transforming the nature of modern warfare. Elinor Sloan outlines the major elements of the RMA and examines the efforts of the United...
Praeger, 2008. — 196 p. Military transformation can be understood as comprising three overlapping and sometimes competing layers—the conventional-force dominated revolution in military affairs, a more recent irregular warfare emphasis, and a wider dimension including homeland defense, space and nuclear policy. The Western world is currently focusing its attention on...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2019. — 240 p. On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut. 241 Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack our nation would suffer until 9/11. We’re still feeling the repercussions today. When Reagan Sent In The Marines tells why the Marines were there, how their mission became confused and compromised, and how...
Countryside Books, 2014. — 304 p. May 1942, five months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the first airplanes and crews of the newly formed Eighth U.S. Army Air Force arrived in Britain. Over the next two years their numbers swelled to a massive and powerful force of bombers and fighters described by one USAAF General as ‘the greatest striking force the world has ever known’....
Countryside Books, 2014. — 304 p. May 1942, five months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the first airplanes and crews of the newly formed Eighth U.S. Army Air Force arrived in Britain. Over the next two years their numbers swelled to a massive and powerful force of bombers and fighters described by one USAAF General as ‘the greatest striking force the world has ever known’....
Countryside Books, 2014. — 304 p. May 1942, five months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the first airplanes and crews of the newly formed Eighth U.S. Army Air Force arrived in Britain. Over the next two years their numbers swelled to a massive and powerful force of bombers and fighters described by one USAAF General as ‘the greatest striking force the world has ever known’....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 316 p. Clausewitz is often quoted but more often misunderstood. On Clausewitz presents his central ideas about war and politics-such as war as an instrument of policy, the concept of Absolute War, friction and the fog of war-in a clear and systematic fashion. On Clausewitz is a thorough survey of all of Clausewitz's most important insights, drawn not...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 232 p. This is the story of one man's service in the British South Africa Police of Rhodesia during his service of nearly fifteen years, between the years 1965 and 1979, and in many ways forms a sequel to the author's book Mad Dog Killers. The struggle to keep Rhodesia out of black nationalist hands started in late 1964 and ended with the Mugabe...
Helion and Company, 2012. — 179 p. During that long, hot summer of 1964, Ivan Smith, a mercenary volunteer in the Armée Nationale Congolais, came to witness and understand fear, the law of the jungle and the lust for killing that permeates Africa. A member of 'Mad Mike' Hoare's 5 Commando Group he and his companions were nominally soldiers but there was little in the way of...
Greenhill Books, 1999 - 72 p. ISBN10: 1853673765 (eng)
This exciting on-going series covers every aspect of the Luftwaffe in World War II and charts the rise and fall of this mighty force. Each volume makes use of over a hundred rare and valuable photographs, many of them taken by Luftwaffe personnel, to bring history to life and record both the men and the aircraft they flew....
Knopf, 2007. — 448 p.
General Smith draws on his vast experience as a commander in the 1991 Gulf War, in Bosnia, Kosovo and Northern Ireland, to give us a probing analysis of modern war and to call for radically new military thinking. Why, he asks, do we use armed force to solve our political problems? And how is it that our armies can win battles but fail to solve the...
Methuen and Company, 1976. — 256 p. This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the pre-colonial period covers a period of four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century. Smith addresses outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition and...
Savas Beatie, 2006. — 288 p. Warriors Seven offers a fascinating collection of American commander “profiles” written in a lively and graphic style. The unique aspect of Dr. Sneiderman’s approach is that each essay sketches the ironic twists of fate that befell these men at or near the peak of their careers. The subjects of this study include: Benedict Arnold, Andrew Jackson,...
SAGE Publications, 2003. — 208 p. On 1 October 2001, 29 people were killed at the hands of the Jaish-e-Mohammed in a terrorist attack outside the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. India′s immediate reaction was to insist that unless the US was able to rein in Pakistan, it would be forced to take matters into its own hands, which might be a setback to the US-waged Operation Enduring...
U.S. Department of Defense, 1987. — 160 p. Soviet Policies and Global Ambitions. Forces for Nuclear Attack. Strategic Defense and Space Operations. Forces for Theater Operations. Readiness, Mobility, and Sustainability. Research, Development, and Production. Political-Military and Regional Policies. The US Response.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 239 p. This book identifies and explains the functional and ideational boundaries regarding what states and Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) both do and possess regarding land power, sea power, and air power. Whereas the mercenaries, privateers, and chartered companies of years past held similar characteristics to state military...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 208 p. Gen. Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.), was born and raised on the Horseshoe—a tough inner-city street in southeast Washington D.C. Both parents lived in the rural south under Jim Crow and "separate but equal" laws. Spencer's father was a career Army soldier who lost his left hand during the Korean War, suffered from post-traumatic stress...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 299 p. True, the concept of Britain dates back to Roman times, but it was James I that founded Britain in the modern sense. With his accession to the throne in 1603 for the first time Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland were united - with James bestowing on himself the title of 'King of Great Britain'. Before this time, Scots and Irishmen may have...
Scribner, 2010. — 432 p. From the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory. Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered...
Zenith Press, 1990. — 382 p. Profound research about military`s best combat squads in Southeast Asia, their organization, tactics, equipment and so force.
Novato: Presidio Press, 1985. — 411 p. — ISBN: 0-89141-232-8 This battlefield history concentrates on how the United States Army and Marine Corps raised combat units and deployed them to Vietnam, and then how these units were employed and fought during the war. The book highlights significant military factors which affected unit performance in Vietnam. To provide continuity...
Naval Institute Press, 2014. — 288 p. In this "memoir of leadership and life lessons," Admiral James Stavridis describes the challenges he faced as the most senior leader of NATO, including the complicated operations in Afghanistan, "military intervention in Libya, preparing for possible war in Syria, countering cyber-threats, and confronting piracy.
ABC CLIO, 2016. — 288 p. The Iraq War (2003–2011) was the most significant conflict in the early 21st century. This book examines the ongoing importance of this war for the Middle East and the world today through first-person accounts of the war and primary source documents. • Provides readers with an understanding of the causes of successes and failures in Iraq and how these...
Christian Brandstätter Verlag, 2017. — 320 p. Krieg ist elementarer Bestandteil unserer Kultur, er ist historisch betrachtet der Normalzustand und hat unsere Welt maßgeblich geprägt. Das verrät schon ein Blick in unsere Verfassungen und Religionen, unsere Architektur und Literatur. Doch wie hat der Krieg den Lauf der Geschichte beeinflusst und was hat er heute noch mit uns zu...
I.B. Tauris, 2022. — 264 р. The war against ISIS is often explained through the group's own rise to power. The American side of the story has not yet been told. This book records how the United States and its allies chose to fight the group, what the consequences have been for transatlantic relations, and how these factors may shape future wars the West decides to pursue. The...
Georgetown University Press, 2009. — 352 p. A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. In "Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbours?", defense analyst Brent Sterling examines the historical use of strategic defences such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their...
Georgetown University Press, 2021. — 337 p. Preparing for the next war at an unknown date against an undetermined opponent is a difficult undertaking with extremely high stakes. Even the most detailed exercises and wargames do not truly simulate combat and the fog of war. Thus, outside of their own combat, militaries have studied foreign wars as a valuable source of battlefield...
Georgetown University Press, 2021. — 337 p. Preparing for the next war at an unknown date against an undetermined opponent is a difficult undertaking with extremely high stakes. Even the most detailed exercises and wargames do not truly simulate combat and the fog of war. Thus, outside of their own combat, militaries have studied foreign wars as a valuable source of battlefield...
Temple University Press, 2002. — 271 p. We are all familiar with ROTC, West Point, and other institutions that train young men and women to be military officers. But few people know of the U.S. Army War College, where the Army's elite career officers go for advanced training in strategy, national security policy, and military-government policymaking. This book takes readers...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 259 р. The first comparative history of military occupation as a political phenomenon. An understanding of military occupation as a distinct phenomenon first emerged in the 18th century. This book shows how this understanding developed and the problems that the occupiers, the occupied, commentators and the courts encountered. Covers all major...
Routledge, 2004. — 304 p. Britain was the first country to come under sustained ballistic missile attack, during 1944-1945. Defence against ballistic missiles has been a persistent, if highly variable, subject of political policy and technical investigation ever since. The British Second World War experience of trying to counter the V-2 attacks contained many elements of...
Routledge Group, 2008. — 265 p. — (Cass Military Studies). This volume presents a number of case studies of military advisors and missions in order to provide clear historical examples of the evolution, functioning and motives of foreign military advising in the modern era. Containing essays by US contributors covering a wide range of countries and spanning nearly 200 years of...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 336 p. How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political objectives and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to US policy and strategy, Donald Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war, particularly limited wars. He...
Pen and Sword, 1998. — 434 p. With over four years research, the author draws upon the regimental archives and journals, anecdotes, personal and official diaries, and a wide range of other documents and interviews. The book's recurring themes are the changing nature of infantry soldiering, the constant battle of the Army to recruit, and the traditions and the 'oneness' of an...
Batsford, 2018. — 210 p. The French strategy of seeking to establish a fortified base across the Viet Minh's route to and from Laos provoked an awesome struggle that lasted from November 1953 to May 1954. During this time Dien Bien Phu, surrounded by 2000 ft hills and thus difficult to re-supply by air as the French had intended, became the scene of fearful contests between the...
Pavilion Books, 2018. — 336 p. The 'Cold War' was a period of specific international tension during which, although no anticipated 'Third World War' took place, saw many wars, conflicts and armed disputes around the world, often but not always sponsored, overtly or covertly, by the rival poles of Communist Russia and capitalist America. This extensive and authoritative volume...
Hybrid Publishers, 2021. — 528 p. World War II was the biggest and most destructive war in history. For two centuries wars had grown ever larger, with the use of more terrible weapons and rising casualties, culminating in the cataclysmic global events of 1939–1945. And then, quite suddenly, large international wars have all but disappeared. What caused wars to grow in size to...
Routledge, 2016. — 280 p. During the first half of the twentieth century, European countries witnessed the arrival of hundreds of thousands of colonial soldiers fighting in European territory (First and Second World War and Spanish Civil War) and coming into contact with European society and culture. For many Europeans, these were the first instances in which they met Asians or...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 334 p.
Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg-Rothe have produced an important - no, an essential - volume of articles that illuminate and explore the core ideas of Carl von Clausewitz. The results of an Oxford Conference on Clausewitz in 2006, the articles both engage current thinking on Clausewitzian theory and open up new areas of relevance of that...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 334 p.
Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg-Rothe have produced an important - no, an essential - volume of articles that illuminate and explore the core ideas of Carl von Clausewitz. The results of an Oxford Conference on Clausewitz in 2006, the articles both engage current thinking on Clausewitzian theory and open up new areas of relevance of that...
Pen and Sword Military, 2007. — 224 p. John Strawson describes joining the 4th Hussars in the Middle East in 1942 and serving with them until amalgamation with the 9th Hussars in 1958 as The Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars. He commanded the Regiment during the Borneo campaign and was Colonel from 1975 to 1985. His account of war in Italy and of operations in Malaya and Borneo are...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 239 p. In 2009 Major Richard Streatfeild and his men fought for six months against the Taliban in Sangin, northern Helmand. They were engaged in over 800 fire-fights. They were the target of more than 200 improvised explosive devices. Ten men in his company were killed, 50 were wounded. This is their story – and it is the story, from the front...
Harper Collins, 2008. — 338 p. When winners write history, they sometimes "forget" to include their own embarrassing misjudgments. Fortunately, this take-no-prisoners edition of history isn't going to let the winners (or the losers) forget the mistakes of the past. Be prepared to laugh out loud—and gasp in horror—at the most painfully idiotic strategies, alliances, and...
Birlinn, 2017. — 384 p. In this remarkable book, Mark Muller tells the story of British intervention in Libya and the Arab Spring from a unique civil society standpoint: he was there in Benghazi two weeks after the UN No-Fly Zone Resolution was passed, meeting with Rebel leaders to discuss how Western civil society might help them stabilize the country and resolve difficult...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 320 p. An authoritative military history of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom, describing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the siege and fall of Baghdad, and the nation-building mission that followed. In 21 Days to Baghdad, historian Dr. Heather Stur describes the commitment of the division to Kuwait, the invasion of Iraq...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 474 p. A Military History of India since 1972 is a definitive work of military history that gives the Indian military its rightful place as a key contributor to Indian democracy. Arjun Subramaniam offers an engaging narrative that combines superb storytelling with the academic rigor of deep research and analysis. It is a comprehensive account...
Harper Collins Publishers India, 2020. — 472 p. The armed forces have played a key role in protecting India's sovereignty and raising its stature as a stable democracy and responsible regional power. Though the nation's soldiers, sailors and airmen occupy a special place in people's hearts, standard narratives of contemporary Indian history rarely cover the military dimension....
Brassey's History of Uniforms, Brassey's(UK) Ltd, London, 1997. - 146 p.
The Ancient Roman Army is often looked upon as a model of order and uniformity, but this book reveals that this classical ideal is a myth and that Ancient Roman warriors served in a wide variety of armour and equipment, ranging from coats of mail to the exotic garb of crocodile skin. Sometimes they clad...
Shenzhen: 2007. — 180 str. Sun Wu oraz Sun Bin obaj znani jako Sun Tzu. Przekład z języka chińskiego Jarek Zawadzki. 孫子兩位兵法. Sztuka wojny Sun Tzu i Metody wojskowe Sun Pina to kanon literatury militarystycznej. Liczące około 2500 lat traktaty zadziwiają swoją ponadczasowością i walorami poznawczymi. Z każdego odtworzonego i przetłumaczonego przez współczesnych badaczy zdania bije...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. — 145 p. A delightfully illustrated version of Sunzi's classicThe Art of Warby bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai C. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. This volume presents Tsai's delightful graphic adaptation of...
2 vol. set. — Salem Press, 2005. — 862 p. A chronological examination of U.S. involvement in wars from Revolutionary times through the post-Cold War conflicts (including Iraq). Essays have been gleaned from nine other Salem resources and new material has been added. The set is arranged chronologically and each section covering a specific conflict begins with ready reference...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 228 p. "Selected in 2005 by the Army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, better known as 5-73 CAV, was formed from 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The members of the squadron were hand-selected by the squadron command team, Lieutenant Colonel Poppas and Command Sergeant Major...
Routledge, 2010. — 149 p. This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing. The aim of this work is to supplement the usual emphasis on strategic and national issues of war in the interest of theorizing aspects of war from the point of view...
Lightning Source, 2021. — 224 p. The Marine Corps covered itself in glory in World War II with victories over the Japanese in hard-fought battles such as Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Iwo Jima. While these battles are well known, those who led the Marines into them have remained obscure until now. In Commanding the Pacific: Marine Corps Generals in World War II, Stephen R. Taaffe...
Potomac Books, 2002. — 256 p. When War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare by Robert Taber first appeared in the late 1960s, revolutionary warfare waged by guerrilla forces representing the poor and deprived sectors of society was very much in vogue in radical political circles around the world. From the jungles of Indochina to the open spaces of Palestine,...
Potomac Books, 2002. — 256 p. When War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare by Robert Taber first appeared in the late 1960s, revolutionary warfare waged by guerrilla forces representing the poor and deprived sectors of society was very much in vogue in radical political circles around the world. From the jungles of Indochina to the open spaces of Palestine,...
Potomac Books, 2002. — 256 p. When War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare by Robert Taber first appeared in the late 1960s, revolutionary warfare waged by guerrilla forces representing the poor and deprived sectors of society was very much in vogue in radical political circles around the world. From the jungles of Indochina to the open spaces of Palestine,...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 192 p. Under the leadership of a sagacious and patriotic ruler, who wasn't only cautious about the security of his state but was acting to stabilize worldwide peace by means of keeping the Middle East secure from the danger of Communism, the third most powerful Army Aviation in the world was born and flourished, its efficiency proven during its role...
Routledge, 2001. — 245 p. Recently declassified documents and new scholarship have prompted this reassessment of the collusion between Israel, France and England which drove the 1956 War. International aspects, Israeli involvement, the plot which sparked off hostilities, and the Egyptian military losses and gains are analyzed.
Routledge, 2004. — 512 p. Arab involvement in the Jewish-Palestine conflict had started during the late 1930s, but it was only in the wake of the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947 that active military intervention was considered. The Arab League tried to form a unified army that would prevent the implementation of the Partition Resolution, but failed. In Egypt, the...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 320 p. In The Dictator's Army, Caitlin Talmadge presents a compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight very well―and sometimes very poorly. Talmadge's framework for understanding battlefield effectiveness focuses on four key sets of military organizational practices: promotion patterns, training...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 1043 p. This handbook provides critical analyses of the theory and practices of small arms proliferation and its impact on conflicts and organized violence in Africa. It examines the terrains, institutions, factors and actors that drive armed conflict and arms proliferation, and further explores the nature, scope, and dynamics of conflicts across the...
Verdun Press, 2015. — 87 p. Guerilla Warfare on the Amber Coast is an authentic, factual history of Lithuanian resistance against Soviet and Nazi oppressors between 1940-1952. This report is based on first-person accounts supplied by people who lived in Lithuania and who were able to reach the West; on statements by defected Soviet officials and military personnel, on articles...
Columbia University Press, 2012. — 282 p. Defined as operations other than war, stability operations can include peacekeeping activities, population control, and counternarcotics efforts, and for the entire history of the United States military, they have been considered a dangerous distraction if not an outright drain on combat resources. Yet in 2005, the U.S. Department of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 248 p. This is the first volume in a three-volume illustrated history of the evolution of armored maneuver warfare in the British army, covering the period from 1914 until 1939. Author Dick Taylor’s tour de force covers the evolution of the tank and armored cars in response to the specific conditions created by trench warfare, the history of the...
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 336 p. “When I became secretary of defense,” Ashton B. Carter said when announcing that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women, “I made a commitment to building America’s force of the future. In the twenty-first century, that requires drawing strength from the broadest possible pool of talent.” That “pool of talent”—and how our...
Routledge, 2010. — 316 p. This volume covers a timely debate in contemporary security studies: can armed forces adjust to the rising challenge of insurgency and terrorism, the greatest transformation in warfare since the birth of the international system? Containing essays by leading international security scholars and military professionals, it explores the Fourth-Generation...
Routledge, 2022. — 239 р. — ISBN-13 9781032147154. — ISBN-10 1032147156. This book focuses on the Korean People's Army (KPA) - the armed forces of North Korea - covering its history, structural organisation and lives of the soldiers and officers within its ranks. Utilising extensive Korean, English, Russian and Chinese language sources, as well as multiple interviews with...
ISEAS Publishing, 2018. — 122 p. This study examines the impact of Doi Moi on the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), with particular attention being given to the period after its withdrawal from Cambodia. This study is divided into four chapters. The first provides a brief historical introduction. The second examines the changes ushered in during the early years of Doi Moi. The third...
Brill, 2018. — 489 p. — (History of Warfare 118). This is a collection of essays that aims to offer a vertical history of war in the Mediterranean Sea, from the early Middle Ages to early modernity, putting the emphasis on the changing face of several different aspects and contexts of war over time. The Mediterranean has always attracted the imagination of modern historians as...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 301 p. As Ward Thomas details in The New Dogs of War, militias and paramilitary groups wield greater power than national governments in many countries, while in some war zones private contractors perform missions previously reserved for uniformed troops. Most ominously, terrorist organizations with global reach have come to define the security...
Routledge, 2013. — 415 p. The Routledge Handbook of U.S. Military and Diplomatic History provides a comprehensive analysis of the major events, conflicts, and personalities that have defined and shaped the military history of the United States in the modern period. Each chapter begins with a brief introductory essay that provides context for the topical essays that follow by...
Routledge, 2021. — 368 p. International Armed Conflict Since 1945 is a bibliographic detailed handbook that briefly describes each of 269 international wars and other war-threatening conflicts occurring in the modern world between 1945 and 1988.
Toruń: Wyższa Szkoła Oficerska im. gen. J. Bema, 1998. — 207 s. Warto zwrócić uwagę, że przywołana książka jest jedyną pracą o charakterze taktycznym pozostawioną przez uchodzącego za genialnego stratega wojskowego i dowódcę Tadeusza Kościuszkę. W czasie, w którym Kościuszko pisał swoją pracę, była ona kwintesencją współczesnej artyleryjskiej wiedzy i doświadczenia w tym...
Routledge, 2007. — 224 p. US Defence Strategy from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom examines the thirty-year transformation in American military thought and defence strategy that spanned from 1973 through 2003. During these three decades, new technology and operational practices helped form what observers dubbed a 'Revolution in Military Affairs' in the 1990s and a 'New...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 128 p. It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 340 p. The past two decades have witnessed the rapid proliferation of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in armed conflicts around the world, with PMSCs participating in, for example, offensive combat, prisoner interrogation and the provision of advice and training. The extensive outsourcing of military and security activities...
Temple University Press, 2016. — 224 p. Today’s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic,...
Routledge, 2021. — 272 p. This book, first published in 1982, addresses the problem of assessing the central and regional balance of power. The collection of essays by experts on the different countries looks at the miscalculations about the military power of foreign countries which have been made in the past and the difficulties which have to be overcome today before we can...
Potomac Books, 2018. — 295 p. American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines carried whiskey at Yorktown, Gettysburg, Manila, and Da Nang. It bolstered their courage, calmed their nerves, and treated their maladies. As a serious American whiskey drinker, John C. Tramazzo noticed how military service and whiskey went hand in hand during his service as a commissioned officer in...
Ed. by Colonel Carl W. Reddel. — Washington, D.C.: United States Air Force Academy, Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, 1990. — xxii, 405 p. — ISBN: 0-912799-57-9. Acknowledgements The Twenty-Ninth Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History Introduction, Colonel Carl W. Reddel, USAF Soldiering in Tsarist Russia, John L. H. Keep The Military Legacy of...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 328 p. General Maxwell Taylor served at the nerve centers of US military policy and Cold War strategy and experienced firsthand the wars in Korea and Vietnam, as well as crises in Berlin and Cuba. Along the way he became an adversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's nuclear deterrence strategy and a champion of President John F....
Springer, 2023. — 189 p. Great powers have often found that military adventurism to force their will in distant lands comes with the risk of spending excessive military, economic, and moral capital to the extent that war is no longer sustainable. Written by a former BBC Afghanistan correspondent who set up the corporation’s bureau in Kabul in the early 1990s, this book draws...
Marine Corps University Press, 2016. — 260 p. The decade plus of U.S. military combat in Afghanistan and Iraq has resulted in an extraordinary amount of articles, books, documentaries, and films. As with many subjects in U.S. culture today, the resulting productions are often glamorized, politicized, or simply focused on only the most astonishing events of these two conflicts....
Ashgate, 2013. — 264 p. At the heart of this book is the problem of war termination. Britain won an almost unbroken string of tactical military victories during an undeclared war against the Republic of Indonesia in the 1960s, yet it proved difficult to translate this into strategic success. Using conflict termination theories, this book argues that British strategy during...
ABC-CLIO, 2014. — 354 р. The Battle of Okinawa (April–June 1945) resulted in more U.S. Navy casualties than all of the navy's previous wars combined; these heavy casualties influenced the decision to employ the atomic bomb against Japan that August. This is just one of many instances in American military history when the outcome of a battle helped to establish the course of...
ABC-CLIO, 2021. — 320 p. This engaging reference work provides readers with detailed coverage on the sieges that have had the biggest impact on world history. In addition to providing basic factual information, this encyclopedia delves into the historical context and significance of each siege. Readers will be able to identify relationships between entries and observe both the...
ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 544 p. Human history as a whole results from social changes, technological advances, and evolutions in thinking and religion―all of which often lead to wars and conflicts. Behind each major war are myriad interrelated causes. This book examines 30 of the most significant civil wars and revolutions in recorded history, from ancient times to the modern era,...
Routledge, 2001. — 382 p. This authoritative biographical guide to warfare in the twentieth century is at once fascinating reading and an invaluable work of reference for anyone interested in modern military history. As well as the First and Second World Wars, this Who's Who takes in key figures from conflicts in Vietnam, Korea and others. Those whose lives and careers are...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 384 p. From his earliest days Winston Churchill was an extreme risk taker and he carried this into adulthood. Today he is widely hailed as Britain's greatest wartime leader and politician. Deep down though, he was foremost a warlord. Just like his ally Stalin, and his arch enemies Hitler and Mussolini, Churchill could not help himself and insisted on...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 128 p. Anthony Tucker-Jones is only too familiar with the modern architects of terror. For the past decade and a half he has worked as the terrorism and security correspondent for the highly respected intersec – The Journal of International Security. During that time he has written extensively on al Qaeda and Daesh. This book draws on his experience...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 198 p. The bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war is now almost forgotten, overshadowed by the subsequent Gulf War and Iraq War. However, it is best remembered for the unique so-called ‘Tanker War which threatened to strangle the worlds oil supplies. At the time Tucker-Jones as a defence analyst wrote extensively on the war and now brings his expertise...
The History Press, 2018. — 224 p. Can air power alone win a war? That has been the question since the Second World War. Air attacks failed miserably in Vietnam; Operation Linebacker had little effect, while bombing Hanoi just increased hatred for America – yet air strikes in both Iraq and Libya helped bring about regime changes. No-fly zones may have worked in the Balkans, but...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 160 р. — ISBN: 978-1781591659. The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of Dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the American and British armed forces in a lightning campaign of just two weeks....
The History Press, 2018. — 320 p. The second millennium of mankind has been characterized by almost incessant warfare somewhere on the face of the globe. This book serves as a snapshot of the development of warfare over the past 1,000 years, illustrating the bravery and suffering mankind has inflicted upon itself in developing what we call the "Art of War." Here military...
Preface, Part One: The development of. samurai warfare. 1. Early Samurai Warfare. The Ancestors of the Samurai. The Conscript Armies. The Rise of the Mounted. Warrior. The First Samurai. Early Samurai Battles. 2. Military Gentlemen. The Way of Horse and Bow. The Archery Duel. Single Combat and the Samurai. Sword. Single Combat and the Dagger. The Samurai in Group Combat. 3. The...
Grub Street, 2016. — 225 p. A retired RAF Squadron Leader recounts his decades of service in Cold War combat zones across the globe, including his crucial role in the Falklands. Joining the Royal Air Force in 1970, Bob Tuxford distinguished himself as a fighter pilot, test pilot, squadron leader and flying instructor. In this enthralling memoir, he shares his story of active...
Warszawa: Edipresse, 2014. — 94 s. — (Wielka księga kawalerii polskiej 1918-1939. Tom 50). На польском языке. Организационная структура кавалерии. Часть 1: полк.
Pen and Sword Books, 2007. — 190 p. Henry Tyndall was a typical product of the Victorian age - an intensely patriotic army officer who served in India, on the North-West Frontier, on the Western Front and in East Africa at the height of the British empire. For 20 years, from 1895 to 1915, he kept a detailed diary that gives a vivid insight into his daily life and concerns, his...
Routledge, 2009. — 248 p. Tyner’s book provides a compelling and meticulous global geographical account of the many ways in which 'war is hell.' From landmines to napalm, from radiation sickness to agent orange, Tyner brilliantly dissects the wartime cruelties of humans to other humans and to the living material world they inhabit. Refreshing, salient, and erudite. Tyner has...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2018. — 224 p. In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say...
Potomac Books, 2007. — 255 p. Initiated in 1950, this 2007 edition is the latest in a classic series of books of the same title. Journalist-historian S. L. A. Marshall wrote the first at the behest of Gen. George C. Marshall, who formed the great citizen army of World War II. The general believed officers of all services needed to base their professional commitment on a common...
Headquarters, Department of the Army Press, 2019. — 92 p. When properly resourced and integrated, deception has the potential to deter or induce actions that are favorable to the force and can increase the success of friendly activity. In the same way that operations transition from one phase to the next, deception plans integrated into each phase and through each transition...
War Department Press, 1943. — 236 p. Issued by the Military Intelligence Division, United States War Department. This work is substantially a translation of an enemy document which has been edited in the style and format of War Department publications and rearranged in order to present the material in a more logical order than in the original text. All of the illustrations,...
Faber and Faber, 2005. — 356 p. From the bestselling author of "Rifles", the remarkable lives - and battles - of ten of Britain's greatest generals. Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. Some - including Wellington, Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in the national mythology. Others are more obscure...
Newton Compton Editori, 2015. — 318 p. Alessandro Magno, Giulio Cesare e Napoleone sono i modelli di tutti i condottieri della storia. Generali ritenuti invincibili dai contemporanei, effettuarono conquiste sorprendenti e tentarono di creare costruzioni politiche che potessero sopravvivere ai loro fondatori, anche se così non fu. Lontani nel tempo, i tre conquistatori sono...
DLVC Enterprises, 2016. — 349 p. Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the Rest and What Can Be Done About It by Martin van Creveld is an inspiring book about the military failures of Western countries. In the kingdom(s) of the West, something is rotten. Collectively, the countries of NATO are responsible for almost two thirds of global military spending. In terms of military...
DLVC Enterprises, 2016. — 349 p. Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the Rest and What Can Be Done About It by Martin van Creveld is an inspiring book about the military failures of Western countries. In the kingdom(s) of the West, something is rotten. Collectively, the countries of NATO are responsible for almost two thirds of global military spending. In terms of military...
DLVC Enterprises, 2016. — 349 p. Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the Rest and What Can Be Done About It by Martin van Creveld is an inspiring book about the military failures of Western countries. In the kingdom(s) of the West, something is rotten. Collectively, the countries of NATO are responsible for almost two thirds of global military spending. In terms of military...
DLVC Enterprises, 2016. — 349 p. Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the Rest and What Can Be Done About It by Martin van Creveld is an inspiring book about the military failures of Western countries. In the kingdom(s) of the West, something is rotten. Collectively, the countries of NATO are responsible for almost two thirds of global military spending. In terms of military...
Air University Press, 1994. — 285 p. Maxwell Air force base Alabama 36112-6428. An essential part of the Air War College curriculum consists of the study of military history and specific campaigns. Part 1 of this manuscript presents an attempt to clarify the relationship between air power and maneuver warfare since 1939, a subject that derives its importance from the fact that...
Cassell Publishing, 2000. — 224 p. From Confucian China to the present day, warriors have understood that combat is an art, one requiring sharp, flexible minds capable of adapting quickly to constantly shifting situations. In a survey that looks widely across history and cultures, the theories of some of the finest thinkers and strategists unfold, illuminating the development...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 304 p. In The Mau Mau Rebellion, the author describes the background to and the course of a short but brutal late colonial campaign in Kenya. The Mau Mau, a violent and secretive Kikuyu society, aimed to restore the proud tribes pre-colonial superiority and rule. The 1940s saw initial targeting of Africans working for the colonial government and...
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 420 p. Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid and fundamental socioeconomic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Natal colonies together into the Union of South Africa. The Union Defence Force (UDF, later...
Routledge, 2014. — 188 p. This book assesses the use of ‘mercenaries’ by states, and their integration into the national armed forces as part of a new hybridisation trend of contemporary armies. Governments, especially in the West, are undertaking an unprecedented wave of demilitarisation and military budget cuts. Simultaneously, these same governments are increasingly opening...
Routledge, 2018. — 170 p. Amidst the turmoil in the Middle East, Jordan has presented a striking example of relative stability, and in this study, first published in 1967, Professor Vatikiotis sets out to show just how far Jordan’s stability depends on its army. The Jordan Arab Army, for long better known as the Arab Legion, was one of the best small fighting forces in the...
Allen and Unwin, 2011. — 224 p. The biography of one of New Zealand's greatest military leaders, whose story has remained untold until now. The Forgotten General highlights the courage, intelligence and determination of an exceptional New Zealander. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell was a distinguished soldier and a dedicated leader of men. He was among the top-ranked divisional...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 136 p. When a large group of rebels invaded Angola from a recently independent Congo in 1961, it heralded the opening shots in another African war of independence. Between 1961 and 1974, Portugal faced the extremely ambitious task of conducting three simultaneous counterinsurgency campaigns to preserve its hegemony of Angola, Portuguese Guinea and...
Casemate, 2010. — 504 p. In his journeys, Venter associated with an array of similarly daring soldiers and journalists, from Mad Mike Hoare to Danny Pearl, as well as elite soldiers from around the world, many of whom, he sadly relates, never emerged from the war zones they entered. The creator of countless documentaries and books, from warfare to shark diving to nuclear...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 564 p. This is a completely fresh work running to near 600 pages including 32 pages of color photos, with the main thrust on events before and after the civil war that followed Lisbon’s over-hasty departure back to the metrópole. There are also several sections that detail the role of South African mercenaries in defeating the rebel leader Dr Jonas...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 128 p. One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children died in one of Africas first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune from the wasting disease of tribalism. It certainly was not because the Biafran War is still the...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 336 p. Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death. Biafra’s war was modern Africa’s first extended conflict. It lasted almost three years and was based largely on ethnic,...
Casemate Publishers, 2014. — 304 p. Mercenaries have been a part warfare for centuries, and though the names have changed, continue to play a part in global military conflicts. In today's world these "soldiers for hire" are an attractive alternative when Western governments are reluctant to put their militaries at risk for obscure causes that would otherwise be difficult to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 240 p. — ISBN10 1526772981; ISBN13 978-1526772985. Portugal was the first European country to colonize Africa. It was also the last to leave, almost five centuries later. During the course of what Lisbon called its “civilizing mission in Africa” the Portuguese weathered numerous insurrections, but none as severe as the guerrilla war first...
London: Casemate, 2006. — 609 p. Mercenaries have been with us since the dawn of civilization, yet in the modern world they are little understood. While many of today's freelance fighters provide support for larger military establishments, others wage war where the great powers refuse to tread. In War Dog, Al Venter examines the latter world of mercenary fighters effecting...
Casemate Publishers, 2005. — 482 p. Mercenaries have been with us since the dawn of civilization, yet in the modern world they are little understood. While many of today's freelance fighters provide support for larger military establishments, others wage war where the great powers refuse to tread. In War Dog, Al Venter examines the latter world of mercenary fighters effecting...
Delhi: Foundation Books, 2012. — 556 p.
n the history of mankind, armies fought at the behest of a ruler to conquer and expand territories. In due course, war crafts were devised and war logistics were developed. However, armies' food remained much the same as ever for a very long time. Eventually science and technology played a crucial role in bringing army foods and...
El Cid Editor, 2015. — 185 p. During a decade of global counterterrorism operations and two extended counterinsurgency campaigns, the United States was confronted with a new kind of adversary. Without uniforms, flags, and formations, the task of identifying and targeting these combatants represented an unprecedented operational challenge. The existing, Cold War-era doctrinal...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 287 p. The formation of post-colonial states in Africa, and the Middle East gave birth to prolonged separatist wars. Exploring the evolution of these separatist wars, Yaniv Voller examines the strategies that both governments and insurgents employed, how these strategies were shaped by the previous struggle against European colonialism and...
Normanby Press, 2015. — 165 p. This monograph forms part of the Indochina Monograph series written by senior military personnel from the former Army of the Republic of Vietnam who served against the northern communist invasion. The Kingdom of Laos, because of geographical location, was destined to play a major role as North Vietnam endeavored to expand her area of influence...
Routledge, 2018. — 381 p. The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the US Military is the first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military. In twenty-one original essays, the contributors tackle themes including gendering the 'other', gender and war disability, gender and sexual violence, gender and...
SUN Press, 2019. — 362 p. This is the first attempt to bring together diverse scholars, using different lenses, to study South Africa’s Border War. As a book, it is critical in approach, provides deeper reflection, and focuses specifically on the SADF experience of the war. The result is a more complex picture of the war’s dynamics and its legacies. Although South Africa is a...
University of North Texas Press, 2015. — 258 p. In an increasingly urbanized world, urban terrain has become a greater factor in military operations. Simultaneously, advances in military technology have given military forces sharply increased capabilities. The conflict comes from how urban terrain can negate or degrade many of those increased capabilities. What happens when...
Sagwan Press, 2020. — 192 p. This reprinted little book has been prepared with a view to placing before the soldier a store of information on the subject of Trench Warfare as it has been developed on the battle fronts of Europe during Great War, and giving him some idea of the nature of the service that he will be called upon to perform when the time arrives for him to do his...
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 336 p. The war in Afghanistan has seen men and women thrown into America's longest sustained combat operation. For over 13 years, US military personnel have been embroiled in a conflict unlike any other, in a hostile country where danger and death lurk at every turn. The nature of the fighting has transformed not only the entire structure of the US...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 198 p. The purpose of this research was to obtain a historically rooted understanding of the development, application, and adaptation of the British COIN approach--one from which the US has borrowed heavily. It focuses upon those factors which interfere with timely, adaptive application of current COIN doctrine as soon as the warning signs of...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 288 p. Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck was born in India and raised in conditions of near poverty. Yet his talent ensured his career flourished despite his Indian Army background and he was the first Commander of 8th Army in North Africa. Despite great political interference, he stopped Rommel's Afrika Corps at 1st Alamein only to be sacked by...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 356 p. This text explores the events of 1936, when a revolt broke out in Waziristan, a mountainous region of the North-West Frontier Province inhabited by warlike tribes. A Muslim holy man, the Faqir of Ipi, led the Wazirs against the occupying British-Indian regime for many years. The Wazirs' revolt was one of the greatest 20th-century South...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 375 p. War and landpower's role in the twenty-first century is not just about military organizations, tactics, operations, and technology; it is also about strategy, policy, and social and political contexts. After fourteen years of war in the Middle East with dubious results, a diminished national reputation, and a continuing drawdown of...
New York University Press, 2016. — 336 p. Analyzes the cultural attitudes, political decisions, and institutions surrounding the maintenance of armed forces throughout American history. While traditionally, Americans view expensive military structure as a poor investment and a threat to liberty, they also require a guarantee of that very freedom, necessitating the employment of...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo 69, 1995. — 228 s.
Ta bogato ilustrowana książka przedstawia ewolucję sztuki wojennej oraz armii świata greckiego i rzymskiego od 1600 r. p.n.e. do 800 r. Tekst ilustruje 125 zdjęć, większość kolorowych, oraz ponad 250 wspaniałych rysunków, w tym 50 planów słynnych bitew toczonych na lądzie i morzu.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 265 p. From sensor-fuzed munitions and autonomous weapons, to ground moving target indication radar, laser vibrometers and artificial intelligence, the weapons of warfare are undergoing a rapid transformation, with modern technologies reshaping how armies intend to fight in the twenty-first century. The Arms of the Future analyses how the...
Routledge, 2019. — 245 p. This book offers one of the first comprehensive academic views on Just Cause, the December 1989 U.S. military intervention in Panama. It presents excellent positions for the reader to consider and give a comprehensive view of all of the factors and events that prompted this fast and successful military operation.
Praeger, 2007. — 208 p. Professional Military Education (PME) is broader and more rigorous than is widely understood in the United States. Improving educational programs within the military service branches is at the very center of ongoing force transformation efforts and advanced educational opportunities occur at various, set levels of military experience. Military education...
Texas Tech University Press, 2021. — 640 p. The Air War in Vietnam is a deep dive into the effectiveness of air power during the Vietnam War, offering particular evaluation of the extent to which air operations fulfilled national policy objectives. Built from exhaustive research into previously classified and little-known archival sources, Michael Weaver insightfully blends new...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 186 p. The introduction of Airborne forces revolutionised military tactics and thinking throughout the twentieth century. In this exciting edition, ex-paratrooper John Weeks presents a history of the Airborne forces across the globe, studying the generals, the planners and parachutists, as well as the aircraft, gliders, weapons and helicopters,...
Golden Springs Publishing, 2016. — 272 p. This book is a history of controversies that have surrounded the growth of the United States Army, controversies that have flared over the inextricably related questions of how to attain maximum military security for the United States and how to form an army that will be appropriate to and not subversive of American democratic society....
Oxford University Press, 1986. — 378 p. Conflict and intervention in the Middle East are not uncommon occurrences. Yet when civil strife erupted in Lebanon in 1975, the events that followed were unusual indeed. Unlike most patterns of intervention, Syria displayed remarkable tactical flexibility by first intervening on behalf of the rebels, its traditional allies, then shifting...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 254 p. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)―a senior group of officers who lead the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps―is perhaps the most influential military figure in the United States. The chairman is the primary military advisor to the president and is often the public face of the armed forces. As advocates for the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 397 p. A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of authority with the ascendancy of terror groups.
Random House Publishing, 2012. — 336 p. In this definitive account of the conflict, acclaimed war correspondent and bestselling author Bing West provides a practical way out of Afghanistan. Drawing on his expertise as both a combat-hardened Marine and a former assistant secretary of defense, West has written a tour de force narrative, rich with vivid characters and gritty...
History Division United States Marine Corps, 2017. — 312 p. This volume presents a collection of 21 articles, interviews, and speeches describing many aspects of the U.S. Marine Corps’ participation in Operation Enduring Freedom from 2010 to 2014. This work is intended to serve as a general overview and provisional reference to inform both Marines and the general public until...
Pen and Sword Books, 2012. — 208 p. The Territorials, 1908–1914 is a unique, comprehensive record of the part-time soldiers who made up the Territorial Force that supported the regular army in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War. Previously information on the history and organization of these dedicated amateur soldiers has been incomplete and...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2017. — 268 p. One of the cherished beliefs of those who do not know is that the logistical services of the Army lead a safe and boring life, even in the combat zone. The Combat Engineers and the Signal Corps began to cloud this belief in World War I. The Medical Corps, the Chemical Corps and the Bomb Disposal squads of the Ordnance Corps began to...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 420 p. The period under review covers the years of 1984-1987 - nearing the end of the third decade of the Troubles. It will use research and oral contributions from the mid to late 1980s and will show not only how the Provisional IRA (PIRA) grew in financial and logistical strength, but also how the Security Forces (SF) worked hard to contain them....
The History Press, 2011. — 359 p. Ken Wharton's latest book on the Northern Ireland Troubles is, as always, written from the perspective of the British soldier. Here he chronicles the worst year of The Troubles - 1972 - a year in which 172 soldiers died as a direct consequence of the insanity that would grip Ulster for almost 30 years. His empathy lies firstly with the men who...
The History Press, 2011. — 208 p. Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first hand. Bloody Belfast is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfast's streets. Wharton's work is based on first hand accounts from the soldiers who experienced the violence in Belfast. The reader can walk the darkened,...
Duke University Press Books, 2021. — 304 p. In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964–1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle. In the memoirs of white soldiers fighting to defend white minority rule in Africa long after other countries were...
Page Publishing, 2010. — 190 p. Take a journey through the eyes of a Marine scout sniper as he unveils the horrors of the mean streets of Ramadi, Iraq, in 2005 from losing fellow Marines, escaping death's grasps as you silently move through the streets, and dodging improvised explosive devices, enemy snipers, and the chaos associated with a country's first election. Continue...
Open Road Media, 2020. — 164 p. An overview of modern Western militaries’ response to armed rebellion, from Indochina to Northern Ireland to Iraq. Counterinsurgency—or efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority—has become a buzzword in recent times, but the term is as old as society itself. This concise history covers the development of modern...
Routledge, 2020. — 270 p. This book examines the shape, sources and dangers of information warfare (IW) as it pertains to military, diplomatic and civilian stakeholders. Cyber warfare and information warfare are different beasts. Both concern information, but where the former does so exclusively in its digitized and operationalized form, the latter does so in a much broader...
University Press of Kentucky, 2013. — 275 p. Formally titled "General of the Army," the five-star general is the highest possible rank awarded in the U.S. Army in modern times and has been awarded to only five men in the nation's history: George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry H. Arnold, and Omar N. Bradley. In addition to their rank, these...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 264 p. Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and geography of Iraq, but Afghanistan remains a mystery....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 400 p. Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the War on Terror, it provides a retrospective on the extraordinary series of conflicts that saw the United States deploy more than two and a half million men and women to fight in...
Tafelberg Publishers, 2013. — 220 p. From its beginning in 1912 as a small, ill-equipped organisation, the South African Army went on to play a major part in two world wars. By the 1980s it had become one of the world's most effective armies. Springboks, Troepies and Cadres offers a gripping record of the army's hundred-year existence. It is based on the stories of a divergent...
Casemate Publishers, 2010. — 208 p. This remarkable story begins with as a young National Serviceman in 1951, the author walked through the gates at the Welch Brigade Training Centre, Brecon, and ends when he walked back into Civvy Street in 1953. Between these dates he went through many life-changing experiences, in particular the twelve months he spent with the 1st Battle...
Man-at-Arms First published in Great Britain in 2002 by Osprey Publishing Ems Cout, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LP, United Kingdom ISBN: 1-84176-405-1
Lulu Edicion, 2014. — 206 p. Andrew Wilson’s 1968 book was the first to describe for the general reader the evolution of the war game as a serious, and sometimes unreliable, military planning tool. The author was the Defence Correspondent to The Observer Newspaper. He was granted special access to the Pentagon and other secret sources of information and interviewed many leading...
Dundurn, 2012. — 288 p. Explore the history of the Canadian air defence of North America during the Cold War. NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defence of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret world of NORAD, the joint Canadian-American North American Air Defence network. Ride along with the aircrew in their cockpit...
Casemate, 2021. — 224 p. The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of postwar Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length. Prepared in 1951 at the height of the Korean War by the Chief of Amphibious Warfare and the Commandant General Royal Marines, this...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018. — 441 p. This book fills a gap in the historiographical and theoretical fields of race, gender, and war. In brief, Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare (RGMWW) offers an introduction into how cultural constructions of identity are transformed by war and how they in turn influence the nature of military institutions and conflicts. Focusing on...
University of Nebraska Press, 2000. — 269 p. The Challenge of Change examines how military institutions attempted to meet the demands of the new strategic, political, and technological realities of the turbulent era between the First and Second World Wars. The contributors chose France, Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States as focus countries because...
Sapere Books, 2022. — 344 p. — ISBN 978-1-80055-498-6. An astounding assessment of the invaluable role of U.S. and Allied codebreakers in the sprawling naval war against Japan. Essential reading for fans of Liza Mundy, Ian W. Toll, and James D. Hornfischer. How did the allies intercept, decipher, and analyse Japanese secret messages through the course of World War Two? And...
Naval Institute Press, 2010. — 224 p. The Cold War was only cold in that the major powers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, did not engage in a nuclear war. But during that period (1945-1991) there were wars, spying, shoot downs of numerous reconnaissance aircraft, captures of U.S. military personnel, murders, defections, a space race with men put in orbit and an eventual moon...
Newton Compton Editori, 2022. — 418 p. La rivalità geografica tra le grandi potenze Russia, UE e NATO porta all'invasione della Crimea nel 2014 e all'attuale guerra russo-ucraina nel 2022. Sebbene, la questione sia storicamente e politicamente correlata alla vecchia guerra di Crimea (1853-1856) che si trasformò diventare un conflitto globale. Il nome Guerra di Crimea non...
Helion and Company, 2009. — 308 p. Fireforce as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Coupled with this, the traditional counter-insurgency tactics (against Mugabe's ZANLA and Nkomo's ZIPRA) of follow-ups, tracking and ambushing simply weren't producing satisfactory results. Visionary...
Random House Publishing Group, 2009. — 288 p. No one man can win a battle by himself, but battles have been won and lost because of the strength or failings of one individual: the leader. What went on in the minds and hearts of a select group of military leaders at critical moments in battle is the theme of this book. In Leaders and Battles, W. J. Wood re-creates ten battles...
Pen and Sword Books, 2005. — 208 p. A memoir of the lethal conflict in the former Yugoslavia, by a British soldier who was on the front lines. This is a young cavalry lieutenant's moving and shocking account of front line service in the cauldron of war. His troop of Scimitar light-armored vehicles was attached to the 1 CHESHIRE Battle Group, under the charismatic command of...
University of New Mexico Press, 2009. — 384 р. As the fledgling nation looked west to the land beyond the Appalachian Mountains, it turned to the army to advance and defend its national interests. Clashing with Spain, Britain, France, Mexico, the Confederacy, and Indians in this pursuit of expansion, the army's failures and successes alternately delayed and hastened western...
The History Press, 2012. — 208 p. From the American Civil War onwards, railways have been an important aspect of war. So important were the railways that in the First World War, the state took control of the railways, and then repeated this exercise in the Second World War. Wartime on the Railways describes the part played by Britain's railways during the Second World War,...
Naval Institute Press, 2007. — 232 p. This handsome, large-format book takes the reader on an illustrated tour of the U.S. Army's hard-hitting airborne forces, from the original Parachute Test Platoon of 1940 to the multiple global commitment of the twenty-first century. Featuring more than 150 photographs, some rare or seldom seen and many in color, the work highlights the...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 239 p. A History of the Royal Hospital Chelsea looks at the hospital's beginnings, with its Royal patronage and heritage which dates back to King Charles ll in 1682. It then goes on to look at some of the characters who have been In Pensioners at the hospital over the centuries, as well as some of the individuals who have been buried in the...
Pen and Sword, 2021. — 255 p. The Korean War (1950-1953) is often referred to by many British and Commonwealth veterans who took part in it as the 'forgotten war', a reference which does not include themselves or the families and friends of those who were killed. On 15 August 1945, US and Soviet forces liberated Korea from the Japanese and the country was subsequently divided...
Warszawa: Wydawca Akademia Obrony Narodowej, 2006. — 300 s. Materiały z konferencji naukowej zorganizowanej w Akademii Obrony Narodowej w dniu 29 listopada 2005 roku.
Warszawa: Bellona, 2000. — 336 s. Wojny toczone od zarania ludzkości sprawiły, że wielcy mysliciele i dowódcy doszukiwać się zaczęli zasad i metod, których stosowanie zapewniłoby przewagę ich armii na polu walki. W niniejszej pracy zostały omówione dzieła, które powstały w różnych epokach i na różnych kontynentach. Na uwagę zasługuje wnikliwe omówienie XIX wiecznej myśli...
Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1988. — 344 p. Lech Wyszczelski – polski historyk wojskowości, profesor zwyczajny, pułkownik w stanie spoczynku. W 1973 ukończył Wojskową Akademię Polityczną na Wydziale Historyczno-Politycznym, doktorat uzyskał w 1979 (WAP), habilitował się w Akademii Sztabu Generalnego WP w 1986, a od 1998 posiada tytuł naukowy profesora. Wieloletni...
Warszawa: Neriton, 2009. — 570 s. Geneza myśli wojskowej oraz główne nurty i jej reprezentanci w starożytności i średniowieczu. Myśl wojskowa epoki odrodzenia i oświecenia. Geneza wojen i uzasadnienie konieczności ich prowadzenia. Myśl wojskowa od XIX wieku do wybuchu pierwszej wojny światowej. Kierunki rozwoju myśli wojskowej okresu międzywojennego 1918-1939. Wizja wojen i...
Penguin Veer, 2021. — 192 p. On 18 November 1962, the Charlie Company of the 13 Kumaon Battalion, Kumaon Regiment, fought a Chinese attack at Rezang La Pass in Ladakh, India. The company comprised 120 soldiers and was led by Maj. Shaitan Singh. Of these soldiers, 110 were martyred in the attack. The Indian search party, which visited the battlefield on 10 February 1963, made a...
Casemate Publishers, 2016. — 288 p. From the author of Da Nang Diary: A military history of the Battle of Hamburger Hill and other fights between the NVA and the US and its Vietnamese allies. Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) were not a major factor, but where the trained...
Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. — 442 p. Balanced, authoritative, and highly readable, this is the first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietname War. It is a riveting history of the war the U.S. fought with Vietnam, beginning with the aid given the French to recover their former colony, as well as a history of the war of resistance the...
Pen and Sword, 2004. — 227 p. This action packed military memoir tells of the exploits of a young Sapper officer during both the Second World War and in Korea. Tony Younger was in the thick of the action during the German Blitzkrieg of 1940 seeing desperate fighting as the beleaguered British Expeditionary Force struggled to escape at Dunkirk. He then became closely involved in...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 272 p. This study explores the genesis of the civil war in Somalia by analysing the defeat of Somalia in the 1977 Ogaden war, asserting that this defeat, which was prompted by the intervention of the USSR, was a turning point which unleashed long term socio-political forces that led to the collapse of the central government of the country. Muuse Yuusuf...
Boulder, 1981. — 224 p. It is Zamoyski first book of a long line and tell the story when once more Poland stood alone against the Soviets - Soviet-Polish War 1919-1920. There was virtual "help" from the French (amongst others the once to be president de Gaulle and the help of American-polish aviators). The Background The Birth of Two Armies. The Spring Offensive. The Battle of...
Libron, 2006. — 176 р. Dawny wyscig zbrojen toczony pomiedzy obroncami twierdz i oblegajacymi odzywa tylko w wyobrazni podrózujacych w czasie badaczy i archeologów, podobny bardziej do homeryckich opowiesci o Troi niz do dramatów znanych z codziennych wiadomosci. Ta skromna ksiazeczka jest próba takiej podrózy w czasie, odbytej dzieki uprzejmosci anonimowych fotografów sprzed...
Just World Books, 2012. — 302 p. — ISBN10 1935982206. — ISBN13 978-1935982203. For eight months in 2008, U.S. Army 1st Lieut Matt Zeller served as an embedded combat adviser with the Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Watches Without Time is a compilation of the emails and letters he sent home to family and friends during that period-- so that, as he writes in the...
Stanford Security Studies, 2010. — 241 p. When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.S. interests, and that cannot be adequately addressed through economic or political pressure, American policymakers and opinion formers have increasingly resorted to recommending the use of limited military force: that is, enough force to attempt to resolve the...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 312 p. — ISBN13 9781682475874. — ISBN10 1682475875. To Rule the Skies: General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War fills a critical gap in Cold War and Air Force history by telling the story of General Thomas S. Power for the first time. Thomas Power was second only to Curtis LeMay in forming the Strategic Air...
Twayne Publishers, 1967. — 502 p. This book describes and looks at the Western Military Experience and history of warfare from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. The authors examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those ranging from Han China and Assyria, Imperial Rome, and Napoleonic France to modern conflicts. They...
Routledge, 2016. — 294 p. Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the twentieth century. A comparative perspective which incorporates belligerent, occupied and neutral countries provides new insights into the relationship between food and war. The analysis...
Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1975. — 331 s. (польською мовою).
В дослідженні проводится аналіз війскової справи й організації військ Речі Посполитої на фоні загальноєвропейського розвитку військового мистецтва Західної Європи та Близького Сходу із XV по XVIII століття. Аналізується склад військ, озброєння, захисні обладунки, тактика тощо.
СПб.: тип. П.П. Сойкина, 1898. — 115 с. Пособие для подготовки к службе казака, призванного в гвардейские казачьи части. Охватывает широкий диапазон тем, начиная с религиозных обязанностей, общих вопросов его служебного предназначения, выдержек из Уставов (строевого, дисциплинарного, внутренней службы) и переходя к практическим рекомендациям по уходу за лошадью, устройству...
М.: Книга, 2012. — 116 с. — ISBN: 973-5-91899-078-0.
Одной из ярких страниц военной истории античности является использование боевых слонов. Экзотические животные, привлекавшие внимание европейцев своим необычным видом и мощью, впервые появились в армии Александра Македонского и активно участвовали в войнах между наследниками его державы. Наряду с македонской фалангой боевые...
Вечерняя Винница, 2000. — 260 с. — ISBN: 966-621-018-5.
Перед Вами книга "Полководцы и подвиги". Это не мемуары, не учебник и не художественный вымысел, а книга для чтения по военной истории. Она представляет собой сборник кратких очерков о войнах и армиях, полководцах и подвигах, военной науке и военном искусстве. В ней изложено основное содержание крупнейших сражений с...
Вечерняя Винница, 2000. — 260 с. — ISBN: 966-621-018-5. Перед Вами книга "Полководцы и подвиги". Это не мемуары, не учебник и не художественный вымысел, а книга для чтения по военной истории. Она представляет собой сборник кратких очерков о войнах и армиях, полководцах и подвигах, военной науке и военном искусстве. В ней изложено основное содержание крупнейших сражений с глубокой...
С.-Пб.: Столич. скоропеч., 1902. — 331 c. Предисловие Перечень источников Введение Постоянные и наемные войска до эпохи возрождения включительно Армии Рима; войска феодальной эпохи. Развитие наемных войск в Италии; пехота; конница; артиллерия. Попытка Маккиавелли создать народную армию. Выводы Первые постоянные войска во Франции Падение феодального строя. Армия при Карле VII....
М.: Издание Литиздата НКИД, 1926. — 472 с. Книге предпослана, обширная вступительная статья (занимающая 106 страниц) проф. Э. Д. Гримма под заглавием — «Политическая обстановка военных операций для захвата Константинополя и Проливов в 1915—1917 гг.» Автор не только дал интересный анализ печатаемых в книге секретных материалов, но всюду постарался сделать сопоставления их с...
М.: Издание Литиздата НКИД, 1926. — 472 с.
Книге предпослана, обширная вступительная статья (занимающая 106 страниц) проф. Э. Д. Гримма под заглавием — «Политическая обстановка военных операций для захвата Константинополя и Проливов в 1915—1917 гг.» Автор не только дал интересный анализ печатаемых в книге секретных материалов, но всюду постарался сделать сопоставления их с...
Баку: Афполеграф, 2016. — 156 с. Книга “Военная история Азербайджана”, подготовленная в соответствии с указанием Президента страны, Верховного Главнокомандующего Вооруженными Силами Азербайджанской Республики господина Ильхам Алиева, состоит из семи томов. В ней впервые комплексно освещены основные военно-исторические события, происходившие на территории Азербайджана на...
Баку: Афполеграф, 2017. — 276 с. Книга “Военная история Азербайджана”, подготовлена в соответствии с указанием Президента страны, Верховного Главнокомандующего Вооруженными Силами Азербайджанской Республики Ильхам Алиева. В ней комплексно освещены основные военно-исторические события, на территории Азербайджана в период средневековья до начала XVI века на основе анализа широкого...
Знаменск, 2012. — 127 с.
Эта книга выпущена к 50-летию 118-го Научно-испытательного центра измерений, математической обработки и информационного обмена, ведущей организации 4-го Государственного центрального межвидового полигона МО РФ.
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2-е изд. — М.; Л.: Гос. воен. изд-во, 1931. — 88 с.: черт. В уставе изложены свойства танков и бронеавтомобилей, а также организация и тактическое применение их в различные моменты боя. Широкое применение танков и бронеавтомобилей в мировой войне, равно как и усиленная работа после войны в английской армии по дальнейшему совершенствованию свойства боевых машин и форм применения их...
М.; Л.: Гос. изд-во. Отд. воен. литературы, 1928. — 95, [4] с.: черт., схем. В уставе изложено свойство танков и бронеавтомобилей, а организация и тактическое применение их в различные моменты боя. Широкое применение танков и бронеавтомобилей в мировой войне, усиленная работа после войны в английской армии по дальнейшему совершенствованию свойства бронеповозок и форм применения их...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2021. — 640 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-5463-7. Роджер Чарльз Андерсон – известный английский военно-морской историк – предлагает подробное описание сражений, произошедших в Восточном Средиземноморье с середины XVI до середины XIX в. Самым подробным образом автор описывает Критские войны и Морейскую войну, осаду Корфу и сражение у мыса Матапан, Наполеоновские войны...
Изд. 3-е, испр., доп. — Санкт-Петербург: Типография (б.) А.М. Котомина, 1880. — [4], 158, [1] с., 17 л. черт. Предмет военных сообщеній О дорогах Направление дороги Общий вид землянаго полотна дорог. Условия, которым должна удовлетворять дорога Устройство дорог на различных грунтах Каменныя дороги: булыжные и шоссе Железные дороги. Общие сведение об устройстве паровозных...
Изд. 3-е, испр., доп. — Санкт-Петербург: Типография (б.) А.М. Котомина, 1880. — [4], 158, [1] с., 17 л. черт. Предмет военных сообщеній О дорогах Направление дороги Общий вид землянаго полотна дорог. Условия, которым должна удовлетворять дорога Устройство дорог на различных грунтах Каменныя дороги: булыжные и шоссе Железные дороги. Общие сведение об устройстве паровозных...
Москва: Воениздат, 1970. — 240 с. В книге рассматриваются современное состояние и перспективы развития воздушно-десантных войск основных стран НАТО. При описании средств парашютного и посадочного десантирования приводятся основные летно-технические характеристики боевых и транспортных самолетов, парашютных систем и т.д.
СПб.: Военная типография, 1871. — 101 с.
Справочник для "лиц, заведующих продовольственной частью в войсках и управлениях". В настоящее время представляет интерес, как источник сведений о быте войск.
Омск: Исторический архив Омской области, 2022. — 421 с. — ISBN 978-5-8042-0813-5 В настоящем сборнике документов представлены материалы из фондов Исторического архива Омской области, Архива УФСБ России по Омской области, Центрального архива Министерства обороны Российской Федерации, Государственного архива Новосибирской области, Архива УФСБ России по Новосибирской области по...
М.: Центр стратегических оценок и прогнозов, 2014.
В этой книге кратко говорится о зарождении террористической группировки "Исламское Государство Ирака и Леванта"; основная часть книги посвящена описанию целей, задач, способам действий этой организации, а также описанию взаимоотношений этой организации с другими террористическими группировками по состоянию на 2014 год.
М.: Типо-Литография Русского Товарищества Печати и Издательского Дела, 1917. — 254 с.
Описание применения боевых отравляющих веществ в Первую Мировую войну и применявшихся в то время методов борьбы с ними.
М.: Гос. воен. изд-во, 1931. — 125 с., 2 с. объявл.: ил. Принципы применения авиации Сосредоточение в начальном периоде войны Маневр Сосредоточение или маневр воздушных сил и постоянство зон действия Сосредоточение или маневр воздушных сил и единство и непрерывность командования Авиация в прикрытии Численное соотношение воздушных и земных сил в сражении Применение авиации над...
Пер. с фр., примеч. А. В. Банникова; вступит. статья А. А. Попова, А. В. Банникова. – СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2011. – 394 с. – (Historia Militaris). — ISBN: 978-5-8465-1173-6 (Филологический факультет); ISBN: 978-5-98187-879-4 (Нестор-История) Книга П. Д. Арманди, ветерана Наполеоновских войн, была опубликована издательством «Librairie d’Amyot» в...
Пер. с фр., примеч. А. В. Банникова; вступит. статья А. А. Попова, А. В. Банникова. – СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2011. – 394 с. – (Historia Militaris). – ISBN: 978-5-8465-1173-6; 978-5-98187-879-4. Книга П. Д. Арманди, ветерана Наполеоновских войн, была опубликована издательством «Librairie d’Amyot» в Париже. Посвящённая редкой и не рассматривавшейся...
Санкт-Петербург : Тип. штаба войск гвардии и Петербургского военного окр., 1909. — [4], 20 с. Книга, написанная Генерального штаба капитаном Ассановичем рассказывает о полтавской битве 1709 г. и о роли в ней Петра Первого.
СПб.: Военное министерство, 1830. — 71 с. Атлас содержит 60 цветных карт (планов) крепостей и укреплений Российской империи : Грузинский округ - Александрополь, Анапа, Ахалкалаки, Ахалцых, Баку, Владикавказ, Дарьяльский пост, Дербент, Кизляр, Ленкоран, Новые Закаталы, Ахта, Воздвиженское, Укр. Евгениевское, Укр. Кази-Кумых, Укр. Каменного моста на р. Малке, Укр. Куринское, Укр....
История отечественной военно-энциклопедической литературы / А.И. Бабин, Д.И. Винокуров, М.М. Кирьян, И.И. Ростунов; АН СССР, ИВИ МО СССР. — М.: Наука, 1980. — 174 с. Монография представляет собой краткий исторический очерк возникновения и развития отечественной военно-энциклопедической литературы с начала XVIII в. до наших дней. Она освещает основные вопросы истории русской...
СПб.: Типография Гр. Скачкова, 1909. — 177 с. А. К. Байов в течение трёх лет, опираясь на труды своих предшественников, профессоров Д. Ф. Масловского, А. З. Мышлаевского, М. В. Алексеева, читает курс лекций в младшем классе Николаевской академии Генерального штаба. Стремясь расширить свою аудиторию и удовлетворить возросший интерес к русскому военному прошлому, он в 1909—1913...
СПб.: Типография Гр. Скачкова, 1909. — 208 с. А. К. Байов в течение трёх лет, опираясь на труды своих предшественников, профессоров Д. Ф. Масловского, А. З. Мышлаевского, М. В. Алексеева, читает курс лекций в младшем классе Николаевской академии Генерального штаба. Стремясь расширить свою аудиторию и удовлетворить возросший интерес к русскому военному прошлому, он в 1909—1913...
СПб.: Типография Гр. Скачкова, 1909. — 97 с. А. К. Байов в течение трёх лет, опираясь на труды своих предшественников, профессоров Д. Ф. Масловского, А. З. Мышлаевского, М. В. Алексеева, читает курс лекций в младшем классе Николаевской академии Генерального штаба. Стремясь расширить свою аудиторию и удовлетворить возросший интерес к русскому военному прошлому, он в 1909—1913 годах...
СПб.: Типография Гр. Скачкова, 1909. — 132 с. А. К. Байов в течение трёх лет, опираясь на труды своих предшественников, профессоров Д. Ф. Масловского, А. З. Мышлаевского, М. В. Алексеева, читает курс лекций в младшем классе Николаевской академии Генерального штаба. Стремясь расширить свою аудиторию и удовлетворить возросший интерес к русскому военному прошлому, он в 1909—1913...
СПб.: Типография Гр. Скачкова, 1909. — 263 с. А. К. Байов в течение трёх лет, опираясь на труды своих предшественников, профессоров Д. Ф. Масловского, А. З. Мышлаевского, М. В. Алексеева, читает курс лекций в младшем классе Николаевской академии Генерального штаба. Стремясь расширить свою аудиторию и удовлетворить возросший интерес к русскому военному прошлому, он в 1909—1913...
СПб.: Типография Гр. Скачкова, 1910. — 393 с. А. К. Байов в течение трёх лет, опираясь на труды своих предшественников, профессоров Д. Ф. Масловского, А. З. Мышлаевского, М. В. Алексеева, читает курс лекций в младшем классе Николаевской академии Генерального штаба. Стремясь расширить свою аудиторию и удовлетворить возросший интерес к русскому военному прошлому, он в 1909—1913...
СПб.: Типография Гр. Скачкова, 1913. — 511 с. А. К. Байов в течение трёх лет, опираясь на труды своих предшественников, профессоров Д. Ф. Масловского, А. З. Мышлаевского, М. В. Алексеева, читает курс лекций в младшем классе Николаевской академии Генерального штаба. Стремясь расширить свою аудиторию и удовлетворить возросший интерес к русскому военному прошлому, он в 1909—1913...
М.: Военное издательство министерства обороны Союза ССР , 1958. — 167 с. Исторический очерк, охватывающий историю применения электричества к военно-инженерному делу, охватывающий период от первых опытов Шиллинга до Великой Отечественной войны и послевоенного периода. Акцент на достижения русских военных и учёных.
СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2011. — 264 с.: ил. — (Historia Militaris). — ISBN: 978-5-8465-1105-7; ISBN: 978-5-98187-853-4. В книге рассматриваются этапы развития позднеримской военной системы: ее формирование, длившееся более полувека и завершенное в правление императора Константина 1 (306–337 гг.) и его сыновей; ее модификации, продолжавшиеся вплоть...
СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2011. — 264 с.: ил. — (Historia Militaris). — ISBN: 978-5-8465-1105-7; ISBN: 978-5-98187-853-4. В книге рассматриваются этапы развития позднеримской военной системы: ее формирование, длившееся более полувека и завершенное в правление императора Константина 1 (306–337 гг.) и его сыновей; ее модификации, продолжавшиеся вплоть...
СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2011. — 264 с.: ил. — (Historia Militaris). — ISBN: 978-5-8465-1105-7; ISBN: 978-5-98187-853-4. В книге рассматриваются этапы развития позднеримской военной системы: ее формирование, длившееся более полувека и завершенное в правление императора Константина 1 (306–337 гг.) и его сыновей; ее модификации, продолжавшиеся вплоть...
СПб.: Евразия, 2012. — 530 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91852-054-3. Книга посвящена античной элефантерии, зародившейся во времена Александра Великого и ставшей затем неотъемлемой частью армий крупнейших эллинистических государств и Карфагена. В течение двух столетий этот вид войск оказывал сильнейшее влияние на развитие военного дела. Основные принципы взаимодействия элефантерии с...
СПб.: Изд-во СПбГУКИ, 2013. — 169 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94708-150-3. Книга посвящена одному из наиболее интересных сюжетов, касающихся военного дела Древнего мира – боевым слонам, чья история прослеживается от эпохи Александра Великого до периода правления Сасанидов. Предпринимается первая в отечественной историографии попытка обобщить и систематизировать весь накопленный материал...
СПб.: Изд-во СПбГУКИ, 2013. — 169 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94708-150-3. Книга посвящена одному из наиболее интересных сюжетов, касающихся военного дела Древнего мира – боевым слонам, чья история прослеживается от эпохи Александра Великого до периода правления Сасанидов. Предпринимается первая в отечественной историографии попытка обобщить и систематизировать весь накопленный материал...
СПб.: Изд-во СПбГУКИ, 2013. — 169 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94708-150-3. Книга посвящена одному из наиболее интересных сюжетов, касающихся военного дела Древнего мира – боевым слонам, чья история прослеживается от эпохи Александра Великого до периода правления Сасанидов. Предпринимается первая в отечественной историографии попытка обобщить и систематизировать весь накопленный материал...
М.; Л.: Гос. изд-во. Отд. воен. лит-ры, 1930. — 140 с.: схем. Предисловие К.А. Неймана Введение Условия подготовки Целевая установка Метод подготовки. Общие замечания и основные принципы Объём подготовки Планировка работ по подготовке Рабочие карточки Примеры упражнений с боевыми стрельбами Тактические учения роты и батальона с боевой подготовкой Заключение примечания К.А. Неймана
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1988. — 303 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-235-00312-3. Книга о героическом прошлом нашего народа, о его славных деяниях в борьбе за Отечество, против иноземных захватчиков и поработителей. В центре повествования - история армии, русских вооруженных сил. Но показана она не только через походы и сражения, но и через поступки, характеры выдающихся полководцев и народных...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1988. — 303 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-235-00312-3. Книга о героическом прошлом нашего народа, о его славных деяниях в борьбе за Отечество, против иноземных захватчиков и поработителей. В центре повествования — история армии, русских вооруженных сил. Но показана она не только через походы и сражения, но и через поступки, характеры выдающихся полководцев и народных...
М.: Владос, 1999. – 148 с. Перед вами комплексное издание, содержащее подробный рассказ об основных событиях и сражениях Отечественной войны 1812г. и заграничных походах, составе и организации русской армии. Благодаря художнику О. К. Пархаеву перед читателем пройдет строй генералов, офицеров, рядовых - героев войны в полном вооружении, выполненном в мельчайших деталях. Издание...
СПб.: Типо-литография Шредера, 1907. — 110 с. Четыре чтения в Военном и Морском отделах Императорского Русского Технического Общества и Лиги Возрождения Флота в октябре 1906 года.
М.: Красная Звезда, 2022. — 112 с., 52 ил. Учебное пособие посвящено истории комплектования армии России военнослужащими на добровольной основе в период с XVIII века по настоящее время. Пособие предназначено для использования в военно-политической работе с личным составом Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации.
М.: Красная Звезда, 2022. — 112 с., 52 ил. Учебное пособие посвящено истории комплектования армии России военнослужащими на добровольной основе в период с XVIII века по настоящее время. Пособие предназначено для использования в военно-политической работе с личным составом Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации.
Екатеринбург: Гуманитарный университет, 2006. — 356 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-7741-0075-8. Рассматриваются вопросы военной истории, военная культура и военное искусство Евразии. Для исследователей, преподавателей, аспирантов, студентов исторических, юридических, политологических, социально-экономических специальностей, курсантов военных училищ, а также для всех интересующихся военной...
Екатеринбург: Гуманитарный университет, 2006. — 356 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-7741-0075-8. Рассматриваются вопросы военной истории, военная культура и военное искусство Евразии. Для исследователей, преподавателей, аспирантов, студентов исторических, юридических, политологических, социально-экономических специальностей, курсантов военных училищ, а также для всех интересующихся военной...
М.; Л.: Гос. изд-во. Отд. воен. литературы, 1927. — 168 с.: черт., схем. От редакции Введение к переводу Ось связи Устройство оси связи Техническое значение оси связи Оперативное значение оси связи Тактическое значение оси связи Рама связи. Её сооружение и значение для службы связи дивизии в маневренной войне. Общие сведения Проволочная связь Сооружение дивизионной телефонной...
М.: Наука, 1974. — 365 с. В книге рассматривается история войн, в которых участвовала Россия в течение XIX столетия. Автор выясняет причины и характер каждой из войн, исследует развитие русского военного и военно-морского искусства, стратегию и тактику, показывает зависимость от политического и экономического строя страны способов и форм ведения военных действий. Дается...
Генеральный штаб Вооруженных Сил СССР. — М.: Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР, 1964. — 184 с. Наставление по полевой службе штабов содержит общие указания по работе штабов объединений, соединений и частей Сухопутных войск, Войск противовоздушной обороны страны и Военно-воздушных сил. В нем устанавливается единый порядок оформления боевых документов и даются...
[сборник] — Москва: АСТ, 2017. — 218, [5] с.: ил. — (Кодекс чести). — ISBN: 978-5-17-099460-1. В русской армии офицерское звание всегда определяло принадлежность не к социальной группе, но к касте, которая жила по своим неписаным законам – по кодексу чести. В том случае, если уложения армейских уставов вступали в конфликт с положениями кодекса, выбор офицера был очевиден – в...
[сборник] — Москва: АСТ, 2017. — 218, [5] с.: ил. — (Кодекс чести). — ISBN: 978-5-17-099460-1. В русской армии офицерское звание всегда определяло принадлежность не к социальной группе, но к касте, которая жила по своим неписаным законам – по кодексу чести. В том случае, если уложения армейских уставов вступали в конфликт с положениями кодекса, выбор офицера был очевиден – в...
[сборник] — Москва: АСТ, 2017. — 218, [5] с.: ил. — (Кодекс чести). — ISBN: 978-5-17-099460-1. В русской армии офицерское звание всегда определяло принадлежность не к социальной группе, но к касте, которая жила по своим неписаным законам – по кодексу чести. В том случае, если уложения армейских уставов вступали в конфликт с положениями кодекса, выбор офицера был очевиден – в...
[сборник] — Москва: АСТ, 2017. — 218, [5] с.: ил. — (Кодекс чести). — ISBN: 978-5-17-099460-1. В русской армии офицерское звание всегда определяло принадлежность не к социальной группе, но к касте, которая жила по своим неписаным законам – по кодексу чести. В том случае, если уложения армейских уставов вступали в конфликт с положениями кодекса, выбор офицера был очевиден – в...
М.: АСТ: Астрель, 2009. — 303 с. Книга включает в себя 50 очерков о наиболее значительных изобретениях в области военной технологии. Переходя от дротиков Древнего мира, римских гладиусов и дракаров викингов к бипланам Первой мировой войны, подводным лодкам и баллистическим ракетам, автор рассматривает историю человеческой цивилизации через призму появления новых видов...
Перевод с англ. — Без выходных данных. — 970 с. Оригинал книги: Blair Clay Jr. The Forgotten War: American in Korea, 1950-1953. — NY.: Crown Publishing Group, 1987. Книга Блэра насколько это возможно беспристрастна, в ней описаны как величайшие триумфы американцев, так и их грубейшие ошибки. В Забытой Войне описаны все передвижения воинских подразделений и тактические операции,...
Военно-исторический очерк. — Минск: Военная Академия Республики Беларусь, 2013. — 429 с. Военно-исторический очерк посвящен 60-летию высшей военной школы Республики Беларусь, история которой неразрывно связана с историей первого военного вуза (ГВИРТУ, МВИРТУ, МВИЗРУ, МВВИУ), последующих вузов: МВВПОВУ, МВВПУ, МВВКУ; и ВА РБ. В книге приведены исторические предпосылки и основные...
СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ, 2008. — 782 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8465-0633-6. Монография посвящена изучению вооружения и военного искусства монгольских и тюркских кочевых народов Центральной Азии и Южной Сибири в эпоху позднего Средневековья и Нового времени. В книге анализируются все основные виды оружия дистанционного и ближнего боя, а также средства защиты, применявшиеся...
С.-Петербург: Типография В.С. Балашева, 1885. — 216 с. Павел Осипович Бобровский (1832-1905) - русский генерал, военный юрист и историк, сенатор. В своей работе автор рассматривает: "1) Обстоятельства и условия, определившие неизбежность перехода западной Европы от войск временных и наемных к войскам постоянным и национальным (глава I-я). 2) Устройство и содержание войск в...
Родина, 2018. — 496 с. — (Секреты идеального мужчины). — ISBN: 978-5-907024-39-7. Офицерство в царской России всегда было особой "кастой", отличающейся как от солдат, так и от гражданских людей. Отстраненность от общества объяснялась, в частности, и тем, что офицеры не имели права присоединяться к политическим партиям, а должны были на протяжении всей жизни руководствоваться...
Родина, 2018. — 496 с. — (Секреты идеального мужчины). — ISBN: 978-5-907024-39-7. Офицерство в царской России всегда было особой "кастой", отличающейся как от солдат, так и от гражданских людей. Отстраненность от общества объяснялась, в частности, и тем, что офицеры не имели права присоединяться к политическим партиям, а должны были на протяжении всей жизни руководствоваться...
Родина, 2018. — 496 с. — (Секреты идеального мужчины). — ISBN: 978-5-907024-39-7. Офицерство в царской России всегда было особой "кастой", отличающейся как от солдат, так и от гражданских людей. Отстраненность от общества объяснялась, в частности, и тем, что офицеры не имели права присоединяться к политическим партиям, а должны были на протяжении всей жизни руководствоваться...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография Военно-Учебных Заведений, 1849. - 223 с.
Монография М. И. Богдановича, полковника генерального штаба , профессора Императорской военной академии . Часть первая, заключающая в себе военную историю от начала войн до падения Западной Римской Империи. С 4-я картинками и 11-ю планами сражений. Санкт-Петербург в типографии военно-учебных заведений 1849 г.
Санкт-Петербург: Край, 1853. - 143 с.
Военная история средних веков. Сочинения М. И. Богдановича. Императорской Военной Академии Профессора Санкт-Петербург. Печатано в типографии Крайя 1853.
История военного искусства и замечательнейших походов - военная история средних веков, заключающая в себе период упадка и постепенного возрождения военного искусства, от падения Западной...
М.: Воениздат, 1941. — 316 с. Устав рассматривает действия одиночного бойца, пехотных подразделений (отделение-батальон) и полка в оборонительном и наступательном бою, ночном бою, при преследовании и отходе. Книга предназначена для ознакомления начальствующего состава РККА с тактикой японской пехоты.
М.: Техника - молодежи, 1994. — 68 с.
Военная организация древней и московской Руси принципиально разнилась с западноевропейской. Там армии формировались за счет наемников. На Руси издревле бытовал принцип повинности – обязанности каждого защищать свою землю. Московская рать была первой национальной армией в мире. И Петровская армия почти весь XVIII век была единственной...
М.: Техника - молодежи, 1994. — 68 с.
Военная организация древней и московской Руси принципиально разнилась с западноевропейской. Там армии формировались за счет наемников. На Руси издревле бытовал принцип повинности – обязанности каждого защищать свою землю. Московская рать была первой национальной армией в мире. И Петровская армия почти весь XVIII век была единственной...
Коллективная монография под ред. д.п.н. проф. В.Л. Пашута. — СПб.: Военный институт физической культуры, 2019. — 262 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91076-188-3 Коллективная монография рассчитана на курсантов, слушателей, адъюнктов, преподавателей, командиров и воспитателей, других должностных лиц института, проходящих и проводящих подготовку в военно-учебном заведении, а также интересующихся...
Редактор: Александр Суворов. — Москва: Техносфера, 2015. — 208 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94836-392-9. В книге представлены материалы, содержащие анализ, обобщение и систематизацию опыта США и Германии, накопленного при организации, планировании, финансировании и проведении оборонных исследований. Выбор этих стран неслучаен и определен наличием существенных различий в процессах...
Редактор: Александр Суворов. — Москва: Техносфера, 2015. — 208 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94836-392-9. В книге представлены материалы, содержащие анализ, обобщение и систематизацию опыта США и Германии, накопленного при организации, планировании, финансировании и проведении оборонных исследований. Выбор этих стран неслучаен и определен наличием существенных различий в процессах...
2-е изд. — Пер. с нем. В. Микулина. — Пред. С. М. Буденного. — М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны союза ССР, 1936. — 184 с. Будучи ценным пособием по вопросам конницы для общевойсковых командиров, труд Брандта не менее интересен и для самих конников. Содержание: Предисловие к первому изданию перевода Предисловие автора Исторический обзор Задача армейской...
Мн.: ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2001. - 400 с.: ил. Книга Генриха Отто Рихарда Брикса расширяет и дополняет «Историю конницы» Дж. Денисона. В первой части основное вни мание обращено на историю организации кавалерии, в нее также включены материалы об использовании в армии слонов, верблюдов и боевых колесниц. Дополнения были сделаны к истории польской, литовской, испанской,...
Москва: Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР, 1953. — 145 с. Изложены вопросы воспитания волевых качеств офицера в условиях его служебной деятельности. Основы воспитания воли советского офицера . Основные моменты волевого действия, главный мотив. Волевые качества, необходимые офицеру. Основы воспитания воли: перспектива, мировоззрение, патриотизм, понимание своего...
М.: Воениздат, 1978. — 382 с.: ил. В труде подробно исследуются боевые действия разнородных сил Черноморского флота в Великой Отечественной войне. Автор на широкой документальной основе повествует о самоотверженности и стойкости воинов Советской Армии и моряков при обороне Одессы, Севастополя и Кавказа, о решительных действиях флота в десантных, а также наступательных операциях...
М.: Государственное военное издательство, 1935. - 138 с.
Учебник по тактике для красноармейцев стрелковых частей РККА. Изложены обязанности красноармейца и даны практические указания для различных боевых случаев. Также используется при допризывной подготовке комсомольцев и осоавиахимовцев. Пятое, исправленное и дополненное издание.
Уфа.: Гилем, 2001. — 219 с. — ISBN: 5-7501-0234-3. В монографии проведены типология и классификация предметов вооружения, уточнена их датировка. На основании 425 воинских погребений сделана попытка реконструкции военной организации номадов, воинской структуры. Исходя из общей исторической ситуации на территории Средней Азии и Ирана предложена точка зрения о прямом участии...
Уфа: Гилем, 2001. — 219 с. — ISBN: 5-7501-0234-3. В монографии проведены типология и классификация предметов вооружения, уточнена их датировка. На основании 425 воинских погребений сделана попытка реконструкции военной организации номадов, воинской структуры. Исходя из общей исторической ситуации на территории Средней Азии и Ирана предложена точка зрения о прямом участии...
Очерк. — 30 с. В данном очерке рассмотрена история инженерных войск Российской Армии. По прочтении этого очерка у читателя может сложиться впечатление - автор пытается доказать, что инженерные войска являются самым главным родом войск, что только инженерным войскам армия обязана всеми своими победами. Это не так. Автор прекрасно знает, что главным родом войск является пехота, а...
Монография, 2-е издание. — М.: Высший военный редакционный совет, 1922. — 279 p. Монография посвящена вопросам эволюции военного искусства в императорской России с петровского времени до русской турецкой войны 1877-1878 гг. С полным комплектом карт. Александр Иванович Верховский (1886 — 1938) — русский военный деятель. Военный министр Временного правительства (1917)....
Монография. — 2-е издание. — М.: Высший военный редакционный совет, 1922. — 279 p. Монография посвящена вопросам эволюции военного искусства в императорской России с петровского времени до русской турецкой войны 1877-1878 гг. С полным комплектом карт. Александр Иванович Верховский (1886 — 1938) — русский военный деятель. Военный министр Временного правительства (1917)....
Владимир: Аркаим, 2006. — 480 с. — ISBN: 5-93767-023-Х. За последние годы возрос интерес граждан России, особенно молодежи, к Ракетным войскам стратегического назначения. Книга об истории формирования и развития ракетной армии, как части РВСН, будет способствовать патриотическому воспитанию молодого поколения, так как позволит узнать о людях и оружии, которое принято на...
Навчальний посібник : у 2 ч.; за заг. ред. В.В. Остроухова. — Київ : Нац. акад., 2017. — 276 с. З урахуванням актуальності, спадщини історії та реалій семи поколінь війн, це видання презентує в еволюції узагальнені реалії та специфіку воєнного мистецтва. Автори посібника підводять читача до загального розуміння воєнного мистецтва. Розкривають особливості війн та воєнного...
Навчальний посібник : у 2 ч. ; за заг. ред. В.В. Остроухова. — Київ : Нац. акад., 2017. — 336 с. З урахуванням актуальності, спадщини історії та реалій семи поколінь війн, це видання презентує в еволюції узагальнені реалії та специфіку воєнного мистецтва. Автори посібника підводять читача до загального розуміння воєнного мистецтва. Розкривають особливості війн та воєнного...
Краткий исторический очерк. — Пенза: Пензенское высшее артиллерийское инженерное ордена Красной Звезды училище, 1966. — 195 с. Автор: генерал-полковник артиллерии Волкотрубенко Иван Иванович. К сожалению, по истории артиллерийского снабжения трудов нет, если не считать книги бывшего начальника Главного артиллерийского управления (ГАУ) царской армии генерала А. Малиновского....
Учебник. — М.: Общевойсковая академия, 2008. — 234 с. В учебнике рассмотрены становление и эволюция российской системы государственного и военного управления. В нем рассматривается государственное и военное управление в современной России. Структура учебника и приложения к нему отражают основные исторические этапы развития российского государственного и военного управления....
М.: Центрполиграф, 2009. — 384 с.
На примере типичной европейской крепости, которая здесь называется Ла Рош-Пон, известный французский реставратор и историк архитектуры Виолле-ле-Дюк рассматривает этапы развития фортификационных сооружений и осадных орудий на протяжении более двух тысяч лет. Автор рассказывает о тонкостях политических интриг и проблемах религиозных конфликтов,...
СПб.: Н. Греч, 1826. — 247 с.
Представляет собой 80 рисунков различного рода эволюций войск в сопровождении 167 страниц поясняющего текста. Может представлять интерес для реконструкторов, иллюстраторов, постановщиков исторический фильмов.
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М.: Военгиз, 1934. — 88 с. Книга дaer краткие сведения о современное Японии, о состоянии ее промышленности и сельского хозяйства, о положении рабочих и крестьян в Японии и ее колониях. Книга освещает империалистические и антисоветские планы японской буржуазии, военщины и фашистов. Вся вторая половина книги описывает японскую армию, ее организацию, вооружение и особенности...
Л.: Воен. изд-во Ленингр. воен. округа, 1924. — 327 с.: схем.; 27 см. — Тираж 5000 экз. Настоящий труд имеет целью изложить основные данные той отрасли военных знаний, которая изучает армию, как один из элементов войны, устройство войск, управление ими, их хозяйство и т. п., т. е. организацию или устройство вооруженных сил в широком смысле этого понятия, в применении к Красной...
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Петроград, издано в типографии Главного управления уделов, автор Энгельман В., 1916 г., 35 стр., язык: русский, дореформенный
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М.: Воениздат, 1971. — 176 с. На большом фактическом материале периода первой и второй мировых войн показывается роль экономики в войне; разоблачаются антинародная, паразитическая сущность империализма и те последствия, которые несут народам империалистические войны. Раскрывается экономическая подготовка США и других империалистических стран к новой мировой войне, дается...
М.: Воениздат, 1940. - 163с.
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Москва, 2009. — 95 с. — ISBN: 5915680402. Гусары полка Бершени и Конфлан, конные егеря Фишера и "вольные легионы" блестящей эпохи Франции середины XVIII в. - все они, и многие другие формирования призвали к жизни особый род войск, которому вскоре надлежало сыграть одну из главных ролей на полях Европейских сражений: лёгкую кавалерию. С момента начала Французских революционных...
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Санкт-Петербург: Военная типография императрицы Екатерины Великой, 1913. — 486 с. Официальный циркуляр содержит большое количество информации о русской армии указанного периода.
М.: Кучково поле, 2018. — 352 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-9950-0919. Авторский коллектив: В.П. Горемыкин (руководитель), Ю.П. Бобров, Р.А. Васильев, С.А. Боцвин, И.С. Науменко, О.Е. Алпеев, В.В. Изонов, А.В. Козлов, С.А. Корин, Д.Г. Мартиросян, А.Ш. Салихов, А.В. Шишов. Книга посвящена 100-летию со дня образования Главного управления кадров Министерства обороны Российской Федерации....
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С.-Петербург : Тип. Штаба войск Гвардии и Петерб. воен. окр., 1888. — [4], II, 44 с. В книге учебнике для слушателей Николаевской Академии Генерального штаба Российской империи, на основе законоположений и личного опыта изложены состав и особенности службы по Генеральному штабу в русской императорской армии.
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Къ составу броневыхъ войскъ принадлежатъ броневые поезда, бронеавтомобили и танки. Разновидности эти появились не одновременно: первыми по времени возникновенія были броневые поезда, имевшіе частичное боевое примененіе еще въ войну 1870-1871 г.г. Броневые...
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СПб.: Общественная польза, 1872. — 383 с. Свой знаменитый цикл капитальных трудов по всеобщей военной истории, в который вошли 15 книг, охватывающих период с древнейших времен и до современных автору событий, князь Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в 1834—1848 годах в период профессорско-преподавательской работы в Военной академии, где он руководил кафедрой стратегии и затем —...
Белград, 1923. — 71 с.
Конницы всех европейских армий вступили во всемирную войну, исповедуя учения "шока". Картины конных атак эпохи Фридриха и Наполеона упорно гипнотезировали военные умы. Правда. войны 1870-1871 года и особенно позднейшие: Англо-Бурская и Русско-Японская, заставили внести поправки. Но это были только поправки; густое наслоение уступок современности в новых...
Белград, 1923. — 71 с. Конницы всех европейских армий вступили во всемирную войну, исповедуя учения "шока". Картины конных атак эпохи Фридриха и Наполеона упорно гипнотезировали военные умы. Правда. войны 1870-1871 года и особенно позднейшие: Англо-Бурская и Русско-Японская, заставили внести поправки. Но это были только поправки; густое наслоение уступок современности в новых...
М.: Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР, 1975. - 370 с.
В книге рассматривается организация пехотных (мотопехотных), танковых и артиллерийских подразделений сухопутных войск США, Великобритании и ФРГ.
Дается описание вооружения и боевой техники этих подразделений, даются их основные тактико-технические характеристики и фотографии.
Также излагается тактика...
СПб.: Норма, 2019. — 360 с. Какой должна быть армия сегодня? Как проходила военная реформа в постсоветской России и к каким парадоксальным результатам привела? Почему в нашей стране в последнее десятилетие идет активная милитаризация сознания и есть ли шанс избежать такой тенденции? Об этих и многих других актуальных проблемах, связанных с взаимодействием представителей высших...
Уппсала: Uppsala University, 2017. — 318 с. Взгляд из Швеции. Если тебя ругают враги, значит идешь правильным курсом! Последние четыре года стали периодом военных побед, по которым, как выяснилось, четверть века скучали российские граждане. Все началось в феврале 2014-го, когда «зеленые вежливые люди» заблокировали здание местного парламента в Крыму, перерезали все транспортные...
М.: Вече, 2006. - 352 с. Российская императорская гвардия, чье начало было положено еще Петром Великим, оставалась не только избранным придворным войском, но и особой средой, обогатившей русскую духовность и культуру такими талантами, как Гавриил Державин, Михаил Лермонтов, Владимир Одоевский, митрополит Серафим и Юрий Галич. О гвардии писали Александр Пушкин и Николай Гумилев,...
Барнаул: Изд-во Алтайского ГУ, 2006. — 40 с.
Библиографический указатель составлен для студентов, магистрантов и аспирантов, специализирующихся на кафедре археологии, этнографии и источниковедения Алтайского государственного университета. В него включены монографии, тематические сборники, статьи из периодических и других изданий на русском языке. Указатель также рассчитан на...
Монография. — Хабаровск: Тихоокеанский государственный университет (ТОГУ), 2021. — 325 с. — ISBN 978-5-7389-3184-0. В монографии отражены результаты многолетних авторских исследований Николаевской-на-Амуре крепости и натурных обследований крепости в период 1978-1986 гг. Показаны выполненные автором обмерные чертежи, зарисовки, описание и фотофиксация более 40 крепостных...
СПб.: издал В.Березовский, тип.Г.А.Шумахера и Б.Д.Брукера, 1913. — 428 с.
Собрание документов (правил, положений, инструкций и т.п.), относящихся к призыву на воинскую службу, организации допризывного обучения и сборов запасных, социальным льготам членам семей призванных, перевозкам призванных и пр.
Петроградъ: Типографія Тренке и Фюсно, 1916. — 424 с. Дореформенная орфография. Служебная книжка строевого офицера Русской армии начала XX века, дополненная всеми законоположениями и разъяснениями, объявленными по 1 мая 1916 года.
М.: Рипол Классик, 2018. — 705 с. — ISBN 978-5-386-09911-4 Вниманию читателя предлагается уникальный сборник свидетельств и мемуаров молодых русских офицеров конца XIX — начала XX века в составлении доктора исторических наук Игоря Николаевича Гребенкина. Кроме того, в состав издания входят «Советы молодому офицеру», написанные во время Русско-японской войны 1904 года ротмистром...
СПб.: типография Морского Министерства, 1871. — 170 с.
"Исторический и стратегический этюд Ришильда Гривеля, корабельного капитана. Атака и оборона берегов и портов. Война в открытом море"
2-е изд. — М.: Госиздат, 1921. — 46 с. Я не предполагал, что мне придется выпустить 2-е издание настоящей брошюры: написана она была для заграничных товарищей и лишь в небольшом количестве выпущена на русском языке. Однако, ряд требований на брошюру со стороны русских товарищей побуждает меня выпустить ее 2-м изданием. Загруженность работой не дала мне возможности основательно...
2-е изд. — М.: Госиздат, 1921. — 46 с. Я не предполагал, что мне придется выпустить 2-е издание настоящей брошюры: написана она была для заграничных товарищей и лишь в небольшом количестве выпущена на русском языке. Однако, ряд требований на брошюру со стороны русских товарищей побуждает меня выпустить ее 2-м изданием. Загруженность работой не дала мне возможности основательно...
Типография "Поволжье", 2013. — 312 с. — (Bibliotheca Helvetica) — ISBN: 978-5-98449-219-5. Книга посвящена истории военного дела и соответствующим аспектам духовной и материальной культуры в швейцарских землях позднего Средневековья. Опираясь на данные разнообразных источников и привлекая значительный объем специальной литературы, авторы представили увлекательную картину...
Монография. – М.: Общевойсковая академия, 2007. — 233 с. Введение. Военное искусство в русско-японской войне 1904-1905 гг. Военное искусство в первой мировой войне . Общий ход военных действий, особенности стратегии воюющих сторон. Опыт построения и ведения обороны. Обзор военных действий и военно-политические итоги Гражданской войны в России. Взгляды на оборонительную операцию и...
Учебное пособие. — Ярославль: Ярославский государственный университет им. П.Г. Демидова (ЯрГУ), 2014. — 68 с. Текст лекций содержит характеристику взглядов наиболее ярких авторов основных жанров античной военной литературы, списки источников к каждой теме. Предназначен для студентов, обучающихся по направлениям 030600.62, 030600.68. История (дисциплины «Древние цивилизации:...
Изд. 2-е. — М.: Либроком, 2011. — 240 с. В настоящей книге, написанной русским генералом Л.В. Де-Виттом, подробно исследуется вопрос о вооружении конницы и владении оружием во время боя. Первая глава содержит исторический очерк вооружения конницы в разных странах с древних времен до конца XX века. Вторая глава посвящена описанию предметов вооружения конницы. Автор рассматривает...
М.: Либроком, 2011. — 242 с. — (Энциклопедия конника). — ISBN: 978-5-397-01982-8 В настоящей книге, написанной русским генералом Л.В.Де-Виттом, подробно исследуется вопрос о вооружении конницы и владении оружием во время боя. Первая глава содержит исторический очерк вооружения конницы в разных странах с древних времен до конца XIX века. Вторая глава посвящена описанию предметов...
Монография. — М.: Военный университет, 2018. — 284 с. Монография посвящена эволюции рассмотрения в дореволюционной Государственной думе России – нижней палате парламента – актуальных военных проблем в период ее функционирования, от создания до начала революционных событий 1917 г. В ней изложены результаты анализа полномочий и роли Государственной думы в системе высших органов...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1999. — 418 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-02-028219-7 (Т. I) («Наука»). — ISBN: 5-02-028209-Х. — ISBN: 5-87399-015-8 (Т. I) («Ювента»). — ISBN: 5-87399-011-5. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1999. — 418 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему работами и документами. Кроме того, труд выдержан в...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1999. — 354 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему работами и документами. Кроме того, труд выдержан в...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1996. — 450 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-02-028331-2 (Т. III). — ISBN: 5-02-028209-X. — ISBN: 5-87399-041-7 (Т. III). — ISBN: 5-87399-011-5. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1936. — 460 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1936. — 460 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1937. — 396 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему работами и...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1937. — 396 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1999. — 354 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-02-028225-1 (Т. II). — ISBN: 5-02-028209-X («Наука»). — ISBN: 5-87399-023-9 (Т. II). — ISBN: 5-87399-011-5 («Ювента»). Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1938. — 518 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1938. — 518 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1996. — 450 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-02-028331-2 (Т. III). — ISBN: 5-02-028209-X («Наука»). — ISBN: 5-87399-041-7 (Т. III). — ISBN: 5-87399-011-5 («Ювента»). Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1938. — 426 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1938. — 426 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1997. — 370 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-02-028209 («Наука»). — ISBN: 5-02-026768-6 (Т. IV). — ISBN: 5-87399-011-5 («Ювента»). — ISBN: 5-87399-016-6 (Т. IV). Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1997. — 370 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-02-028209. — ISBN: 5-02-026768-6 (Т. IV). — ISBN: 5-87399-011-5. — ISBN: 5-87399-016-6 (Т. IV). Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники,...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1937. — 400 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1937. — 400 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1939. — 420 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1939. — 420 с. "Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему работами...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1939. — 420 с. "Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему работами...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1939. — 257 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1939. — 257 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Наука, 2005 г.
От периода греко-персидских войн, завоеваний Юлия Цезаря, крестовых походов до времен Наполеона и войн конца XIX века совершенствуются тактические приемы, формы и способы вооруженной борьбы, разрабатываются все более и более сложные стратегии.
Автор детально рассматривает ход переломных битв, воспроизводит широкую историческую панораму, оценивает роль ошибок...
М.: Наука, 2005 г.
От периода греко-персидских войн, завоеваний Юлия Цезаря, крестовых походов до времен Наполеона и войн конца XIX века совершенствуются тактические приемы, формы и способы вооруженной борьбы, разрабатываются все более и более сложные стратегии.
Автор детально рассматривает ход переломных битв, воспроизводит широкую историческую панораму, оценивает роль ошибок...
М.: Госиздат, 1929. — 175 с.: Ил. Денисов и Ржезников. — Политическая обработка солдата в буржуазных армиях. Книга излагает содержание, формы, методы и организацию политической обработки солдата в буржуазных армиях пограничных с нами стран (в Польше, Румынии и прибалтийских странах). Описание этой работы дается на общем фоне политической, экономической и военной характеристики...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2014. — 758 с. Джордж Тейлор Денисон, профессиональный военный, автор многих работ по военному делу, создал уникальный труд по всеобщей истории конницы с древнейших времен до второй половины XIX века. На примере величайших сражений автор проследил, как менялась роль и значение конницы в военных действиях разных народов на протяжении истории человечества,...
Пер. с англ. С. Федорова. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2014. — 758 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5109-4. Джордж Тейлор Денисон, профессиональный военный, автор многих работ по военному делу, создал уникальный труд по всеобщей истории конницы с древнейших времен до второй половины XIX века. На примере величайших сражений автор проследил, как менялась роль и значение конницы в военных действиях...
Пер. с англ. С. Федорова. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2014. — 758 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5109-4. Джордж Тейлор Денисон, профессиональный военный, автор многих работ по военному делу, создал уникальный труд по всеобщей истории конницы с древнейших времен до второй половины XIX века. На примере величайших сражений автор проследил, как менялась роль и значение конницы в военных действиях...
СПб.: П.П. фон Дервиз, 1897. — 477 с. Книга военного специалиста Джорджа Денисона, впервые опубликованная в России в 1897 г., позволяет проследить историю конницы как рода войск с VII в. до н. э. до XIX в. Автор на примере знаменитых сражений показывает, как менялись тактика и организация конницы на протяжении многих веков. Труд Дж. Денисона является единственной обобщающей...
Цхинвал: Ирыстон, 1983. — 69 с. В данной работе предпринята попытка описать ряд башен, находящихся в горах Южной Осетии, датировать их и классифицировать. Автор ограничился только верховьями Большой Лиахвы, хотя и верховья рр. Паца, Джоджора, Ксани и др. тоже изобилуют памятниками средневекового зодчества осетин. Но верховья Большой Лиахвы отличаются большим разнообразием...
Москва: Воениздат, 1989. — 231 с. Книга является сборником примеров боевого применения подразделений и частей фугасных, ранцевых и танковых огнемётов, а также примеры применения дымовых средств подразделениями и частями Сухопутных войск и авиации в годы Великой Отечественной войны. Книга рекомендовалась для слушателей и курсантов военных учебных заведений а также для сержантов и...
София, 1903. — 132 с. В книгата се сравняват военните възможности на българската и османската армия в началото на XX век. Обръща се внимание на слабостите и възможностите на двете армии, които биха решили изхода от една евентуална война.
София: Академично издателство Проф. Марин Дринов, 1999. — 283 с. В книгата са проследени различните форми на военни конфликти по света през XX век, както и промяната на характера им чрез анализ на еволюцията в областта на изобретяването на нови оръжия и в сферата на стратегическата военна мисъл.
СПб.:Военно-исторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 2015. - 536с. Тяжеловооруженная конница сяньби-муюнов. Пропаганда и контрпропаганда Красной армии в ходе подготовки и проведения Берлинской наступательной операции. Основные тенденции развития политико-воспитательной работы в РККА в ходе военной реформы 1924–1925 годов. Из истории развития реактивной...
СПб.:Военно-исторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 2015. - 416с. Экспонирование памятников военной истории в сети Интернет: подходы и контексты. «Не дремлет враждебная всему русскому демократическая партия…»: князь Н.П. Вадбольский о российской политике в Иране накануне Великой войны (по материалам рапортов). Основные направления социальной деятельности...
СПб.:Военно-исторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 2015. - 424с.
Осовецкая крепость накануне и в годы Первой мировой войны.
Меч или кинжал? К вопросу атрибуции и назначения некоторых видов холодного клинкового оружия.
Генеральный кригерехт в 1804–1805 годах (организационно-структурный аспект).
Иранское холодное оружие из частных собраний в новом...
СПб.:Военно-исторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 2015. - 488с.
Введение.
Право войны в русско-китайском военном конфликте в Приамурье (XVII век).
Вопросы совершенствования средств вооруженной борьбы и предметов снабжения армии в работе Особого совещания по обороне государства (1915–1917).
Грузинские палаши «кабиани» в собрании ВИМАИВиВ.
Командные...
Сборник документов. — А.Д. Ефремов, В.И. Лещик, В.Г. Матвеев, Е.С. Новиков, А.Г. Полунин, С.В. Самойлов, О.А. Смирнова. — М.: МО РФ, 2011. — 696 с. По материалам рассекреченных архивных документов Верховного Главнокомандования и фронтов Красной Армии. Настоящий том посвящен окончанию Второй мировой войны 1939 - 1945 гг. Начавшись в Европе 1 сентября 1939 года нападением...
Авторы: М.М. Кирьян (руководитель авторского коллектива), А.И. Бабин, И.М. Кравченко, Ю.Г. Перечнев, Ю.В. Плотников (заместитель руководителя), И.И. Ростунов, В.Б. Сеоев, А.М. Соколов, Н.И. Шеховцов. — М.: Воениздат, 1986. — 446 с. — (Библиотека офицера). В книге освещаются основные этапы развития военного искусства с древнейших времен и до наших дней. Особое внимание уделяется...
Интернет-публикация без места издания и издательства, 2012. — 88 с.
Пер. Д.А. Нагорной с французского издания L'Art Militaire Francois. Paris. 1696. Содержит гравюры и перевод их подписей, изображающие различные строевые приёмы, исполняемые офицерами, прапорщиками, сержантами, гренадерами, мушкетерами и пикинерами французской армии.
Для любителей реконструкции и военной...
Санктпетербургъ: Въ Типографіи Временнаго Департамента Военныхъ Поселеній, 1836 г. - [20] с.; ил.
Жомини. Наука о большихъ военныхъ дѣйствіяхъ / Извлечено из сочиненія Генерала Жомини: Traité des grandes opérations militaires, подъ руководствомъ самаго Автора подполковникомъ Языковымъ. Атласъ чертежамъ къ наукѣ о большихъ военныхъ дѣйствіяхъ.
В атласе, подготовленном...
СПб., 1807. — 42 с. Барон Генрих Жомини, Антуан-Анри Жомини (фр. Antoine-Henri Jomini; 6 марта 1779 — 24 марта 1869) — французский и русский военный писатель, французский бригадный генерал, российский генерал от инфантерии (1826). Оставил мемуары по истории наполеоновских войн.
СПб.: Типография путей сообщений и публичных зданий, 1840. - 271с. Труд видного военного теоретика первой половины XIX века, бригадного генерала французской и генерала от инфантерии русской службы, одного из основателей Николаевской Академии Генерального Штаба и преподавателя стратегии наследнику престола, будущему Александру II, посвящённый общим вопросам военной теории....
Санктпетербургъ: Въ Типографіи Временнаго Департамента Военныхъ Поселеній, 1836 г. - [20] с.; ил.
Жомини. Наука о большихъ военныхъ дѣйствіяхъ / Извлечено из сочиненія Генерала Жомини: Traité des grandes opérations militaires, подъ руководствомъ самаго Автора подполковникомъ Языковымъ. Атласъ чертежамъ къ наукѣ о большихъ военныхъ дѣйствіяхъ.
В атласе, подготовленном...
Санктпетербургъ: Въ Типографіи Временнаго Департамента Военныхъ Поселеній, 1836 г. - Часть II. — VII, 354 с.
Жомини. Наука о большихъ военныхъ дѣйствіяхъ / Извлечено из сочиненія Генерала Жомини: Traité des grandes opérations militaires, подъ руководствомъ самаго Автора подполковникомъ Языковымъ.
Содержание: .
Кампанія 1759 года.
О дѣйствіяхъ Французской и...
Санктпетербургъ: Въ Типографіи Временнаго Департамента Военныхъ Поселеній, 1836 г. - Часть І. — VII, 506 с.
Жомини. Наука о большихъ военныхъ дѣйствіяхъ / Извлечено из сочиненія Генерала Жомини: Traité des grandes opérations militaires, подъ руководствомъ самаго Автора подполковникомъ Языковымъ.
Содержание: .
Краткое обозрѣніе первыхъ войнъ Фридриха отъ 1740 до 1745 года....
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны СССР, 1939. — 223 с. В I томе своего классического труда Жомини прежде всего выясняет значение теории военного искусства и дает его подразделение на отдельные дисциплины, а затем рассматривает политические и стратегические вопросы, связанные с ведением войн, иллюстрируя свои соображения и выводы ссылками на военную...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны СССР, 1939. — 223 с. В I томе своего классического труда Жомини прежде всего выясняет значение теории военного искусства и дает его подразделение на отдельные дисциплины, а затем рассматривает политические и стратегические вопросы, связанные с ведением войн, иллюстрируя свои соображения и выводы ссылками на военную...
Монография. — Алматы: Қазақ университеті, 2014. — 272 с. В монографии на основе широкого круга источников анализируются проблемы историографии военного дела кочевников Евразии. Отдельное место занимают вопросы историографии военного дела казахов. Данная работа является первым исследованием в казахстанской науке историографии, систематизирующем дореволюционную, советскую,...
Издание 11-е. — Санкт-Петербург: В. Березовский, 1908. В книге расписана вся юридическая и практическая стороны службы адъютанта: его продвижение по карьерной лестнице, обучение, отставка и т. д.
Санкт-Петербург: Печатано в Военной тип. (в здании Главнаго штаба), 1872. — 415 с. Полевая памятная книжка для офицеров, содержащая справочные материалы по организации русской армии, размещению и передвижению войск, по службе в поле, полевому письмоводству, сведения пго производству военно-топографических работ, а также вспомогательные сведения по разным отраслям военного дела.
СПб.: Алетейя, 2022. — 320 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-00165-448-3. На фундаменте письменных источников исследуется «Наука побеждать» как вневременное универсальное учение о ведении войны, которым следует каждодневно руководствоваться при обучении и воспитании современных военнослужащих. На основе впервые публикующихся документов предпринята попытка по-новому взглянуть на некоторые...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2022. — 320 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-00165-448-3. На фундаменте письменных источников исследуется «Наука побеждать» как вневременное универсальное учение о ведении войны, которым следует каждодневно руководствоваться при обучении и воспитании современных военнослужащих. На основе впервые публикующихся документов предпринята попытка по-новому взглянуть на некоторые...
2-е изд. испр., доп. — М.-Л.: Государственное издательство, 1928. — 164 с. Настоящий труд представляет собою диссертацию, поданную мною в 1914 году в Академию генерального штаба. Эта работа после рассмотрения ее комиссией была предварительно назначена к печати в журнале «Известия военной академии». Однако печатание в журнале не было закончено {отпечатано около 1/3) ввиду...
Курсъ старшаго класса Николаевской Академіи Генеральнаго Штаба. — С. -Петербургъ: Типо-Литографія Ландау, 1898.
Язык - русский (дореформенный)
Передовой театр
Театр левого берега р. Вислы
Варшавский район
Радомский район
Театр правого берега р. Вислы
Люблинский район
Плоцкий район
р. Буг
Ломжинский район
Седлецкий район
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Москва: Граница, 1994. — 112 с. Из книги доктора исторических наук О.В.Золотарева читатель узнает о роли православия в России, о проводниках слова Божия в христолюбивом воинстве русском. Автор размышляет о путях возрождения духовности в России и армии. Книга будет полезна всем, кто интересуется историей Русской Православной Церкви, укреплением родного Отечества.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2014. — 272 с. — (Военная авиация XX века. Сражения в воздухе). — ISBN: 978-5-227-04956-8. 16 апреля 1942 года генерал Э.фон Манштейн доложил Гитлеру план операции по разгрому советских войск на Керченском полуострове под названием "Охота на дроф". Тот одобрил все, за исключением предстоящей роли люфтваффе. Фюрер считал, что именно авиации, как и прежде,...
Учебное пособие по дисциплине «История вооруженных сил России». — М.: Перо, 2017. — 107 с. В учебном пособии представлена авторская концепция истории рекрутской повинности в России в период с 1699 по 1874 годы как исторического явления, дана периодизация данного процесса, детально показаны государственная политика в сфере рекрутчины, система раскладки рекрутской повинности,...
Складъ изданія Березовскаго В. А. 1900 г. , 123 с. Практическое руководство по выполнению санитарно-гигиенических требований по содержанию казарм и размещению личного состава.
Санкт-Петербург : тип. Гл. упр. уделов, 1903. — [2], II, 143 с. Передовыии частями французской арміи на западной и югозападной границахъ, кромѣ кавалеріи, являются стрѣлки, или, какъ ихъ называютъ во Франціи, шассёры (chasseurs à pieds). Части эти, помимо отличій въ формѣ отъ остальной нѣхоты, отличій, для французской арміи весьма характерныхъ, какъ, напримѣръ, отсутствіе...
СПб.: тип. Гл. упр. уделов, 1903. — 143 с. В книге приводится много интересных и полезных сведений о внутренней жизни пехоты французской армии. Издание начинается с описания казарменного устройства: помещения рот, столовых, размещения унтер-офицеров, тиров, манежа, полевой гимнастики и т.п. Отдельным разделом даются сведения: о занятиях с офицерами, военных беседах и военных...
Создано в интеллектуальной издательской системе Ridero, 2018. ISBN: 978-5-4496-0174-2 Впервые на русском языке представлено всеобъемлющее собрание принципов и правил классической военной мысли Китая – извлечённых из широкого круга источников, как более, так и менее известных, и ориентированных на повседневное использование. Проверенные опытом почти в три тысячелетия и...
Создано в интеллектуальной издательской системе Ridero, 2018. ISBN: 978-5-4496-0174-2 Впервые на русском языке представлено всеобъемлющее собрание принципов и правил классической военной мысли Китая – извлечённых из широкого круга источников, как более, так и менее известных, и ориентированных на повседневное использование. Проверенные опытом почти в три тысячелетия и...
Сост. ген.-майором Максимовским и полк. Хорошхиным, под руковод. ген.-лейт. Богдановича. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1879. — XIII, 421, [62] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Сост. ген.-майором Максимовским, ген.-майором Шильдером и полк. Хорошхиным, под руковод. ген.-лейт. Богдановича. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1879. — XI, 477, [114] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Сост. ген.-лейт. Богдановичем и полк. Хорошхиным. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1879. — VIII, 371, [46] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Сост. ген.-майором Шильдером и полк. Хорошхиным, под руковод. ген.-лейт. Богдановича. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1880. — XV, 543, [124] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Сост. ген.-лейт. Богдановичем, ген.-майором Максимовским и полк. Хорошхиным. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1880. — VII, 326, [34] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Сост. полк. Хорошхиным и Еврейновым, под руковод. ген.-лейт. Богдановича. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1881. — XI, 424, [188] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1953. — 277 с. Настоящее учебное пособие предназначается для слушателей военно-морских академий и курсантов высших военно-морских училищ по курсу истории военно-морского искусства с древнейших времен до Великой Отечественной войны Советского Союза 1941—1945 гг. Учебное пособие состоит из пяти томов, из них том I, II, IV и V являются общими для...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1953. — 265 с. Настоящее издание "Истории военно-мopcкoгo искусства" предназначается в качестве учебного пособия для слушателей военно-морских академий, а также для курсантов военно-морских училищ. Второй том охватывает историю военно-морского искусства капиталистического общества до эпохи империализма и представляет собой часть общего труда по...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1953. — 335 с. Настоящее издание с Истории военно-морского искусства», охватывающее период с древнейших времен до Великой Отечественной войны Советского Союза 1941—1945 гг., предназначается в качестве учебного пособия для слушателей военно-морских академий и военно-морских факультетов военных академий и составлено применительно к существующим...
Кострома: типография Военной академии химической защиты имени Маршала Советского Союза С.К. Тимошенко, 1983. — 116 с. Химические войска и химическая служба в эпоху империализма и годы первой мировой войны. Химические войска и химическая служба в годы иностранной военной интервенции и гражданской войны. Химические войска и химическая служба в годы строительства вооруженных сил в...
Варна; Велико Търново: Зограф; Абагар, 2004. — 218 с. Оръжие за далечен бой. Оръжие за близък бой. Защитно въоръжение. Снаряжение на конника и коня. Заключение. Литература. Каталог. Албум.
Ростов-на-Дону: Книга, 1998. — 384 с. В книге с максимальной полнотой и документальной достоверностью рассказывается об истории создания, становления, реформирования Северо-Кавказского военного округа, о ратных подвигах воинов-северокавказцев в годы гражданской и Великой Отечественной войн, их участии в боевых действиях за пределами нашей Родины, в локальных военных конфликтах....
Ростов-на-Дону: Книга, 1998. — 384 с. В книге с максимальной полнотой и документальной достоверностью рассказывается об истории создания, становления, реформирования Северо-Кавказского военного округа, о ратных подвигах воинов-северокавказцев в годы гражданской и Великой Отечественной войн, их участии в боевых действиях за пределами нашей Родины, в локальных военных конфликтах....
Варшава, Типография Окружного Штаба, 1902.
В книге описываются различные действия, необходимые для атаки и обороны крепостей: организация и состав осадной армии, ход осады, состав гарнизона и организация службы в крепости, организация обороны и ход обороны крепостей. В приложениях дается общая характеристика осадных артиллерийских средств, принятых в армиях главных европейских...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 255 с. (в данном формате) — (Всемирная история) — ISBN: 978-5-227-07832-2. В настоящей книге кратко и последовательно изложены хронологические данные о казачьих войсках и об их первоочередных частях на основании существующих печатных сведений. Ценность этого справочного издания заключается в документальной обоснованности представленных здесь данных,...
Москва: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 448 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-227-07832-2. В настоящей книге кратко и последовательно изложены хронологические данные о казачьих войсках и об их первоочередных частях на основании существующих печатных сведений. Ценность этого справочного издания заключается в документальной обоснованности представленных здесь данных, которые...
С 5 черт. — Обложка: В. Фидмана. — Москва; Ленинград: Государственное издательство. Отдел военной литературы, 1927. — 124 с. : черт. — (СССР. Библиотека командира). Содержание Введение Зависимость организации и тактики войск от особенностей обстановки Малокультурные театры Своеобразный характер операций на малокультурных театрах Роль и значение транспорта Особенности в...
Москва; Ленинград: Государственное издательство. Отдел военной литературы, 1927. — 124 с.: 5 черт. — (СССР. Библиотека командира). Книга рассказывает о тактике ведения боевых действий в особых условиях - лесах, болотах, горах, пустынях и степях. Введение Зависимость организации и тактики войск от особенностей обстановки Малокультурные театры Своеобразный характер операций на...
Новосибирск: НВВПУ, 1991. — 261 с.
Монография дает критико-исторический анализ системы подготовки офицерских кадров в СССР за период с 1917 по 1984 годы. Наряду с анализом развития советской военной школы, работа содержит материал о подготовке офицерских кадров за границей.
Работа рассчитана на офицеров воинских частей, профессорскопреподавательский состав военно-учебных...
М.; Л.: Гос. изд-во. Отд. воен. литературы, 1927. — 92 с.: ил., черт., граф. Предисловие к русскому изданию Введение Служба орудий во время войны Спешность производства и её последствия Износ орудий Нормальная и ненормальная работа компрессоров Приспособление компрессоров для стрельбы при больших углах возвышения Могущество огня Могущество отдельного выстрела Увеличение...
Стенограмма публичной лекции. — Л.: Всесоюзное общество по распространению политических и военных знаний. Ленинградское отделение. 1950. — 33 с.
Исполнилось сто пятьдесят лет с того момента, как перестало биться сердце великого русского полководца Александра Васильевича Суворова, автора замечательной инструкции-памятки по воспитанию и обучению войск, названной им «Наукой...
Стенограмма публичной лекции. — Л.: Всесоюзное общество по распространению политических и военных знаний. Ленинградское отделение. 1950. — 33 с. Исполнилось сто пятьдесят лет с того момента, как перестало биться сердце великого русского полководца Александра Васильевича Суворова, автора замечательной инструкции-памятки по воспитанию и обучению войск, названной им «Наукой...
СПб.: Тип. Э Арнгольда, 1890. — 303 с. Краткий справочник для военных чинов, с указанием приказов по военному ведомству и циркуляров главного штаба по всем отраслям военного дела в России. Содержит значительное количество таблиц.
М.: Военное издательство, 1953. - 247с.
Настоящий Устав определяет требования строевого обучения, порядок построения и правила действий подразделений и частей кавалерии в конном строю. Он излагает правила верховой езды, порядок выполнения военнослужащими строевых приёмов и отдания воинской части в конном строю.
Действия подразделений и частей кавалерии в пешем строю...
Київ: Либiдь, 2004. — 272 с. — ISBN 966-06-0453-х. У книзі вперше висвітлюється система військових символів у сучасних Збройних Силах України. Представлені у цьому виданні прапори всіх видів Збройних Сил, державні та відомчі нагороди, знаки класної класифікації та нарукавні знаки військовослужбовців. є елементами системи, опрацьованої за роки незалежності України.
М.: НИИ (ВИ) ВАГШ ВС РФ, 2018. — 423 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей юбилейное иллюстрированное издание «Несокрушимая и легендарная» посвящено 100-летию создания Красной армии. В книге показаны основные вехи истории ее строительства, участия в войнах и локальных военных конфликтах, эволюция вооружения и техники. Особое внимание уделено современному состоянию Вооруженных сил,...
Смоленск: Русич, 1995. — 24 с.
Блестящие победы петровской армии и флота показали превосходство вооруженных сил России над военной машиной Швеции. Северная война, продолжавшаяся свыше двадцати лет, стала для русской армии поучительной боевой школой.
СПб.: тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1909. - 428с.
Одна из "Справочных книжек Императорской Квартиры", содержащая сведения об артиллерийских соединениях, частях и подразделениях по состояянию на 1909 год, краткие сведения об их истории, а также окомандовании артиллерии.
М.: Книжный магазин В.В. Думнов, 1899. — 50 с.
Исторический обзор тактики русских войск, как введение к ее изучению : (С 9 примерами сражений наших великих полководцев. В тексте 20 схем и чертежей). В книге рассматривается тактика русских войск на примерах сражений: Куликово (1380 г. - Дмитрий Донской), Молоди (1572 г. - Воротынский), Калязин (1609 г. - Скопин-Шуйский), Москва...
М.: Идея, 1917. — 6 с.
Демократизация армии в России в 1917 году — процессы, которые широко развернулись в бывшей Русской императорской армии (в феврале 1917 года переименованной в «Революционную армию свободной России») сразу после Февральской революции. 9 (22) мая 1917 года опубликована «Декларация прав солдата», окончательно уравнявшая солдат в правах с гражданским...
Сборник схем. — М.: Медина-принт, 2006. — 60 с. Структура сборника схем, порядок изложения материала выработаны таким образом, что бы данный научный труд был интересен как специалистам в области военной истории, так и более широкому кругу читателей, увлекающихся военной историей. Вооруженные силы и войны Руси в IX–XIV вв. Тактика русского войска в войнах IX–XIV вв. Вооруженные...
Коллектив авторов. — Учебное пособие. — М.: Общевойсковая академия ВС РФ, 2007. — 471 с. Учебное пособие раскрывает основное содержание военно-исторической науки, функции военной истории и её основные задачи, содержание важнейших этапов развития вооруженных сил России, характеристики и содержание основных войн и вооружённых конфликтов с дренейших времён до наших дней. В пособии...
М.: Общевойсковая академия, 2006. — 66 с. В учебном пособии изложены основы логического аппарата, этапы военно-исторического исследования и их содержание. Пособие предназначено для слушателей академических курсов при изучении ими учебной дисциплины “Методика исследований в области военной истории”. Оно также будет полезно слушателям, участвующим в работе ВНО при кафедре истории...
М.: Общевойсковая академия, 2006. — 71 с. Кириллов А.В., Синицын А.Н., Макушкин С.А., Виниченко М.В., Агеев Н.В., Мельничук А.В. Учебная дисциплина «Методика научных исследований в области военной истории» является составной частью подготовки офицера к выполнению обязанностей организатора военно-исторической работы. Исходя из отмеченных требований и разработано данное учебное...
Ростов-на-Дону: Военный вестник Юга России, 2006. — 192 с. В очерке кратко отражена история формирования службы горючего Северо-Кавказского военного округа.
Ростов-на-Дону: Военный вестник Юга России, 2006. — 192 с. В очерке кратко отражена история формирования службы горючего Северо-Кавказского военного округа.
М.: Военный университет, 2015. — 185 с. В учебном пособии раскрываются вопросы развития вооруженных сил Российской империи в начале XX в. и русского военного искусства в Русско-японской и Первой мировой войнах. В нем анализируются проблемы строительства русской армии накануне Русско-японской войны и в годы военной реформы 1905–1912 гг., ее участия в крупнейших сражениях на суше...
М.: Военный университет, 2009. — 69 с. В течение многих лет Япония проводила в отношении к СССР агрессивный внешнеполитический курс, стремилась закрыть для Советского государства все выходы к Тихому океану, полностью захватить Сахалин, отторгнуть Дальний Восток и Сибирь. В ходе Великой Отечественной войны, нарушая пакт о нейтралитете, она вела по отношению к Советскому Союзу...
СПб.: типография Морского министерства, 1901. — 136 с. Написанное видным русским военно-морским теоретиком описание французского флота в начале XX века. Включает в себя краткую историю французского флота, сведения о его комплектовании и подготовке личного состава, как матросов, так и офицеров, организацию эскадр, их тактику и обучение приёмам боя, манёвры. Также рассмотрены...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография А.С. Суворина, 1905. — 552 с. Язык русский дореформенный. Во всех международных столкновениях последнего времени флот играл выдающуюся роль. Обыкновенно дело с того и начиналось, что у берегов того государства, поведение которого грозило общему миру или которое просто нарушало права живущих на его территории иностранцев, сосредоточивались морские...
Монография. — Тула: Тульский государственный педагогический университет им. Л.Н. Толстого, 2019. — 241 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6042449-6-8. В монографии рассматривается один из важных, но мало исследованных компонентов стратегического инструментария Александра Македонского, которым является координированное наступление – особая форма применения войска, предусматривающая достижение...
Без указания автора. — Италия: рукопись, XVII век. — 601 с.
Малоформатная (12x18 см) тетрадь с эскизами, касающимися военного дела - фортификации, артиллерии, минного дела и пиротехники. И связанных тем - геометрии, геодезии, механики, строительства. Очень интересный манускрипт для тех, кто интересуется историей инженерного дела, в том числе военного. Наиболее интересные эскизы...
М., СПб.:ACT», Terra Fantastica, 2003. – 672 с.- (Серия: Классическая военная мысль) Перед вами книга контр-адмирала британского флота Филипа Коломба «Морская война, ее основные принципы и опыт», которая является классикой военно-морской литературы. Автор обобщил опыт боевых действий на море начиная с XV века, а также изложил созданную им теорию морской войны. Книга снабжена...
М.: АСТ, 2003 — 231 с. без пагинации. — ISBN: 5-17-016752-0, 5-7921-0624-Х Военно-историческое исследование, в котором автор, адмирал английского флота и видный военный теоретик, рассматривает войны с XV по XIX век, роль флота в них, проводя свою основную концепцию "господства на море". Для изучающих общую и военную историю.
Париж: Издание Всезарубежного объединения морских организаций, 1951. - 328 с. Качество: Ч/б, Отсканированные листы. Формат: DJVU Жанр: Военная история. Описание: История Навигацкой школы и русского флота освещается в рамках периодов царствования российских императоров: Петра Великого, Елизаветы Петровны, Екатерины Великой, Александра I, Николая I, Александра II и других.
СПб.: Типография Штаба Верховного Главнокомандования, 1917. — 18 с. Наставление является одним из первых (и первым на русском языке) руководящим документом по организации противотанковой обороны. ...Известные нам существующие типы сухопутных, броненосцев (танков) представляют собой особым образом, забронированные больших, размеров тракторные автомобили, вооружаемые...
Пер. с англ. Лопухова С., Хромова А. — М.: Эксмо, 2009. — (Военная история человечества). — ISBN: 978-5-699-30724-1. Вскоре после 1200 г. до н.э. великая цивилизация эпохи бронзы, которая в течение нескольких столетий процветала в Греции, начала приходить в упадок и в конце концов погибла. На юг хлынули варварские племена, которые уничтожили последние остатки микенской...
М.: Эксмо-Пресс, 2001. — 320 с. В этой книге автор свел воедино результаты своих многолетних исследований военной истории Греции и Рима. Вы найдете здесь подробный рассказ о греко-персидских войнах, и о многовековом противостоянии римлян и их самого опасного противника - Карфагена, и о всех других войнах, в которых участвовали две величайшие цивилизации Древнего мира, а также об...
Под ред. Н. Жукова. — М.: Военно-морское издательство НКВМФ СССР, 1940. — 379 с. Корабельный Устав Рабоче-Крестьянского Военно-Морского Флота Союза ССР введен в действие Приказом Народного Комиссара Военно-Морского Флота Союза ССР Флагмана флота 2 ранга Кузнецовым №416 от 16 октября 1939 года. Боевая служба корабля Повседневная служба корабля Приложение: Правила службы...
М.: Типография Штаба Московского Военного Округа, 1916. — 97 с. Введение. Обучение войск боевых действиям при помощи удушливых и ядовитых газов. Общие положения. Обучение приемам газовой борьбы. Специальная химическая команда. Команда разведчиков, гренадеров и саперов. Дозоры, секреты, заставы сторожевого охранения, походного движения и боевых линий. Звено, отделение, взвод, рота,...
М.: Воениздат, 1947. — 411 с. От составителей. Северная война. Семилетняя война. Первая турецкая война. Вторая турецкая война. Итальянский и швейцарский походы (1799 г.). Отечественная война 1812 г. Освободительный поход русских войск в Западную Европу (1813—1814 гг.). Оборона Севастополя 1854—1855 гг. Русско-турецкая война 1877-1878 гг. Оборона Порт-Артура (май —декабрь 1904...
Прилож. Г. Кантора. — М.: ООО «Издательство АСТ»; СПб.: Terra Fantastica, 2002. — 666 с. — (Классическая военная мысль). — ISBN 5-17-015211-6 (ООО «Издательство АСТ»). — ISBN 5-7921-0562-6 (TF).
Сборник посвящён развитию европейской военной мысли в период античности и раннего Средневековья. Сочинения наиболее известных древнегреческих, римских и византийских авторов позволят...
Сборник. — Чебоксары: Перфектум, 2013. — 248 с. 75-летию Уральского окружного управления материально-технического снабжения МВД России посвящается. На основании документальных свидетельств о деятельности Уральского ОУ МТС МВД России написана официальная история управления. Мы же хотели дополнить её воспоминаниями тех сотрудников, кому довелось в разные годы служить и работать в...
Семинар и симпозиум, посвященный малоизвестному в странах бывшего Варшавского договора вооружённому конфликту в непризнанной республике Родезия в 1965-1980 годах.
Харьков : В Университетской типографии 1843. — с. 46 - 70. Жалкое зрелище представляла Польша в конце XVI века. Со смертью Батория как будто судьба произнесла над нею приговор свой. Власть короля ослабевала, своевольные магнаты забыли всякие границы буйству; на сеймах не было ладу, в судах правосудия, в управлении порядка, в законах святости. Все были недовольны, от короля до...
ВГШ РСФСР, Петроград, военная типография, 1919. — 124 c. Настоящее издание является кратким военно-географическим очерком и имеет целью дать лишь общее схематическое представление о характере местности, заключенной, примерно, в рамках: Верхотурье - Ирбит - Камышлов - Шадринск - Троицк - Кустанай - Семипалатинск - Минусинск - р. Енисей - Енисейск - Нарым - Тобольск - Верхотурье....
Исторический очерк / под ред. И.О. Дементьева. — Калининград: Издательство БФУ им. И. Канта, 2020. — 123 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-9971-0601-0. Представлены кавалеры ордена Александра Невского, единственного российского ордена, существовавшего в различные периоды российской истории: до революции 1917 г., в советское время и имеющийся в современной Российской Федерации. Приведены...
Литературно-документальное издание. — Днепропетровск: ИМА-пресс, 2015. — 428 c. Политработники 40-й общевойсковой армии в Афганистане (1979 — 1989 гг.). Книга посвящена политработникам частей и соединений 40-й армии в годы Афганской войны.
Минск: Альтиора Форте. — 257 с. — ISBN 978-985-7239-18-4. Великая Отечественная война имеет судьбоносное значение для белорусского народа. Она продемонстрировала неразрывность общерусского цивилизационного смысла. Тема защиты Отечества, борьбы с захватчиками указывает на неразрывную историческую связь событий Великой Отечественной войны с Отечественной войной 1812 года. В книге...
СПб.: Издание Военно-исторического музея артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 1998. - 671 с. Перед Вами, читатель, монография военного историка, видного организатора музейного дела, кандидата исторических наук, члена-корреспондента Российской академии ракетных и артиллерийских наук, начальника Военно-исторического музея артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи...
СПб.: Издание Военно-исторического музея артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 1998 г. - 671 с. Монография военного историка, видного организатора музейного дела, кандидата исторических наук, члена-корреспондента Российской академии ракетных и артиллерийских наук, начальника Военно-исторического музея артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи полковника Валерия...
Санкт-Петербург : Воен. тип., 1899. - VIII, 144 с. Работа составлена офицером генерального штаба, столоначальником главного штаба. Представляет собой справочник, состоящий из систематизированных выдержек из законодательных актов, относящихся к офицерам генерального штаба Российской империи и их службе в мирное и военное время.
Генеральный штаб Рабоче-Крестьянской Красной Армии. — Фрунзе: Киргизгосиздат, 1941. — 226 с. Назначение, права и обязанности штабов Организация работы в штабе Сбор и изучение сведений об обстановке Доклады командиру Порядок отдачи боевых распоряжений Контроль за выполнением отданных распоряжений Донесения и информация Служба связи Служба делегатов связи Дежурство Размещение и...
М.: Московские учебники - СиДиПресс, 2006. — 192 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-8443-0032-7. В книге описана история создания первой в СССР системы противоракетной обороны и полигона для ее испытаний в Казахской пустыне Бетпак-Дала. Автор книги Кулаков Александр Федорович, участник Великой Отечественной войны, прослужил на полигоне 13 лет пройдя путь от инженера-испытателя до заместителя...
3-е изд., испр. и доп. — Нижний Новгород: Чёрная Сотня, 2018. — 152 с.: ил. Книга издана в дореволюционной орфографии, но репринтом, как таковым, не является. Основой для подготовки текста послужило 3-е и 6-ое (дополненное) изданія «Совѣтовъ молодому офицеру» Типолитографіи Р. Радомышельскаго 1916–1917 годовъ. Настоящій текстъ подвергся лишь незначительной корректурѣ, не...
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СПб.: Типография Сухопутного кадетского корпуса, 1777. - 204с.
Книга о наукѣ военной, содержащая въ себѣ умозрѣніе и дѣяніе о укрѣпленіи всякихъ полевыхъ и приморскихъ мѣстъ; о нападеніи и оборонѣ крѣпостей и гаваней; съ описаніемъ бывшихъ знатнѣйшихъ атакъ; и съ присовокупленіемъ науки о перспективѣ и словаря инженернаго.
Москва: У Никитских ворот, 2024. — 472 с. — ISBN 978-5-00246-188-2. Эта книга о людях и лошадях, о людях на лошадях. О кавалерии в "золотое" для нее время, эпоху наполеоновских войн. О людях мы знаем больше, о лошадях значительно меньше, хотя они - полноправные герои событий. Кто лучший из кавалерийских генералов того времени? Как Наполеон потерял в России кавалерию? Что делает...
Монография. — Алматы: Дайк Пресс, 2001. — 172 с. В работе предпринята попытка разностороннего изучения вопросов военной истории Казахстана XVII-XVIII вв., показана роль облавной охоты в становлении военного дела кочевников, рассмотрены состав казахского вооружения и формы его использования в боевых условиях, дана социальная характеристика функционирования казахской военной...
Кокшетау: Келешек-2030, 2009. - 170 с. В книге рассматриваются проблемы и особенности становления и формирования военного дела в кочевых обществах Центральной Азии, с привлечением значительного массива разнообразных источников: письменных сведений, этнографической материалов, археологических работ, исторических исследований и специальной военной литературы. Как следует из...
Переводчик: О. Серебровская — (Военная история человечества) — М.: Эксмо, 2008. – 224 с. — ISBN 978-5-699-27073-6 Великолепно проиллюстрированное издание, посвященное искусству осады городов и крепостей с VI века до н. э. до IV века н. э. Интересный и захватывающий рассказ о грандиозных осадах и штурмах ассирийцев, персов, греков, карфагенян и римлян. Карты и схемы...
М.: Эксмо, 2008. – 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-27073-6. Великолепно проиллюстрированное издание, посвященное искусству осады городов и крепостей с VI века до н. э. до IV века н. э. Интересный и захватывающий рассказ о грандиозных осадах и штурмах ассирийцев, персов, греков, карфагенян и римлян. Карты и схемы фортификационных сооружений и крепостей, основанные на археологических...
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Москва, Ленинград: Государственное издательство. Отдел военной литературы, 1927. — 84 с. — (Библиотека иностранной военной литературы). От редакции. Предисловие автора. Случаи применения ночных атак. Военно-исторические примеры и их уроки. Участие в ночной атаке различных родов войск и оружия. Ночная атака в германских и других уставах. Психологическая сторона. Подготовка войск к...
Любительский перевод. — С оригинала: New York. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 2017. — 208 p. Актуальный, дальновидный и экспертный взгляд на то, как будущие технологии изменят практически каждый аспект войны, какой мы ее знаем, и как мы можем реагировать на серьезные вызовы национальной безопасности, стоящие перед нами. Будущая война уже почти здесь: сражения ведутся в...
Под общ. ред. В.Н. Бондарева. — М.: Фонд «Русские Витязи», 2012. — 792 с. — ISBN 978-5-903389-59-9. Книга посвящена 100-летию создания ВВС России. В ней рассматриваются основные этапы развития ВВС и Войск противовоздушной обороны, ставших в конце 1990-х гг. единым видом Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации. Богатые архивные материалы и факты из других источников позволяют шире...
СПб.: Типография А.А. Пороховщикова, 1898. — 162 с. Сочинение скорее военно-фантастического, чем реалистического плана, однако включающее в себя исторический обзор, описание театра военных действий, целей и выгод сторон, английские планы обороны (также, видимо, по открытым литературным источникам, прежде всего полемизируя с Маг-Грегором, на данном сайте также представленным...
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СПб.: тип. В. Безобразова и К°, 1875. — 32 с. Армии, которые были разбиты, были еще до поля сражения разбиты. Главная и второстепенные причины военных явлений войны 1870-1871 г. Ошибки в деле первоначального сосредоточения войск на театре военных действий едва ли могут быть исправлены в течение целых кампаний. Параллельный разбор плана Мольтке и плана Наполеона III. Приемы обоих.
СПб.: тип. В. Безобразова и К°, 1875. — 32 с. Армии, которые были разбиты, были еще до поля сражения разбиты. Главная и второстепенные причины военных явлений войны 1870-1871 г. Ошибки в деле первоначального сосредоточения войск на театре военных действий едва ли могут быть исправлены в течение целых кампаний. Параллельный разбор плана Мольтке и плана Наполеона III. Приемы обоих.
Сост. ген.-майор Леер, засл. проф. Николаев. акад. Ген. штаба... Вып. 1-2. — Санкт-Петербург: Русская скоропечатня (П. С. Нахимова), 1877-1880. — 2 т.; 24 см. — Вып. 1. — 1887. — 485 с. разд. паг
Книга представляет собой 2-е издание вышедшего в 1866 г. учебника «Записки тактики для военных училищ», который сегодня стал библиографической редкостью.
Сост. ген.-майор Леер, засл. проф. Николаев. акад. Ген. штаба... Вып. 1-2. — Санкт-Петербург: Русская скоропечатня (П. С. Нахимова), 1877-1880. — 2 т.; 24 см. — Вып. 1. — 1887. — 485 с. разд. паг
Книга представляет собой 2-е издание вышедшего в 1866 г. учебника «Записки тактики для военных училищ», который сегодня стал библиографической редкостью.
Монография. — Владивосток: Дальневосточный федеральный университет, 2016. — 140 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7444-3653-7. В монографии рассматриваются взаимоотношения Великобритании и США по проблемам морских вооружений на протяжении первого десятилетия после окончания Первой мировой войны. Автор анализирует истоки англо-американского морского соперничества, а также причины, по которым...
М.: Воениздат НКО СССР, 1941. — 240 с. Приказ Народного Комиссара Обороны СССР № 65 23 апреля 1937 г. г. Москва Ввести в действие объявляемый „Боевой Устав Артиллерии РККА, часть II, 1937 г.“ (БУА-II-37). Боевой Устав Артиллерии, ч. II, 1927 г. (приказ РВС СССР № 326) - отменить. Народный комиссар обороны Союза ССР Маршал Советского Союза К. Ворошилов Боевое использование...
Перевод и предисловие С. М. Белицкий. — Москва, Ленинград: Государственное военное издательство, 1926. — 90 с. — (Библиотека иностранной военной литературы). Довоенная доктрина во Франции и Германии. Лето и осень 1914 года. Зима 1914-1915 гг. и весь 1915 год. Период уточнения выводов. 1917 г. Крайние решения. 1918 г. Прорыв укрепленных позиций и возврат к полевой войне....
СПб.: тип. Морского Сборника, 1886. — 61 с. Изложение тактических и технических идей адмирала (тогда флигель-адъютанта) С.О.Макарова в форме военной фантастики, описания войны "Белой и Синей республик", несуществующих государств Тихого Океана, одно из которых внедрило усовершенствования, сходные с предлагавшимися Макаровым, а второе потратило средства на увеличение численности...
Статьи из газ. "Сталинский сокол" и "Кр. звезда".—- М: Воениздат, 1942. — 88 с. : ил., схем. и карт. — (Библиотека летчика. Сталинская авиация в борьбе с германским фашизмом; вып. 8). Воздушная разведка — глаза наступающей армии. Подполковник Ю. Mакаров. Воздушная разведка. Батальонный комиссар Д. Ткаченко. Что раскрывают аэроснимки. Старший лейтенант К. Ремизов. Истребители идут...
Статьи из газ. "Сталинский сокол" и "Кр. звезда".—- М: Воениздат, 1942. — 88 с. : ил., схем. и карт. — (Библиотека летчика. Сталинская авиация в борьбе с германским фашизмом; вып. 8). Воздушная разведка — глаза наступающей армии. Подполковник Ю. Mакаров. Воздушная разведка. Батальонный комиссар Д. Ткаченко. Что раскрывают аэроснимки. Старший лейтенант К. Ремизов. Истребители идут...
Изд. 7-е. — М.: Т-во А. М. Мамонтова; Земля, 1915. — 984 с., ил. Систематизирована вся информация, необходимая для офицера Российской императорской армии в военное время: организация службы, тактические наставления, юридические сведения, примеры служебной документации, сведения об иностранных армиях и многое другое.
М.: Рипол Классик, 2015. — 480 с. — (Pro власть). — ISBN: 978-5-386-08063-1. Китайская мудрость гласит, что в основе военного успеха лежит человеческий фактор – несгибаемая стойкость и вместе с тем необыкновенная чуткость и бдение духа, что истинная победа достигается тогда, когда побежденные прощают победителей. «Военный канон Китая» – это перевод и исследования, сделанные...
Минск: Харвест; Москва: АСТ, 2002. — 384 с. — (Боевые искусства). Данная книга знакомит с боевыми и спортивными единоборствами, а также с методами воинской подготовки, составляющими важную часть национальных традиций народов Евразии. Речь идет о народах, населяющих все регионы бывшего СССР: европейскую часть, Сибирь, Дальний Восток, Кавказ, Среднюю Азию и Казахстан. В отличие от...
М: Харвест, АСТ, 2002. – 384 с.
Данная книга знакомит с боевыми и спортивными единоборствами, а также с методами воинской подготовки, составляющими важную часть национальных традиций народов Евразии. Речь идет о народах, населяющих все регионы бывшего СССР: европейскую часть, Сибирь, Дальний Восток, Кавказ, Среднюю Азию и Казахстан. В отличие от многочисленных современных...
2-е изд., испр. и доп. — М.: Воениздат, 1986. — 400 с., 25 л. ил. В очерке, рассчитанном на массового читателя, рассказывается о строительстве, боевом применении и совершенствовании советских воздушно десантных войск, о героизме и мужестве воинов-десантников в годы Великой Отечественной войны и в мирное время. Введение Начало пути Становление воздушно-десантных войск Год...
Москва: Воениздат, 1980. — 336 с. В очерке, рассчитанном на массового читателя, рассказывается о строительстве, боевом применении и совершенствовании советских воздушно–десантных войск, о героизме и мужестве воинов–десантников в годы Великой Отечественной войны и в мирное время.
Опубликовано в издании: Марков Александр. Кадеты и юнкера; Никитин В. Многострадальные. — М.: Воениздат, 2001. — 262 с. Об истории возникновения кадетских корпусов и юнкерских училищ, быте воспитанников, их участии в белом движении говорится в воспоминаниях Анатолия Маркова, питомца Воронежского великого князя Михаила Павловича кадетского корпуса, а впоследствии Николаевского...
М.: Воениздат, 2001. - 262 с. Антология. Об истории возникновения кадетских корпусов и юнкерских училищ, быте воспитанников, их участии в белом движении говорится в воспоминаниях Анатолия Маркова, питомца Воронежского великого князя Михаила Павловича кадетского корпуса, а впоследствии Николаевского кавалерийского училища. Художественные очерки `Многострадальные` ярко и...
М.: Воениздат, 2001 г. - 262 с. Об истории возникновения кадетских корпусов и юнкерских училищ, быте воспитанников, их участии в белом движении говорится в воспоминаниях Анатолия Маркова, питомца Воронежского великого князя Михаила Павловича кадетского корпуса, а впоследствии Николаевского кавалерийского училища. Художественные очерки `Многострадальные` ярко и драматично...
Тверь: Типо-Литография Ф.С. Муравьева, 1890. — 390 с. Труд по истории конницы М. И. Маркова, командира 1-го лейб-драгунского Московского его величества полка, изданный в конце XIX века в пяти томах, сегодня признан безусловной библиографической редкостью. Капитальная монография, уникальная по объему собранного материала, написана занимательным, живым языком. Издание охватывает...
Тверь: Типо-Литография Ф.С. Муравьева, 1894. — 682 с.
Труд по истории конницы М. И. Маркова, командира 1-го лейб-драгунского Московского его величества полка, изданный в конце XIX века в пяти томах, сегодня признан безусловной библиографической редкостью. Капитальная монография, уникальная по объему собранного материала, написана занимательным, живым языком. Издание охватывает...
Тверь: Литография Ф.С. Муравьева, 1896. — 624 с. Труд по истории конницы М. И. Маркова, командира 1-го лейб-драгунского Московского его величества полка, изданный в конце XIX века в пяти томах, сегодня признан безусловной библиографической редкостью. Капитальная монография, уникальная по объему собранного материала, написана занимательным, живым языком. Издание охватывает...
Москва: Де'Либри, 2023. — 272 с. В массовой культуре образ самурая обычно ассоциируется с японским вариантом рыцаря-всадника, а пехотинцы японских армий, как правило, представлены в виде плохо экипированных крестьян с копьями или аркебузами. Однако и в древние века, и в феодальный период истории Японии пехота играла существенную роль на полях сражений, как внутри страны, так и...
Де'Либри, 2023. — 272 с. В массовой культуре образ самурая обычно ассоциируется с японским вариантом рыцаря-всадника, а пехотинцы японских армий, как правило, представлены в виде плохо экипированных крестьян с копьями или аркебузами. Однако и в древние века, и в феодальный период истории Японии пехота играла существенную роль на полях сражений, как внутри страны, так и во время...
СПб.: Типография А.С. Суворина, 1900. — 334 с. В книгу вошли очерки осады Севастополя и Бельфора курса "История крепостной войны" читанного Масловым А. Н. в Николаевской инженерной академии. Алексей Николаевич Ма́слов (литературный псевдоним А. Бежецкий; 1852—1922) — русский инженер-генерал, писатель и публицист, писавший главным образом на военные темы, участник Среднеазиатских...
СПб.: Типография А.С. Суворина, 1900. — 334 с. В книгу вошли очерки осады Севастополя и Бельфора курса "История крепостной войны", читанного Масловым А. Н. в Николаевской инженерной академии.
Москва : Университетская типография, 1888. — XXVI, 268 с. Сборник документов Бурхарда Кристофа Миниха относительно атаки г. Гданська в в 1734 г., собранные Гененерального штаба полковником Д. Масловским
Москва : Университетская типография, 1888. — XXVI, 268 с. Сборник документов Бурхарда Кристофа Миниха относительно атаки г. Гданська в в 1734 г., собранные Гененерального штаба полковником Д. Масловским
Издано при содействии Николаевской академии генерального штаба. — С.-Петербург: Типография В. Безобразова и Комп., 1891. — 356 с. + прил. 128 с. Побеждать надобно с лёгким трудом и малой кровью! (Петр Великий) Представленная книга написана военным историком, профессором кафедры истории военного искусства Николаевской акдемии генерального штаба, генерал-майором русской армии...
СПб.: Типиграфия В. Безобразова и компании, 1891. — 356 с.
Общая характеристика реформ Петра Великого.
Периоды в постепенном переходе Петра I к регулярному устройству войск.
Гродненская и Полтавская операции как классические образцы.
Общий очерк состояния военного искусства России в конце царствования Петра Великого.
Состояние военного искусства России при императрице Анне....
Издано при содействии Николаевской академии генерального штаба. — С.-Петербург: Типография В. Безобразова и Комп., 1891. — 1894. — 507 с. + прил. 24 с. Побеждать надобно с лёгким трудом и малой кровью! (Петр Великий) Представленная книга написана военным историком, профессором кафедры истории военного искусства Николаевской акдемии генерального штаба, генерал-майором русской...
СПб.: Типография В.Безобразова и компании. Издано при содействии Николаевской академии генерального штаба, 1894. — 507 с.
Кольбергская операция Румянцева 1761 года.
Царствование Екатерины Великой. Причины быстрого и вполне самостоятельного развития русского военного искусства в это царствование.
Краткий очерк деятельности графа Румянцева.
Первая война с польскими...
Вып. 2: Обеспечение южных границ в 1736 г. План кампании и довольствия войск в 1738 г. Документы Ставучанской операции Миниха. Сборник документов похода вспомогательнаго корпуса русских войск в войну за Австрийское наследство 1748 г. Москва : Университетская тип., 1890. - XVI, 294 с. Представленная книга написана военным историком, профессором кафедры истории военного искусства...
Вып. 1: Проект плана кампании 1708 года Крюиса. Оригинал ордера де-баталии под Лесной с собственноручною резолюциею Петра Великаго. К истории флота времен Петра I. Организация и действие в бою артиллерии времен Елизаветы. Предисловие. — Москва : Университетская тип., 1889. — XXXII, 23, [1] с., [1] л. Представленная книга написана военным историком, профессором кафедры истории...
Устав о строевой пехотной службе фельдмаршала Миниха. Документы Финляндской войны 1743 года. — Москва : Университетская тип., 1892. — XIV, 147, [1] с. Представленная книга написана военным историком, профессором кафедры истории военного искусства Николаевской акдемии генерального штаба, генерал-майором русской армии Дмитрием Федоровичем Масловским (1848-1894) Масловский...
М.: Университетская типография, 1889. — 533 с.
Документы по военной истории, подготовленные полковником Масловским, свидетельствуют, что русское военное искусство ни есть сплошное заимствование с Запада.
Масловский видит одну из задач военно-исторических исследований, в беспристрастном выделении периодов, где брала вверх отечественная или иностранная военная мысль, а не просто...
Издано при содействии Николаевской Академии Генерального штаба. — СПб.: Типография Безобразова и Ко, 1894. — 258 с. Книга представляет приложение ко второй части "Истории русского военного искусства". Содержит примечания и указатель фамилий.
Санкт-Петербург : тип. Гл. упр. уделов, 1894. — 21 с. Рецензия выдающегося военного теоретика Дмитрия Фёдоровича Масловского на 7 вып. "Сборника военно-исторических материалов".
М: Тип. Окружного штаба, 1883. — 264 с. Дмитрий Фёдорович Масловский — русский военный историк. Масловский ищет корни военного искусства России XVIII века в первых воинских наставлениях и указах, чтобы с практической точки зрения объяснить качественное изменение тактики и стратегии армии. По его глубокому убеждению, только зная организационные и хозяйственные аспекты формирования...
М.: Тип. Окружного штаба, 1883. — 264 с. Масловский ищет корни военного искусства России XVIII века в первых воинских наставлениях и указах, чтобы с практической точки зрения объяснить качественное изменение тактики и стратегии армии. По его глубокому убеждению, только зная организационные и хозяйственные аспекты формирования войск, можно глубоко обсуждать действия полководца и...
М.: Воениздат НКО СССР, 1936. — 164 с. Под редакцией комкора В. Хрипина. 2-е исправленное издание. Из текста: Штурмовая авиация является особым родом боевой авиации. Она действует, как правило, с бреющего полета. . В этом одно из главных ее отличий от действия всех остальных родов авиации. Бреющий полет повышает боевую мощь в 3–4 раза по сравнению с действиями со средних или...
Одесса: «Славянская» типография Е. Хрисогелос, 1904. — 155 с.
Книга известного русского инженера-технолога рассказывает о новейших военно-технических изобретениях: Часть I. Вопросы продовольствія: Хлѣбъ изъ зерна.—Китайскій горохъ, гаолянъ, маньчжурское просо и пр. — Консервы.—Продовольствіе въ экстренныхъ случаяхъ. Очистка воды и пр. Часть II. Взрывчатыя вещества.—Мины. —...
Авториз. пер. с англ. Н. Эдельмана, под науч. ред. О. Айрапетова. — М.: Модест Колеров, 2015. — 424 с. — (Selecta. XXIII). — ISBN: 978-5-905040-19-1. Оригинал: Bruce W. Menning . Bayonets Before Bullets. The Imperial Russian Army, 1861–1914. Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1992. Тридцать лет назад эта книга началась как изучение тактических нововведений в Русской императорской...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. - 528 с.
ISBN: 5-89173-056-1
В книгу вошли очерки и отдельные главы из трудов Ф. Меринга, в которых освещается эволюция военного искусства, начиная с греко-персидских войн до наполеоновских. Для российского читателя будет необычным то, что историю ряда войн автор рассматривает с позиции Пруссии и ее национальных интересов. Но эта позиция Ф. Меринга делает...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. - 528 с.
ISBN: 5-89173-056-1
В книгу вошли очерки и отдельные главы из трудов Ф. Меринга, в которых освещается эволюция военного искусства, начиная с греко-персидских войн до наполеоновских. Для российского читателя будет необычным то, что историю ряда войн автор рассматривает с позиции Пруссии и ее национальных интересов. Но эта позиция Ф. Меринга делает...
М.: Воениздат НКО ССР, 1941. — 338 с. — (Библиотека командира). В книге излагается история военного искусства, начиная с древнейших времен до начала XIX столетия. Предисловие История военного искусства Метод Марафон и Фермопилы Пелопоннесская война Ганнибал и Цезарь Битва в Тевтобургском лесу Средние века Швейцарцы Военно-исторические экскурсии Внешняя и военная политика...
М.: Воениздат НКО ССР, 1941. — 338 с. В книге излагается история военного искусства, начиная с древнейших времен до начала XIX столетия. Предисловие История военного искусства Метод Марафон и Фермопилы Пелопоннесская война Ганнибал и Цезарь Битва в Тевтобургском лесу Средние века Швейцарцы Военно-исторические экскурсии Внешняя и военная политика Фридриха II Дипломатия и...
Москва, 2014. — 233 с. (От истоков Центрального командного пункта Генерального штаба до создания Национального центра управления обороной Российской Федерации). Авторский коллектив: В.А. Калганов, А.Б. Кротких. Под общей редакцией начальника Национального центра управления обороной Российской Федерации генерал-лейтенанта М.Е. Мизинцева. Книга посвящена истории и боевому пути...
Военная академия тыла и снабжения, 1955 г. ,123 с. Дан систематизированный материал по истории тыла и снабжения Русской армии. Период - вторая половина 19 - начало 20 вв.
Военная академия тыла и снабжения, 1955 г. ,143 с. Настоящим выпуском делается первая попытка дать систематизированный материал по истории тыла и снабжения Русской армии. Период -
12. середина 19 веков, а подробно с первой четверти 18 века.
При освещении тыла действующей армии рассматриваются основные вопросы организации тыла и снабжения за войну в целом, а не по отдельным...
СПб.: Типография военно-учебных заведений, 1845. — 4, II, 43 c., 7 л. карт. Составлено в Гвардейском Генеральном штабе капитаном Милютиным. В книге рассматриваются основные приемы атаки и обороны деревень, лесов, оврагов и др. Приводятся примеры (предположения) атаки и обороны для егерских и гренадерских батальонов, Все примеры снабжены картами (чертежами).
Новосибирск: НВИ имени генерала армии И.К. Яковлева войск национальной гвардии РФ, 2017. — 236 с. — ISBN: 978-5-906431-50-9. В монографии впервые в российской историографии в полном объеме представлена детальная историческая реконструкция создания и развития системы тылового ополчения в СССР 1930-х годов. Практически весь материал исследования подготовлен на основе материалов,...
С.-Пб.: Морская типография, 1826. — 108 с. Язык русский (дореволюционный). Михаил Иванович Миницкий (1772 - 1829) - командир бригады 3-й флотской дивизии. Известен также тем, что написал труды: "О порядке производства работ при вооружении кораблей для плавания по морям" и "О действии орудиями на кораблях при сражении с неприятелем". Первая из работ предлагается читателю. В ней...
Выходные данные неизвестны. 1732. — 388 с. В документе 1732 года, адресованном на имя Императрицы, производится попытка классификации используемого на тот момент вооружения (с чертежами), а также структуры российской армии. Отдельные части посвящены минерам, береговой артиллерии и артиллерийским школам, а также финансовой стороне обеспечения.
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет телекоммуникаций (СПбГУТ) имени М.А. Бонч-Бруевича, 2016. — 85 с. В четырех частях данного учебного пособия рассматриваются основные этапы развития вооруженных сил с древности по настоящее время. Раскрываются общие направления эволюции военной мысли и военного искусства, развития вооружения и военной...
Военно-исторический очерк. — Минск: Военная Академия Республики Беларусь, 2008. — 458 с. Военно-исторический очерк посвящен 55-летию первого военного вуза Белоруссии, который с 1953 г. имел различные названия, и 25-летию с момента образования Минского высшего военно-политического общевойскового училища (МВВПОУ), а также 10-летию Военной академии Республики Беларусь (ВА РБ). Это...
Астрахань: Макис, 2003. — 210 с. Читателю предлагается комплексное многоступенчатое исследование истории создания и развития местных органов военного управления за прошедшие 85 лет, а также основные вехи военной истории на территории Астраханской области.
М.: Издание С. Михеева и А. Казачкова, Типография Окружного штаба/Типография Штаба Московского Военного округа, 1910. — 94 с. Язык: русский дореформенный Эпоха Петра Великого. Цѣль настоящаго изданія—служить пособіемъ при изученіи юнкерами военныхъ и юнкерскихъ училищъ исторіи русской арміи. Въ зависимости отъ указанной цѣли содержаніе распадается на двѣ части: теоретическую,...
М.: Издание С. Михеева и А. Казачкова, Типография Окружного штаба/Типография Штаба Московского Военного округа, 1911. — 89 с.
Язык: русский дореформенный
Эпоха войн с Наполеоном I.
Цѣль настоящаго изданія—служить пособіемъ при изученіи юнкерами военныхъ и юнкерскихъ училищъ исторіи русской арміи.
Въ зависимости отъ указанной цѣли содержаніе распадается на двѣ части:...
М.: Издание С. Михеева и А. Казачкова, Типография Окружного штаба/Типография Штаба Московского Военного округа, 1911. — 75 с.
Язык: русский дореформенный
Переходная эпоха (1815-1856)
Цѣль настоящаго изданія—служить пособіемъ при изученіи юнкерами военныхъ и юнкерскихъ училищъ исторіи русской арміи.
Въ зависимости отъ указанной цѣли содержаніе распадается на двѣ части:...
М.: Издание С. Михеева и А. Казачкова, Типография Окружного штаба/Типография Штаба Московского Военного округа, 1911. — 117 с.
Язык: русский дореформенный
Эпоха реформ.
Цѣль настоящаго изданія—служить пособіемъ при изученіи юнкерами военныхъ и юнкерскихъ училищъ исторіи русской арміи.
Въ зависимости отъ указанной цѣли содержаніе распадается на двѣ части: теоретическую,...
М.: Издание С. Михеева и А. Казачкова, Типография Окружного штаба/Типография Штаба Московского Военного округа, 1912. — 104 с.
Язык: русский дореформенный
Новейшая эпоха.
Цѣль настоящаго изданія—служить пособіемъ при изученіи юнкерами военныхъ и юнкерскихъ училищъ исторіи русской арміи.
Въ зависимости отъ указанной цѣли содержаніе распадается на двѣ части: теоретическую,...
Москва: Вече, 2021. — 330 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8552-7. В этой книге русский военный мыслитель конца XIX – начала XX века Н.П. Михневич представляет читателю очерк развития военного дела Нового времени от шведского короля Густава Адольфа до Наполеона Бонапарта. Рассказы о реформах, нововведениях, тактике и стратегии, описаниях хода важнейших событий тех...
2-е изд. — СПб.: Паровая Скоропечатня П. О. Яблонского, 1896. — XVIII, 520 c. При написании настоящей книги генерал Н. П. Михневич руководствовался целью выяснить состояние военного искусства в разные исторические эпохи, последовательность в его развитии, а также указать те исторические причины, которые повлияли на его развитие или падение в ту или иную эпоху. Стараясь...
Москва: Вече, 2021. — 288 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8581-7. Классический труд яркого русского военного мыслителя конца XIX – начала XX века Н.П. Михневича представляет читателям очерк развития военного дела на протяжении нескольких тысяч лет и вплоть до начала Нового времени. Автор рассматривает тактику и стратегию не изолированно, а в контексте...
Москва: Вече, 2021. — 288 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8581-7. Классический труд яркого русского военного мыслителя конца XIX – начала XX века Н.П. Михневича представляет читателям очерк развития военного дела на протяжении нескольких тысяч лет и вплоть до начала Нового времени. Автор рассматривает тактику и стратегию не изолированно, а в контексте...
Сборник. — Москва: МО РФ, 2020. — 213 с. В сборнике отражены основные достижения Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации за 2020 год, в сравнении с предыдущим 2019 годом
Калининград: Страж Балтики, 2019. — 255 с. — ISBN 978-5-91728-133-9. "Автор-составитель предлагает читателю практически новый, расширенный взгляд на историю штурма Кёнигсберга, которая открывается после изучения рассекреченных архивных документов. В оборот вводятся новые, до этого времени неизвестные широкому кругу читателей, историков и любителей истории имена и документы....
Изд. 41-е испр. — СПб.: Товарищество "В. А. Березовский", 1916. — 114 с. Последняя (41-я) редакция самого популярного учебника для рядовых пехоты Российской империи. Содержит массу ценных сведений исторического характера и, что не менее ценно, дух ушедшей эпохи.
Брошюра. — Петропавловск-Камчатский: 2007. — 28 с.
Брошюра рассказывает о камчатской радиоконтрразведке (РКР) — об отделе "Р" РУ ФСБ России по Камчатской области; выпущена к 70-летию образования.
Содержание брошюры:
"Страницы истории" — также дана фотография: "Ф. М. Сорокин";
"Руководители РКР на Камчатке" — список руководителей в разные годы (13 фамилий);
"Воспоминания...
М.: Государственное военное издательство Наркомата Обороны СССР, 1936. — 216 с. "30 декабря 1936 введён в действие Временный полевой устав РККА (ПУ-36), четко определивший роль и место родов войск в бою и операции. Его основные положения учитывали значительные изменения в технической оснащённости и организации всех видов и родов войск, достигнутые в 30-х гг." Временный Полевой...
М.: Мир энциклопедий Аванта+, Астрель, 2011. — 319 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98986-505-5; ISBN: 978-5-271-36341-2. Книга посвящена самым известным битвам в истории человечества. Это пылкий, порой художественный рассказ о "героях былых времен", задуманный как триединое повествование о полководце, великом сражении и оружии. Тройственность сюжета позволяет показать войны прошлого с разных...
М.: Мир энциклопедий Аванта+, Астрель, 2011. — 319 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98986-505-5; ISBN: 978-5-271-36341-2. Книга посвящена самым известным битвам в истории человечества. Это пылкий, порой художественный рассказ о "героях былых времен", задуманный как триединое повествование о полководце, великом сражении и оружии. Тройственность сюжета позволяет показать войны прошлого с разных...
Москва: Парус 2000 г. — 242 с. с ил, — ISBN: 5-89410-015-1 Неручева Маргарита Александровна, подполковник в отставке. Служила в системе внешней разведки. В течение нескольких лет выполняла специальное задание – работала переводчицей и цензором в Межсоюзнической тюрьме Шпандау в Западном Берлине. Подробно рассказывает о тюрьме, ее обитателях – главных нацистских преступниках...
М. : Рипол Классик, 2016. — 224 с. : ил. — (Подарочная полка). — ISBN: 978-5-386-09157-6. В Российской империи звание «русский офицер» было не просто обозначением профессиональной либо социальной принадлежности. Звание «офицер» означало принадлежность к особой касте людей, для которых честь и достоинство были дороже жизни. За честь сражались, за нее же и умирали. Во время...
СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2011. — 306 с. — (Historia militaris). — ISBN: 978-5-8465-1158-3 (Филологический факультет СПбГУ). — ISBN: 978-5-98187-876-3 (Нестор-История). Книга, основанная на материале античных письменных источников, рисует целостную картину военного дела сарматов – кочевников, живших в степях Северного Причерноморья, и сменивших их...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2020. — 384 с. — ISBN 978-5-9955-1029-1. «Лезвия колесниц серпоносных нередко / Столь неожиданно рвут тела в беспорядочной бойне, / Что на земле увидать отсеченные руки и ноги…» – так римский поэт описывал смертоносное действие колесниц с серпами на поле боя. Колесницы с косоподобными лезвиями длиной около метра, установленными на колесах с каждой стороны...
М.: Яуза-пресс, 2020. — 384 с. — ISBN 978-5-9955-1029-1. «Лезвия колесниц серпоносных нередко / Столь неожиданно рвут тела в беспорядочной бойне, / Что на земле увидать отсеченные руки и ноги…» – так римский поэт описывал смертоносное действие колесниц с серпами на поле боя. Колесницы с косоподобными лезвиями длиной около метра, установленными на колесах с каждой стороны...
М.: Яуза, 2022. — 309 с. — ISBN 978-5-04-162522-1. Во второй половине VI века до н. э. персидскими царями из династии Ахеменидов была создана одна из величайших империй в мировой истории. В ходе завоеваний Кира II Великого (558−530 гг. до н. э.) и его наследников в течение всего лишь около сорока лет персы завоевали государства и племена на огромном пространстве от Малой Азии...
Знаменск (Капустин Яр), 2007. — 108 с.
В этом издании мы не ставим своей целью рассказывать нашим читателям, ветеранам в/ч 74322, как образовался полигон Капустин Яр, как создавался полигонный измерительный комплекс, об этом много написано и снято фильмов. Мы постараемся рассказать о делах и жизни людей, стоявших у истоков создания системы и методологии измерений и обработки, об...
М.: АСТ, Астрель, 2003. — 60 с. — ISBN: 5-17-019958-9; 5-271-06993-1.
На протяжении Средних веков ислам был единственным цивилизованным, но также и наиболее проблемным соседом христианской Европы. Все средневековье прошло под знаком почти непрерывной борьбы между двумя этими культурами. Ко времени, когда франкские крестоносцы достигли Ближнего Востока в конце XI века, ислам уже...
СПб.: Алетейя, 1996. — 350 с. — (Античная библиотека). После опубликования в русском переводе трактата о военном деле римлян Вегеция в настоящем издании предлагается новый материал по специальной области военного дела - по искусству осады городов. Античные писатели, из них главным образом греческие авторы, оставили нам в этой области немало различных наставлений, инструкций...
М.: Воениздат НКО СССР, 1936. — 244 с. (Библиотека командира). Операция под Камбрэ, протекавшая в течение 17 дней, дает нам два интересных исторических примера прорыва англичан и немцев в условиях позиционной войны 1917 г., построенных на двух резко отличающихся друг от друга новых способах действий — так называемую «танковую» и «артиллерийскую» формы прорыва. С точки зрения...
Великобритания, Франция, Австрия, Пруссия и прочия государства Германии. — СПб.: Военная типография, 1867. — VI, 312 с. Сборник представляет собой первое российское военно-статистическое исследование вооружённых сил стран мира.
Италия, Испания, Португалия, Швейцария, Бельгия, Голландия, Дания, Швеция с Норвегию, Греция, Турция и вассальные владения. — 1868. — III, 349 с. Сборник представляет собой первое российское военно-статистическое исследование вооружённых сил стран мира.
Персия, Афганистан, Белуджистан, Средне-Азиятския владения, Китай, Япония, Северо-Американские Соединенные штаты, Мексика, Бразилия и республики Средней и Южной Америки. — СПб.: Военная типография, 1868. — III, 338 с. Сборник представляет собой первое российское военно статистическое исследование вооружённых сил стран мира.
М.: Артефакт, 1998. — 35 с. Небольшая но в тоже время достаточно редкая (всего 500 экз.) брошюрка. История участия железнодорожных войск, бронепоездов Третьего рейха во Второй мировой войне. (Структура, Организация, Вооружение, Тактика Ж/Д войск).
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 192 с. — (Хроники военных сражений). — ISBN 978-5-9524-4945-9. В своем исследовании Чарлз Оман рассматривает развитие военного искусства в Средние века - начиная с периода падения Римской империи и до начала XVI века. Анализируя эволюцию методов ведения войны, автор рассматривает условия, в которых зарождались основы военного искусства, политическую...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 192 с. — (Хроники военных сражений). — ISBN 978-5-9524-4945-9. В своем исследовании Чарлз Оман рассматривает развитие военного искусства в Средние века - начиная с периода падения Римской империи и до начала XVI века. Анализируя эволюцию методов ведения войны, автор рассматривает условия, в которых зарождались основы военного искусства, политическую...
СПб.: без указания типографии, 1797. — 198 с. Печатный сборник описаний мундиров, которые были учреждены по прусскому образцу императором Павлом. Всеподданейше подготовил к монаршьему изволению граф Салтыков. На документе сохранились правки рукой Павла о переименовании полков по фамилиям их шефов. Этот документ был использован Висковатовым для проработки темы реформ павловского...
Смоленск: Электро-Типо Лит. Я.Н. Подземского, 1915. — 11 с. Дано описание противогазовых повязок и масок, имевшихся в действующих армиях бывшего Северо-Западного фронта.
Навч. посіб. — Київ: Нац. акад. СБУ, 2017. — 276 с. З урахуванням актуальності, спадщини історії та реалій семи поколінь війн, це видання презентує в еволюції узагальнені реалії та специфіку воєнного мистецтва. Автори посібника підводять читача до загального розуміння воєнного мистецтва. Розкривають особливості війн та воєнного мистецтва починаючи з часів давнього світу до...
Навч. посіб. — Київ: Нац. акад. СБУ, 2017. — 336 с. З урахуванням актуальності, спадщини історії та реалій семи поколінь війн, це видання презентує в еволюції узагальнені реалії та специфіку воєнного мистецтва. Автори посібника підводять читача до загального розуміння воєнного мистецтва. Розкривають особливості війн та воєнного мистецтва починаючи з часів давнього світу до...
Отчетъ о военно-инженерной дѣятельности въ Восточную войну 1877 года, и при приготовленiяхъ на случай возобновленiя войны въ 1878 году, въ районе дѣйствiя и расположенiя Кавказской армiи. Выпускъ III. — Тифлисъ, 1879. — 154 с. Типографiя Главнаго Управленiя Намѣстника Кавказскаго. Печатано по распоряженiю Начальника Инженеровъ Кавказского Военнаго Округа. Постройка свайнаго...
Отчетъ о военно-инженерной дѣятельности въ Восточную войну 1877 года, въ районе дѣйствiя и расположенiя Кавказской армiи. Выпускъ IV. — Тифлисъ, 1879. — 138 с. Типографiя Окружнаго Штаба Кавказскаго Военнаго Округа. Печатано по распоряженiю Начальника Инженеровъ Кавказского Военнаго Округа. Содержанiе IV выпуска. I. Постройка каючнаго моста чрезъ р. Рiонъ въ м. Орпири. Военнаго...
Отчетъ о военно-инженерной дѣятельности въ Восточную войну 1877 и 1878 годовъ, въ районе дѣйствiя и расположенiя Кавказской армiи. Выпускъ V. — Тифлисъ, 1879. — 193 с. Типографiя Главнаго Управленiя Намѣстника Кавказскаго. Печатано по распоряженiю Начальника Инженеровъ Кавказского Военнаго Округа. Случаи наводки Каучуковаго моста, состоявшаго при 2 Кавказскомъ Саперномъ...
Петроград: Типография Штаба Петроградского военного Округа, 1917. — 51 с. Как пользоваться противогазами. Наставление для пользования сухим угольным противогазом профессора Зелинского. Наставление для пользования сухим угольным противогазом с клапанами. Наставление для пользования влажной маской Химического Комитета. Наставление для пользования английской маской-шлемом....
Санктпетербург: В типографии Департамента народнаго просвещения, 1818. — [4], XI, [1], 80 с. Полевая памятная книжка для офицеров, содержащая справочные материалы по организации русской армии, размещению и передвижению войск, по службе в поле, полевому письмоводству, сведения пго производству военно-топографических работ, а также вспомогательные сведения по разным отраслям...
М.: МИЛИАРИ, 2022. — 184 с. Военно-исторический труд посвящен истории комплектования армии России военнослужащими на добровольной основе в период с XVIII века по настоящее время. В нем на основе архивных материалов и документов, исторической и специальной литературы исследуется опыт создания и развития института добровольной военной службы в тесной взаимосвязи с основными...
М.: МИЛИАРИ, 2022. — 184 с. Военно-исторический труд посвящен истории комплектования армии России военнослужащими на добровольной основе в период с XVIII века по настоящее время. В нем на основе архивных материалов и документов, исторической и специальной литературы исследуется опыт создания и развития института добровольной военной службы в тесной взаимосвязи с основными...
М.: РИЦ ГШ ВС РФ, 2003. — 224 с. Книга посвящена 85-летию со дня образования Главного управления кадров Министерства обороны Российской Федерации. Одной из основных целей авторы книги ставили поиск исторических предшественников первых органов военного управления, занимавшихся подбором, изучением и расстановкой военных кадров в армии Российского государства. Предпринята также...
СПб.: Остров, 2004. — 67 с. В книге рассказывается об истории создания, боевых действиях и последующей судьбе одной из батарей знаменитого Атлантического вала, расположенной на оккупированном в 1940-1945 гг. немцами английском острове Гернси и вооруженной русскими 305-мм пушками в 52 калибра длиной с бывшего линейного корабля Черноморского флота "Император Александр III". Подробно...
С-Петербург: Тип. Морского Министерства, 1888. — 413 с. Вполне одобрена и рекомендована Ученым Отделением Морского Технического Комитета. Поступление на службу. Прохождение службы. О матросском довольствии. Постановления по военно-судной части. О здоровье, жилье, одежде, пище и питье матросов. Дополнительные сведения. Береговая служба. Служба в плавании. Караульная служба на...
СПб.: Тип. Морского Министерства, 1888. - 154с.
Содержание:
Поступление на службу.
Прохождение службы.
О матросском довольствии.
Постановления по военно-судной части.
О здоровье, жилье, одежде, пище и питье матросов.
Дополнительные сведения.
СПб.: Тип. Морского Министерства, 1888. - 259с.
Содержание:
Береговая служба.
Служба в плавании.
Караульная служба на берегу.
Караульная служба на корабле.
Строевая служба.
Служба в военное время.
Ручное огнестрельное оружие.
СПб.: В.Н. Мещерский, 1891. — 63 с. Два доклада генерала морской артиллерии Филимона Васильевича Пестича, участника обороны Севастополя во время Крымской войны, председателя артиллерийского отделения Морского Технического Комитета. Представляют интерес и как "взгляд очевидца", и как свидетельство взглядов артиллеристов того времени.
СПб.: Военная типография, 1893. — 418 с. Книга «Влияние турецких войн с половины прошлого столетия на развитие русского военного искусства» представляет собой двухтомное издание, в котором автор рассматривает причины конфликтов между Россией и Турцией. Проводит подробный анализ и дает оценку военной подготовки, оснащенности обеих армий. Подробно описывает кампании 1769–1774 и...
СПб.: Военная типография, 1893. — 418 с. Книга «Влияние турецких войн с половины прошлого столетия на развитие русского военного искусства» представляет собой двухтомное издание, в котором автор рассматривает причины конфликтов между Россией и Турцией. Проводит подробный анализ и дает оценку военной подготовки, оснащенности обеих армий. Подробно описывает кампании 1769–1774 и...
СПб.: Военная типография, 1894. — 396 с. Книга «Влияние турецких войн с половины прошлого столетия на развитие русского военного искусства» представляет собой двухтомное издание, в котором автор рассматривает причины конфликтов между Россией и Турцией. Проводит подробный анализ и дает оценку военной подготовки, оснащенности обеих армий. Подробно описывает кампании 1769–1774 и...
СПб.: Военная типография, 1894. — 396 с. Книга «Влияние турецких войн с половины прошлого столетия на развитие русского военного искусства» представляет собой двухтомное издание, в котором автор рассматривает причины конфликтов между Россией и Турцией. Проводит подробный анализ и дает оценку военной подготовки, оснащенности обеих армий. Подробно описывает кампании 1769–1774 и...
М.: Ленанд, 2010. — 176 с. В книге проведен анализ служебной деятельности военных профессионалов США и их гражданских коллег в центральных органах управления вооруженными силами, показаны особенности взаимоотношений военных и гражданских служащих в рамках системы министерства обороны. На примере мероприятий командования ВС США обозначены практические шаги по исправлению...
Монография. — М.: СГУ, 2009. — 266 с. — ISBN 978-5-8323-0600-1. В монографии разработана историография военно-инженерного образования до Первой мировой войны, систематизирован опыт подготовки офицерских кадров для инженерных войск русской армии, военно-инженерное образование рассмотрено как система (подсистема военного образования), дана оценка возможности и целесообразности...
Монография. — М.: Современный гуманитарный университет, 2012. — 486 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8323-0836-4. Исследование посвящено зарождению и развитию военно-инженерного образования сухопутных войск Российской империи, Советского Союза и Российской Федерации. Описаны предпосылки зарождения военно-инженерного образования, раскрыта история основных военно-инженерных учебных заведений с...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 735 с. Труд "Операции Советских Вооруженных Сил в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 (военно-исторический очерк)" разработан Военно-историческим отделом Военно-научного управления Генерального штаба и выпускается в четырех томах. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942. Описанию этих событий предшествует...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 4 с. Труд "Операции Советских Вооруженных Сил в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 (военно-исторический очерк)" разработан Военно-историческим отделом Военно-научного управления Генерального штаба и выпускается в четырех томах. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942. Описанию этих событий предшествует...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 516 с. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942 г. Описанию этих событий предшествует раздел, раскрывающий военно-политическую обстановку накануне Великой Отечественной воины и подготовку Советского Союза к отражению фашистской агрессии. Во второй том включены события, происходившие в период с начала...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 516 с. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942 г. Описанию этих событий предшествует раздел, раскрывающий военно-политическую обстановку накануне Великой Отечественной воины и подготовку Советского Союза к отражению фашистской агрессии. Во второй том включены события, происходившие в период с начала...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 825 с. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942 г. Описанию этих событий предшествует раздел, раскрывающий военно-политическую обстановку накануне Великой Отечественной воины и подготовку Советского Союза к отражению фашистской агрессии. Во второй том включены события, происходившие в период с начала...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 825 с. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942 г. Описанию этих событий предшествует раздел, раскрывающий военно-политическую обстановку накануне Великой Отечественной воины и подготовку Советского Союза к отражению фашистской агрессии. Во второй том включены события, происходившие в период с начала...
М.: Воениздат, 1959. — 869 с. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942 г. Описанию этих событий предшествует раздел, раскрывающий военно-политическую обстановку накануне Великой Отечественной воины и подготовку Советского Союза к отражению фашистской агрессии. Во второй том включены события, происходившие в период с начала...
М.: Воениздат, 1959. — 869 с. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942 г. Описанию этих событий предшествует раздел, раскрывающий военно-политическую обстановку накануне Великой Отечественной воины и подготовку Советского Союза к отражению фашистской агрессии. Во второй том включены события, происходившие в период с начала...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 735 с. Труд "Операции Советских Вооруженных Сил в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 (военно-исторический очерк)" разработан Военно-историческим отделом Военно-научного управления Генерального штаба и выпускается в четырех томах. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942. Описанию этих событий предшествует...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 263 с. Труд "Операции Советских Вооруженных Сил в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 (военно-исторический очерк)" разработан Военно-историческим отделом Военно-научного управления Генерального штаба и выпускается в четырех томах. Тема второго тома: Зимняя кампания 1942/43 года. Контрнаступление под Сталинградом и общее наступление Советской Армии.
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 422 с. Труд "Операции Советских Вооруженных Сил в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 (военно-исторический очерк)" разработан Военно-историческим отделом Военно-научного управления Генерального штаба и выпускается в четырех томах. Тема третьего тома: Операции советских вооружённых сил в период решающих побед.
М.: Воениздат, 1959. — 439 с. Труд "Операции Советских Вооруженных Сил в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 (военно-исторический очерк)" разработан Военно-историческим отделом Военно-научного управления Генерального штаба и выпускается в четырех томах. Тема четвёртого тома: Операции советских вооружённых сил в период завершающих побед Советского Союза над фашистской Германий....
Сороки, Бес. губ. : тип. Г. Вайсмана, 1888. — [2], II, III, 123 с., 1 л. ил. Повторительный курс полковых учебных команд кавалерии: По: 1) устройству войск, службе и довольствию солдата; 2) сведению из Военно-уголовных законов; 3) ручному огнестрельному оружию; 4) сбережению здоровья; 5) сведению о лошади и 6) чтению топографических карт. Составлено по программам, приложению к...
Сокращённый перевод с английского. Военное издательство министерства обороны союза ССР. Москва. 1959 - 529 стр.
Книга входит в многотомную работу, издаваемую военно-историческим отделом армии США под общим названием «Армия США во второй мировой войне». Выпущенные в свет книги этой серии освещают вопросы стратегического планирования и подготовки армии США к войне, стратегического...
Ростов н/Д: Феникс; Донецк: Кредо, 2006. — 304 с. — ISBN: 5-222-10053-7. Общеизвестен печальный факт: все свои изобретения и открытия человек направлял на уничтожение и порабощение себе подобных. Приручение диких зверей не стало исключением. Не знающие угрызений совести боевые кони, собаки, быки, слоны восполняли недостатки древних армий в военной технике. Здесь изложены...
Ростов н/Д: Феникс; Донецк: Кредо, 2006. — 304 с. — ISBN: 5-222-10053-7. Общеизвестен печальный факт: все свои изобретения и открытия человек направлял на уничтожение и порабощение себе подобных. Приручение диких зверей не стало исключением. Не знающие угрызений совести боевые кони, собаки, быки, слоны восполняли недостатки древних армий в военной технике. Здесь изложены...
Ростов-на-Дону: Феникс; Донецк: Кредо, 2006. — 304 с. — ISBN: 5-222-10053-7. Общеизвестен печальный факт: все свои изобретения и открытия человек направлял на уничтожение и порабощение себе подобных. Приручение диких зверей не стало исключением. Не знающие угрызений совести боевые кони, собаки, быки, слоны восполняли недостатки древних армий в военной технике. Здесь изложены...
3-е изд., испр. — М.: Кучково поле, 2018. — 832 с.: ил. — (Искусство войны) — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0881-1 В книге представлен подробный анализ сущности, характера и особенностей войны будущего. Отвечая на вопрос, с какими противниками России предстоит встретиться в будущем и каковы должны быть пути развития отечественных Вооруженных Сил и направления их военно-технического...
Варшава: Губернская типография, 1892. — 226 с. Свод мнений по вопросу об управлении войсками в бою. Об ординарцах и посыльных, по уставным о них правилам. Сущность военных приказаний и донесений.
СПб.: Типография В. С. Балашева, 1894. — 283 с. Документальное описание истории конноартиллерийских частей Российской императорской армии за период 1794—1894 годов. Приведены подробная хронология исторических событий, описания боевых действий, редкие архивные изображения, списки лиц императорской фамилии, числящихся в конной артиллерии, списки генералов, штаб- и обер-офицеров,...
Ростов-на-Дону: Военный вестник Юга России, 2007. — 76 с. На фотографиях фотоальбома запечатлены наиболее значительные события произошедшие в истории Северо-Кавказского военного округа со дня его формирования и до настоящего времени.
Ростов-на-Дону: Военный вестник Юга России, 2007. — 76 с. На фотографиях фотоальбома запечатлены наиболее значительные события произошедшие в истории Северо-Кавказского военного округа со дня его формирования и до настоящего времени.
Приказ генерала Хабалова по Петроградскому военному округу от 11 января 1917 N037 - о выдаче пособий для приобретения тёплых вещей военным почтальонам, рассыльным полевых почтовых конто, телеграфных отделений и чиновникам полевых и крепостных казначейств
Учебно-методическое пособие для курсантов. Ответственный редактор - доцент Леушин С.Г. — Пенза: ПАИИ, 2002. — 15 с. Пособие подготовлено начальником кафедры гуманитарных и социально-экономических дисциплин полковником Пугачёвым Н.И. и предназначено для курсантов и офицеров института.
СПб.: Издание В. Березовского, 1884. — 269 с. Пособие, написанное полковником Генерального штаба. Первоначально настоящій нашъ трудъ появился въ „Военномъ Сборнике" 1882 года въ виде ряда статей, а затемъ выпущенъ былъ и въ отдельныхъ оттискахъ. Такъ какъ отпечатанные экземпляры разошлись въ продаже, a между темъ требованія войсками на книгу предъявляются, то мы и решились...
СПб.: Типография штаба войск гвардии и Петербургского военного округа, 1882. — 97 с. Книга профессора Академии Генерального Штаба А.К. Пузыревского представляет собой краткий очерк развития военного дела и строительства вооруженных сил в период подготовки и развертывания первой общеевропейской Тридцатилетней войны 1618-1648 гг. Для изучающих историю Европы этого периода и...
СПб.: Типография штаба войск Гвардии и Петербургского военного округа, 1884. — 235 с. С отдельным атласом. Первая часть посвящена развитию военного искусства от краха Римской Империи и её военной системы до Крестовых походов включительно. Изучение средневекового военного искусства необходимо не только для уяснения того пути, по которому развивалось военное дело, но и для...
СПб.: Типография штаба войск Гвардии и Петербургского военного округа, 1884. — 235 с.
Первая часть посвящена развитию военного искусства от краха Римской Империи и её военной системы до Крестовых походов включительно. Карты к первой части приложены ко второй части пособия.
Для изучающих историю этой эпохи и военную историю.
СПб.: Типография штаба войск Гвардии и Петербургского военного округа, 1884. — 235 с.
Вторая часть посвящена развитию военного искусства от появления огнестрельного оружия до зарождения основ военного искусства Нового Времени. В этой же части помещено приложение к первому тому.
Для изучающих историю этой эпохи и военную историю.
СПб.: Военно-учёный комитет, 1883. — 13 с. В первой части указаны книги по различным отраслям военного дела, которые рекомендуется приобретать для полковых библиотек с целью самоподготовки офицеров. Во второй части темы для обсуждения офицерами различных вопросов тактики, стратегии, военной техники, обучения войск и других аспектов боевой подготовки.
Выходные данные не определены. — 48 с. Путеводитель и оглавление к нему Список изданных перечней Список групп фондов Архива МО, на которые не изданы перечни
СПб.: Б. и., 1844. — 522 с.
Первая часть "Истории Императорской Российской Гвардии" охватывает время восьми царствований — от Петра Великого до Павла I.
Не ограничиваясь повторением рассказа о сражениях и победах, отдельная история Гвардии в частности должна объяснить подробно внутреннюю жизнь Гвардии и причины, содействовавшие возведению ее на высшую степень величия и...
М.: Вече, 2017. — 672 с. — ISBN 978-5-4444-5399-5. «История военного искусства» профессора генерал-майора Е.А. Разина – уникальное издание, обобщающее опыт истории войн от глубокой древности до конца Средневековья. Третий том исследования Е.А. Разина, впервые изданный в 1961 г., посвящен эпохе XVI–XVII вв. Автор подробно разбирает военные аспекты Смутного времени в России,...
М.: Вече, 2016. — 544 с. — ISBN 978-5-4444-4807-6. Исследование профессора генерал-майора Е.А. Разина «История военного искусства» – это первый опыт обобщающей работы по истории войн в советской исторической науке. После первого выхода в свет в 1939 г. труд Разина переиздавался неоднократно, однако и сейчас остается библиографической редкостью. Первый том трехтомного...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. — 562 с. — ISBN: 5-89173-039-1 (XXXI в. до н. э. - VI в. н. э.) ISBN: 5-89173-038-3. В первом томе, который печатается по изданию: Е. А. Разин. «История военного искусства», т. 1, Воениздат 1955 г., показано военное искусство примитивных рабовладельческих государств (Египет, Ассирия, Персия) и классических рабовладельческих государств (Греция и Рим). Здесь...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. — 562 с. — ISBN: 5-89173-039-1 (XXXI в. до н. э. - VI в. н. э.) ISBN: 5-89173-038-3. В первом томе, который печатается по изданию: Е. А. Разин. «История военного искусства», т. 1, Воениздат 1955 г., показано военное искусство примитивных рабовладельческих государств (Египет, Ассирия, Персия) и классических рабовладельческих государств (Греция и Рим). Здесь...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. — 655 с. — ISBN: 5-89173-040-5 (VI - XVI вв.), ISBN: 5-89173-038-3. Второй том «Истории военного искусства» профессора, генерал-майора Е. А. Разина, изданный в 1957 г., охватывает развитие военного искусства народов мира за тысячелетний период (VI-XVI вв.), т.н. средневековья. В своих исследованиях автор описывает практически все известные этапы в развитии...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. — 655 с. — ISBN: 5-89173-040-5 (VI - XVI вв.), ISBN: 5-89173-038-3. Второй том «Истории военного искусства» профессора, генерал-майора Е. А. Разина, изданный в 1957 г., охватывает развитие военного искусства народов мира за тысячелетний период (VI-XVI вв.), т.н. средневековья. В своих исследованиях автор описывает практически все известные этапы в развитии...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. — 734 с. — ISBN: 5-89173-041-3 (XVI - XVII вв.), ISBN: 5-89173-038-3. Третий том «Истории военного искусства» включает исследование вооруженной организации, военной науки и военного искусства первого этапа — второй половины XVI-XVII вв. Это был период первых буржуазных революций, изменявших состав, характер и численность армий, век развития мануфактурной...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. — 734 с. — ISBN: 5-89173-041-3 (XVI - XVII вв.), ISBN: 5-89173-038-3. Третий том «Истории военного искусства» включает исследование вооруженной организации, военной науки и военного искусства первого этапа — второй половины XVI-XVII вв. Это был период первых буржуазных революций, изменявших состав, характер и численность армий, век развития мануфактурной...
Москва: Вече, 2016. — 608 с. — (Наука побеждать). — ISBN 978-5-4444-5354-4. «История военного искусства» профессора генерал-майора Е.А. Разина - уникальное издание, обобщающее опыт истории войн от глубокой древности до конца Средневековья. Этот том исследования Е.А. Разина, впервые изданный в 1957 г., охватывает тысячелетний период Средневековья - с VI до XVI в. В книге...
Ростов-на-Дону: Медиаграф, 2021. — 192 с. В книге использованы материалы архива редакции газеты «Военный вестник Юга России» и книги кандидата военных наук генерал-майора М.И. Чередниченко «Боевой путь 49-й армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны Советского Союза 1941-1945 гг». Книга рассказывает об истории и сегодняшнем дне военнослужащих прославленной 49-й общевойсковой...
Войсковой учебник. Составлен Особой Комиссией. — СПб.: Издательство Березовского, 1900. — 623 с. — (Войсковые учебники). В учебнике рассматриваются: воинские уставы, боевые действия конницы, наставления для обучения стрельбе, полевая служба, устройство войск, денежное и вещевое довольствие, конно-саперное дело, справочная таблица наград, и другое.
М.: ACT; Астрель, 2005. — 61 с. — (Цитадель). — ISBN: 5-17-030450-1 (ООО «Издательство ACT»); ISBN: 5-271-11200-4 (ООО «Издательство Астрель»); ISBN: 1-84176-428-0 (англ.). Продолжительная и кровопролитная борьба за контроль над оккупированными японцами островами Тихого океана во время Второй мировой войны является одним из самых ярких моментов в истории войн XX в. Для...
Новосибирск: Millitary History, 2005. — 99 с.: илл. В альбоме собраны 72 работы замечательного художника П.Конрада, отличающегося точностью и тщательностью изображения униформы и её деталей. Особенно эффектно в его творчестве представлена кавалерия французской империи, в чем может убедиться сам читатель. Сопроводительный текст дает сведения о составе различных видов кавалерии,...
Ставрополь: Бюро новостей, 2017. — 103 с. Эта книга посвящена истории и современности овеянного боевой славой легендарного соединения. Она создана ко дню 75-летия его образования по инициативе командования части. Книга славы. Книга судеб. Сегодня в юбилейный год соединения, нам есть что и кого вспомнить, есть современники, о которых стоит рассказать, есть достижения и вехи,...
Сборник. — Душанбе: Эр-граф, 2013. — 240 с. В сборнике использованы материалы и иллюстрации из книги «Рожденная в боях», изданной в 2000 году на правах рукописи, в основу которой вошла книга «Последний легион империи» военного журналиста подполковника Алескендера Рамазанова. В 2007 году с дополнениями и некоторыми изменениями книга была переиздана к 65-летию 201-й Гатчинской...
Перевод с немецкого А.К. Пузыревского под ред. А.Е. Станкевича. — СПб.: Типография В.П. Воленса, 1876. — 343 с. — (Военная библиотека. Том пятнадцатый). С 55 планами и чертежами. Автор книги — Фридрих Вильгельм Рюстов (1821 - 1878), немецко-швейцарский военный теоретик и историк. Предисловие к русскому изданию. Предисловие автора. Книга первая. Пехота древних времен. Пехота как...
Перевод с немецкого А.К. Пузыревского под ред. А.Е. Станкевича. — СПб.: Типография И.П. Попова, 1876. — 336 + 24 c. + картографический материал. — (Военная библиотека. Том шестнадцатый).
Автор книги — Фридрих Вильгельм Рюстов (1821 - 1878), немецко-швейцарский военный теоретик и историк.
Книга четвертая. Пехота XVII столетия.
Влияние 30-летней войны на качества и положение...
М.: Детгиз, 1941. — 343 с. В этой книге рассказывается, как люди воевали в старину у как они сражаются теперь, как постепенно изменялась армия, ее вооружение, тактика, укрепления. Эта книга писалась накануне Великой Отечественной войны. О разных войнах, начиная с древних времен вплоть до современной войны с белофиннами, говорится в этой книге. Читатель узнает немало примеров...
М.: Детгиз, 1941. — 343 с.
В этой книге рассказывается, как люди воевали в старину, как они сражаются теперь, как постепенно изменялась армия, вооружение, тактика, укрепления.
Эта книга писалась накануне Великой Отечественной войны. О разных войнах, начиная с древних времен вплоть до современной войны с белофиннами, говорится в этой книге.
Қарағанды: ҚарМУ, 2016. — 163 б. Әскери нысанды киіміндегі айырым белгілердің қазіргі кезеңдегі қызметі – ол әскери атақтар мен әскер тҥрлерін ерекшелеп айыру ҥшін екені мәлім. Ал оның жылдан жылға ӛзгертілуінің мәні, қаншалықты әскер ҥшін маңызды және жалпы Қазақстан әскеріне қалай жетіп, қандай тарихи оқиға себепші болғаны жайлы осындай мәселенің тӛңірегінде монографияда...
Москва: Военмориздат ВММ СССР, 1951. — 351 с. Издание настоящего сборника документов о развитии минного оружия в русском флоте является первой попыткой систематизировать документальные данные, освещающие отдельные исторические этапы развития минного дела в России со времени изобретения первой подводной мины до первой мировой войны 1914-1918 гг., а также показать передовую роль...
Харьков: Курсор-Лтд, 1997. — 25 с. Эта работа посвящена одному из родов войск - карабинерам. этот вид кавалерии начал своё существование ещё в XVII веке в качестве элитных подразделений лёгкой кавалерии. В первой части этой работы подробно описывается история карабинеров, их униформа, которую они носили с 1791 г. по 1809 г.
Петроград: Академия Генерального Штаба, 1919. — 110 с.
Лекции, читанные В. И. Самуйловым на ускоренном курсе Академии Генерального Штаба Рабоче-Крестьянской Красной Армии в 1918—19 учебном году.
СПб.: Амфора, 2009. — 542 с. — (Александрийская библиотека). — ISBN 978-5-367-00603-2. В антологию вошли замечательные памятники военной мысли, представляющие разные исторические эпохи — от Древнего Востока до Возрождения: знаменитый китайский трактат Сунь-цзы, фрагменты древнеиндийской книги Артхашастра, произведения Вегеции и Макиавелли. Содержание: Древний Восток Сунь-Цзы....
Учебное пособие. — М.: Академический Проект; Жуковский: Кучково поле, 2002. — 864 с. Александр Андреевич Свечин (1878-1938) - русский и советский военноначальник, выдающийся теоретик военного искусства, один из крупнейших стратегов начала XX века, автор классического труда "Стратегия" (1927). Книга охватывает период с древности до начала XX века. Автор выстраивает единую линию...
М.-Л.: Военгиз, 1928.
Настоящий труд представляет существенную переработку, нашей "Истории Военного Искусства". Требования изучения стратегии заставили дать очерк нескольких новых кампаний, подчеркивающих различные стратегические идеи. Предшествовавшая работа не затрагивала вопросов об истории военного искусства в России, так как исходила из предположения, что параллельно будет...
М.: Яуза: Эксмо, 2007. — 704 с. — (В воздушных боях) — ISBN 978-5-699-19160-4. Корейская война 1950-1953 гг., едва не переросшая в Третью мировую, была первой и единственной полномасштабной воздушной войной реактивной эры. Именно в небе Кореи "сталинские соколы" впервые сошлись в бою с "американскими ястребами". И, несмотря на огромное численное преимущество авиации США и их...
М.: Авиоиздательство, 1926. - 150 с.
Включает в себя общий очерк истории Гражданской войны с точки зрения авиатора, описания боёв на Польском фронте, Восточном фронте и Южном фронте, "особые элементы обстановки" и "особые случаи действий" (подавление Кронштадтского мятежа, Тамбовского восстания, борьба с рейдом Мамонтова и п.), перечень погибших авиаторов.
Рязань: Рязанская обл. типография, 2014. — 600 с. Характеризуя слабость и несостоятельность политиков, война через поведение солдат и офицеров раскрывает истинное лицо участвующих в ней народов, наций и религий. История одного парашютно-десантного батальона, выполняющего интернациональный долг в Афганистане в долине реки Панджшер на протяжении нескольких долгих, суровых и...
Монография. — 2-е изд., испр. — М.: МАКС Пресс, 2020. — 344 с. — ISBN: 978-5-317-06327-6. Монография посвящена проблеме происхождения Второй мировой войны. На основе современных достижений исторической науки и теории международных отношений представлена новая концепция динамики «баланса сил» великих держав накануне войны. В центре внимания автора стоит проблема незавершенной...
СПб.: Тип. Морского Министерства, 1887. — 114 с.
О десанте вообще.
Изготовление десанта
Ведомость вещам, которые нужно иметь на шлюпках с десантом
О строях и эволюциях гребных судов с десантом
Обращение с артиллерией
Атака берега
Ведение боя на берегу
Походное движение десанта
Расположение на ночлег
Оставление берега
[пер. с польск. М. В. Сазанова]. — М. : Росспэн, 2020. — 266 с. Книга польского историка Радослава Сикоры знакомит читателя с элитной кавалерией Речи Посполитой – крылатыми гусарами, гусарией, – существовавшей 300 лет и не имевшей равных в бою. Гусария составляла главную наступательную силу польской армии и играла решающую роль в ее великолепных победах. На полях сражений...
[пер. с польск. М. В. Сазанова]. — М. : Росспэн, 2020. — 266 с. Книга польского историка Радослава Сикоры знакомит читателя с элитной кавалерией Речи Посполитой – крылатыми гусарами, гусарией, – существовавшей 300 лет и не имевшей равных в бою. Гусария составляла главную наступательную силу польской армии и играла решающую роль в ее великолепных победах. На полях сражений...
2-е изд. — Перевод с польского Я.А. Кротовской. — М.: Государственное военное изд-во наркомата обороны Союза СССР, 1936. — 250 с. Среди огромного количества литературы по вопросу о будущей войне и ее характере, издаваемой за последние годы в буржуазных странах и в подавляющем своем большинстве сугубо фантастической и малоценной, книга польского генерала Владислава Сикорского,...
Пер. с англ. А.Ю. Колгашкина. — М.: Кучково поле; Институт внешнеполитических исследований и инициатив, 2015. — 480 с. — (Серия «Реальная политика»). — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0372-4. В своей книге американский журналист Джереми Скейхилл раскрывает историю превращения обыкновенного охранного предприятия в крупнейшую частную армию в мире, основную деятельность которой составляет...
Пер. с англ. А.Ю. Колгашкина. — М.: Кучково поле; Институт внешнеполитических исследований и инициатив, 2015. — 482 с. — (Реальная политика). — ISBN 978-5-9950-0372-4. В своей книге американский журналист Джереми Скейхилл раскрывает историю превращения обыкновенного охранного предприятия в крупнейшую частную армию в мире, основную деятельность которой составляет участие в...
Рогатин: Б.в., 2017. — 80 с. В збірнику розглядаються проблеми пов´язані з дослідженнями історії військового мистецтва. Особливу увагу присвячено дослідженню боїв де менш чисельне в живій силі військо перемагало більш чисельне військо. Саме це є істотною умовою полководського таланту. Не є талантом маючи 5 кратну перемогу перемогти противником, а є військовим талантом...
Москва: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1955. — 858 с. Уникальная книга изданная небольшим тиражом была предназначена для коллективного чтения солдатами и сержантами на политзанятиях и в часы досуга. Книга призвана содействовать воспитанию солдат, сержантов и старшин в духе патриотизма, верности военной присяге и повседневной боевой готовности. Она состоит из отрывков...
Отв. ред. С. Горунов. — СПб.: Империя, 1999. — 587 с. — ISBN: 5-93914-001-7. О войнах Наполеона и о самом Императоре написано не просто много исторических работ - их число измеряется почти астрономической цифрой, более того, нет, по всей видимости, другой эпохи в истории человечества, которой было бы посвящено столько исторических, полуисторических, научно-популярных и просто...
СПб.: Федеральное государственное казенное учреждение культуры и искусства «Центральная военно-морская библиотека» Министерства обороны Российской Федерации, 2023. — 39 с. В связи с началом 24 февраля 2022 года специальной военной операции Центральная военно-морская библиотека начала ведение электронной картотеки, посвященной хронике военных событий. Картотека формируется на...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1955. — 718 с. Капитальный труд "История военного искусства" профессор Александр Александрович Строков создавал в течение почти двадцати лет. Три тома освещают историю военного искусства (а не историю войн) на примерах конкретных военно-исторических событий и фактов с соблюдением их хронологической последовательности и охватывают период от...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1955. — 718 с. Капитальный труд "История военного искусства" профессор Александр Александрович Строков создавал в течение почти двадцати лет. Три тома освещают историю военного искусства (а не историю войн) на примерах конкретных военно-исторических событий и фактов с соблюдением их хронологической последовательности и охватывают период от...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1965. — 692 с. Капитальный труд "История военного искусства" профессор Александр Александрович Строков создавал в течение почти двадцати лет. Три тома освещают историю военного искусства (а не историю войн) на примерах конкретных военно-исторических событий и фактов с соблюдением их хронологической последовательности и охватывают период от...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1967. — 714 с. Капитальный труд "История военного искусства" профессор Александр Александрович Строков создавал в течение почти двадцати лет. Три тома освещают историю военного искусства (а не историю войн) на примерах конкретных военно-исторических событий и фактов с соблюдением их хронологической последовательности и охватывают период от...
Учебник. — СПб.: Полигон, 1994. — 682 с. — ISBN 5-85391-007-8. В четвертом томе "Истории военного искусства" описан двухсотлетний период его развития. Эти двести лет были весьма насыщены событиями. Изменился мир, изменились и войны. Именно в этот период война индустриальная, основанная на экономическом потенциале государства, его промышленной науке, финансовых возможностях,...
СПб.: Полигон, 1994. — 682 с. Военное искусство России и стран Западной Европы в конце XVII в. - начале XVIII в. Создание регулярной армии и флота в России. Северная война 1700-1721 гг. Образование Российской империи и создание регулярной армии и флота Реформы в русском государстве и их классовый характер Петр I как полководец Создание регулярной армии и флота Численность войск...
СПб.: Омега-Полигон, 1994. — 712 c. — ISBN: 5-85391-008-6. В пятом томе рассматривается история военного искусства конца XIX - начала XX века. Особенности ведения войн периода империализма. Военное искусство в империалистических войнах конца XIX —начала XX века. Русско-японская война 1904—1905 гг. Подготовка и начало первой мировой войны. Состояние военно-теоретической мысли....
СПб.: Омега-Полигон, 1994. — 712 c. — ISBN: 5-85391-008-6. Особенности ведения войн периода империализма. Военное искусство в империалистических войнах конца XIX —начала XX века. Русско-японская война 1904—1905 гг. Подготовка и начало первой мировой войны. Состояние военно-теоретической мысли. Провал германской стратегии быстротечного поражения Франции и России. Маневренный...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1965. — 693 с. Капитальный труд "История военного искусства" профессор Александр Александрович Строков создавал в течение почти двадцати лет. Три тома освещают историю военного искусства (а не историю войн) на примерах конкретных военно-исторических событий и фактов с соблюдением их хронологической последовательности и охватывают период от...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1967. — 714 с. Капитальный труд "История военного искусства" профессор Александр Александрович Строков создавал в течение почти двадцати лет. Три тома освещают историю военного искусства (а не историю войн) на примерах конкретных военно-исторических событий и фактов с соблюдением их хронологической последовательности и охватывают период от...
Бочаров Л.Ю., Корчак В.Ю., Тужиков Е.З., Реулов Р.В., Волковский Н.Л. — Москва: Техносфера, 2015. — 208 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94836-392-9. В книге представлены материалы, содержащие анализ, обобщение и систематизацию опыта США и Германии, накопленного при организации, планировании, финансировании и проведении оборонных исследований. Выбор этих стран неслучаен и определен наличием...
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Российский государственный гидрометеорологический университет, 2018. — 228 с. Учебное пособие посвящено истории разработки оборонных проектов в ленинградских научных школах в первое послевоенное десятилетие, в частности, созданию атомного проекта, оборонной химии, противовоздушной обороне, морским ядерным силам и др. Особое внимание в пособии уделено...
М.: интернет-издание, 2015. - 43с. В 1904 году капитан британской армии, ветеран Англо-бурской войны Э. Д. Суинтон (будущий генерал-майор и создатель британских танковых войск) опубликовал небольшую повесть "The Defence of Duffer's Drift", главный герой которой, молодой британский лейтенант, в серии сменяющих друг друга шести ночных кошмаров раз за разом пытался защитить...
Ницца: Издание автора, 1908. — 110 с. Критическое описание состояния русского флота в начале XX века и причин цусимской катастрофы. "Нечего и говорить, что главная причина разложения нашего флота, это гнилой государственный строй, благодаря которому создается и дряблый питомник, именующийся морским кадетским корпусом. Этот притон избалованных дворянских и сановных сынков,...
М.: Эксмо, 2005. — 448 с. — ISBN: 5—699—08512—2
Фундаментальная работа известного специалиста в области военно-морской истории Брайана Танстолла "Морская война в век паруса. 1650-1815 гг. Сражения великих адмиралов" посвящена эволюции военно-морской тактики от голландских войн XVII века до конца Первой империи в 1815 г. В книге рассматривается весь тот период, когда парусные...
Минск: Харвест, 1999. — 432 с. — (Библиотека военной истории). — ISBN: 985-433-496-1. Три тысячи лет конница была главной ударной силой на полях сражений. Однако после 1917 года ни одной книги по истории конницы на русском языке не издавалось. Предлагаемая работа призвана восполнить этот пробел. Проанализировано множество источников, а также исследования военных историков XIX...
Минск: Харвест, 1999. — 432 с. — (Библиотека военной истории). — ISBN: 985-433-496-1. Три тысячи лет конница была главной ударной силой на полях сражений. Однако после 1917 года ни одной книги по истории конницы на русском языке не издавалось. Предлагаемая работа призвана восполнить этот пробел. Проанализировав множество источников, а также исследования военных историков XIX...
Минск: Харвест, 1999. — 432 с.: ил. — (Библиотека военной истории). — ISBN: 985-433-496-1. Три тысячи лет конница была главной ударной силой на полях сражений. Однако после 1917 года ни одной книги по истории конницы на русском языке не издавалось. Предлагаемая работа призвана восполнить этот пробел. Проанализировав множество источников, а также исследования военных историков...
Монография. — М.: Государственное военное издательство, 1933. — 122 с. Монография представляет собой первую в СССР попытку систематического изложения главнейших вопросов темы подготовки и ведения мотомеханизированной войны. Книга содержит обильный фактический и исторический материал. Даются подробные сведения о степени развития моторизации и механизации различных капиталистических...
М.: Воениздат, 1991. — 129 с. Тематический сборник предназначен для профессорско-преподавательского состава высших командных и инженерных артиллерийских училищ в целях использования в учебно-воспитательном процессе.
Пер. с англ. — М.: АСТ, Астрель, 2005. — 72 с.: ил. — (Цитадель). — ISBN 5-17-029172-8 (АСТ), ISBN 5-271-11419-8 (Астрель), ISBN 1-84176-429-9 (англ.).
В книге подробно рассказывается о роли классического японского замка в военной и гражданской жизни Японии, при этом особое значение придается военной функции замка. Текст сопровождается множеством фотографий и реконструкций....
Екатеринбург: Уральский рабочий, 2018. — 416 с. Очерк посвящен 100 летней истории Центрального военного округа и охватывает период от формирования в 1918 году до сегодняшних дней. В славную летопись вписаны имена героев Гражданской и Великой Отечественной войн, ветераны Афганистана и участники боевых действий на территории Северо-Кавказского региона и Таджикистана. О...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Феодосия: РИО НИЦ, 2018. — 136 с. Учебно-методическое пособие посвящено всем кампаниям и стратегическим, фронтовым и армейским операциям Вооруженных Сил СССР в Великой Отечественной войне, история которых рассмотрена через призму фактов и статистических данных. Особое внимание уделяется соотношению сил и средств накануне войны. Пособие снабжено...
Учебно-методическое пособие для студентов и школьников старших классов. — Феодосия: РИО НИЦ, 2018. — 136 с. Учебно-методическое пособие посвящено всем кампаниям и стратегическим, фронтовым и армейским операциям Вооруженных Сил СССР в Великой Отечественной войне, история которых рассмотрена через призму фактов и статистических данных. Особое внимание уделяется соотношению сил и...
Сборник статей. — Москва; Ленинград: Военно-морское издательство НКВМФ СССР, 1941. — 190 с. Тематический сборник составлен по материалам научно-переводного бюро Военно-Морской Академии ВМФ им. Ворошилова. Основная задача, поставленная изданием настоящего сборника, заключается в ознакомлении начальствующего состава нашего флота с некоторыми, представляющими интерес, статьями...
Монография. — РАН, ИНИОН, Отд. Европы и Америки. — Москва, 2022. — 360 c. — ISBN 978-5-248-01008-0. Раскрываются особенности, в том числе «узкие места», семи масштабных преобразований «военной машины» Пруссии и затем Германии, начиная с правления Фридриха Великого и заканчивая «эрой Меркель» в ФРГ. Оцениваются роль и место фактора развития и наступательного использования...
Монография. — РАН, ИНИОН, Отд. Европы и Америки. — Москва, 2022. — 360 c. — ISBN 978-5-248-01008-0. Раскрываются особенности, в том числе «узкие места», семи масштабных преобразований «военной машины» Пруссии и затем Германии, начиная с правления Фридриха Великого и заканчивая «эрой Меркель» в ФРГ. Оцениваются роль и место фактора развития и наступательного использования...
РСФСР. Отдел военной литературы при Революционом военном совете Республики. — Москва: Государственное издательство, 1921. — 140 с. : ил. Содержание Стратегия национальная и классовая Политика и стратегия в гражданской войне Возникновение гражданской войны Революция извне Красная армия и милиция Статистика в гражданской войне Укрепленные районы Марш-маневр и организация...
РСФСР. Отдел военной литературы при Революционом военном совете Республики. — Москва: Государственное издательство, 1921. — 140 с. : ил. Содержание Стратегия национальная и классовая Политика и стратегия в гражданской войне Возникновение гражданской войны Революция извне Красная армия и милиция Статистика в гражданской войне Укрепленные районы Марш-маневр и организация...
Монография. — Омск: Омский государственный технический университет (ОмГТУ), 2014. — 200 с. — ISBN 978-5-8149-1783-6. Монография посвящена вопросу специфики и динамики русского военного дискурса XIX – начала XX века. Автор останавливается на вопросах структуры и особенностей русского военного подъязыка длительного периода времени, мало изученного с точки зрения представленности...
Москва: Издание 4 управления штаба РККА, 1937. — 179 с. Устав корабельной службы Германского военного флота (нем. Reichsmarine, флот Рейха, «имперский флот»), обязателен для всех действующих кораблей и судов военного флота, а также для судов, нанятых или занятых военным флотом. В 1935 году, через два года после прихода к власти нацистов, ВМС Германии получили название Кригсмарине...
Москва: Издание IV управления штаба РККА, 1933. — 179 с. Устав корабельной службы Германского военного флота (нем. Reichsmarine, флот Рейха, «имперский флот»), обязателен для всех действующих кораблей и судов военного флота, а также для судов, нанятых или занятых военным флотом. В 1935 году, через два года после прихода к власти нацистов, ВМС Германии получили название...
СПб.: Евразия, 2001. — 448 с. Предисловие. Шесть секретных учений Тай-гуна. Методы Сыма. Искусство войны Сунь-Цзы. У-цзы. Вэй-Ляо-цзы. Три стратегии Хуан Ши-Гуна. Вопросы танского Тай-цзуна и ответы Ли Вэй-гуна . "У-цзин" является уникальным, если не единственным, учебником стратегического мышления, дошедшим до нас через тысячелетия беспрестанных конфликтов и войн, становления...
Москва, Управление военного издательства Народного Комиссариата Обороны им. С.К.Тимошенко, коллектив авторов ГУ всеобуча НКО СССР, 1942 г., 214 стр. Учебник утвержден Главным Управлением всеобщего военного обучения Народного Комиссариата Обороны СССР. Всевобуч - всеобщее военное обучение. Учебник представляет собой пособие для граждан, мобилизованных в Красную Армию. В пособии...
СПб, в Морской Типографии, 1837. - 226 с.
Приёмы стрельбы из корабельных пушек, единорогов и карронад и обучение этим приёмам. С приложением "Расписания команд к действиям на военных судах".
М.: Оружие и технологии, 2008. — 720 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93799-036-5
В книге рассматривается история Разведки ВМФ: от зарождения в 1798г. до нашего времени.
СПб.: Типография Морского Министерства, 1871. - 332с.
Записки морской артиллерии для преподавания в школе артиллерийских унтер-офицеров. Сост. лейт. А. Федотов; Лабораторныя записки для унтер-офицеров морской артиллерии. Сост. подполк. Ф. Максимовым.
М.: ОГИЗ, Политиздат; 1941. — 68 с.
Содержание: .
Роль минерального сырья в войне.
Уроки первой империалистической войны.
Подготовка новой войны.
Потребности современной войны в сырье.
Анализ главнейших видов стратегического сырья.
Борьба фашистской Германии за сырье.
Стратегическое сырье и богатства недр Советского Союза.
Наука и война.
София: Печатница на Армейская военно-издателски фондъ, 1931. — 91 с. Уводъ Общи начала Характеристика на гледищата отъ древностьта до появата на огнестрелното оръжие Характеристика на гледищата следъ появата на огнестрелното - до въвеждане на нарезното оръжие Характеристика на гледищата презъ епохата на нарезното оръжие - съвременни схващания Общо заключение
С.-Петербург: Паровая Скоропечатня А.В. Пожаровой, 1895. — 247 c. Сочинение представляет собой обзор истории развития крепостного строительства в России с древнейших времен до начала XIX века. Приводится описание обороны городов, строительства укрепленных пунктов, обзор деятельности Петра I по созданию инженерных частей и т.д. Оглавление Предисловие История крепости в России до...
М.: Воениздат НКО СССР, 1942. — 264 с. Описана работа штабов как общевойсковых, так и уровня батальон-полк в различных видах боевых действий, организация работы и внутренний распорядок, связь, боевое и тыловое обеспечение, организация перевозок.
София: Придворна Печатница Б. Шимачекъ, 1890. — 111 с. Предговор. Встъпление. Военното дело у древните народи. Военното дело и тактиката на гърците. Македонско военно дело и тактика при Филип и Александър Велики. Римско военно дело и тактика. Сравнение манипулярния строй на легиона с фалангообразния. Римско тактическо изкуство в епохата на Юлий Цезар. Римско тактическо изкуство...
Третье издание. — Петроград: Типография "Артиллерийского Журнала", 1917. — 72 с. Оглавление . Общие замечания о газовой борьбе. Физиологическая классификация ядовитых веществ. Действие ядовитых средств на людей после газовых атак. Профессиональные отравления и меры предупреждения их. Организация подачи врачебной помощи газоотравленным. Медицинские меры, рекомендуемые для лечения...
СПб.: Т-во В. А. Березовского, 1891.
Качество низкое — отфотографировано без специальных приспособлений. Распознаванию не подлежит, но читать вполне можно.
Настоящее положение, определяющее порядок заведывания и распоряжения всем состоящим в роте казенным имуществом и средствами разного рода.
Без выходных данных, 1938. - 118 с. Българитѣ на военна служба въ турската войска. Българитѣ въ турскитѣ размирици. Българитѣ въ чужди войски противъ Турция. Самостоятелни борби на българитѣ срещу Турция. Българинътъ отъ турско време като воененъ елементъ.
Новосибирск: Новосибирский государственный университет, 2005. — 234 с. В сборнике научных статей представлены материалы по наступательному и защитному вооружению кочевников Центральной Азии в первой половине I тыс. н. э. Для анализа привлечены и введены в научный оборот вещественные и изобразительные источники из археологических памятников, относящихся к сяньбийской культуре и...
Новосибирск: Изд-во Института археологии и этнографии СО РАН, 2013. — 116 с. Сборник посвящен актуальным проблемам изучения военного дела средневековых этносов, проживавших в лесостепных и степных районах Западной и Южной Сибири, Центральной Азии.В представленных статьях вводятся в научный оборот, анализируются и реконструируются различные виды оружия ближнего и дистанционного...
Новосибирск: Изд-во Института археологии и этнографии СО РАН, 2013. — 116 с. Сборник посвящен актуальным проблемам изучения военного дела средневековых этносов, проживавших в лесостепных и степных районах Западной и Южной Сибири, Центральной Азии.В представленных статьях вводятся в научный оборот, анализируются и реконструируются различные виды оружия ближнего и дистанционного...
Новосибирск: Кооператив "Полиграф" при ИЭОПП СО АН СССР. - 192 с. В сборнике представлены статьи ведущих специалистов - оружиеведов, военных историков и археологов по актуальным проблемам оружиеведения и истории военного искусства древнего и средневекового населения Евразийского пояса степей, Сибири и Дальнего Востока. Сборник рассчитан на археологов, оружиеведов и историков...
М.: Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2015. — ISBN: 978-5-00057-696-0. «Искусство войны» — военный трактат китайского полководца и мыслителя Сунь-цзы. Издавна это произведение почиталось в Китае как главный военный канон, оно существенно повлияло на все военное искусство Востока, а сегодня входит в программы обучения военных академий многих стран. Джессика Хэги смахнула пыль двадцати пяти...
Перевод Владимира Малявина. — СПб.: Европа, 2011. — 176 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9739-0206-3. Трактат Цзе Сюаня «Военный канон в ста главах» никогда не издавался за пределами Китая, но его значение трудно переоценить. Это настоящая энциклопедия китайского военного искусства и даже, можно сказать, всей китайской мудрости. Автор разъясняет сто важнейших понятий китайской стратегии, давая...
Санкт-Петербург : В. Березовский, 1901. — 104 с. В работе полковника генштаба Российской империи дан теоретический обзор того, чем должен заниматься Генеральный штаб армии в военное время. Основное внимание уделено военной разведке.
М.: Воениздат, 1976. — 80 с. с ил. Популярная брошюра о героике и романтике военно-морской службы, беззаветном служении моряков Родине, замечательных традициях на флоте. Приводятся краткие сведения о силах Военно-Морского Флота, задачах, которые они решают, классах кораблей, видах вооружения и боевых средствах флота. Содержится перечень высших военно-морских учебных заведений и...
Москва: Ломоносов, 2016. — 228 с. — ISBN 978-5-91678-299-8. В 241 году до н. э. в Вавилоне появился на свет мальчик, названный Антиохом. Много позже, когда он вернет могущество монархии, созданной его прапрадедом, и будет править обширной эллинистической империей, которая раскинется от Босфора до Инда, к его имени присоединят титул «Великий». Империя Антиоха Великого, как ни...
Казань: Типо-литография Окружного Штаба, 1917. — 48 с. Наставление по противогазовому делу для инструкторов противогазовых команд, унтер-офицеров, а также для всех грамотных воинских чинов, с приложениями: сведения о ядовитых газах, обязательные для рядового; окуривание. Оглавление . Предисловие. Программа. Памятка. Ядовитые газы. Сведения о ядовитых газах, обязательные для...
Монография. — М.: Мир науки, 2023. — 147 с. — ISBN 978-5-907603-83-7. В монографии дается характеристика стратегии гибридной войны, которая нацелена на изнурение страны-жертвы с использованием широкого спектра действий, от иррегулярных формирований до кибернетических атак. В монографии показано как, следуя такой стратегии, агрессор тайно, без формального объявления войны...
Монография. — М.: Мир науки, 2022. — 155 с. — ISBN 978-5-907603-50-9. Исследование представляет интерес для специалистов в области истории военного искусства, профессорско-преподавательского состава, слушателей и курсантов высших военных учебных заведений, а также широкого круга читателей, интересующегося военной историей. Введение. Историческая ретроспектива зарождения и...
М.: Библос консалтинг, 2008. — 368 с. — ISBN 978-5-91501-002-3. Книга представляет собой подробное описание и анализ военных действий на египетско-израильском фронте во время «октябрьской войны» 1973 года. Автор этих воспоминаний, занимавший в то время пост начальника Генерального штаба египетской армии, прославился как основной разработчик плана форсирования Суэцкого канала и...
М.: Библос консалтинг, 2008. — 368 с. — ISBN 978-5-91501-002-3. Книга представляет собой подробное описание и анализ военных действий на египетско-израильском фронте во время «октябрьской войны» 1973 года. Автор этих воспоминаний, занимавший в то время пост начальника Генерального штаба египетской армии, прославился как основной разработчик плана форсирования Суэцкого канала и...
Военное издательство Министерства Обороны СССР, 1974. — 285 с. В военно-политическом очерке представлены данные о: - вооружённых силах стран-участниц НАТО (США, Великобритании, Франции, ФРГ, Италии, Канады, Нидерландов, Бельгии, Турции, Груди, Норвегии, Греции, Португалии, Люксембурга)- органах управления НАТО - сухопутных войсках, военно-воздушных силах, военно-морском флоте,...
СПб.: Тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1909- г. - 232 с.
Из состава тематического сборника "Армейская пехота".
Аварский 187-й пехотный полк; Александро-Невский 198-й пехотный полк; Ардагано-Михайловский 204-й пехотный полк; Асландузский 186-й пехотный полк и т.д. по алфавиту.
2-е издание. — СПб.: Типография В.Д. Смирнова, 1910. — 216 с. Описаны история создания и основные моменты истории всех полков и подразделений Императорской гвардии, с указанием всех командиров, боев и походов, боевых наград. Содержит множество цветных иллюстраций мундиров различных полков и подразделений. Широко известные цветные таблицы униформы, составленные В. К. Шенком.
СПб.: Тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1909.— 106 с. Краткие истории кавалерии русской армии, наименования и переименования, командиры, шефы, боевой путь, награды кавалерийских частей. Широко известные цветные таблицы униформы, составленные В. К. Шенком.
Справочная книга Императорской главной квартиры. Сост. Казин В.Х. Санкт-Петербург. Тип. В.Д. Смирнова. 1912. - с. 462 :илл. прил.
Списки особ Императорских фамилий, иностранных владетельных домов, состоящих в настоящее время и состоявших ранее шефами казачьих частей. "Вечные" шефы и их краткие биографии. Хроника возникновения и образования казачьих войск. Упраздненные казачьи...
СПб.: Тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1910.— 102 с. Из состава тематического сборника "Армейская пехота", в который входят: Гренадерские и Пехотные полки. Стрелковые части.
СПб.: Тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1909 г. - 496 с. Краткие истории казачьих частей русской армии, хронологические сведения, наименования и переименования, командиры, шефы, боевой путь, награды. Содержание: Вместо предисловия. Особы Императорской Фамилии, состоящия Шефами и числящияся в казачьих частях. Особы иностранных владетельных домов, числящихся в казачьих войсках. Особы...
СПб.: Тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1909. — 496 с. Краткие истории казачьих частей русской армии, хронологические сведения, наименования и переименования, командиры, шефы, боевой путь, награды. Содержание: Вместо предисловия. Особы Императорской Фамилии, состоящия Шефами и числящияся в казачьих частях. Особы иностранных владетельных домов, числящихся в казачьих войсках. Особы...
М.: Издание ВИА, 1957. — 356 с.: ил. Введение Фортификация древних веков Укрепления рабовладельческого общества Первоначальные виды укрепления Развитие долговременных укреплений Полевые укрепления Фортификационная подготовка территорий государств Фортификация Средних веков Фортификация VI — XI вв. (Периода раннего средневековья) Долговременные укрепления Полевые укрепления...
Москва: ВИА КА им. В. В. Куйбышева, 1946 -135 с. Настоящий словарь является первой попыткой, дать свод фортификационных терминов и, конечно, не может быть свободен от целого ряда мелких и крупных недостатков. Словарь не претендует на исчерпывающую полноту как в смысле количества терминов, так и по их объяснению, однако составитель надеется, что и в настоящем своем виде он принесет...
М.: Политиздат, 1941. — 280 с. Одной из отличительных черт эпохи империализма является напряженная и ожесточенная борьба за источники сырья. Эта борьба приобретает особо острый характер, потому что источники сырья уже захвачены крупнейшими капиталистическими монополиями и борьба ведется за новый передел уже поделенных территорий. От автора Проблема минерального сырья в Первой...
М.: Политиздат, 1941. — 280 с.
Одной из отличительных черт эпохи империализма является напряженная и ожесточенная борьба за источники сырья. Эта борьба приобретает особо острый характер, потому что источники сырья уже захвачены крупнейшими капиталистическими МОНОПОЛИЯМИ и борьба ведется за новый передел уже поделенных территорий.
СПб.: Тип. В.Ф. Демакова, 1881. — 272 с.
Изложено для нижних чинов полковником бароном Штакельбергом.
Стандартная "история полка", только очень подробная и содержащая достаточно много персоналий. Есть рисунки, показывающие, как выглядели конногвардейцы в различное время.
М.: Воениздат НКО СССР, 1937. — 307 с.
Автор, исследуя богатый исторический материал по ведению операций подводных лодок в империалистическую войну, главным образом, основными противниками — Германией и Англией, — сосредоточивает внимание на методах ведения этих операций и на их развитии в ходе мировой войны на море. Параллельно с развитием подводного оружия и методов его...
Москва: Воениздат, 1937. — 276 с. Автор, исследуя богатый исторический материал по ведению операций подводных лодок в империалистическую войну, главным образом, основными противниками — Германией и Англией, — сосредоточивает внимание на методах ведения этих операций и на их развитии в ходе мировой войны на море. Параллельно с развитием подводного оружия и методов его применения...
М.: ДОСААФ, 1968. — 56 с. Введение Краткий очерк развития советских сухопутных войск Современные сухопутные войска и их место в общей системе советских Вооруженных Сил Виды боевых действий сухопутных войск Высокая боевая готовность - важнейшее требование к сухопутным войскам Примечания
М.-Л.: Детгиз, 1942. — 26 с. Книга из серии "Военная библиотека школьника", которая выпускались Детгизом в годы Великой Отечественной войны и сразу после нее. В серии выходили повести, рассказы и очерки о героях, а также книги о военной технике и тактике боевых действий, адресованные школьникам старшего возраста. Предположительно автором брошюры является Альберт Иванович...
М.: Московскiй Печатный двор, 1709. - 248с.
Штурм Леонхард Кристоф (1669-1719) – немецкий писатель, теоретик архитектуры и богослов, профессор Университета Франкфурта-на-Одере (1702).
Сочинение по фортификации, изложено им в форме беседы мастера с учеником. Искусство строительства крепостей: обозрение ведущих архитектурных школ своего времени. Изложение концепций французского...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2012. — 256 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5061-5. Фрэнк Эзра Эдкок, выступая с позиций беспристрастного историка, старается дать объективную и непредвзятую оценку римской военной машине и особенностям ведения войны греками и македонцами. Не разбирая подробностей военных кампаний, автор рассматривает, как древние воины распоряжались теми средствами, которые у них были...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2012. — 256 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5061-5. Фрэнк Эзра Эдкок, выступая с позиций беспристрастного историка, старается дать объективную и непредвзятую оценку римской военной машине и особенностям ведения войны греками и македонцами. Не разбирая подробностей военных кампаний, автор рассматривает, как древние воины распоряжались теми средствами, которые у них были...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2012. — 256 с. Фрэнк Эзра Эдкок, выступая с позиций беспристрастного историка, старается дать объективную и непредвзятую оценку римской военной машине и особенностям ведения войны греками и македонцами. Не разбирая подробностей военных кампаний, автор рассматривает, как древние воины распоряжались теми средствами, которые у них были в наличии, в какой мере...
М.: Госвоениздат, 1931. — 189 с.
Написана автором на основании личного опыта и по документам 5-й армии, ведшей борьбу с Колчаком. Труд представляет собой первую попытку систематизировать особенности тактики гражданской войны. Богатейший исторический материал, использованный автором, делает его труд интересным и ценным пособием при изучении истории и тактики гражданской войны....
М.: Госвоениздат, 1931. — 189 с. Написана автором на основании личного опыта и по документам 5-й армии, ведшей борьбу с Колчаком. Труд представляет собой первую попытку систематизировать особенности тактики гражданской войны. Богатейший исторический материал, использованный автором, делает его труд интересным и ценным пособием при изучении истории и тактики гражданской войны....
Ростов-на-Дону, 2012. — 119 с. Издание посвящено 70-летию со дня образования 4 командования ВВС и ПВО: истории его формирования, вооружению, соединениям и частям, а также повседневной жизни.
Ростов-на-Дону, 2012. — 119 с. Издание посвящено 70-летию со дня образования 4 командования ВВС и ПВО: истории его формирования, вооружению, соединениям и частям, а также повседневной жизни.
Ростов-на-Дону: Военный вестник Юга России, 1997. — 24 с. Издание посвящено 80-летию Северо-Кавказского военного округа, в помощь офицерскому составу войск округа.
Ростов-на-Дону: Военный вестник Юга России, 1997. — 24 с. Издание посвящено 80-летию Северо-Кавказского военного округа, в помощь офицерскому составу войск округа.
Ростов-на-Дону: Военный вестник Юга России, 1997. — 24 с. Издание посвящено 80-летию Северо-Кавказского военного округа, в помощь офицерскому составу войск округа.
Благовещенск: БГПУ, 2012. — 192 с. В учебном пособии даны вопросы по военной истории и географии, приведены сведения о наиболее крупных военных сражениях древности, средневековья, нового и новейшего времени, вплоть до Первой мировой войны. История войн рассматривается с прогрессом военной техники. Из военной истории России приведены примеры крупнейших побед и поражений, роль...
Благовещенск: БГПУ, 2012. — 214 с. В учебном пособии даны вопросы по военной истории и географии Второй мировой войны и современности. Автор акцентирует внимание на крупнейших победах и поражениях, истории отдельных родов войск и оружия, на отдельных подвигах и героях. В ответах на вопросы приведено много интересных фактов. Книга адресована учащимся общеобразовательных...
Монография. — Санкт-Петербург: 1883. — 40 с.
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Вступление
Русское войско до Петра I
Царь Петр I
Потешные (первое регулярное войско)
Доблести первого регулярного войска
Издание с портретом императора Петра I и первого Российского солдата Бухвостова, а также виньетками художника Панова и изображения одежды и вооружения потешных. Издание Склада учебных пособий...
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