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The first comprehensive look at natures role on military history.

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Looks at the relationship between torture and colonial domination through a examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. This book presents an anatomy of torture - its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. It also shows how torture was central to guerre revolutionnaire.

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Designed for use in formal Air Force training, this book was written to help a pilot who finds him or herself in a hostile environment. It can allow you to carry the same information condensed in your back pocket.

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Drawing upon the real-life experiences of soldiers who have faced warfare and lived in combat zones, this title includes advice on life-saving CPR and wound-care techniques; sections on combat intelligence and nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare; and appendices covering mines, demolitions, obstacles, combat in urban areas, and tracking.

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Mountains exist in almost every country in the world and almost every war has included some type of mountain operations. This pattern will not change, and soldiers will continue to fight in mountainous terrain in the future conflicts. This book details techniques soldiers and leaders must know to cope with mountainous terrain.

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Covers the techniques and tactics that make US Army Rangers the best soldiers in the world. This book provides advanced info on everything from understanding the basics of Army operations and tactics to discovering what makes a soldier with good leadership qualities and character.

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All the information you need to survive anywhere in the...

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From the High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE) to the M106 Screening Obscuration Device (SOD), this guide profiles every weapon and device currently in use by the US Army. It also includes full-color illustrations of each weapon.

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From the High Mobility Engineer Excavator (HMEE) to the M106 Screening Obscuration Device (SOD), this guide profiles every weapon and device currently in use by the US Army. It also includes full-color illustrations of each weapon.

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From the Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures to the XM320 grenade launcher, this comprehensive guide profiles nearly every weapon currently in use by the U.S. Army. In addition, it covers cutting-edge technology that will soon be employed by soldiers around the world.

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Being able to effectively communicate using maps, charts, and symbols is an integral part of any military operation. This title eliminates conflicts within various US symbol sets and to establish a core set of common symbology under one Department of Defense standard.

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The official guide to everything a Marine must know.

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An introduction to the basics of military gaming and offers historical insights into the development of war gaming methodologies. It covers the evolution of gaming tools such as ancient adaptations of chess and the development of Kriegspiel to teach military tactics to Prussian officers.

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While focusing on social thought, this book draws on many disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, and political science. It demonstrates the profound difficulties social thinkers - including liberals, socialists, and those intellectuals who could be regarded as the sociologists - had in coming to terms with the phenomenon of war.

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This text offers an examination of Welsh military organization, strategy, tactics and conduct in war which goes beyond the military sphere and touches on all aspects of Welsh society in this period.

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Originally published: New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1941.

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Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott investigate the state of the British Armed Forces today. Why do we still need them, and do they have what they need to do what is required of them As external threats grow in an increasingly fragmented world, the state of our Armed Forces is becoming a dominant theme in and outside of Westminster.