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Neither the past glory nor the current obsolescence of the main battle tank can be understood without reference to vehicles such as the armored car, assault guns of various kinds, armored engineer vehicles, and armored personnel carriers.

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A study placing emphasis on the way artillery interacts with other arms, and the dynamics of the battle as a whole. It deals with failures as well as achievements, aiming to provide an overview of field artillery in the 20th century, and its impact on the major conflicts of this period.

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A study placing emphasis on the way artillery interacts with other arms, and the dynamics of the battle as a whole. It deals with failures as well as achievements, aiming to provide an overview of field artillery in the 20th century, and its impact on the major conflicts of this period.

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Another volume in Praeger's The Military Profession series, this revised edition of the 1984 Praeger classic tells the story of infantry in the 20th century and its impact on the major conflicts of our time.

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Experience what it was really like on patrol with Australian SAS in the jungles of Borneo and Viet Nam.

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Presents a set of wargames rules covering the high adventure and low morals of the world of the pirate. This book features rules that cover licensed privateers such as da Gama and Drake, ruthless pirates of the Spanish Main, Blackbeard, the Barbary corsairs, the wako of the Far East, and not to mention the anti-pirate squadrons.

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This engaging book plunges readers into the culture shock of Marine Officer Candidates School, a ten-week physical, intellectual, and emotional testing ground so grueling that every fourth candidate fails to complete.

What does it take to become a Marine Officer

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What makes a woman join the most secretive and dangerous unit of Special Forces What keeps her there How does she cope with the rigorous physical and psychological training, including simulated terrorist interrogations, the often deadly missions, the relentless pressures of a macho world, and hte sex

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Appendices include a glossary, list coalition prisoners of war and service people killed in action, and provide data about coalition ground, naval, and air forces, Iraqi forces, and key personnel.

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A scholarly and compelling analysis of Marine Corps survival as seen through the lens of three different organizational theories, this volume is a sourcebook in management and public administration for the way of seeing view.

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The author explores the defense administration, with thorough criticism of the National Security Council, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the armed services as governmental organizations. His book is a substantial reinterpretation of the history of the military organization of the U.S. from 1900 to 1960. Originally p

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A one-volume history of Australia's involvement in multinational peacekeeping, from 1947 to the end of 2003, including the most recent involvement in the Solomons.

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Conventional wisdom holds that the American military is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, and extremely political. This title reveals that the rank-and-file army is not nearly as homogeneous as we think - or as politically active - and that political attitudes across the ranks are undergoing a substantial shift.

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This text is an analysis of President Bush's regional defence strategy first unveiled in Aspen, Colorado, on August 2 1990. This strategy involves a mix of active, reserve and reconstitutable forces, and General Colin Powell's Base Force.

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Military robots are already being used in conflicts around the globe and are affecting both the decision to go to war and the means by which wars are conducted. This book covers the history of military robotics, analyzes their current employment, and examines the ramifications of their future utilization.

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Australia has found it difficult to effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests. Informed by interviews with key decision makers, Pacific Power analyses why Australia has had difficulty exercising influence in the Pacific Islands and identifies how Australia can more effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests.

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Koburger argues that the many battles that constituted the campaign for the Solomons were the key to victory in the Pacific for the U.S. Navynot the battle of the Coral Sea or the Battle of Midway. The descriptions of the naval battles make for compelling reading.

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In June 1940 the French Army that Europe had known and feared since Louis XIV vanished in the most overwhelming defeat ever suffered by the military force of a modern nation. This is the story of what really happened to that army. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make a

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One school contends that the battle was a very costly failure and that Sir Douglas Haig, the architect of the battle, was a blundering murderer. The fact that the British fought the battle for the wrong reasons and that the army on the coast waited while soldiers at Passchendaele died raises Passchendaele to an even higher plane of tragedy.

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Students, professionals, and scholars in military and media studies will benefit from this top-level appraisal of the defense posture needed for the nation's security in the 1990s.

This dialogue with top-level authorities answers fundamental questions about U.S. defense needs in the near future.