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The author utilizes the methodology John Keegan developed to define sieges as a form of battle and to explore the categories of combat--those relationships of men versus weapons and the commitment to battle on the part of the contestants--which determined the outcome of battles and wars.

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This guide documents 800 sources that have appeared since the 1970s on ULTRA and MAGIC or the Allied code-breaking and and cryptanalytic assault on Axis Communications. It examines sources in ULTRA and MAGIC in the Pearl Harbour attack, the Battle of the Atlantic and other theatres of war.

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A profile of the career of Sir Garnet Wolseley, this text follows his rise from the rank of general to field-marshal, and subsequently to a viscount. It also covers his attempts to modernize the army against the wishes of a group of conservatives led by the Duke of Cambridge.

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Murphy was one of a very small number of volunteer pilots who, with their flight crews, started bombing at low altitudes in B-17 flying fortresses in the Southwest Pacific. The Allied Air Forces--using skip bombing--sank all twenty-two Japanese ships.

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A gripping account about an Australian pilot serving with the Americans in Vietnam.

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The traditional distinction between military and political affairs in American life has become less significant as military officers increasingly participate with civilians in the formulation of national policies. In an examination of the impact of this change upon professional military education, the authors present a forthright analysis of milita

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What happens to the elite, close-knit soldiers of Australia's Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment after they leave the world of special forces From Iraq and Afghanistan to Africa and Asia, defence writer Ian McPhedran uncovers a virtually unknown network and tells how Australia's top soldiers are forever linked in a seemingly borderless world.

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The next thousand years saw the emergence of iron weapons, the chariot, the standing professional army, military academies, general staffs, military training, permanent arms industries, written texts on tactics, military procurement, logistics systems, conscription, and military pay.

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Lewis North Dakota Quarterly

When in 1968 an American rifle battalion known as the First Wolfhounds landed near Dau Tieng, a rest area controlled by the North Vietnamese Army, they expected to interdict the NVA supply line there within three days.

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The more uncertain the developments in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union become, the more urgent is the need to understand Soviet military thinking over 75-year span of Soviet history.

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This concise history of the major military reforms in the Soviet Union in the twentieth century fills an essential gap in scholarly studies on the subject and provides a model for analyzing past and future doctrine, force structure and technology, and command and control tactics.

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A study of how Soviet military theorists developed and debated the concepts that provided the basis for the Kremlin's defence policies. The book explores the relationship between politics and military strategy, the assessment of threats to the USSR and the relationship between offence and defence.

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His balanced and comprehensive reconstruction of the history of Soviet submarine operations in Swedish waters will benefit all students of Soviet policy and practice in Northern Europe.

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His balanced and comprehensive reconstruction of the history of Soviet submarine operations in Swedish waters will benefit all students of Soviet policy and practice in Northern Europe.

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This timely resource provides a history of the development of space weapons and warfare strategies and a comprehensive reference guide to the growing literature on the subject.

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The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots.

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They shed new light on questions raised in earlier interpretations of the early Cold War years and reveal the origins of a surveillance activity that is implied, but not explained, in today's headlines.

This book provides the first documented description of the genesis and institutionalization of America's nuclear surveillance system.

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Since the Revolutionary War, long-range riflemen have held a place of reverence and awe in the public's imagination. Here are the stories, traditions, techniques, and tools from men trained to be the most lethal weapons the world has seen.

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Bernard Brodie (1910-1978) was a leading 20th century theorist and philosopher of war. A key architect of American nuclear strategy, Brodie was one of the first civilian defense intellectuals to cross over into the military world. This book examines Bernard Brodie's strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age.