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By: Chris Bassford

ISBN: 9780313262159
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The author rejects suggestions that perennial American military failure can be traced to the inadequacies of military personnel or of American society in general;


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By: John Selby

ISBN: 9780850450521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1971
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Beatrice Heuser

ISBN: 9780275998264
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of the greatest military minds of the modern era, writers whose ideas and teachings continue to shape the conduct of war in the 21st century.


(Hardback)

By: Martin Sicker

ISBN: 9780275929329
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The USSR's different spheres of influence each present their own special problems. Part II addresses current problems in Soviet geostrategic politics and includes discussions on their evolution and the necessity of their solution in order to preserve the viability of the USSR's spheres of influence.


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By: Dennis Menos

ISBN: 9780275934583
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Addresses a broad spectrum of nuclear arms control issues, including the history of the arms race, superpower talks and treaties on control, and the role of the non-nuclear powers. Menos concludes that the effort towards limitation is minimal when compared with that towards weapon development.


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By: Douglas Miller

ISBN: 9780850453348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Martin van Creveld

ISBN: 9781586481551
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2002
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2002
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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Published in the fiftieth anniversary year of the state of Israel: a complete history of one of the world's most admired--and most mythologized--fighting forces


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By: Marc J. Gilbert

ISBN: 9780275954802
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The essays in this volume are among the very first to seek to dispel the wishful thinking, analytical dogmas, and political agendas that have obscured past efforts to master this key turning point in Vietnamese and American history.


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By: Stephen L Hardin

ISBN: 9781855321557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Describes the development of the Texas Rangers, from their beginnings in the early 1820s as an irregular force designed to combat raids on settlers in Mexican-governed Texas. They have since dealt with rustlers, bootleggers and bandits, developing into a professional law enforcement organization.


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By: Martin Pegler

ISBN: 9781849081498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Thompson submachine gun, or Tommy gun developed an almost iconic status during the 20th century. It had an unusual beginning, for it was developed during the dying days of World War I as a 'one-man, hand-held machine gun'. With the police increasingly outgunned they too were forced to equip themselves with the Tommy gun.


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By: Jeanie Maxine Welch

ISBN: 9780313315985
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Overshadowed for many years by the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo Trial--one of the major events in the aftermath of World War II--has elicited renewed interest since the 50th anniversary of the war's end.


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By: Linda S. Frey

ISBN: 9780313278846
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From 1702 to 1714, the War of the Spanish Succession affected most of Europe and significant parts of the New World, with battles ranging from the Hungarian plains to the harbors of Rio de Janeiro.


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By: James J. Cooke

ISBN: 9780275948627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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When the United States went to war in April 1917 the Army's Air Service had one squadron of obsolete aircraft. By November 1918 the Air Service had aero squadrons which were specialized in air combat, observation, bombing, and photography. Each combat division habitually had an air observation squadron and a balloon company attached.


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By: Dr. Luke Peterson

ISBN: 9781839988714
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Anthem Press
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By: Mael Embser-Herbert

ISBN: 9780275991913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Explores the history of the policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the federal law restricting the military service of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. This title traces the policy from its origins in the early 1990s through its evolution and implementation into law in the United States military.


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By: John Peters

ISBN: 9780313285912
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Will current strategic planning give the United States the sort of military capabilities that are needed to counter threats likely to occur in the future


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By: A. B. Feuer

ISBN: 9780275962128
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The story of the U.S. Navy's contributions to the Allied victory in World War 1, this is the tale of the U.S. Merchant Marine, the Naval Air Service, and the captains of industry who made victory possible.


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By: Edward J. Sheehy

ISBN: 9780313276156
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of US naval operations in the Mediterranean from 1945 to 1947, showing how America assumed the traditionally British role of providing Western naval strength in the area, and detailing how an American squadron grew from skeleton size in 1945 into a powerful armada by the end of 1947.


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By: Craig M. Mullaney

ISBN: 9780143116875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unparalleled education in the art of war and reckons with the hard wisdom that only battle itself can bestow.


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By: James Kochan

ISBN: 9781841760872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This title charts the evolution of the US army from the disbanding continental army following the revolution to the eve of renewed war with Britain. It focuses on the history of the US army, charting the first major transitional period.


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By: James Kochan

ISBN: 9781841760513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The book will concentrate on the regular US Army units which formed the backbone of the forces which fought the British along the Canadian frontier and at New Orleans in the war which saw the British burn Washington and inspired Francis Scott Key to write 'The Star Spangled Banner'.


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By: Marc K. Blackburn

ISBN: 9780313298080
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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But, in 1940, as America prepared for war, thanks to the efforts of the Quartermaster Corps, the haphazard policies that had once governed truck procurement were superseded by a standardization policy that purchased predetermined makes and models of trucks manufactured specifically for Army service.


(Hardback)

By: Lamont C. Colucci

ISBN: 9781440874833
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Philip Katcher

ISBN: 9781855321038
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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