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He has selectively annotated 12,645 cross-referenced entries and organized them into 27 sub-regional and country chapters including two particularly extensive chapters on Japan and China and two further chapters on relations between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, and on U.S. and Soviet policy.

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Examines the design, development and operational history of the Soviet Union's Cold War SPAAGs: the ZSU-37, ZSU-57-2, the infamous ZSU-23-4, and the 9K22 Tunguska. This study explores the history of the SPAAGs with revealing photographs, technical illustrations and detailed analysis.

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Begins its examination with the US Government's campaign to instigate a war with Spain and ends with a review of the methods it is using to encourage support for the 'War Against Terrorism.' This book analyses each of these wars within the context of the techniques that the government used to generate public support.

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In this authoritative handbook, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense lays out the infrastructural, administrative, and health care challenges facing the Veterans Administration, policymakers, and our veterans themselves.

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This book explains what the role of Islam in female terrorism is. Through the analysis of eight Jihadist terrorist group case studies, the book argues that the three roles of women can be defined as: the disposable, the domestic, and the secretary.

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Includes the important organisational structures - armoured and infantry divisions, fighter and bomber wings, and carrier battle groups - in the context of modern conflicts, including Vietnam, the Gulf War, operations in Panama, Kosovo, and Somalia, and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Tells the story of the Sherman Crab Flail which proved its worth both in its mine-clearing role and as a fighting machine. It recounts some of its more glorious moments with the famous British 79th Armoured Division and the US Army.

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A history of the mainstay of Allied armoured units in World War II, the Sherman tank, whose simplicity, reliability and manoeuverability made it the most widely used tank of the war.

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Shifting States offers an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, with an impressive selection of empirically rich and theoretically engaging contributions that are relevant across a range of contemporary issues.

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Explores the origins of American warships, primarily light and medium frigates, built for the Continental Navy during the years 1776-1783. Looking at how these ships performed in key battles, this title presents an overview of the ships' service and development until France's entry into the war and its subsequent decline in importance.

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A study of the machinery of mediaeval siegecraft as used by Chinese, Mongol, Japanese and Korean armies prior to the introduction of gunpowder. It demonstrates that each country provided a different context into which the siege engines fitted, and this revealed much about machines themselves.

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From the 11th century AD, East Asian armies used exploding missiles and siege cannon to reduce the fortification of their enemies, a level of technology that would not be seen in Europe until the 19th century. This book details the design and use of the wide range of weaponry available.

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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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The successor to the legendary Bell UH-1 'Huey', the Sikorsky UH-60 first flew in 1974 and was christened the Black Hawk.

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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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The authors present first-hand accounts from a number of the surviving Slovakian and Bulgarian aces, plus material from combat reports which have remained hidden during the decades of communist rule.

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Outlines the history of the sniper rifle, from its introduction in warfare during the Napoleonic wars, through the US Civil War to its apogee as the most frequently used combat rifle in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book details the development of ammunition, different weapons types including single shot, magazine loading and semi-automatic.

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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.