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Analyses the performance of two key parties engaged in fighting during World War II.

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This study covers the organization used by the Bundeswehr and the political control exerted in the Takeover. It examines key decisions, the relationship of the Takeover to the Army Structure 5 being implemented at the time, and the effect of the Takeover on the Bundeswehr's operational readiness.

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The book concludes with description and analysis of the armies of the ancient world placed in a modern perspective.

From Sumer to Rome provides a detailed portrait of the world's earliest military establishments.

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This groundbreaking investigation uncovers serious mismatches between David Galula's counterinsurgency practice in Algeria and his counterinsurgency theory-the foundation of current U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Brodsky contends that three factors--constitutional, commercial, and technological--in turn, have caused Britain to raise large citizen forces. Because Britain traditionally has been an unmilitary state which has not maintained large standing armies, this ethos of amateurism merged with the professionalism of the Regular Army.

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This is the compelling story of the most exciting and decisive battles fought under harsh Arctic conditions during the Second World War.

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"In the year 216 B.C., Hannibal of Carthage, faced with an opposing Roman army twice the size of his own, outwitted the enemy at Cannae by means of a strategy which has become a classic of its kind. As"

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Gives an account of the complex British, French and American operations in 1944, an account that uses a wealth of original source material on both sides of the Atlantic to evaluate the role of the French Resistance and to assess the problems in coordinating Allied military activities.

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Foreshadowing the twentieth-century experience, the Spanish American War was America's first modern foreign war.

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Offering new insight into Hitler as a military leader, this provocative study provides a clear view of Hitler's strengths and weaknesses and looks at what might have happened had he not blundered so often at vital times during the war.

Duffy begins with a look at Hitler's early victories in the Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia.

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A contribution to our understanding of the role of outside powers in the war in the Western Sahara, of the efforts of the Maghrebi states to overcome regional conflicts, and of the role of the United Nations in attempts to resolve the conflict.

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Journal of the Waterloo Campaign remains one of the most famous personal accounts of the climactic three days which ended the military career and empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. Captain Cavalie Mercer

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Napoleon's youngest brother, Jrme, has over the centuries been portrayed as a military commander who was completely incompetent and unimportant to his famous sibling.

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But this hill, soon to be dubbed, Sugar Loaf, was very different indeed. Part of a complex of three hills, Sugar Loaf formed the western anchor of General Mitsuru Ushijima's Shuri Line, which stretched from coast to coast across the island. Sugar Loaf was critical to the defense of that line, preventing U.S. forces from turning the Japanese flank.

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This text is the first to closely compare and contrast the Gulf and Vietnam Wars on both the war and home fronts.

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This text is the first to closely compare and contrast the Gulf and Vietnam Wars on both the war and home fronts.

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From his childhood, rebellion at school, the early death of his father and conflict with his step-father, on to his exploits in the army in Korea, Egypt, Malaya, Oman, Borneo, the Sudan, the Falklands, and the Gulf War, this book chronicles the SAS General's life.

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This work provides a theoretical and historical examination of the relationship between provision of military assistance and success in achieving donor aims.

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Indeed, Durant was only one member of the elite Task Force Ranger Regiment deployed to apprehend Mohammed Farrah Aidid, Somailia's most powerful warlord on the fateful October day.

Here is the little-known story of the 15 fierce, deadly hours of fighting that followed the Americans tightly calibrated attempt to target Aidid.

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He who opens these pages for the first time faces a rich experience.-C. Vann Woodward.

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So, at the end of May, Napoleon sat with his battered army at the end of a long and imperiled line of communications while Europe erupted around him. French and Austrian alike suffered horrific losses at Wagram, but at battle's end, Napoleon's commanding presence produced a French triumph.

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Contrary to prevalent military historical thinking, the early medieval general was not an ignorant warrior chieftain, but an able, astute, intelligent, and often very cunning commander.

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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.