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  • Why The North Vietnamese Launched A Major Military Offensive During Tet 1968

    This study examines the reasons why the North Vietnamese launched a general offensive during the Tet holiday of 1968. Based on events of the previous year, conditions did not appear favorable for the North Vietnamese to undertake such a massive and risky operation. Several reasons accounted for this decision; political pressure from Russia and China for a resolution to the war, military failure to ... Read more

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  • Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought

    The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II

    Series series Modern War Studies
    Inept leadership, inefficient campaigning, and enormous losses would seem to spell military disaster. Yet despite these factors, the Soviet Union won its war against Nazi Germany thanks to what Roger Reese calls its “military effectiveness”: its ability to put troops in the field even after previous forces had been decimated.Reese probes the human dimension of the Red Army in World War II through ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Why Peace Fails

    The Causes and Prevention of Civil War Recurrence

    Why does peace fail? More precisely, why do some countries that show every sign of having successfully emerged from civil war fall once again into armed conflict? What explains why peace "sticks" after some wars but not others?In this illuminating study, Charles T. Call examines the factors behind fifteen cases of civil war recurrence in Africa, Asia, the Caucasus, and Latin America. He argues ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Custer Was Never Warned

    The Forgotten Story of the True Genesis of America's Most Iconic Military Disaster, Custer's Last Stand

    For the first time, this ground-breaking book tells the forgotten story of the true genesis of the June 25, 1876 disaster along the Little Bighorn, "Custer's Last Stand." The failure of the southern column to continue to advance north after the battle of the Rosebud set the stage for the annihilation of George Armstrong Custer and his five companies of the 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn. For ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Why Air Forces Fail

    The Anatomy of Defeat

    Includes two new chapters! “One of the more interesting and better books on military aviation to appear in the last few years.”—Journal of Military HistorySince the publication of the first edition of Why Air Forces Fail, the debate over airpower’s role in military operations has only intensified. Here, eminent historians Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris assemble a team of experts to add ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Pushes the Pickle Button? The Frontline Aviator's Moral or Lawful Responsibilities for Weapon Launching and Bombing, Rules of Engagement, CFACC Involvement, Remote Technology, Doctrine

    This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Tension has risen on the frontline battlefields in the air between the aviators executing their missions and their command and control. This tension has resulted in many aviators asking the question "Who is pushing the pickle button?" Tension has grown along with the increase of technology ... Read more

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  • Who Fights for Reputation

    The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict

    Series Book 156 - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    How psychology explains why a leader is willing to use military force to protect or salvage reputationIn Who Fights for Reputation, Keren Yarhi-Milo provides an original framework, based on insights from psychology, to explain why some political leaders are more willing to use military force to defend their reputation than others. Rather than focusing on a leader's background, beliefs, bargaining ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Who Do I Call My Countryman?

    In the summer of 1994, an estimated 80,000 desperate Cubans and Haitians attempted a mass migration to the United States across the Caribbean Ocean in makeshift rafts and boats. Those that survived were rescued from the sea and taken to the US Navy base at Guantanamo, Cuba, where US Navy Seabees constructed massive tent cities in a large-scale humanitarian mission code-named Operation Sea Signal. ... Read more

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  • Who Dares Wins

    The SAS and the Iranian Embassy Siege 1980

    Series Book 4 - Raid
    For 5 days in May 1980, the world watched as the SAS performed a daring raid on the Iranian Embassy in London. Hailed by Margaret Thatcher as “a brilliant operation'' the raid was a huge success for the SAS, rescuing 19 hostages with near-perfect military execution, although 2 hostages were killed by terrorists. Despite the media attention, details of the siege are still largely unknown and those ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Who Built The Great Wall of China? Ancient China Books for Kids | Children's Ancient History

    You can see the Great Wall of China from outer space - that’s how big it is! In this ancient history book, you're going to learn the why’s and the how’s behind the building of the Great Wall. You’ll be reading some pretty interesting tales laced with lots of historical facts. Make learning a habit. Buy a copy now! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Whispers from the Arrow of Time

    Essays from an Evolving Mind on How to Think about National Security in the Information Age

    This anthology of essays written by author retired US Army Brigadier General Wayne Michael Hall involves critical thinking and planning in the new age-the Information Age-in relation to the Arrow of Time as it moves from past to present to future. The new age, the 21stcentury, proves to be quite different from the past. Change and turbulence prove intimidating and challenging in new ways from past ... Read more

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  • Where the South Lost the War

    An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862

    This in-depth Civil War study examines two early Union victories that were instrumental in deciding the conflict’s ultimate outcome.Some historians argue that the Civil War was decided in February 1862 with the collapse of the Confederate defenses of Forts Henry and Donelson on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. This ambitious offensive opened the whole Tennessee Valley to Union invasion and ... Read more

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  • When the Odds Were Even

    The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944-January 1945

    by Keith Bonn ...
    In three months of savage fighting, the U.S. Seventh Army did what no army in the history of modern warfare had ever done before–conquer an enemy defending the Vosges Mountains.With the toughest terrain on the Western Front, the Vosges mountain range was seemingly an impregnable fortress, mannedby German troops determined to hold the last barrier between the Allies and the Rhine. Yet despite ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • When Sun-tzu Met Clausewitz: the OODA Loop and the Invasion of Iraq

    by Daniel Ford ...
    John Boyd was a fighter pilot in the Korean War, an instructor at the US Air Force Fighter Weapons School, and arguably America's greatest military thinker of the 20th Century. His concept of the OODA Loop helped guide the US military during two wars against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. This 4000-word 'long essay' was originally prepared for the War in the Modern World program at King's College London ... Read more

    $3.95 USD

  • When Should A Commander Be Relieved?

    A Study Of Combat Reliefs Of Commanders Of Battalions And Lower Units During The Vietnam Era

    This study attempts to determine when commanders of battalions and lower units should be relieved during combat. The investigation analyzed actual reliefs during the Vietnam era to determine why the commanders were relieved, the availability of replacements, the role of counselling, and the effect on the unit.Investigation reveals that most reliefs were not caused by a single deficiency but rather ... Read more

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  • When Proliferation Causes Peace

    The Psychology of Nuclear Crises

    Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises? This is one of the great debates in international relations scholarship. Michael D. Cohen argues that nuclear weapons acquisition often does dangerously embolden the acquiring state to undertake coercion and aggression, but that this behavior moderates over time as leaders learn the dangers and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Buddhists Attack

    The Curious Relationship Between Zen and the Martial Arts

    by Jeffrey Mann ...
    "This book clearly shows us how the Japanese Budo spirit is related to religion. Specifically, the author explains the concept of mushin very well, a principle to which we Japanese attribute much importance in overcoming various difficulties.--Katsumi Shimane, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology Senshu University 3rd Dan Karatedo, Jodo" ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • What The Hell Was That?: The US Navy Released Videos of UFOS?

    In 2018, the US Navy publicly released videos that appear to show UFO's sharing the skies with US Military Personnel, along with reactions of the personnel in bewilderment. More astonishing, the US Navy freely admitted it had studied the videos at length, and frankly, did not know where the objects they filmed came from. And the objects appeared to defy the laws of physics as we understand.Equally ... Read more

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  • What Stalin Knew

    The Enigma of Barbarossa

    This “riveting account of one of history’s greatest blunders” chronicles Russia’s tragic mishandling of Nazi Germany’s invasion during WWII (William L. O’Neill, The New Leader).On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany’s Operation Barbarossa was launched against Russia. Within days, the invading army had taken hundreds of thousands of Soviet captives while the Luftwaffe bombed a number of Russian cities, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Ship, Where Bound?

    A History of Visual Communication at Sea

    A colorful history of visual signalling methods used at sea, from AD 900 to today.What Ship, Where Bound? takes its title from the familiar opening exchange of signals between passing ships, and celebrates the long history of visual communications at sea. It traces the visual language of signalling from the earliest naval banners or streamers used by the Byzantines in AD 900 through to morse ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Lessons Can Be Drawn From U.S. Riverine Operations During The Vietnam War

    As The U.S. Navy Moves Into The Twenty-First Century?

    This study examines U.S. riverine force operations in the Vietnam War to determine why the force was established, how and why it evolved, and what significance it held for the war as a whole. This study begins with Operation Game Warden, continues through Mobile Riverine Force operations, and ends with the completion of the SEALORDS campaign. The impetus for this research arose from the current ... Read more

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  • What Israel Has Learned about Security

    Topics covered in this volume include Israel's experience in counterinsurgency warfare, the effectiveness of security barriers, predicting the rise of Hamas, lessons of the Second Lebanon War of 2006, and the possibility of security arrangements for Israel in the Golan Heights. Contributors include Maj.-Gen. Doron Almog, Maj.-Gen. Yaakov Amidror, Maj.-Gen. Uzi Dayan, Maj.-Gen. Giora Eiland, Brig. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What If?

    The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

    Edited by Robert Cowley ...
    Series series What If Essays
    With its in-depth reflections on the monumental events of the past, this amazing book of essays ponders what might have been if things had gone differently in history. Featuring Stephen J. Ambrose, John Keegan, and many others. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Whale Hunt

    The Narrative of a Voyage by Nelson Cole Haley, Harpooner in the Ship Charles W. Morgan 1849-1853

    The true story of a voyage to the South Pacific in search of sperm whales.The Charles W. Morgan was the last surviving whaler from the fleet sailing out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. She was retired in 1921, after 80 years of active service.In this book, first published in 1948, Nelson Cole Haley recaptures the high drama of the whale hunt, the character of his shipmates, and their adventures ... Read more

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