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  • The History of the Peloponnesian War

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    by Thucydides ...
    The classic account of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley.An Athenian general who served in the war, Thucydides relates the invasions, treacheries, plagues, amazing speeches, ambitions, virtues, and emotions of the storied conflict between Athens and Sparta in a work that has the feel of a tragic drama.Though in part an analysis of war policy, The History of the ... Read more

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  • Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972

    Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972

    Series Book 8 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    This commemoration booklet focuses on naval air power during the final years of the Vietnam War. For much of this period, Navy aircraft sought to hamper the flow of supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos—a huge investment in air power resources that ultimately proved fruitless. After North Vietnam’s invasion of the South in 1972, however, Navy tactical aviation, as well as naval gunfire ... Read more

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  • Weather and Warfare

    by Robert Child ...
    Weather and Warfare dramatically retraces the meteorological forces during battlefield engagements that doomed or saved civilizations. In 1588 more than half of the Spanish Armada, on its way around northern Britain, was destroyed by storms in retreat back to Spain. Napoleon’s attack on Russia was stopped cold by winter weather, as was Hitler’s siege of Leningrad. In WWI, it was all-quiet on the ... Read more

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  • The Battle Behind Bars: Navy and Marine POWS in the Vietnam War

    Navy and Marine POWS in the Vietnam War

    Series Book 6 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    The unconventional nature of the war and the unforgiving environment of Southeast Asia inflicted special hardships on the Vietnam-era POWs, whether they spent captivity in the jungles of the South, or the jails of the North. This book describes their experiences—the similarities and the differences—and how the POWs coped with untreated wounds and other malaises, systematic torture, and boredom. ... Read more

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  • Poker According to Sun Tzu

    by Mike Evan ...
    Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” has been studied by great military leaders throughout the centuries. Its methods have shaped military strategy and tactics, even up to the present day. Along the way, many have found its teachings valuable for a host of non-martial fields, such as business, management, and sports. Indeed, its lessons on how to embrace conflict, and turn disadvantage into advantage, are ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations

    This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe.Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since 9/11, with the Islamic State often described as a pseudo-state, a terrorist group, and insurgency all at the same time. While researchers', analysts', and policymakers’ ... Read more

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  • Researching National Security Intelligence

    Multidisciplinary Approaches

    Researchers in the rapidly growing field of intelligence studies face unique and difficult challenges ranging from finding and accessing data on secret activities, to sorting through the politics of intelligence successes and failures, to making sense of complex socio-organizational or psychological phenomena. The contributing authors to Researching National Security Intelligence survey the state ... Read more

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  • Alexander The Great: A Life From Beginning To End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    What does it mean to be great? There have been many that have come through the sands of time proclaiming their own greatness. We see it in the news every day; leaders, heroes, tyrants, and even reality star presidential candidates claim that they are great. But what about Alexander the Great?Inside you will read about...✓ Alexander and the Happiness of Horses✓ Aristotle and the First Day of School ... Read more

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  • World War 2 History: Stories of the Failed Assassination Attempts on Adolf Hitler’s Life

    World War 2 History, #2

    Series Book 2 - World War 2 History
    The most celebrated attempt at Führer’s life is believed to be the one carried out by Clause von Stauffenberg in Hitler’s Wolf’s lair headquarters. The explosion killed four, but Hitler survived. The attempted conspiracy was documented in a feature film ‘The Valkyrie’ starring Tom Cruise as Clause von Stauffenberg.What is interesting to note is that the motivation of almost all the assassins and ... Read more

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  • The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia, 1945–1965

    Conflict in Asia, 1945–1965

    Series Book 1 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    America’s participation in the Vietnam conflict dates to the waning days of World War II, when certain victory over Japan prompted the Allies and Asian peoples of many ideological persuasions to change the political landscape. France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and other European countries planned to reestablish control over their colonies in China, India, and Southeast Asia. Anticolonial ... Read more

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  • The Russia-Ukraine War

    Towards Resilient Fighting Power

    Series series Routledge Advances in Defence Studies
    This book provides a systematic analysis of the Russian-Ukraine war, using the concept of resilient fighting power to assess the operational performance of both sides during the first year of the full-scale invasion.The Russian war in Ukraine began in 2014 and continued for eight years, before the full-scale invasion of 24 February 2022. It is not a new war, but the intensity of the warfighting ... Read more

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  • The History of the Knights Templar

    The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, commonly known as The Knights Templar, were among the wealthiest and most powerful of the Western Christian military orders. The organisation existed for nearly two centuries during the Middle Ages. Templar knights, in their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades.In 1307 ... Read more

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  • World War 2 Submarines: World War 2 Submarine Stories And Accounts: The True Stories Of Battle Under The Dark Seas

    World War 2 Submarines, #2

    Series Book 2 - World War 2 Submarines
    Human ingenuity has ensured that over the centuries, we have progressed enough to walk on the very moon. Submarine technology, then, comes as no surprise to us. The use of subs during the wars certainly turned the tide of the battle; the Allied Powers would no doubt have lost had they not engaged in naval battles of such grandeur.As we saw, the War was brutal and horrifying; the submarines ... Read more

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  • Changing Transatlantic Security Relations

    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU ... Read more

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  • The War in the East

    First published in 1895, "The War in the East" by Trumbull White is a book about the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), a war between the Qing dynasty of China, and the Empire of Japan, primarily over Korea."The War in the East" analyzes the complete history of the War: Its causes and results; its campaigns on sea and land; its terrific fights, grand victories and overwhelming defeats. The book ... Read more

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  • The Works of Julius Caesar

    by Julius Caesar ...
    Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) is often considered the greatest man in history. He invented strategy and changed the shape of the Roman Empire. However, his legacy survives not only in his conquests and buildings, but in his books as well."The Works of Julius Caesar" reunites his best known works, "The Gallic Wars" and "The Civil Wars," with the other three books that are ... Read more

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  • The Art of War

    First published in 1521, “The Art of War” is a treatise by the Italian Renaissance political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli that echoes the Treaty of the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu.In this, the least known of his works, Machiavelli gives straightforward advice on organising and conducting military operations. "The Art of War"’s clear, and concise style is diametrically opposed to that of "The ... Read more

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  • The Book of Five Rings

    Musashi Miyamoto’s "The Book of Five Rings" is a classic Japanese text of samurai sword strategy written around 1643. Yet, it is so much more than just a manual on how best to wield a sword. The principles discussed in Musashi Miyamoto’s masterpiece can, in many respects, be applied to life as a whole. Even though most of us today may not carry around a samurai sword on a daily basis, a reader can ... Read more

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  • Defeat in the West

    Milton Shulman (1913 – 2004) was a Canadian author, film and theatre critic.After the phoney war period Shulman signed up for the Canadian army, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Canadian Armoured Corps and posted to England in June 1943. Stationed in London as a captain he was assigned to the secret operational intelligence unit MI 14b, dealing with the order of battle of the ... Read more

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  • Military Adaptation In War: With Fear Of Change

    Military Adaptation in War addresses one of the most persistent problems that military organizations confront: namely, the problem of how to adapt under the trying, terrifying conditions of war. This work builds on the volume that Professor Williamson Murray edited with Allan Millett on military innovation (a quite different issue, though similar in some respects). In Clausewitzian terms, war is a ... Read more

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  • War For The Ho Chi Minh Trail

    This paper studies the lines of communications (the Ho Chi Minh Trail) which went from North to South Vietnam, through Laos, during the Second Indochina War. The purpose of this paper is to study the proposal that the United States, during the Vietnam War, should have used ground forces in Laos to block these routes.In providing background information, this study examines the nature of the Ho Chi ... Read more

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  • The American Operations in WW2: Ryukyus

    World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. Highly relevant today, World War II has much to teach us, not only about the profession of arms, but also about military preparedness, global strategy, and combined operations in the coalition war against fascism. This book follows military operations of the US Army in the Ryukyus, Japan from 26 March to 2 July ... Read more

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  • An Irregular Corps in Matabeleland

    by Huber Plumer ...
    "Full of details of every kind which are likely to be of use to others undertaking similar command." -The Librarian (London), June 26, 1897"Colonel Plumer was the officer sent up to Bulawayo after the Jameson Raid...commanded the Imperial relief force made necessary by the Matabele rising." -Book-Bits (London), April 10, 1897"Plumer...took the utmost pains to mould his raw volunteers into an ... Read more

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  • The American Operations in WW2: East Indies

    World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. Highly relevant today, World War II has much to teach us, not only about the profession of arms, but also about military preparedness, global strategy, and combined operations in the coalition war against fascism. This book follows military operations of the US Army in the East Indies from 1 January to 22 July ... Read more

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