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  • The Falklands War: Understanding the Power of Context in Shaping Argentine Strategic Decisions

    This thesis uses a historical case study approach to examine the impact of context on shaping decision making during the conduct of war. The case analyzed is the war between Argentina and Great Britain for control of the Falkland Islands in 1982. This thesis examines the relative strength of the belligerents’ positions using the concepts of force, time and space from current operational warfare ... Read more

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  • The Baghdad Pact

    Anglo-American Defence Policies in the Middle East, 1950-59

    Series series Military History and Policy
    This book explores the formation of the Baghdad Pact and Anglo-American defence policies in the Middle East, 1950-1959. It determines the aims with which the pact was established; the failings of the pact, and the struggle that was undertaken against it by hostile countries. It examines the events surrounding the formation, development and collapse of the pact, and Anglo-American attempts to ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Amicicide: The Problem Of Friendly Fire In Modern War [Illustrated Edition]

    Includes 10 detailed tables‘War is often depicted in the textbooks as a well-orchestrated, albeit violent, exercise in which opposing units strive to achieve tactical and strategic objectives. That each side will suffer casualties in the process is taken for granted; they are the inevitable, if regretable, consequence of such a deadly undertaking. That each side is almost certain to suffer ... Read more

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  • Transport Helicopters: The Achilles Heel Of Maneuver Warfare

    Marine Corps' publication FMFM 1 describes Marine Corps doctrine on warfighting. In very broad terms, chapter 4 of Warfighting attempts to identify the challenges and realities of the modern battlefield. Marine Corps' doctrine attempts to exploit “the time-competitive rhythm of war, generating and exploiting superior tempo and velocity in an uncertain, chaotic, fluid environment.” The Marine Corps ... Read more

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  • Breaching Walls In Urban Warfare

    The process of urbanization throughout the world is making urban warfare a major aspect of future military conflicts. Past experience in such combat indicates that wall breaching is an important capability in facilitating the movement of ground units. Maneuver in strongly defended built-up areas is sometimes possible only if units move through buildings.This study attempts to determine if there is ... Read more

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  • A Line in the Sand

    The true story of a Marine's experience on the front lines of the Gulf War

    This book is a true account of my experience as a Marine in the Gulf War. I decided to tell my story in hopes of developing, in the reader, a deeper respect for America's veterans by revealing the extreme mental and physical sacrifices a soldier must make during war. I want to show how our own government, while fulfilling our duty, treated us, how people get through such experiences and what those ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Interview With 1LT Jorgensen

    Series Book 10 - Eyewitness To Modern War
    Douglas Cubbison, the Command Historian for the 10th Mountain Division, conducted a series of interviews with the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan during January 2007, along with several additional interviews conducted in February 2007 at Fort Drum, New York. The interviews are fairly wide ranging in the topics covered but all center around one particularly memorable event for ... Read more

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  • Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires

    Why the Most Powerful Armies of Their Time Found Only Defeat or Shame in This Land of Endless Wars

    by John A. Tyler ...
    During the spring and summer of 2021, global news reports were filled with the impending US/NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan. At best, it would be viewed as a stalemate, with an orderly transition to a stable, US-backed Afghan government. At worse, it would be looked upon as two decades of futile war, ending with a shameful retreat that left the county at the mercy of a ruthless Taliban regime. ... Read more

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  • Dominant Battlespace Knowledge

    The Winning Edge

    The Department of Defense has been successfully exploiting rapidly developing advances in information technology for military gain. On tomorrow’s multidimensional battlefield—or “battlespace”—the increased density, acuity, and connectivity of sensors and many other information devices may allow U.S. Armed Forces to see almost everything worth seeing in real or near-real time. Such enhanced vision ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • D-Day 1944 - Air Power Over The Normandy Beaches And Beyond [Illustrated Edition]

    Includes over 12 photos and maps of the Overlord OperationsOperation Overlord, the Normandy invasion-like William the Conqueror's before it or the Inchon landing afterwards-will long be studied as a classic in military planning, logistics, and operations. OVERLORD depended to a remarkable degree upon the use of air power in virtually all its forms. A half-century ago, aircraft were primitive ... Read more

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  • Airpower Against an Army: Challenge and Response in Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF) Duel with Republican Guard in the Persian Gulf War, Desert Storm, Unique Look at How the Guard Was Annihilated

    This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In January and February 1991, Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF) conducted an air-to-ground onslaught against Iraq's Republican Guard. The requirements of this operation conflicted in a number of respects with the US Air Force's extended preparations for conflict on a European ... Read more

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  • Braving the Fear: The True Story of Rowdy US Marines in the Gulf War

    Best Seller -These Marines battled two unknown and unseen enemies, one was the impending chemical attacks by the coming enemy and the other was each other boredom. With deadly attitudes and skill, they found themselves training, mentally preparing, and taunting each other endlessly for entertainment. Taunting for war Marines called it.From these hilarious and often dangerous and challenging ... Read more

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  • Rules For Leadership

    Improving Unit Performance

    by Jon W. Blades ...
    This book presents an original set of leadership “rules” or principles that can be used to improve unit performance in any specific group situation and at all organizational levels. The 10 “rules” describe the influence which leadership style, leader enforcement of performance standards, group member intelligence, group member ability, leader intelligence, leader ability, group member motivation, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • DET ONE: U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Special Operations Command Detachment, 2003 - 2006:

    U.S. Marines in the Global War on Terrorism [Illustrated Edition]

    Illustrated with over 30 photos.The story of the Marine Corps U.S. Special Operations Command Detachment, which became known as Det One, is an extraordinary tale. On its face, the story would not rate a minute’s glance. One small group of Marines, about a hundred in number, formed, trained, and went to war. This all happened as the nation was 18 months into the Global War on Terrorism and as the ... Read more

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  • Wilsonian Approaches to American Conflicts

    From the War of 1812 to the First Gulf War

    by Ashley Cox ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
    This book explores US foreign policy, specifically the history of America’s entry into the War of 1812, the First World War, the Korean War and the First Gulf War. Using a historical case study approach, it demonstrates how the Wilsonian Framework can give us a unique understanding of why the United States chose to go to war in those four conflicts.Cox argues that the Wilsonian Framework is an ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Battle on the Bookshelves: History, Desert Storm, and the United States Armed Forces - Defense Department Uses Various Versions of History to Shape Perceptions of Accomplishments, Influence Decisions

    Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this book by the U.S. Army examines the use of history by the American armed forces during three distinct periods: the defense reorganization of the late 1940s, the Reagan military buildup of the 1980s, and the years following the decisive American-led victory in Desert Storm. It shows how the services have increasingly ... Read more

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  • In Order To Win, Learn How To Fight: The US Army In Urban Operations

    The urgent requirement for US Army preparedness in conducting urban operations (UO) is very real. As global urbanization continues to increase, the contemporary threat environment makes operations in cities impossible to avoid. The past decade has demonstrated through the American experiences in Mogadishu and Russian experiences in Grozny, less capable forces will attempt to use urban terrain ... Read more

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  • Seeking Shadows In The Sky: The Strategy Of Air Guerrilla Warfare

    This study analyzes the feasibility of guerrilla warfare as the basis for a strategy of airpower employment for a weak air force confronting an opponent with a stronger air force. The analysis begins with a distillation of the theory of guerrilla warfare into five elements essential to its success: superior intelligence, security, mobility advantage, surprise, and sustainment. The author then ... Read more

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  • The Operational Commander’s Role In Planning And Executing A Successful Campaign

    The rise of industrialization coupled with the growth of technology have contributed to creating a complexity to modern warfare that far exceeds the primitive conditions of earlier periods. Defined as the creative use of distributed operations for the purposes of strategy, success at the operational level requires that commanders practice operational art. Although current doctrine recognizes that ... Read more

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  • La Operación Tormenta del Desierto

    La invasión de Irak a Kuwait y la Segunda Guerra del Golfo

    by 50Minutos ...
    Series series Historia
    Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la Operación Tormenta del Desierto, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Comprender las razones de la invasión de Kuwait por parte de Sadam Hussein y de la posterior formación de una coalición internacional para combatir esta invasión• Identificar los principales ... Read more

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  • Countdown For Decision

    The inside story of men, missiles and our race for space by the man who launched America's first satellite.John Bruce Medaris (May 12, 1902 - July 11, 1990) retired a Major General in the United States Army. During World War II he became a highly decorated colonel in the ordnance corps, serving in every campaign from North Africa to Sicily, Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and invasion of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • ARCHIE, FLAK, AAA, And SAM: A Short Operational History Of Ground-Based Air Defense [Illustrated Edition]

    Includes over 90 illustrations‘Dr Kenneth Werrell’s history of ground-based air defense performs an important service both to scholarship and, more important, to the defense of our nation’s freedom. It is perhaps human nature that we tend over time to lose sight of the lessons of the past, especially when they do not conform to certain cherished preconceptions of ours. That such myopia can be ... Read more

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  • AFV Alphabet

    Russell Phillips wrote an "A to Z" series of blog posts around the theme of AFVs (Armoured Fighting Vehicles). They have been edited and collated into this ebook. ... Read more

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  • Airfield Seizure, The Modern 'Key To The Country'

    This monograph examines the key determinants necessary for the successful forced entry seizure of an airfield. The importance of contingency operations is paramount to the United States military as it transitions from "forward defense" to "CONUS based." The ability to project power into an isolated objective area requires the rapid deployment and forced entry of a tailored force package. For many ... Read more

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