Scientific Information in Wartime

Pamela Spence Richards

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 151
• This book describes how the growing awareness of the strategic importance of science in the 1930s caused the Allied and German leadership to build sci... Lees meer

U.S. Unilateral Arms Control Initiatives

William Rose

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies
• As a former negotiator, I wish I had had the benefit of Profssor Rose's insights and I am confident that future U.S. negotiators will profit from them... Lees meer

The Heights of Courage

Avigdor Kahalani

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies
• In October 1973, the State of Israel was invaded by Egyptian and Syrian forces. Despite early losses, Israel managed to outfight its opponents. The br... Lees meer

The Cross and the Trenches

Richard Schweitzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 225
• The modernist historiographical model of the Great War neglects such traditional modes of thought as religious response to battle. Drawing on the test... Lees meer

The Hollow Army

William Henderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies
• A blockbuster. . . sure to be controversial. A major work, not just in military sociology but among concerned citizens generally. The Hollow Army is o... Lees meer

Native vs. Settler

Thomas G Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 200
• Settler-native conflicts in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and South Africa serve as excellent comparative cases as three areas linked to Britain... Lees meer

Military Assistance

William H Mott

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 170
• This work provides a theoretical and historical examination of the relationship between provision of military assistance and success in achieving dono... Lees meer

The U.S. War Crimes Trial Program in Germany, 1946-1955

Frank Buscher

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies
• Although more than 40 years have passed since the end of World War II, the subject of Nazi war criminals remains a timely and emotionally charged topi... Lees meer

Doctrine and Dogma

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 121
• This is the first in-depth comparison of German and British infantry tactics, training, and leadership techniques during World War I. Samuels' study u... Lees meer

Passchendaele and the Royal Navy

Andrew A Wiest

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 15
• There are two competitive views of Passchendaele and its commander, Sir Douglas Haig. One school contends that the battle was a very costly failure an... Lees meer

Conscription and Democracy

George Q Flynn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 210
• Finding the manpower to defend democracy has been a recurring problem. Russell Weigley writes: The historic preoccupation of the Army's thought in pea... Lees meer

The Rebirth of the Habsburg Army

Scott Lackey

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 161
• Friedrich Beck was the single most important figure in the transformation of the inept Habsburg military into the modern military state that would wag... Lees meer

Looking Back on the Vietnam War

Lawrence E. Grinter, William P. Head

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 142
• This text is the first to closely compare and contrast the Gulf and Vietnam Wars on both the war and home fronts. Widely respected experts give a bala... Lees meer

Where a Man Can Go

Robert P Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 179
• This is the first published account of the life of Major General William Phillips, a British officer whose achievements during the American Revolution... Lees meer

To the Bitter End

Chris Leuchars

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 223
• The War of the Triple Alliance was one of the longest, least remembered, and, for one of its participants, most catastrophic conflicts of the 19th cen... Lees meer

Poison Gas

James W Hammond

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 178
• The threat of poison gas, and other related biological warfare agents, holds our society hostage to the possible actions of terrorist groups or rogue ... Lees meer

Diplomatic Ramifications of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 1939-1941

Janet M Manson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies
• In its decision of 7 December 1941 to adopt a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare--the destruction of all vessels entering a designated war zone-... Lees meer

War Wings

Guangqiu Xu

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 211
• Based on extensive research in China, the United States, and Great Britain, this book is the first comprehensive survey of the aviation aspect of Sino... Lees meer

Gentlemen of the Blade

G W Stephen Brodsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies
• Brodsky contends that three factors--constitutional, commercial, and technological--in turn, have caused Britain to raise large citizen forces. Becaus... Lees meer

The U.S. Military

John E Peters

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 133
• Will current strategic planning give the United States the sort of military capabilities that are needed to counter threats likely to occur in the fut... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Defense

Andrew Ross

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 112
• Beyond the traditional two-dimensional analyses of defense economics and defense politics lies a rapidly growing field of research: the political econ... Lees meer

World Turned Upside Down

John Ferling

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies
• The World Turned Upside Down is a collection of original essays dealing with various aspects of the American victory in the War of Independence. Each ... Lees meer

To Acknowledge a War

Paul M Edwards

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies | nr. 193
• Historians often refer to the Korean War as the forgotten war, but Edwards argues that in many respects it is a conflict that has been deliberately ig... Lees meer

New Weapons and NATO

Robert Andrew Kromer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Military Studies
• In a groundbreaking contribution to the international relations literature, Kromer examines the historical experience of NATO with new weapons technol... Lees meer