Cassell, 2007. — 329 p. Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the 'Malayan Emergency'. Yet it was a war that...
Watkins Publishing, 2018. — 424 p. Part of the acclaimed Book of Samurai series, which presents for the first time the translated scrolls of the historical Natori-Ryū samurai school of war, this volume offers an exceptional insight into the weaponry and armour of the samurai era, as well as tactical advice for use on and off the battlefield. Two secret scrolls by the samurai...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 264 p. This book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and might seem unlikely technologies for investigating the trajectory of military-technical change. Their relative...
McClelland and Stewart, 2018. — 272 p. From the Canadian in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, this is the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations: The battle of Panjwayi, the defining moment of "Operation Medusa." In the summer of 2006, David Fraser was the Canadian general in charge...
Zenith Press, 2004. — 342 p. The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century (Zenith Military Classics) by Colonel Thomas X. Hammes USMC argues that Ongoing events in Iraq show how difficult it is for the world's only remaining superpower to impose its will upon other peoples. From Vietnam, French and US, to Afghanistan, Russian and US, to Israel and the Palestinians, to...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 452 p. The Modern Mercenary Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order by Sean McFate is the go-to reference guide for private armies. It is a most useful handbook for the history and capabilities of private military units. It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from...
Five Minute Books, 2013. — 151 p. Gives a good overview of generals all throughout history and a brief biography of each general. Good in explaining the main theme that a good general is not one who wins a battle in a war but the good general is one who converts that battle to a political & diplomatic objective. Thus generals like Caesar, Napoleon and Khalid ibn-al-Walid were...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 284 p. Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956-1975) and the Cold War (1945-1991), as well as during the periods of state collapse (1991-2001) and the "global war on terror" (2001-2010). In the first two periods, the most significant...
Countryside Books, 2014. — 304 p. May 1942, five months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the first airplanes and crews of the newly formed Eighth U.S. Army Air Force arrived in Britain. Over the next two years their numbers swelled to a massive and powerful force of bombers and fighters described by one USAAF General as ‘the greatest striking force the world has ever known’....
DLVC Enterprises, 2016. — 349 p. Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the Rest and What Can Be Done About It by Martin van Creveld is an inspiring book about the military failures of Western countries. In the kingdom(s) of the West, something is rotten. Collectively, the countries of NATO are responsible for almost two thirds of global military spending. In terms of military...
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