Rosetta Books, 2004. — 446 p. This is the most complete history to date of the Six Day War of 1967, in which Israel entered and began its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. While no account can be definitive until Arab archives open, Oren, a Princeton-trained senior fellow at Jerusalem's Shalem Center who has served as director of Israel's department of inter-religious...
Mariner Books, 2006. — 400 p.
If the Marines are the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick’s career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances to the pinnacleRecon two years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. His vast skill set puts him...
Clarity Press, 2021. — 434 p. World War in Syria provides a comprehensive study of the first ten years of the Syrian War, as well as an extensive background into the history of Syria's longstanding conflict with the Western world and its regional strategic partners such as Turkey and Israel. It offers an analysis of the conflict through the paradigm of an international 'world...
Ballantine Books, 2009. — 336 p. In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War's biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine...
Verso Books, 2020. — 448 p. The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other. It was the instrument that might transform a diverse population into a new people. Since the foundation...
University Press of Kentucky, 2021. — 527 p. The military expert and author of Leadership presents “the most thoughtful analysis yet of America’s recent conflicts—and future challenges. Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in America’s favor, capacity-building efforts, and tactical victories, the wars in...
Thomas Dunne Books, 1999. — 480 p. From 1949 to 1991 the terrible potential of the Cold War loomed over the United States, the Soviet Union, and by extension, the rest of the world. The seeming-certainty of global nuclear conflict defined and articulated the cultural, political, and in particular, the military evolution of both nations. The Cold War provoked an unprecedented...
Savas Beatie, 2009. — 336 p. The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. The company's life span covered ten months, from selection and training through a seven-month combat deployment in Korea, after which the unit was deactivated. The 2nd and 4th Rangers were among the units initially...
Родина, 2018. — 496 с. — (Секреты идеального мужчины). — ISBN: 978-5-907024-39-7. Офицерство в царской России всегда было особой "кастой", отличающейся как от солдат, так и от гражданских людей. Отстраненность от общества объяснялась, в частности, и тем, что офицеры не имели права присоединяться к политическим партиям, а должны были на протяжении всей жизни руководствоваться...
Zenith Press, 2004. — 336 p. Colonel Thomas Hammes discusses how the ongoing events in Iraq show how difficult it is for the world's only remaining superpower to impose its will upon other peoples, and cites other recent incidents of powerful military forces being tied up by seemingly weaker opponents.
Amberley Publishing, 2021. — 320 p. Americans know about the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the world wars, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq/Afghanistan, but the many in-between conflicts have been erased from public memory. Many of the forgotten conflicts have a particular resonance now. The Texas-Mexico border conflict (1917) saw Hispanic farmers murdered as America prepared to...
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...
The History Press, 2013. — 682 p. The Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) was the longest war waged by British and Commonwealth forces in the twentieth century. Fought against communist guerrillas in the jungles of Malaya, this undeclared 'war without a name' had a powerful and covert influence on American strategy in Vietnam. Many military historians still consider the Emergency an...
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...
Potomac Books, 2002. — 256 p. When War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare by Robert Taber first appeared in the late 1960s, revolutionary warfare waged by guerrilla forces representing the poor and deprived sectors of society was very much in vogue in radical political circles around the world. From the jungles of Indochina to the open spaces of Palestine,...
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