Author not specified. — Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd, 1913. — 61 p. As the Introduction says, the History of the Regiment and its wonderful Traditions must the pride of every member of the Royal Welch. This book starts with the raising of the regiment in 1689, battles in Ireland and Flanders, the Seven Years War, the War of American Independence, the Peninsular War 1808-14, the...
University of Minnesota Press, 2020. — 352 p. Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained...
London; New York: Routledge, 2007. — 620 p. — ISBN: 978-0-582-30807-7. The Ottoman Empire had reached the peak of its power, presenting a very real threat to Western Christendom when in 1683 it suffered its first major defeat, at the Siege of Vienna. Tracing the empire’s conflicts of the next two centuries, The Ottoman Wars: An Empire Besieged examines the social transformation...
Harper Collins, 1995. — 320 p. An astute military historian's appraisal of what separates the sheep from the wolves in the great game of war."? Kirkus Reviews If a key to military victory is to "get there first with the most," the true test of the great general is to decide where "there" is? the enemy's Achilles heel. Here is a narrative account of decisive engagements that...
Routledge, 2013. — 239 p. The French Army's war in Algeria has always aroused passions. This book does not whitewash the atrocities committed by both sides; rather it focuses on the conflict itself, a perspective assisted by the French republic's official admission in 1999 that what happened in Algeria was indeed a war. The French Army 'Centre for Training and Preparation in...
The RAND Corporation, 1988. — 68 p. — ISBN: 0-8330-0893-5. Книга представляет собой анализ морально-психологической атмосферы среди личного состава 40-й общевойсковой армии в годы Афганской войны 1979-1989. Написана на основе опроса ветеранов боевых действий среди которых есть как отслужившие срочную службу так и офицеры. В качестве источников также использованы советские журналы...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 224 p. — (Osprey General Military). To the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Celtic warrior of the late Iron Age was the archetypal barbarian: savage, undisciplined, and bloodthirsty. In a clash of cultures that lasted almost 500 years, the rich and vibrant society in which he lived, fought, and died was virtually destroyed, becoming the...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 394 p. This is a long-awaited translation of a definitive account of the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Michael Alpert examines the origins, formation and performance of the Republican Army and sets the Spanish Civil War in its broader military context. He explores the conflicts between communists and Spanish anarchists about how...
History Division United States Marine Corps, 2017. — 275 p. Many histories have been written about the U.S. Marine Corps, although few histories about women in the Marine Corps exist. The author hopes the text, sidebars, and other contextual information included in this volume will make this history of female Marines easier to follow for new members of the military and...
U.S. Marine Corps History Division, 2012. — 52 p. On 23 March 2003, 5,800 U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Corpsmen—the warriors of Task Force Tarawa—began fighting a ferocious battle in the city of an-Nasiriyah, Iraq. As the first large-scale battle fought by U.S. Marines in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Nasiriyah became a test of the Coalition’s ability and resolve to defeat a...
Routledge, 2007. — 260 p. Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this new volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained. It does so by confronting two inter-related research problems: the nature of victory and defeat in modern war and the explanations of victory and defeat. By first questioning the extent to which the...
Routledge, 2007. — 272 p. Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) is the relationship between militaries and humanitarians. Largely conducted in post-conflict environments, CIMIC has become a key characteristic of military operations in the twenty-first century. However, the field is mostly understood through stereotype rather than clear, comprehensive analysis. The range and scope...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 305 p. — ISBN 978-0674979567 What makes people fight and risk their lives for countries other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as Lord Byron, George Orwell, Che Guevara, and Osama bin Laden all volunteer for ostensibly foreign causes? Nir Arielli helps us understand this perplexing phenomenon with a wide-ranging history of...
Depuis les temps les plus recules jusqu'a' l'introduction des armes a' feu; avec des observations critiques sur quelques-uns de plus celebres faits d'armes de l'Antiquite. — Paris: Librairie d’Amyot, 1843. — 570 p. Военная история слонов с древнейших времен и до изобретения огнестрельного оружия, с критическими замечаниями относительно нескольких наиболее знаменитых воинских...
Potomac Books, 2007. — 195 p. In Leigh Armistead's second edited volume on warfare in the Information Age, the authors explore the hype over possibilities versus actuality in their analysis of Information Operations (IO) today. First, leaders must better understand the informational element of national power, and second, their sole focus on technology must expand to include...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 369 p. A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day. We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. — 608 p. This definitive account of the Gulf War relates the previously untold story of the U.S. war with Iraq in the early 1990s. The author follows the 42-day war from the first night to the final day, providing vivid accounts of bombing runs, White House strategy sessions, firefights, and bitter internal conflicts.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 332 p. In this biography Rodney Atwood details the life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent (1864-1925), a distinguished British soldier whose career culminated in decisive victories on the Western Front in 1918 and command of the Indian Army in the early 1920s. He served his soldier’s apprenticeship in the Victorian colonial wars in Burma, the Sudan...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 370 p. This biography of Field Marshall Lord Roberts charts a remarkable life that spanned the apogee of the British Empire. During a diverse career, Roberts won the Victoria Cross, planned the strategic defence of India, turned the tide of war in South Africa, introduced army reform and campaigned for National Service before 1914. Rodney Atwood...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 177 p. Even powerful states face disaster if their armies do not adapt military doctrine to meet new challenges. Comparing the cases of the United States Army in Vietnam and the British Army during the Boer War and the Malayan Emergency, Deborah Avant offers a new account of the conditions that help shape doctrine within military organizations....
CQ Press, 2013. — 726 p. — ISBN 665-1-90781-241-0 Mercenaries have been active in battle from the beginning of military history and, as private armies and military support firms, they are a major component of warfare today. Security, military advice, training, logistics support, policing, technological expertise, intelligence, transportation―all are outsourced to a greater or...
Northwestern University Press, 2014. — 328 p. The Ethiopian popular revolution of 1974 ended a monarchy that claimed descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and brought to power a military government that created one of the largest and best-equipped armies in Africa. In his panoramic study of the Ethiopian army, Fantahun Ayele draws upon his unprecedented access to...
Washington, DC: National Defense Universty Press, 1986. — 198 p. The Legacy of Korea The "New Look": Impact and Counterattack Design for a New Army Re-Equipping Reorganizing: The Pentomic Concept Reaction and Rejection
New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. — 223 p. More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus the military, political, and moral dilemmas confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global...
Routledge, 2002. — 186 p. The Gulf War of 1991 Reconsidered subjects one of the formative events of the post-Cold War era and a watershed in Middle Eastern international politics to a comprehensive reassessment. Considering military and political events from Arab, Israeli and American view points, the book examines the Gulf War's historical origins, conduct and legacy.
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 320 p. — ISBN: 1846033276. Throughout time, violent battles and bloody clashes have changed the course of history and shaped nations or empires. Battles of annihilation are rare, but ever since antiquity a stunning victory on the battlefield, even if it has failed to win the war, has captured the imagination of many. The battle of Cannae in 216BC,...
Routledge, 2013. — 404 p. British Generals in Blair's Wars is based on a series of high profile seminars held in Oxford in which senior British officers, predominantly from the army, reflect on their experience of campaigning. The chapters embrace all the UK's major operations since the end of the Cold War, but they focus particularly on Iraq and Afghanistan. As personal...
Warszawa: Główna ksiegarnia wojskowa, 1921. — 284 s. Generał porucznik William Balck (1858–1924) był niekwestionowanym autorytetem w sprawach taktyki jeszcze przed I wojną światową – nie tylko w Niemczech ale i w całym ówczesnym świecie. Jego książki – a przede wszystkim wielotomowa Taktyka, wydawana wielokrotnie do 1915 r. – cieszyły się dużą popularnością wśród oficerów i...
Washington D.C.: U.S. Goverment Printing Office, 1982. — 326 p. Series "USA in Southeast Asia". The book describes the history of the creation of heavy attack aircraft on the basis of military transport aircraft during the Vietnam war. Foreword Illustrations and Photographs Maps and Charts Tables. Origin and Early Development Gunship I (AC- 47) Gunship II (AC-130) Advanced...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 470 p. The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states. Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, Zoltan Barany argues that the military is the most important institution that states maintain, for without military...
Cassell, 2007. — 329 p. — ISBN 978-0-3043-6671-2. 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...
London: Ian Allan Publishing. 1979. — 128 p. — ISBN 0711008337 The Japanese Soldier 7 Organisation of the Japanese Army 13 Japanese Infantry Weapons 27 Armour 63 Artillery and Mortars 87 Engineer and Chemical Warfare Units 103 Special Forces 111 The Japanese Army in Action 115 Appendices Organisation of Japanese Infantry Divisions 123 Organisation of Japanese Independent...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 189 p. — (History of Warfare 88). Current military historiography has a tendency to portray the military effectiveness of non-western, post-colonial states in broad generalized stereotypes. This monograph examines the militaries of Nigeria, Argentina, Egypt and India in times of crisis to challenge these assumptions. The book shows that...
Routledge, 2021. — 346 p. This book critically examines the politico-military strategy of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. What began as a power struggle and cultural conflict between West and East Pakistan, later compelled India to intervene—an intervention that decisively shaped and influenced the geo-politics of the region and the...
Helion and Company, 2011. — 82 p. France in Centrafrique explores the early colonial and post-colonial history of French Equatorial Africa with a particular emphasis on the role of the Central African Republic in the Second World War and the Free French Movement. One of the key figures to emerge from this period, and a man who would shape the modern destiny of the Central...
Center of Military History, 2010. — 207 p. Leadership is of surpassing importance of arms. Judgment, competence, and courage often count for more than armed might alone in achieving success. Generalship is carefully studied by soldiers who will lead men in combat, whether or not they aspire to general-officer rank themselves. Over time our comparatively young army has developed...
Routledge, 2010. — 161 p. Women’s participation in the U.S. Armed Forces has grown over time in response to the national need for their services. Throughout each era of American history, patriotic women volunteered to serve their country in a wide variety of official and unofficially sanctioned capacities. When there was a call to duty, the United States Armed Forces always...
The New Press, 2013. — 384 p. Military service can shatter or give meaning to lives–it is rarely a neutral encounter―and it has resulted in a rich outpouring of personal testimony from the men and women who have literally placed their lives on the line. “A 'real' love letter to our military [that] will prove enlightening, even galvanizing” (Dissent), A People's History of the...
Indiana University Press, 1998. — 296 p. With thoughtful use of primary sources, Uri Ben-Eliezer provides a serious, sustained, and critical look at the place of the military in Israeli society. He maintains that from the early days of the Yishuv, militarism and the military have become a way of life for Israelis. Focusing on the period between 1936 and 1956, The Making of...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 320 p. British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars....
University of Toronto Press, 2002. — 288 p. Covering training, Manning, equipment, and combat efforts, this is first full non-offical history of the Canadian Army's military operations in Korea from the summer of 1950 to the peacekeeping ceasefire of 1953.
Actes du colloque organisé le 4 avril 1997 à Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan par le Centre de recherches des écoles de Coëtquidan par l'Institut de recherches sur les civilisations de l'Occident moderne (Université de Paris-Sorbonne) et par l'Institut de stratégie comparée. — Paris: Economica, 1998. — 164 p. En 1955, l'historien britannique Michael Roberts lançait le concept de révolution...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 494 p. Drones are the iconic military technology of many of today's most pressing conflicts. Drones have captured the public imagination, partly because they project lethal force in a manner that challenges accepted norms and moral understandings. Drone Wars presents a series of essays by legal scholars, journalists, government officials,...
Routledge, 2015. — 198 p. War and Drugs explores the relationship between military incursions and substance use and abuse throughout history. For centuries, drugs have been used to weaken enemies, stimulate troops to fight, and quell post-war trauma. They have also served as a source of funding for clandestine military and paramilitary activity. In addition to offering detailed...
New York: George H Doran Company, 1914. — 263 p. The secret of Modern War. Armies of Masses. Force and Numbers. Modern Arms and Appliances. The Importance of Cavalry. Self-Reliance, Method, and Command. Attack and Defence. The object and the conduct of war. Time, Space, And Direction. Principles of Command. Naval Warfare—. Retrospect and Prospect.
Salamander books, 1990. — 216 p. The Battle of Britain examines the strength of both sides on the eve of the battle, and its wider strategic implications fo the outcome of the war. The book looks at the German preparations for invasion, and the Luftwaffe's state of readiness after the Polish and French campaigns.
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 477 p. — ISBN 978-0-691-20751-3 Since September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about nonstate warfare and how it should be countered is one crucial assumption: that state and nonstate actors fight very differently. In Nonstate...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 387 p. This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world’s finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars of the twentieth and twenty-first...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 230 p. Origins to 1700. The eighteenth century. The nineteenth century. 1900 to 1918. 1919 to 1945. 1946 to 2017. List of maps and illustrations. Image credits.
Routledge, 2004. — 272 p. Professor Black has written an interesting and useful survey of military history. It is not a book for the casual reader but it will make those people with an interest in the study of military history think about that subject. He has a constant theme throughout the book about the Europe-centric nature of military history. This is not the only line of...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0521470331 ISBN13: 9780521470339.
The three centuries following the discovery of the New World was a period of unprecedented global expansion, spearheaded by the lusty armies of the imperial European powers. This volume of The Cambridge Illustrated Atlases of Warfare is a lively and elaborately illustrated study of warfare...
Third Edition. — Free Press, 1988. — 344 p. The third edition of Geoffrey Blainey’s highly acclaimed study on the causes of war has been expanded and updated to include a complete discussion of World War II and the road towards nuclear war. Analyzing all international wars since 1700, Causes of War solves the riddle of why some wars are long and some are short and demonstrates...
New York: The Dial Press Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, 1985. — 572 p. — ISBN: 0-385-27888-8. Designation: Airborne Sicily: Baptism of Fire Italy: Airborne to the Rescue England: Eve of Invasion Normandy: The Stuff of Instant Legend Holland: Disaster at Arnhem Bulge I: The German Attack Bulge II: The Allied Counterattack Germany: Destruction of the Third Reich Sources...
Praeger, 2007. — 265 p. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld arrived at the Pentagon in 2001 with an agenda that included the transformation of the American armed forces. His intent was to modernize the existing force while simultaneously developing high-tech innovations to revolutionize the military of the future.The primary architect of transformation, Arthur Cebrowski,...
Har-Anand Publications, 1997. — 259 p. History of operations of Jammu and Kashmir, Zojila sector, 1948. During the First Indo-Pak War, many important battles were fought in Kashmir, which have become part of Indian military folklore. Amongst these, the Battles of Zojila hold pride of place. Our breakthrough at Zojila ensured the security of Ladakh which was gravely threatened...
Policy Press, 2019. — 234 p. Through a range of case studies spanning the post-Cold War period in Iraq, Moldova and Serbia, this innovative book breaks new ground in its study of asymmetric conflicts where warring sides exhibit vast power differentials. It uses multiple theories to examine the different pathways that encourage minor powers to engage in both offensive and...
Pike & Shot Society, 2011. — 102 p.
As it is well known, there is not very much documentation on the organisation of the Spanish armies of the end of the 17th century. The principal reference is the "Historia Organica …" of Count de Clonard, written and published around the 1850’s. It is a monumental work (sixteen volumes), based on scrupulous researches, that were conducted...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. — 638 p. The theme of the book is the creation of tactics for littoral warfare – as opposed to the more common blue ocean perspective. Themes are how NATO perceived the goals of the enemy; the purposes of the NATO organisations, the military instruments they had to organise, the organization of cooperation among units from sovereign states, and how...
Clarendon Press, 1980. — 414 p. Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain's foreign and military policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. The role and evolution of the British Army in the Locarno world era 1924-1932. The Defence of India and the Cardwell military system. In 1919–1920 there was a...
New York, The Century co., 1919. — 428 p The great World War was more than two-thirds over when America entered the struggle; and yet in a sense this country was in the war from its very beginning. Three great inventions controlled the character of the fighting and made it different from any other the world has ever seen. These three inventions were American. The submarine was...
Crown Publishers, Inc, 1979. — 252 p. — ISBN: 0517536129 An account of the Vietnam War which includes stories of hand-to-hand combat and the advanced technology of war in the 20th century. Includes an index of American service personnel and civilians missing in South-East Asia, updated to November 1993. Foreword by General William Westmoreland, US Army Chief of Staff between...
New York University Press, 2012. — 320 p. The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a...
Department of the Army, 2008. — 501 p. An outstanding work by a superb military historian who has been a professor for many years at the US Army War College. It is essential reading for anyone interested in either the history of US amphibious operations or the Korean War. In addition to detailing the US Army's amphibious operations during the war, which are much more extensive...
Barnes&Noble, 1994. — 166 p. В книге рассказывается о самых знаменитых воздушных сражениях в которых принимала участие американская авиация во второй Мировой войне.
Praeger, 2001. — 334 p. Most studies of ancient warfare focus only on the Greeks and the Romans, but this sweeping study covers the whole of the ancient world from Greece and Rome to the Near East, then eastward to Parthia, India, and China. Bradford transports the reader into the midst of ancient battles behind such great leaders as Thutmose III, Ashurbanipal, Alexander,...
Routledge, 2020. — 152 p. Airpower remains the cornerstone of NATO’s military advantage, so maintaining the ability to win air superiority over peer opponents in a conflict is key to long-term deterrence stability in both Europe and the Pacific. This Whitehall Paper examines the various modernisation and future capability development efforts being undertaken within NATO, and...
Helion and Company, 2015. — 159 p. This is the story of an attempted coup d'etat more than twenty years ago on the Seychelles, an idyllic but obscure group of islands in the Indian Ocean. At the time, the attempt made headlines across the world, partly because it involved names still famous or notorious from the mercenary involvement in the Congo in the 1960s, partly because it...
Pen & Sword Military, 2021. — 309 p. — ISBN 978 1 526790 37 8. The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is constantly reinforced in literature and in the media, where seemingly brainless operating German units led by fanatical officers predominate. Nothing was as far from the...
Greenwood Press, 1983. — 219 p. This work is important because it is the first book-length effort in a century to look seriously at this specific element of U.S. military history and thought. For this reason alone it is of great moment. Compact and readable, yet comprehensive, the book is an exceptional achievement and of considerable value to anyone professionally involved...
Stanford Security Studies, 2011. — 288 p. This book develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the armed forces in fulfilling roles & missions, and on their efficiency in terms of cost. The approach is applied to the United States using official documents and interviews with policy-makers. In addition to analyzing the...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 138 p. Fairly or unfairly, the stalemate on the First World War’s Western Front is often attributed to the intellectual stagnation of the era’s military officers. This paper traces the development (or absence of development) of combined arms and fire & maneuver tactics and doctrine in the period prior to WW I, focusing on the Russo-Japanese...
Casemate Publishers, 2020. — 618 p. The Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within the former Russian Empire. As such, it commands the attention of the military specialist and layman alike as we mark the one hundredth...
Routledge, 1998. — 273 p. This is an excellent, thoughtful, and thorough summary of the history of air power. Professor Buckley artfully and succinctly weaves the national strategies, technological, and aeronautical industry capabilities of the major air power countries (and their respective and often competing air services) into a coherent story of the progression of air warfare...
Ashgate, 2015. — 216 p. There are many different types of power practice directed towards making soldiers obedient and disciplined inside the field of insurgency. While some commanders punish by inflicting physical pain, others use re-educative methods. While some prepare soldiers by using close-knit combat simulations, others send their subordinates immediately into battle....
NYU Press, 2001. — 311 p. In Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from Achilleus to Lawrence of Arabia gays and lesbians have played a crucial but often hidden role in military campaigns. But recent debates over the legality of gay...
Second Edition. — Georgetown University Press, 2022. — 345 р. Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower introduces contemporary strategy at the operational level of war, particularly as it relates to airpower. Developed as foundational reading for all US Air Force Academy cadets, Air Force ROTC students, and Officer Training School candidates, this intermediate textbook...
Westview Press, 1999. — 320 p. This is a military history of the longest conflict between Libya and her neighbours, and their own internal problems. Chad and Sudan's difficulties with the Muslim arab north and Christian african south were complicated by Libya's territorial ambitions, and by coups and politically exacerbated famine.
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 568 p. This book considers how and why the United States won World War II as part of a global coalition, fought to a stalemate in Korea, lost in Vietnam, and failed in Iraq. The author uses the World War II victory as the historical benchmark against which to evaluate conflicts after 1945. The Korean, Vietnam, and Iraqi wars were...
Routledge, 2013. — 200 p. This book charts the development of the First Vietnam War the war between the Vietnamese Communists (the Vietminh) and the French colonial power considering especially how relations between the Vietminh and the Chinese Communists had a profound impact on the course of the war. It shows how the Chinese provided finance, training and weapons to the...
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 225 p. — ISBN: 1846030196. The great warleaders and generals, including Darius, Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius Caesar successfully used siegecraft to gain their objectives. As siege tactics became integral to success in war, generals employed the minds of engineers and scientists to develop tactics, and offensive and defensive technology to...
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The trebuchet is a medieval machine designed to hurl objects into the interior of castles under siege or even knock down castle walls. Our model trebuchet uses a swinging counterweight, instead of the simpler fixed counterweight. The swinging counterweight, though more complex to build, transfers more energy to the projectile.
Helion and Company, 2014. — 74 p. In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces in Africa. Following the uprisings of March of 1961 in the north of...
A paper submitted to the Faculty o f the Naval War College in partial satisfaction of the requirements of the Department of Operations. — Newport: Naval War College, 1999. — 24 p. This research effort reviews the Soviet military's involvement in Afghanistan from 4 general perspectives: systemic problems in Soviet military culture, the use of surprise, operational maneuver and...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 129 p. Throughout history, states have tried to create the perfect combatant with superhuman physical and cognitive features that are akin to those of comic book superheroes. However, the current innovations have nothing to do with the ones from the past and their development goes beyond a simple technological perspective. On the contrary,...
Routledge, 2020. — 135 p. Supported by genuine historical cases, this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory, but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective. Technological developments raise questions about the manner in which wars ought to be fought. The growing use of drones,...
ABC-CLIO, 2008. — 200 p. This work is a bridge between the failed/weak states' literature and that which examines issues relating to small arms proliferation. Carr investigates the cultural impact of the availability of these easy-to-come-by weapons. This cultural dynamic has a direct, and deadly impact on issues such as arms control, illegal and illicit trading, gun cultures,...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 144 p. This volume is the result of an academic initiative organized by the Center for International Historical Studies of the University of Barcelona (CEHI-UB) in April 2012, with the purpose of bringing Military History to the center of the attention of university and historiographical debate. This choice is based on the idea that, too...
Stanford Security Studies, 2014. — 325 p. Scholars and military practitioners alike have long sought to understand why some country's militaries fight hard when facing defeat while others collapse. In Endurance and War, Jasen Castillo presents a new unifying theory—cohesion theory—to explain why national militaries differ in their staying power. His argument builds on insights...
Editions Autrement, 2013. — 235 p. Aussi ne faut-il pas voir derrière la guerre une opposition qui serait d'abord passionnelle, pulsionnelle et irrationnelle. Sa source n'est pas à chercher, comme cela est souvent évoqué, dans des haines millénaires ou dans un prétendu penchant naturel de l'homme à la destruction. Non, le conflit repose d'abord et avant tout sur des clivages...
Warszawa: Bellona, 2008. — 221 s. Przegląd największych bitew w historii świata, które wyznaczały jednocześnie punkty zwrotne w dziejach ludzkości. Książka zawiera m.in. opisy bitew pod Kannami, Jerozolimą, Cresy, Cambrai, Wiedniem, Grunwaldem i Stalingradem. Książka zawiera ponad 60 fotografii oraz mapy. Przedstawiono w niej także sylwetki uczestniczących w bitwach dowódców.
Mursia, 1990. — 371 p. L'Autore, partendo dai tempi biblici, dalle rivolte degli ebrei contro i romani culminate nell'epopea di Masada, compie una lunga seppur sintetica carrellata sulle gesta di Vercingetorige, di Arminio, dei ribelli nelle isole britanniche, dei «guerriglieri» spagnoli, dei montanari tirolesi e dei contadini russi contro Napoleone; continua con i movimenti...
Chartwell books, 1975. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0890090483 A photographic and narrative survey of Nazi Germany's deployments of men, machines, and technology, the initial conquests, the political and strategic planning, and Hitler's war leadership.
University of California Press, 2014. — 312 p. Military history has long been a popular subject for general readers, at least the male gender among us. Most everyone regrettably recognizes that war has shaped the fates of peoples and places in the dimly distant past and is violently visible in our global present. For all its manifest importance, scholars have, however, produced...
ABC Clio, 2009. — 209 p. Military Doctrine: A Reference Handbook takes a thorough look at 20th- and 21st-century military doctrines around the world. It excerpts relevant English-language scholarly and governmental literature to paint a picture of how military doctrine has developed in recent history, what military doctrines are currently operating on the world stage, and where...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 230 p. Unpacking the most important component of the Canada-US defence relationship, both in the present and into the future. Wide-ranging changes have been made to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) since 2006, when the binational agreement was signed in perpetuity. NORAD traces the joint command’s recent history – one...
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1922. — 276 p. The wonderful and brave story of ships and men here presented needs but the briefest introduction. The deeds will forever remain one of the most glorious chapters in the chronicles of the sea. No excuse is offered for adding another volume to the literature of the war, for the subject is deserving of greater attention than has hitherto...
London: Mills & Boon, 1911. — 371 p. It is then the object of this book to provide for the general reader an opportunity of realising in a volume of moderate dimensions, and in the most attractive manner at my command, some idea of the enviable heritage which the past ages have bequeathed to us as sons of the sea. There are in existence excellent volumes, closely written, the work...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023. — 239 p. Focusing on the period during the 1964-1980 Indochina wars, Min Chen examines the "big power" triangular relationship involving China, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Introduction. Historical Overview of Big-Power Involvement in Indochina. The First Stage: 1964-1969. The Second Stage: 1970-1975. The Third Stage: 1976-1980....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 132 p. This book breaks down the outcomes of stabilization operations including those related to establishing or enhancing safety and security, institutions of governance, rule of law, social well-being, economic development, access to education and health care, infrastructure development, reducing corruption and all the associated elements for...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 370 p. This book seeks to critically review and evaluate the changes and consistencies in how warfare is interpreted and represented by academics, mass media outlets and political actors in the 21st century. The authors suggest that it is essential to understand the evolution and transformation of contemporary warfare's conceptualisation and...
London: Cassell & Co, 2001. — 232 p. — ISBN: 0-304-35289-6. During the 17th century, technological evolutions in fortifications and arms meant that wars grew longer, armies larger, and military formations more disciplined. Yet, militias remained primarily mercenary; although armaments developed from the pike to the socket bayonet and uniforms began to appear, professionalism...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 232 p. This book explores the ways in which affect, colonial histories, and militarism organise global security workforces within private military and security companies (PMSCs). It locates its analysis with Gurkhas; a group of militarised men from Nepal with over 200-years of military experience with the British and Indian armies and the...
Knowledge World Publishers, 2018. — 286 p. A coup attempt in the Maldives in November 1988 sent President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom into hiding. Operation Cactus was India’s military intervention in the island nation at Male’s behest to rescue President Gayoom and restore his democratically elected government. Launching an airborne operation more than 2,500 km away––at short notice...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 360 p. Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time - those in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Lebanon, and Iraq, among others - involve the rapid formation and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fractionalization within them. It would be natural to suppose that warring groups form alliances based on shared...
Indiana University Press, 1998. — 221 p. Insurgencies or guerrilla movements have come to occupy a prominent place in the politics of modern Africa. This book analyzes the relationship between African insurgencies and the local societies in which they are set, the organizational principles upon which the insurgencies are based, and the relationship between the insurgencies and...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 352 p. The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically over time. J. P. Clark traces the evolution of the Army between the War of 1812 and World War I, showing how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of professional...
Sunflower University Press, 1984. — 73 p. The Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, the Kenya Emergency, and the Mau Mau Revolt, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as Mau Mau, and the British authorities. Dominated by the Kikuyu people, Meru people and Embu people, the KLFA...
Routledge, 2014. — 245 р. This ambitious survey draws together the two major wars of decolonization fought by France in Indochina and Algeria (as well as the lesser but far from insignificant military operations in Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco) into a single integrated account. It examines traditional French attitudes to empire, and how these changed under the pressure of...
Boston; London: Shambhala, 1992. — 112 p. — ISBN10: 0877739072 / ISBN13: 978-0877739074. "The Japanese Art of War should be required reading for modern-day missionaries of Western business, politics, and culture."—San Francisco Chronicle "'Set aside all the slogans you have learned and all the intellectual views that stick to your flesh.' Cleary quotes Chinese Zen master Yuanwu...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 480 p. This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train Vietnamese pilots, and with conflict in Laos, and finally ended in 1972 with the B-52 bombing of Hanoi,...
Pen & Sword Military, 2016. — 202 p. — ISBN-10 9781473829565. — ISBN-13 978-1473829565. The military historian presents a fascinating reassessment of Britain’s Singapore Naval Base and the WWII Battle of Singapore. The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 was arguably the greatest disaster suffered by the British Empire. Between 1923 and 1938, the Singapore naval base had been...
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2017. — 825 p. Geographic designations used to effect the following arrangement are in some cases (e.g., “Eastern Europe”) compromises aimed at enhancing reference use; they are not meant to have political implications nor are they rigidly the same from one century to the next. Wars involving several geographic regions ( for example, World War I)...
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1900. — 267 p. None know so well the value of a good Bibliography as those who have had to work at the same time on two topics, one of which has and the other has not been dealt with by a competent bibliographer. In the first case the student knows the obvious books, but he is fully aware that others exist, and it is his duty to...
Belknap Press, 2004. — 528 p. In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this definitive social history of America's standing army, military historian Edward Coffman...
New York: Doubleday, 1966. — 372 p. As this book has shown, there is no scientific way of assessing the worth of the fighting man of the nation over those of others. For courage, that most vital element of the combat soldier, we have seen to be drained away by continuous use. Also, like a battery, it can be recharged. the ancient world. the greeks. the romans. the vikings. the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 200 p. This book is devoted to Israel's asymmetric wars, those conducted against irregular armed groups that have attacked it. It seeks to understand the Israeli strategy in the fight against terrorists acting under the guise of civilians or using the population as human shields. The army has implemented a loosely devised, if not simplistic, doctrine...
Routledge, 2007. — 181 p. This is the first scholarly book to look at the role of the 'warrior' in modern war, arguing that warriors' actions, and indeed thoughts, are increasingly patrolled and that the modern battlefield is an unforgiving environment in which to discharge their vocation. As war becomes ever more instrumentalized, so its existential dimension is fast being...
Routledge, 2021. — 128 p. This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare. Minimising the use of force and winning over the population’s opinion is said to be the cornerstone of success in modern counterinsurgency (COIN). Yet, this tells only one side of the story. Drawing upon primary data collected during interviews with...
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. — 265 p. A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines – through...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 359 p. What can we learn about leadership and the experience of war from the best combat leaders the world has ever known? This book takes us behind the scenes and to the front lines of the major wars of the past 250 years through the words of twenty combat commanders. What they have to say-which is remarkably similar across generational,...
Praeger, 2006. — 432 p. The reality of the Arab-Israeli balance now consists of two subordinate balances: Israel versus Syria and Israel versus the Palestinians. The book analyzes these two balances in detail and their impact on defense planning in each country and on the overall strategic risk to the region as a whole. It covers military developments in each of six...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. — 455 p. There is a wide spectrum of potential threats to the U.S. homeland that do not involve overt attacks by states using long-range missiles or conventional military forces. Such threats include covert attacks by state actors, state use of proxies, independent terrorist and extremist attacks by foreign groups or individuals, and...
Paris: Librairie Militaire, Maritime et Polytechnique, 1853. - 159 p.
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Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 272 p. How and why the three losers of the Second World War reconsidered their pacifism, embraced a more active military role and transformed their armed forces after the Cold War: Analysis of the process of military transformation in Italy, Germany and Japan. Addresses the impact of historical legacies on the pacing and direction of...
Cambridge University Press, 1977. — 297 p. Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Were the railways vital to Prussia's victory over France in 1870? Was the famous Schlieffen Plan militarily sound? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only a few of the questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 290 p. Dirty War is the first comprehensive look at the Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists. Having declared its independence from Great Britain in 1965, the government--made up of European settlers and their descendants--almost immediately faced a...
Routledge, 2005. — 225 p. Success in war has always been difficult to measure. What is judged successful by military leaders may not be judged so by political leadership, nor by the wider public, at least in a Western-style democracy. The public is generally inclined to applaud military victory, but it instinctively reserves the right to ask afterwards: Was it really worth it?...
Brookings Institution Press, 2001. — 362 p. After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo. Serbian troops were forced to withdraw, enabling an international military and political presence to take charge in the region. But was this war inevitable or was it the product of failed western diplomacy prior to the...
Georgetown University Press, 2013. — 255 р. How can the United States avoid a future surprise attack on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, in an era when such devastating attacks can come not only from nation states, but also from terrorist groups or cyber enemies? Intelligence and Surprise Attack examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though, in most cases, warnings...
Georgetown University Press, 2019. — 112 p. Why do women go to war? Despite the reality that female combatants exist the world over, we still know relatively little about who these women are, what motivates them to take up arms, how they are utilized by armed groups, and what happens to them when war ends. This book uses three case studies to explore variation in women's...
Juggernaut Books, 2020. — 181 p. What happened when India and China last went to battle with each other? China won? Wrong, India won. The sole India–China conflict that remains etched in our collective memory is the 1962 war, which India tragically lost. But five years later, in 1967, India and China faced off once again in the heights of Cho La and Nathu La at the Sikkim...
Back Bay Books, 2017. — 464 p. The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David. On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by a group of Arab and German terrorists who demanded the release of 53 terrorists. The plane was forced to divert to Entebbe, in...
University of Michigan Press, 2010. — 257 p. Lifting the Fog of Peace is a captivating study of an agile and adaptive military evolving through the chaos of the post-9/11 world. In what is certain to be regarded as the definitive analysis of the reshaping of American combat power in the face of a complex and uncertain future, Dr. Janine Davidson firmly establishes herself as a...
Zone Books, 1991. — 280 p. In the aftermath of the methodical destruction of Iraq during the Persian Gulf War, the power and efficiency of new computerized weapons and surveillance technology have become chillingly apparent. For Manuel DeLanda, however, this new weaponry has a significance that goes far beyond military applications; he shows how it represents a profound...
ANU Press, 2021. — 224 р. In the first two decades of the Cold War, Australia fought in three conflicts and prepared to fight in a possible wider conflagration in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In Korea, Malaya and Borneo, Australian forces encountered new types of warfare, integrated new equipment and ideas, and were part of the longest continual overseas deployments in...
Center of Military History U.S. Army, 1984. — 312 p. The preceding observations give an indication of the problems involved in preparing the German field forces for an encounter with an opponent whose pattern of behavior and thinking was so fundamentally different from their own that it was often beyond comprehension. Moreover, the peculiarities of the Russian theater were such...
University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 336 p. After drilling troops during the American Revolution, Baron Friedrich von Steuben reportedly noted that although one could tell a Prussian what to do and expect him to do it, one had to tell an American why he ought to do something before he would comply. Although such individualistic thinking is part of the democratic genius of...
Routledge, 2010. — 248 p. Americans grow up expecting that in a time of need, their country can depend on its people for volunteer service to the military. Indeed, this has been a social and at times legal expectation for the citizenship of this country since 1776. Yet, since the end of World War II United States forces have been caught up in many long term military...
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. — 366 p. First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of...
London: Almark Publishing Co. 1970. — 50 p. — ISBN 855240040 Whilist, particularly in recent years, a great deal of information has been published concerning the dress and equipment of the German Wehrmacht, the Japanese Army has, for the most part, been sadly neglected. The object of this book therefore is to give a concise idea of the Japanese Army's background, together with...
Osprey Publishing, 2012. — 232 p. Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare, from sieges to street-fighting, from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed, although strategists have advised against it across the millennia, armies and generals...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 182 p. If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization―or military abolition―would seem to be the appropriate course to take. On the other hand,...
Amstelodam: Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1647. — 54 p. Varius Hiftorijs, tam veteribus quam novis confirmata, et praecipuis totius Europae mu nimentis, ad exemplum adductis exornata. Планы крепостей и фортификационных сооружений.
Texas University Press, 2001. — 320 p. Between 1950 and 1953, 138,600 Army National Guardsmen -- 43 percent of the force -- were called up for federal service. In Under Army Orders William M. Donnelly illuminates one of the more obscure aspects of U.S. involvement in the Korean conflict, focusing on what it meant to be a citizen soldier caught up in an international struggle...
Routledge, 2011. — 168 p. In a tradition that dates back to the time of Thucydides, and the Peloponnesian War, the systematic examination of conflict and war has long been a preoccupation of political scientists seeking to resolve the enduring question: Why do wars occur? This study directly engages this question with a specific focus on explaining the conflict between Iran and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 227 p. With the end of the Cold War, perceptions of the role of armed forces in the international environment changed dramatically and have led to a critical re-evaluation of defence budgets, defence bureaucracies and defence roles. The Changing Face of Military Power brings together some of the most eminent scholars in the field of defence studies...
Authors : Dickie Ian, Jestice Phyllis, Jorgensen Christer, Rise Rob S. — Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 0312554532, ISBN-13 978-0312554538. Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare analyzes the tactics, techniques, and weaponry of naval warfare from the ancient period to the modern day. Beginning with Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III's victory over the piractical Sea...
Thunder Bay Press, 2008. — 328 p. Since 1914 the art and increasingly science of warfare has become ever deadlier. Tanks have become more mobile and more protected, artillery has come to dominate battlefields and even ordinary infantrymen are now equipped with body armour and lightweight fully automatic weapons, usually fitted with magnifying scopes. Containing full-color...
US Army Command and General Staff College, 1979. — 63 p. This paper focuses on the formulation of doctrine since World War II. In no comparable period in history have the dimensions of the battlefield been so altered by rapid technological changes. The need for the tactical doctrines of the Army to remain correspondingly abreast of these changes is thus more pressing than ever...
Springer Netherlands, 2002. — 385 p. Terrain has a profound effect upon the strategy and tactics of any military engagement and has consequently played an important role in determining history. In addition, the landscapes of battle, and the geology which underlies them, has helped shape the cultural iconography of battle certainly within the 20th century. In the last few years...
University Press of Kansas, 2009. — 344 p. Popular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor. Edward Drea looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how that army came to power and extended its influence at home and abroad to become one of the...
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990. — 208 p. Multi-ethnic armed forces have existed since ancient times. The armies of the ancient empires of the Middle East, of the Roman Emperors, and the Mongol Khans, all tended to be conglomerations of diverse ethnic, religious, or racial groups. A fundamental reason for their existence in the past and present is that nations, from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 296 p. This edited volume deals with the reintegration and trajectories of intrastate or interstate war veterans. It raises the question of the effects of the war experience on ex-combatants with regards, in particular, to the perpetuation of a certain level of violence as well as the maintaining of structures, networks, and war methods after the...
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1979. — 304 p. Prologue: The Earliest Artillery Fortification Fortress Warfare in Renaissance Italy Later Italian Wars and the Origins of Permanent Artillery Fortification 1530-1600 The Frontiers of France 1513-59 The Eighty Years War in the Netherlands 1566-1648 The Apprenticeship of France 1560-1660 The English Civil War and the Subjugation of...
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. — 336 p. One Louis XIV and the Apogee of the Old Fortress Warfare 1660-1715 Two The Masters: Coehoorn and Vauban Three The Resolution of the Conflict: the Last Struggles of Habsburg and Bourbon Four The Age of Frederick the Great 1740-86 Five A Time of Doubt: the Standing of Permanent Fortification in the Eighteenth Century Six The Subjugation of...
McFarland, 2015. — 312 p. Throughout human history, technological innovation has functioned as a driver of civilization and inspired many people's belief in progress. When it comes to warfare, where technology is applied with a cruel and deadly logic, a nuanced view is needed. From siege engines to drones, innovation has often served a less enlightened aim: elimination of the...
Praeger, 2007. — 152 p. Rapid and momentous technological changes at the turn of the 20th century forced military professionals and educated civilians to envision the future of war and warfare, especially during an age where nations found themselves aggressively competing for dominance on the world stage. Antulio J. Echevarria II offers a comparative study of these predictions...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. - 219 p.
While many scholars agree that Clausewitz's On War is frequently misunderstood, almost none have explored his methodology to see whether it might enhance our understanding of his concepts. This book lays out Clausewitz's methodology in a brisk and straightforward style. It then uses that as a basis for understanding his...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 198 p. Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services, training, maintenance, and combat troops. In Outsourcing War, Amy E. Eckert examines the ethical implications involved in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether they can fit within customary ways...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 265 p. This book comprises of a range of case studies of military strategy, based on UN documents, observing and concluding the effectiveness of each individual case. Edstrom and Gyllensporre analyse the UN's military strategy, its consequences and its potential to fulfil political ambitions. This is a valuable work in gathering and synthesizing key...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 217 p. Formulating a strategy involves complex interactions between politicians, strategic commanders and generals in the field. The authors explore the strategic decisions made during NATO missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan, Somalia and Libya.
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 90 p. The British campaign in Northern Ireland remains one of the most controversial actions in recent history. This new book by Aaron Edwards considers the strategic, operational and tactical aspects of what become the longest ever campaign embarked upon by British troops. The 38-year campaign, codenamed Operation Banner, went through a number of...
McFarland and Company, 2009. — 200 p. This reference work provides information on all known military operations carried out under United Nations command as part of the Korean War, from June 1950 through 22 July 1954. Following an introductory history of the Korean War and a precise chronology of all Korean War operations, entries are arranged by operation name in five sections:...
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990. — 195 p. An overview of conflict and intervention in the three African states of Nigeria, Angola and Zaire. Topics covered include the self-determination, territorial integrity and the inviolability of post-colonial borders. The influence of countries such as the USA, USSR and Cuba are also examined. Conflict and intervention in Africa - an...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 370 p. Why do powerful intervening militaries have such difficulty managing comparatively weak local partners in counterinsurgency wars? Set within the context of costly, large-scale military interventions such as the US war in Afghanistan, this book explains the conditions by which local allies comply with (or defy) the policy demands of...
Routledge, 2009. — 225 p. American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition. Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves as a voice for their experience. It provides the reader with...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. — 214 p. This book examines culture, the "bedrock of military" effectiveness, from a theoretical and a practical point of view. In comparing Canadian and American military cultures, it concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been "Americanized" to a certain extent, the culture of the US armed forces, due to changes in...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 318 p. Joshua M. Epstein argues that prevailing assumptions about the East- West balance of power rest on erroneous measures of military strength. He develops a method for analyzing military capabilities and applies that general procedure to the Soviet tactical air threat to NATO.
London; New York: Routledge, 2007. — 256 p.
This volume examines how the Ottoman Army was able to evolve and maintain a high level of overall combat effectiveness despite the primitive nature of the Ottoman State during the First World War.
Structured around four case studies, at the operational and tactical level, of campaigns involving the Ottoman Empire and the British...
ABC-CLIO, 2021. — 428 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4408-7841-1 It is exceedingly rare to run across a major historical event that has no comprehensive English-language history, but such was the case until The Turkish War of Independence brought together all the main strands of the story, including the chaotic ending of World War I in Asia Minor and the numerous military fronts on which the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 182 p. Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the development of organization and uniforms not only for the British Colonies of North America...
Allen and Unwin, 2004. — 394 p. Contributions from some of the world's leading strategic thinkers on land warfare are collected in the work. The operational, strategic, and ethical conundrums that soldiers, their commanders, and the societies they serve will have to wrestle with in the future are analyzed by the experts, paying close attention to the impact of the information...
Springer VS, 2019. — 325 p. This book analyzes both NATO’s and the EU’s military crisis management operations and provides an explanation for the fact that it is sometimes NATO, sometimes the EU, and sometimes both international organizations that intervene militarily in a conflict. In detailed case studies on Libya, Chad/Central African Republic, and the Horn of Africa,...
Stanford University Press, 2013. — 364 p. When NATO took charge of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan in 2003, ISAF conceptualized its mission largely as a stabilization and reconstruction deployment. However, as the campaign has evolved and the insurgency has proved to more resistant and capable, key operational imperatives have emerged,...
New York: Avon Books, 1999. — 295 p. For as long as armies have clashed on fiery fields of battle, professional soldiers of fortune have fought, bled, and died. They are the ultimate warriors, sharing skills few men possess, a pride few men can merit, and an unassailable courage in the face of overwhelming numbers and superior weaponry. These are the men who take the risks that...
VR Unipress, 2022. — 172 p. This monograph presents issues related to the armed conflict in Ukraine, which began in 2014 and is still ongoing. It shows the socio-historical background of warfare; the factors determining the distribution of adaptive resources (assigning them meaning, as well as experienced gains and losses of a subjective, state, material and energy nature). It...
Red. nauk. Tadeusz Peterson. — Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1972. — 444 s. Sztuka wojenna Polskich Sił Zbrojnych w okresie dwudziestolecia poprzedzającego drugą wojnę światową stanowi nader interesującą problematykę najnowszej historii naszego kraju, a zwłaszcza historii wojskowości. Takie momenty jak geneza powstania i tworzenia sił zbrojnych w państwie...
Stanford University Press, 2014. — 304 p. Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in the...
University of the Pacific Press, 2004. — 363 p. Different essays examine leadership shifts under way in the People's Liberation Army and how the Chinese armed forces are coping with dramatic change in economic and social life, the Chinese Communist Party's search for relevance, developments in the global security environment, and the revolution in military affairs.
Praeger, 2001. — 318 p. Finding the manpower to defend democracy has been a recurring problem. Russell Weigley writes: The historic preoccupation of the Army's thought in peacetime has been the manpower question: how, in an unmilitary nation, to muster adequate numbers of capable soldiers quickly should war occur. When the nature of modern warfare made an all-volunteer army...
Field Manual. — Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1991. — 456 p. The book contains a description of the staff structure of associations, formations and military units of the Soviet Army by 1991. There are graphic files in the form of diagrams showing the organizational and staff structure of formations, as well as tables with quantitative parameters by units and...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 396 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 410 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 392 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 398 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 396 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
London ; Paris ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1896. — 406 р. The words are like a trumpetcall, summoning up in array before us a hundred familiar forms of great soldiers — Napoleon and Wellington, Grant and Moltke, MacMahon and Garibaldi—great soldiers of all nations — great soldiers long dead, and great soldiers still living. Let us glance for an instant or two, in...
Stroud: Sutton Publishing. 2003. — 288 p. — ISBN 0750931965 This is an insight into the most feared army of World War II. The Japanese Imperial Army grew from 1.5 million men in 1939 to 5.5 million men by the end of the war. Their highly successful campaigns in the Far East and the Pacific at the beginning of World War II were every bit as spectacular as those of the Germans in...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 424 p. When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941 it heralded the beginning of a period of intense fighting over the Crimea. In this remarkable work, acclaimed author Robert Forcyzk assembles new research to investigate the intense and barbaric fighting for the region in World War II, where first Soviet and then German armies were surrounded and...
Praeger Security, 2005. — 200 p. Transnational politics, modern communications, and access to the tools of warfare have combined to give political movements the ability to wage global war to promote their own agendas, a development that has changed the face of both politics and warfare. Fowler examines current aspects of conducting war, including mobilization, funding, training,...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 290 p. Learning, innovation and adaptation are not concepts that we necessarily associate with the British army of the First World War. Yet the need to learn from mistakes, to exploit new opportunities and to adapt to complex situations are enduring and timeless. This revealing work is the first institutional examination of the army's process...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 395 p. Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China s military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of threats that China has faced, M. Taylor Fravel illuminates the nation s past and present military goals, and offers a rich set of cases for deepening the study of how and why states...
Princeton University Press, 1991. — 512 p. The 1982 Falklands War was not only one of the most extraordinary military confrontations of recent years but also a turning point in the politics of Britain and Argentina. This unusual book makes it possible for us to follow the development of the war from both sides, as two leading experts from the belligerents present an integrated,...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 346 p. The veterans of the Fourteenth Army who fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945 called themselves 'the forgotten army'. But that appellation could equally well be applied to the whole of the British army after 1945. Histories of Britain's post-war defence policy have usually focused on how and why Britain acquired a nuclear deterrent. David...
Rienner Publishers, 2019. — 281 p. What is hybrid warfare? And what role does information play in today's conflicts? In the context of the technological/information revolution of the last two decades—which has greatly amplified the danger posed by non-military means of political struggle—Hybrid Conflicts and Information Warfare addresses these questions from the perspectives of...
Presidio Press, 1984. — 464 p. Based on primary Russian and German sources, the author investigates Soviet strategy and tactics involved in the June 22, 1941 defense of their frontier against the Wehrmacht. This is an excellent book on German and Russian military tactics during the first year of the German- Russian war in 1941. It also takes a deep look at the overall strategic...
Routledge, 2018. — 412 p. The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars. Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for and go to war. Whereas security studies has been broadened and stretched to cover at times the near...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 138 p. — ISBN: 0-333-77348-9 Liddel Hart s Theory of Armoured Warfare British Influence and the Evolution of the Panzer Arm: Origins : the 1920s and early 1930s The creation of the Panzer Arm
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 291 p. — ISBN: 0-19-820257-1 The Military School of Enlightment. The German Movement, Clausewitz and German Military School.
Reaktion Books, 2004. — 226 p. In Sky Wars, David Gates examines the history of military aerospace power. He examines technical developments between the First and Second World Wars, and the use of air power in subsequent wars. At the same time he explores the military and civil applications of air power in the contemporary world, some of which have led to scientific and technical...
Routledge, 2011. — 407 p. Unconventional war is an umbrella term which includes insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, terrorism and religious conflicts. Insurgencies and communal conflicts have become much more common in this region since 1947, and more people have died in South Asia due to unconventional wars than conventional warfare. The essays in this volume are organized in...
Routledge, 2010. — 192 p. This book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts. The author challenges the assumption that multiethnic composition leads to weakness of the military, and shows how a multiethnic army is frequently the impetus for peacemaking in multiethnic societies. Three...
Manas Publications, 2001. — 407 p. On the Partition of India wrong policies of the two main political parties of the Sub-Continent and leadership of Kashmir - all the three acted against their respective interests and these contributing elements created Kashmir imbroglio which resulted into three wars and finally into a prolonged proxy war. Militants concentrated at...
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute, 1990 — 202 p. — (Leavenworth Papers No. 17).
In the fall of 1944, some 56,000 German troops of the XIX Mountain Corps were occupying a strongpoint line just 70 kilometers northwest of Murmansk, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. To clear these enemy forces from Soviet territory, STA VKA ordered General K. A....
RAND Corporation, 2020. — 117 p. Tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a “traditional” U.S. military policy. Rather, the laws that authorize, empower, and govern the U.S. armed forces emerged from long-standing debates and a series of legislative compromises between 1903 and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 245 p. What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? This book examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security, and asks whether we might expect the emergence of armed forces that exist to serve the wider human...
Croom Helm, 1985. — 270 p. First published in 1985, this is a book written at the height of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Based on five clandestine trips into Afghanistan with the resistance, the book examines why the Soviets invaded in 1979 and what they were seeking to defend. The author analyses their deliberate policy of migratory genocide through a...
Frank Cass, 2005. — 320 p. Colonel David M. Glantz deeply examines the Soviet study of war, the re-emergence of the operation level and its connection with deep battle, the evolution of the Soviet theory of operations in depth before 1941, and its refinement and application in the European theatre and the Far East between 1941 and 1945.
UBC Press, 2011. — 257 p. The Cold War space race between the United States and the Soviet Union is well documented, but few are aware of Canada's early activities in this important arena of global power. Defence and Discovery represents the first comprehensive investigation into the origins, development, and impact of Canada's space program from 1945 to 1974. Meticulously...
London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. — 228 p.
The Roman army was one of the most successful fighting forces in history. Its organization and tactics were highly advanced and were unequaled until the modern era. Spectacular monuments to its perseverance and engineering skill are still visible today, most notably Hadrian’s Wall and the siegeworks around the fortress of Masada.
This...
Routledge, 2018. — 352 p. This omnibus brings together some old and some recent works by Jos Gommans on the warhorse and its impact on medieval and early modern state-formation in South Asia. These studies are based on Gommans’ observation that Indian empires always had to deal with a highly dynamic inner frontier between semi-arid wilderness and settled agriculture. Such inner...
Pluto Press, 2012. — 272 p. Looking at a range of global historical experiences, Arms and the People examines the relationship between mass movements and military institutions. Some argue that it is impossible to achieve and protect a revolution without the support of the army, but how can the support of the army be won?Arms and the People explores the impact of profound social...
Praeger Publishers, 2001. — 232 p. A nation's fighting forces are often believed to embody a country's qualities of determination, resourcefulness, and courage. This study examines the influences of these qualities from the viewpoint of the American Army in Vietnam, the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the Israeli Army throughout its struggle in the Middle East. It is a...
Elsevier, 1981. — 187 p. Electronic Warfare: Element of Strategy and Multiplier of Combat Power describes how the application of electronic warfare allowed the Allies to multiply combat power during World War II in order to accomplish strategic objectives. This book is composed of eight chapters that also consider how the United States had best prepare a strategy to fight on...
Arc Humanities Press, 2021. — 314 p. Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe's Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By...
Le Grand Continent, 2020. — 56 p. La victoire militaire récente de l’Azerbaïdjan contre la République du Haut-Karabakh (ou Artsakh) et l’Arménie a pu surprendre ceux qui étaient restés sur sa défaite humiliante des années 1990. Comme tous les résultats surprenants, celui-ci mérite une attention particulière, car il est peut-être révélateur de phénomènes nouveaux ou...
University Press of Kentucky, 2012. — 344 p. Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist regimes of the twentieth century....
Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 2009. — 364 p. — ISBN 9781405344203. This is a soldier's life, on and off the battlefield, in a new compact format. From the Samurai of Japan to US riflemen, explore the dramatic experiences of soldiers who've fought battles and paid the price of warfare. This book lets you experience life on the front line through personal accounts of the...
Dorling Kindersley, 2010. — 360 p.
Focusing on the frontline soldiers who fought for their tribes, their cities, their overlords and their countries-from the Ancient Greeks who repelled the invading Persians in the 5th century to the US Marines in action in Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, this visual history paints a compelling portrait of the frontline soldier through...
Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 2011. — 362 p. — ISBN: 0756667364, 9780756667368 From Alexander the Great's conquest of the known world to the generals leading today's campaigns in Afghanistan, Commanders casts new light on the leaders who have forged history on the battlefield. Focusing on the greatest leaders in naval, field, and aerial warfare, such as Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 279 p. Commanding Military Power offers a new explanation of why some armed forces are stronger than others. Ryan Grauer advances a 'command structure theory' which combines insights from organization theory, international relations, and security studies literatures to provide a unique perspective on military power. Specifically, armed forces...
Routledge, 2016. — 231 p. The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at disrupting insurgency networks, and the intensive media and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 216 p. In 1942 the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were formed and three more followed. 17th and 92nd (All American Division) and 101st (Screaming Eagles) fought in Sicily, D-Day, Market Garden, and the Rhine Crossing (VARSITY). The 11th served in the Far East. The 13th did not see combat. Only the 82nd survived the postwar cull. The Screaming...
London: Macdonald and Jane's. — 161 p. — ISBN: 0-385-04247-7. Introduction and Acknowledgements. Parachute Commando. Training and Organisation. Insignia, Clothing, Weapons, Equipment and Air Transport. Military Operations - The Red Devils. Military Operations - A Bridge Too Far!
Air Force History & Museums Program, 1985. — 396 p. — ISBN: 0912799242. This book describes the struggle to desegregate the post-World War II U. S. Army Air Forces and its successor, the U. S. Air Force, and the remarkable advances made during the next two decades to end racial segregation and move towards equality of treatment of Negro airmen. The author, Lt. Col. Alan L....
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 307 p. Airborne warfare reached its peak during World War II - the only war in which the potential gains of using airborne tactics ever justified the great costs, both material and human. The revolutionary developments in tactics and equipment meant that whole divisions could now be inserted behind enemy lines to initiate surprise attacks. However,...
Routledge, 2010. — 241 p. This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be said to serve the 'political'. In light of the emerging theories and doctrines of Network-Centric War (NCW), this book traces the philosophical backdrop against which the more common theorizations of war...
Brill, 2020. — 314 p. — (Thinking in Extremes 3). Machiavelli's experience in organizing a Florentine militia shaped the composition of his book Art of War (1521), a book that is now less well known than The Prince, but that had a huge impact on sixteenth-century cultures of warfare. Comparisons and Relationships between Machiavelli’s 1506 Militia and the Ordinanza of...
Scribner, 2000. — 312 p. The Kinder, Gentler Military is a devastating critique of how and why the military—the most tradition-bound, masculine institution in the United States—spent the 1990s in a tortured attempt to reform its time-proven warrior culture in favor of a new, politically correct value system, a system that is decimating morale in our armed forces. "Our armed...
Springer, 2020. — 247 p. This book will make a first contribution to identify the gaps in current practices and provide alternative mechanisms to conceptualize professionalism that is reflective of changing requirements, culture, and demographics of the contemporary military force.The military profession promotes the development, sustainment, and embodiment of ethos, which...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 340 p. — (Cambridge Military Histories). The Malayan Emergency of 1948–1960 has been scrutinised for 'lessons' about how to win counterinsurgencies from the Vietnam War to twenty-first century Afghanistan. This book brings our understanding of the conflict up to date by interweaving government and insurgent accounts and looking at how they...
Routledge, 2016. — 252 p. This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors. War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize that a boundary is being crossed. The participants are...
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...
Routledge, 2000. — 422 p. This is the first comprehensive study based on a detailed textual analysis of the classical works on war by Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Mao Tse-tung, and to a lesser extent, Jomini and Machiavelli. Brushing stereotypes aside, the author takes a fresh look at what these strategic thinkers actually said—not what they are widely believed to have said. He finds...
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2010. — 412 p.
The Red Army's leading operational theorist in the 1930s, Georgii Samoilovich Isserson was the mastermind behind the "deep operation"--the cornerstone of Soviet offensive operations in World War II. Drawing from an in-depth analysis of Isserson's numerous published and unpublished works, his arrest file in the...
Routledge, 2001. — 284 p. This book explores a new way for students of International Relations to look at war, peace and world orders throughout European history. The contributors argue that the predominant 'realist' paradigm that focuses on states and their self-interest is not applicable to the largest period of European history, because states either did not exist or were...
Nation Books, 2012. — 305 p. Enthralling and explosive, Prophets of War is an expos' of America's largest military contractor, Lockheed Martin. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a company could accumulate the kind of power and influence now wielded by this behemoth...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 392 p. ISIS’s astonishing and unexpected military victories in 2014 and 2015 redrew the geopolitical map of the Middle East. Media attention focused on the organisation’s savage treatment of its enemies and its ability to attract foreign fighters, but as this dispassionate book demonstrates it also made important innovations in strategy,...
Routledge, 2016. — 307 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-12520-9 Civilians in Gaza and Israel are caught up in complex, violent situations that have overstepped conventional battle lines. Both sides of the conflict have found ways to legitimate the use of violence, and continually swap accusations of violations of domestic and international humanitarian laws. Israel’s Military Operations in...
Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press, 2008. — 358 p. Foreword, by Carnes Lord Maritime Strategy Presentation (for the Secretary of the Navy, 4 November 1982) The Maritime Strategy, 1984 The AmphibiousWarfare Strategy, 1985 TheMaritime Strategy: Global Maritime Elements for U.S. National Strategy, 1985 The Maritime Strategy, 1986 Looking beyond the Maritime Strategy...
Rob Young NASIC Historian Wright Paterson Air Force Base Ohio United States 1 p. National Air and Space Intelligence Center The Have Nose project took place in the last days of the operation desert storm on 9 March 1991. A team of the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) of the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center landed at Jalibah Air...
Montvert Publications, 1992. — 64 p. The Achaemenid Persian empire dominated the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean for about two centuries, from the mid-sixth century BC to the mid-fourth. It was the largest empire the world had yet seen, and in many ways the most successful. For a long time we have seen Persia mainly through the eyes of the classical Greeks; Greeks...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 233 p. This book addresses the technological evolution of modern warfare due to unmanned systems and the growing capacity for cyberwarfare. The increasing involvement of unmanned means and methods of warfare can lead to a total removal of humans from the navigation, command and decision-making processes in the control of unmanned...
Pen and Sword Military, 2004. — 1005 p. The island of Cyprus, long troubled by inter-communal strife, exploded onto the world stage with the Athens-inspired coup against President Makarios and Turkey's invasion that followed. This resulted in the partition of the Island, which was policed by UNFICYP under the most testing conditions. These dramatic events are described here for...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 594 p.
Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial new account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political...
Praeger, 2010. — 232 p. Today's military strategists and tacticians may be familiar with the writings and teachings of Carl von Clausewitz, but The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society, 1650-1850 reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of those whose contributions to the study of war and society are just as important. Beginning in the 16th century with Bernardino...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001. — 273 p. The author's focus is primarily China and Taiwan. However, I learned the most from his coverage of Japan and North Korea. I commend him on his selection of material and consistency of scope. The writing is direct and to the point, nothing fancy. The book is both concise and well written enough to read straight through. A scholar of any...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 758 p. In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 273 p. For more than a decade, international troops have been deployed to Afghanistan. Out of all NATO members, this mission was the most difficult for Germany that had thus far never engaged in combat and offensive military activities. This book analyses how Germany's experiences in Afghanistan have changed the country's strategic culture.
Routledge, 1991. — 323 p. When President Saddam Hussein of Iraq attacked Iran in September 1980 he expected victory within three weeks. Eight years and more than a million casualties later, the conflict ended, with the same regimes in power. The fortunes of war brought great changes, with the involvement not just of the Arab states of the Gulf, but also the nations and...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. — 259 p. A multi-disciplinary study on wartime decision-making, with a focus on how Canada and its allies engage in conflict. War Made New? Cycles of Revolutions in Military Affairs and Intervention. Disasters as Security Threats: Mapping Humanitarian Assistance Needs and Priorities for the Canadian Armed Forces. The Strategic Impact of...
University Press of Kentucky, 2012. — 304 p. While scholarship abounds on the diplomatic and security aspects of the Cold War, very little attention has been paid to military planning at the operational level. In Blueprints for Battle, experts from Russia, the United States, and Europe address this dearth by closely examining the military planning of NATO and Warsaw Pact member...
Washington: Center of Military History, 2009. — 171 p. The U.S. Army has a long record of fielding innovations that not only have enhanced its effectiveness on the battlefield but also sometimes had an impact far beyond warfare. General Editor Jon T. Hoffman has brought together eleven authors who cover the gamut from the invention of the M1 Garand rifle between the world wars...
University Press of Kentucky, 2006. — 595 p. The U.S. Cavalry, which began in the nineteenth century as little more than a mounted reconnaissance and harrying force, underwent intense growing pains with the rapid technological developments of the twentieth century. From its tentative beginnings during World War I, the eventual conversion of the traditional horse cavalry to a...
MacDonald & Jane's, 1978. — 189 p. — ISBN-10 0354011634, ISBN-13 978-0354011631. In this history, Ian Hogg can give only an introductory treatment as he attempts to cover the complete history of anti-aircraft theory and practice from the improvised anti-balloon guns of the 1870 Franco-Prussian war to the guided missiles of the nuclear age.
St Martin's, 1977. — 160 p. — ISBN-10 031229977X, ISBN-13 978-0312299774 Fortification is the oldest military science, and the this splendidly illustrated book tells the story of fortification from the days when prehistoric men tool cover behind ramparts of earth, to the days when the allied air forces blasted rocket-propelled bombs into hitler's submarine pens and the concrete...
Routledge, 2013. — 270 p. This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science. Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing 'War on Terror', serious divergences over what the message of the 'new' military doctrine ought to be were expected...
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1993. — 544 p. This revised edition of Maj. Gen Jeanne Holm's classic work on the history and role of women in the U.S. armed forces brings the reader up-to-date by covering the role of American military women in all post-Vietnam military operations -- including the recent Persian Gulf War. Much coverage of legislation and policy decisions.
Routledge, 1992. — 208 p. In February 1979, China launched a full scale attack on Vietnam bringing to the surface the deep tension between the two socialist neighbours. The importance of the resultant war is often overlooked. Millions of people throughout the region were affected, and the frictions that remain in the wake of the war threaten the prospects for peace not only in...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 320 p. In Strategy and Command, David Horner provides an important insight into the strategic decisions and military commanders who shaped Australia's army history from the Boer War to the evolution of the command structure for the Australian Defence Force in the 2000s. He examines strategic decisions such as whether to go to war, the nature...
Combat Studies, 1984. — 235 p. The history of ground combat in the twentieth century is to a large extent the history of the evolution of combined arms warfare. The impact of technology, the expansion of armed forces, the advent of complex controlling, planning, and organizational structures, and the attendant growth of functional specialization, are all developments which have...
Springer, 1975. — 350 p. This volume brings forth a set of selected papers from the Conference on Modeling Land Sattle Systems for Military Planning. Sponsored by the Special Programme Panel on Systems Science of the NATO Science Committee, the conference took place in Ottobrunn, Germany, at the War Gaming Centre of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft. The idea to organize a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 264 p. This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and unconventional war across time and around the globe. The use of non-uniformed and often civilian combatants, with tactics eschewing pitched battles, is the most common form of warfare throughout history and comes in many forms. The collection works back in time beginning with the "Long...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 102 р. Japan is emerging as a more prominent global and regional military power, defying traditional categorisations of a minimalist contribution to the US-Japan alliance, maintaining anti-militarism, seeking an internationalist role, or carving out more strategic autonomy. Instead, this Element argues that Japan has fundamentally shifted its...
Henry Holt and Company, 1998. — 228 p. This is a Spanish language's version of this book. Since the early 1990s, Michael Ignatieff has traveled the world's war zones, from Bosnia to the West Bank, from Afghanistan to central Africa. The Warrior's Honor is a report and a reflection on what he has seen in the places where ethnic war has become a way of life. Ignatieff charts the...
Motorbooks Intl, 1998. — 160 p. — ISBN-10 076030551X, ISBN-13 978-0760305515 This fascinating book tells the story of the planes and pilots who fought for air supremacy over Korea from June 1950 through July 1953.
Guinness World Records Ltd., 1993. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 0851127010, ISBN-13 978-0851127019 This chronology of military aviation offers a blend of facts, figures, personalities and achievements. Tracing the major developments in military aircraft from Ancient China to the state-of-the-art technology employed in the Gulf War, and with a particular emphasis on the two World Wars,...
United States Marine Corps, Studies and Analysis Division, 1995. — 404 p. The Other Side of the Mountain is a compilation of after action reports on tactical operations in Afghanistan in the 1980s, from the Mujahideen perspective. The descriptions of the action and commentary from the single most knowledgeable American on the Soviet army, a man who spoke with leaders from both...
Corona, 2007. — 202 p. This publication aims to provide the reader primarily equipment Czechoslovak Army artillery material. For information and familiarization with the theme is given a short chapter dealing with the organizational development of artillery in the 1918-1939, which of course is conducted in conformity with the overall construction of the army.
South End Press, 1983. — 159 p. The Battle of Beirut is an indictment of what Israel has done in Lebanon: it explodes the myth that this was a ‘limited’ operation, that Israel did not intend to harm civilians, that casualties were minimal and that the PLO was ‘Holding Beirut hostage’. This book is not an instant history of Israel’s fifth war. It is a study, and an indictment,...
U.S. War Department, 1945. — 61 p. Training Training Aims Paratroop Qualifications Training in Technique Parachute Jumping Technique Use of Emergency Chutes Mass Jumps Use of Cargo Chutes Maneuvers Faults Organization Army Paratroop Units History Raiding Group (Teishin Shudan) Raiding Brigade (Teishin Dan) Raiding Regiment (Teishin Rentai) Raiding Flying Brigade (Teishin...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. — 314 p. For centuries, mounted cavalry dominated the battlefield through shock and mobility. Man maintained a symbiotic relationship with the horse, which became particularly sacrosanct on the battlefield and even created a new, exalted social class. These mounted warriors sought to preserve their prestige despite the advent of new technologies...
Ashgate, 2012. — 244 p. The sheer size and influence of the British Indian Army, and its major role in the Allied War effort between 1939 and 1945 on behalf of a country from which it was seeking independence, maintains its fascination as a subject for a wide variety of historians. This volume presents a range of papers examining the Indian Army experience from the outbreak of...
Routledge, 2016. — 263 p. The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding race in the American military establishment from the French and Indian War to the present day. By broadly incorporating the latest research on race and ethnicity into the field of military history, the book explores the...
New York University Press, 2001. — 409 p. Technology of one kind or another has always been a central ingredient in war. The Spartan king Archidamus, for instance, reacted with alarm when first witnessing a weapon that could shoot darts through the air. And yet during the past two centuries technology has played an unprecedented role in military affairs and thinking, and in the...
Washington: Army Center of Military History, 1979. — 497 p. Over the years the study of military history has had its upsand downs within the Army. In the education of the World War IIgeneration of military leaders it played an important part, for thestudy of past operations held a preeminent place in the Armyschools' curricula in the period between the two great worldwars. In the...
Hong Kong: Hai Feng Publishing Co., 1993. — 251 p. Overawing the Foe with Bluff and Bluster — Defeating the Enemy Without Fighting a Battle. Go to the Mountains and Learn from the Bandits — Political Power Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun. Establishing an Independent Regime by Armed Force — A Huge Vat Can Be Broken with a Small Rock. The Enemy Advances, We Retreat — Concealing...
University Press of Kentucky, 2006. — 360 p. In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes's discussion of insurgencies ranges across five continents and spans more than two centuries. Analyzing examples from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, he identifies recurrent patterns and offers useful lessons for future policymakers. Insurgencies arise from many...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 304 p. The U.S. Army entered World War II unprepared. In addition, lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and public apathy for the army's unprepared state. David E. Johnson...
National Defense Research Institute, 2009. — 314 p. The U.S. military training system is the envy of many countries around the world, so what can the United States learn from other militaries about how better to prepare for full-spectrum operations and deployments? The authors examine the militaries of China, France, the UK, India, and Israel to identify different approaches to...
William Kimber & Co, 1986. — 211 p. In WWII fifteen U-boats were sunk by British submarines and three British submarines were lost to U-boats. This book examines these eighteen episodes chronologically, describing the careers of the boats and their commanders, and unfolding their final actions.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 356 p. This book offers a biography of the most glamorous and powerful NATO Supreme Commander of the Cold War, General Lauris Norstad, as both a "nuclear" general and an "international" general. His primary goal was to keep the Alliance together as he accommodated British and French nuclear ambitions while forestalling the same in West Germany. He...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 119 p. "Soft" Counterinsurgency reviews the promises and achievements of Human Terrain Teams, the small groups of social scientists that were eventually embedded in every combat brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Create Space Publishers, 2010. — 654 p. The chapters presented in this volume have demonstrated first, Chinese and PLA leaders have a strong sense of mission and concern for China’s security and well-being. Second, the PLA is committed to the transformation in military affairs with Chinese characteristics. Third, the PLA is eager to learn from the U.S. military to expand and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 264 p. Coups from Below represents the first major effort at studying coups carried out by the lumpen section or the subalterns of the armed forces of African states. No previous study has attempted to examine coup making by those in the bottom ranks of the military as a distinct pattern of intervention in African studies. Kandeh examines this...
New York; Abingdon: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group, 2002. — xiv, 158 p. — eISBN 9780203815144. This book establishes beyond doubt that China is building up manttme power in all its dimensions. The main units of its sea-going Navy are expanding in number, reach and military capacity. China's fishing and merchant fleet is now huge, and its leaders are developing the shore-side...
Routledge Group, 2007. — 193 p. — (Cass Military Studies). Sun Tzu and other classical Chinese strategic thinkers wrote in an era of social, economic and military revolution, and hoped to identify enduring principles of war and statecraft. The twenty-first century is a time of similarly revolutionary change, and this makes their ideas of particular relevance for today’s strategic...
Duke University Press, 2018. — 329 p. From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future. In Aerial Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces...
Ashgate, 2010. — 486 p. This research collection provides a comprehensive study of important strategic, cultural, ethical and philosophical aspects of modern warfare. It offers a refreshing analysis of key issues in modern warfare, not only in terms of the conduct of war and the wider complexities and ramifications of modern conflict, but also concepts of war, the crucial shifts...
Vintage, 1994. — 510 p. The acclaimed author and preeminent military historian John Keegan examines centuries of human conflict. From primitive man in the bronze age to the end of the cold war in the twentieth century, Keegan shows how armed conflict has been a primary preoccupation throughout the history of civilization and how deeply rooted its practice has become in our...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. — 340 p.
Warfare was a formative influence on the civilization and the social structures of the European middle ages. Its history in that period is in consequence of high significance alike for those who are interested in the mid- dle ages for themselves and for their legacy, and for those whose interest is in war and its place in the...
History Division Marine Corps University, 2006. — 354 p. This volume presents a collection of 47 articles describing different aspects of U.S. Marine Corps participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom during 2003. As with the previously published anthologies on the Spanish American, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf Wars, our intent is to provide a general overview that will serve as an...
Routledge, 1998. — 268 p. In this new edition, with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the author provides a comprehensive and well-documented survey of the evolution and growth of the remarkable military enterprise of the Roman army. Lawrence Keppie overcomes the traditional dichotomy between the historical view of the Republic and the archaeological approach to the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 232 p. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran's IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian Revolution, and how they have skilfully transformed Iran's defense doctrine to fight an irregular...
Three Essays Collective, 2003. — 141 p. India s military, paramilitary, and the police constitute one of the largest security forces around the globe. Who constitutes these forces? What is the ethnic and religious background of these troops? Does the composition of these forces mirror the diversity of the Indian society? Have their composition undergone any change since...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 250 p. In this innovative theoretical book, Elizabeth Kier uses a cultural approach to take issue with the conventional wisdom that military organizations inherently prefer offensive doctrines. Kier argues instead that a military's culture affects its choices between offensive and defensive military doctrines. Drawing on organizational...
Pen & Sword Books, 2015. — 370 p. Napoleonic artillery can usually be divided into two types: field, or light artillery which was employed by the armies on campaign and in the field and siege, or heavy artillery, which was employed in siege operations and against opponents holding the fortresses against them. While field artillery consisted of calibers up to and including...
Manchester University Press, 2000. — 270 p. This book explores the ways in which armies and armed forces were involved in the making, the maintenance and the loss of overseas empire. The volume ranges widely in time and space. Besides chapters on the British Empire in Africa, Asia and Oceana, there are also essays on Algeria, the Dutch East Indies, the Germans in Africa and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 505 p. In the wake of the troubled campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, military decision-making appears to be in crisis and generals have been subjected to intense and sustained public criticism. Taking these interventions as a starting point, Anthony King examines the transformation of military command in the twenty-first century. Focusing on...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 359 p. Since 2001, Western forces have been involved in a series of major military campaigns, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan but also in Africa. For all the sophistication of the contemporary Western way of war with its digital technologies and precision weapons, infantry soldier have been frequently involved in close combat of an intensity...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 560 p. How do small groups of combat soldiers maintain their cohesion under fire? This question has long intrigued social scientists, military historians, and philosophers. Based on extensive research and drawing on graphic analysis of close quarter combat from the Somme to Sangin, the book puts forward a novel and challenging answer to this...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 326 p. As a result of new strategic threats, Europe's land forces are currently undergoing a historic transformation which may reflect wider processes of European integration. Europe's mass, mainly conscript armies are being replaced by smaller, more capable, professionalised militaries concentrated into new operational headquarters and rapid...
Routledge, 2006. — 209 p. — ISBN10: 0–415–36583–X This book is the first to explore comprehensively the rise of UK private military companies on the international stage. After illustrating early examples of private force, such as mercenary companies, which fi lled the ranks of European armies right up to the 1850s, Christopher Kinsey traces the development of UK private...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 400 p. When Hitler ordered the start of Operation Barbarossa, millions of German soldiers flooded into Russia, believing that their rapid blitzkrieg tactics would result in the an easy victory similar to the ones enjoyed by the Wehrmacht over Poland and France. But the huge human resources at the disposal of the Soviet Union, and the significant...
Routledge, 2003. — 224 p. This study analyzes the effectiveness of the U.S. military attaché corps in Latin America from the end of World War II to the President Johnson administration. This well-crafted and path-breaking study carefully reconstructs the roles played by U.S. military and naval attaches in America's relations with three Latin American nations experiencing coups...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 291 p. Foreign military intervention has had a profound impact on post-colonial African history and politics. Interventions have destabilized borderlands, overthrown governments, and taken a devastating toll on populations. Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering advance a new theoretical framework and combine quantitative, qualitative, and...
ABC-CLIO, 2011. — 410 p. This book pays tribute to the unrecognized warriors and unsung heroes of human warfare: millions of animals from a surprising variety of species, ranging from rodents to dolphins to llamas. When one thinks of war, armies of soldiers and assaults with bullets and bombs delivered by deadly machinery typically come to mind. Throughout human history,...
Duke University Press, 2021. — 307 p. Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology. In these essays, public lectures, interviews, literary analyses, and autobiographical musings, Kittler outlines how war has been a central driver of media's evolution, from Prussia's wars against...
Pantheon Books, 1988. — 259 p. Nine essays examine the nature and future of the increasing involvement of the United States in counterinsurgency, proinsurgency, and antiterrorism campaigns conducted overtly and covertly under the Reagan administration's doctrine of 'low-intensity conflict.' Their analysis notes that a policy of low-intensity conflict represents a strategic...
Routledge, 2006. — 208 p. This new study considers military space strategy within the context of the land and naval strategies of the past. Explaining why and how strategists note the similarities of space operations to those of the air and naval forces, this book shows why many such strategies unintentionally lead to overemphasizing the importance of space-based offensive...
Bellona, 2021. — 197 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). W serii "Historyczne Bitwy" zazwyczaj prezentujemy bitwy i kampanie wojenne z mniej lub bardziej odległej przeszłości. Tym razem tematem tomu jest konflikt na wschodniej Ukrainie, który zaczął się siedem lat temu i trwa - częściowo zamrożony - do dziś. Wszystko zaczęło się w lutym 2014 roku, gdy pod wpływem protestu na kijowskim...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 190 p. — (History of Warfare 107). This book suggests a general framework for the analysis of formative factors in military thought and offers an account of the Israel Defense Force’s state of intellectualism and modernity. This account is followed by an attempt to trace the factors that have shaped Israeli military thought. The explanations...
University Press of Kansas, 1996. — 392 p. Beating Plowshares into Swords inaugurates an extraordinarily ambitious effort by Paul Koistinen to compose a comprehensive and wide-ranging study on the economics of American warfare from the colonial period to the present. When completed, this multi-volume project will stand as the definitive work on a complex subject that until now...
University Press of Kansas, 1997. — 405 p. Although the military-industrial complex became familiar to most Americans during the Cold War, Paul Koistinen shows that its origins actually go back to the dawn of this century. ""Mobilizing for Modern War"", the second of a five-volume study on the political economy of American warfare, highlights the emergence of this pivotal...
Brill, 2017. — 272 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 409; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 409). What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield? Were their tactics defined by unwritten moral rules, or was all considered fair in war? In Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History, Roel Konijnendijk re-examines the literary evidence...
Translated from Russian. О sovetskoy voyennoy nauke. Vtoroye, pererabotannoye i dopolnennoye izdaniye. Козлов Святослав, Смирнов Михаил, Базь Иван, Сидоров Петр. О советской военной науке. М.: Воениздат, 1964. This book will acquaint the reader with the fundamental questions of Soviet military science. In it there is a report on the history of nascence and development of...
U.S. Marine Corps History Division, 2012. — 52 p. The city of an-Najaf, Iraq, is a provincial and market center located on the western branch of the Euphrates River approximately 100 miles south of Baghdad. Its population (prewar) of 563,000 expands at times with pilgrims to this important center of Islamic scholarship and theology. It is the location of several significant...
Praeger Security Reference, 2007. — 216 p. America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a new, faceless enemy and the rules of war and the torture of POWs are open to reconsideration. Until very recently, there has been astonishingly little written...
Georgetown University Press, 2019. — 244 p. Surrogate Warfare explores the emerging phenomenon of "surrogate warfare" in twenty-first century conflict. The popular notion of war is that it is fought en masse by the people of one side versus the other. But the reality today is that both state and non-state actors are increasingly looking to shift the burdens of war to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 309 p. Exploring volunteering as a characteristic of modern wars, this book examines why individuals go to war. It studies the motivations, social backgrounds and military experiences of war volunteers in a wide range of conflicts since the French Revolution, and helps to interpret the relationship between war and society in modern times.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 290 p. This book examines the U. S. Army’s presence in Germany after the Nazi regime’s capitulation in May 1945. This presence required the pursuit of two stated missions: to secure German borders, and to establish an occupation government within the assigned U.S. zone and sector of Berlin. Both missions required logistics support, a critical aspect...
Praeger, 2014. — 334 p. This comprehensive volume traces the evolution of Japanese military history―from 300 AD to present day foreign relations―and reveals how the country's cultural views of power, violence, and politics helped shape Japan's long and turbulent history of war. • Compiles Japan's complete military history in one volume; • Reveals the strategic blunders and poor...
History Division United States Marine Corps, 2014. — 419 p. U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2001-1009: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography: presents a collection of 37 articles, interviews, and speeches describing many aspects of the Corp's participation in Operation Enduring Freedom from 2001 to 2009. This history Division publication is intended to serve as a general overview...
Brill, 2011. — 272 p. — (History of Warfare 67).
This book examines Byzantine attitudes towards warfare at a time of crisis when the empire ceased to be a first rate power in the Mediterranean. It investigates the correspondence between official rhetoric and propaganda, on the one hand, and military realities, on the other. It explores the military ethos of the late Byzantine...
Praeger, 2003. — 234 p. For more than 40 years, U.S. defense policy and the design of military capabilities were driven by the threat to national security posed by the Soviet Union and its allies. As the Soviet Union collapsed, analysts wondered what effect this dramatic change would have upon defense policy and the military capabilities designed to support it. Strangely...
Kangaroo Press Ltd.,1993. - 108p. Author's Note. Digging Up a War. The Inspiration. The Western Front. Where to Search. Today's Evidence of Yesterday's Battle. The Practice of War Archaeology. Battlefields in their 'Natural' State. Clues from Letters and Records. Bones and Poems of War. Digging Up Diggers. Illustrations. Images of War. Battle Debris. Military Memorabilia....
Osprey Publishing, 1985. — 217 p. The 1982 Lebanon War, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee by the Israeli government, later known in Israel as the Lebanon War or the First Lebanon War, and known in Lebanon as "the invasion", began on 6 June 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) invaded southern Lebanon, after repeated attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 99 с. — ISBN: 1841763136
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Yale University Press, 2021. — 543 p. How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914—but shaped Britain’s success in the Second World War and beyond. Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett brought a new level of logic, advocacy, and intellectual precision to the development of strategy. Corbett skillfully...
University of North Texas Press, 2005. — 296 p. Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and academia. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both worlds by presenting the viewpoints of senior, eminent military historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the modern war being discussed. Editors Peter Lane and Ronald...
Routledge, 2020. — 332 p. This book brings together a wide range of case studies to explore the experiences and significance of women warriors in Southeast Asian history from ancient to contemporary times. Using a number of sources, including royal chronicles, diaries, memoirs and interviews, the book discusses why women warriors were active in a domain traditionally preserved...
Burzaco, Ricardo Buenos Aires: Da Vinci, 1995. Editorial Da Vinci, 1995. Spanish Language Within a particular global geopolitical framework, the government (Argentine) General Juan Domingo Peron decides from 1946, hiring technicians and scientists abroad, especially German scientists to develop the aviation industry and nuclear research. Thus, in a few years, with the...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 426 p. The 1999 conflict between India and Pakistan near the town of Kargil in contested Kashmir was the first military clash between two nuclear-armed powers since the 1969 Sino-Soviet war. Kargil was a landmark event not because of its duration or casualties, but because it contained a very real risk of nuclear escalation. Until the Kargil...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. — 297 p. Political scientist James H. Lebovic establishes that the size, strength, flexibility, and adaptability of the U.S. military cannot ensure victory in asymmetrical conflicts. In The Limits of U.S. Military Capability, Lebovic shows how political and psychological factors trumped U.S. military superiority in Vietnam and Iraq, where...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 317 p. Partly on the strength of their apparent success in insurgencies such as Malaya and Northern Ireland, the British armed forces have long been perceived as world class, if not world-beating. However, their recent performance in Iraq and Afghanistan is widely seen as - at best -disappointing; under British control, Basra degenerated into a...
Potomac Books, 2016. — 315 p. Colonel Frank Wolford, the acclaimed Civil War colonel of the First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, is remembered today primarily for his unenviable reputation. Despite his stellar service record and widespread fame, Wolford ruined his reputation and his career over the question of emancipation and the enlistment of African Americans in the army....
Praeger Security International, 2008. — 408 p. From the introduction of gunpowder to the reigning era of nuclear weapons, military technological advances have been at the forefront of change. These changes in weaponry have influenced the outcome of many historical events and the downfall or success of major civilizations. All nations have sought to improve military technologies...
2nd Edition. — New York University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Ideas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few decades, a stronger focus has been placed on how societies conceptualize war, weapons, violence,...
Washington: Brassey’s, 1999. — 296 p. Origins of the Modern Military Working Dog A Historical Perspective Early American Ideas The World War I Experience The Mercy Dogs 1914-1918 Fleet-footed Messengers Final Participant Stubby: American Mascot Hero Aftermath Between the Wars Starting from Scratch Another War and Still No Dogs The Volunteer Effort Establishment of War Dog...
ISEAS Publishing, 2010. — 238 p. This is the first study by a Western scholar of a significant facet of the history of the Second World War - Japanese-trained independence and volunteer armies as agents of revolution and modernization. At the time, the Japanese did not see that their military imprinting would affect a whole generation of political/military leadership of nations...
University Press of Kentucky, 1983. — 232 p. The apparently accelerating arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union and the precarious political conditions existing in many parts of the world have given rise to new anxiety about the possibility of military confrontation between the superpowers. Despite the fateful nature of the risk, we have little knowledge, as...
Routledge, 2006. — 543 p. The American Culture of War presents a sweeping critical examination of every major American war since 1941: the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam, and the First and Second Persian Gulf Wars. As he carefully considers the cultural forces that surrounded each military engagement, Adrian Lewis offers an original and provocative look at the motives people...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 368 p. The goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue. Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged carnage, indecision, and stalemate. Taking...
Naval Institute Press, 2022. — 312 p. Russian Information Warfare: Assault on Democracies in the Cyber Wild West examines how Moscow tries to trample the very principles on which democracies are founded and what we can do to stop it. In particular, the book analyzes how the Russian government uses cyber operations, disinformation, protests, assassinations, coup d'états, and...
Brookings Institution Press, 2001. — 200 p. Arms control and missile defense are once again at the forefront of the American national security agenda. Not surprisingly, the debate has broken down along well-worn lines. Arms control advocates dismiss the idea of missile defense as a dangerous and costly folly. Missile defense advocates argue that the U.S. should move...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 320 p. From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, wars have defined the United States. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts, developing the strategies, weapons, doctrines, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee future victory. Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie...
McGraw-Hill, 1969. — 797 p. Prologue. The Gaza Raid (28 February 1955). Foremath (1948 to 28 February 1955). The Turning Point (28 February 1955 to 19 July 1956). A Common Enemy (1830 to 19 July 1956). The Lion and the Sphinx (1798 to 19 October 1954). Eden For and Against Nasser (1954 to 20 July 1956). Enter, The Bear (1237 a.d. to 19 July 1956). The Pistol (1820 to 16 May...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 242 p. The US military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan made use of private military and private security companies on an unprecedented scale. In this environment, actions and operations can greatly affect the efficacy of the US military - creating unintended diplomatic and tactical consequences. Lovewine combines an insider's perspective on the use...
St. Martin’s Press, 2021. — 477 p. Just as U. S. soldiers and diplomats pulled out of Afghanistan, supposedly concluding their role and responsibility in the two-decade conflict, the country fell to the Taliban. In The Long War, award-winning BBC foreign correspondent David Loyn uncovers the political and military strategies―and failures―that prolonged America’s longest war....
Ventura Publications». – 2000. – 74 с. Книга посвящена камуфляжу и обозначениям американских самолётов Spitfire. Издание богато иллюстрировано и содержит много иллюстраций, включая цветные рисунки самолетов и различных обозначений.
Harper and Row Publishers, 1971. — 284 p. A guide to deciphering the vocabulary of modern warfare, "The Dictionary of Modern War" brings the knowledge of expert military analysts to the general reader in simple, accessible language. With over 1100 articles and entries, it includes: general military concepts weapons and weapon systems, military organizations military...
Harvard University Press, 2023. — 288 p. Why is Israel’s relatively small and low-budget military also the world’s most innovative, technologically and logistically? Edward Luttwak and Eitan Shamir look to the IDF’s unique structure: integrating army, air force, and navy in one service, under an officer class constantly refreshed by short tenures, the IDF is built for agility...
Simon and Schuster, 1985. — 326 p. Our outmoded military establishment is in need of drastic, fundamental reform. So argues the nation's most incisive military expert, Edward N. Luttwak.
Abt Books, 1983. — 411 p. The Israeli Army by Edward Luttwak is a dated book on the military history of the Israeli Army from its inception in 1948 through its participation in the October War of 1973 is covered in this book. Its utility to persons interested in light forces/airborne forces is found in its limited discussions of the development, training, equipment, force...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 255 p. This is a biographical pairing of two of the greatest conquerors in human history, drawing its inspiration from Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Like Plutarch, the purpose of the pairing is not primarily historical. While Plutarch covers the history of each of the lives he chronicles, he also emphasizes questions of character and the larger lessons of...
New York: Gallery Books, 1986. — 191 p. Explores what it means to make and become a mercenary soldier; detailing the history of these soldiers of fortune from a variety of landscapes: Nepal, Germany, Britain, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, and America. Introduction: what is a mercenary? The French Foreign Legion Soldiers from Nepal Germany's multiracial SS Britain's "small wars"...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 320 p. Counterinsurgency, the violent suppression of armed insurrection, is among the dominant kinds of war in contemporary world politics. Often linked to protecting populations and reconstructing legitimate political orders, it has appeared in other times and places in very different forms – and has taken on a range of politics in doing so....
Manchester University Press, 1992. — 239 p. This collection of essays is concerned with the interactive culture of colonial warfare, with the representation of the military in popular media at home, the manner in which these images affected attitudes towards war itself and wider intellectual and institutional forces. Attempts to justify and understand war were naturally...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 304 p. This volume provides the first comprehensive history of the arms racing phenomenon in modern international politics, drawing both on theoretical approaches and on the latest historical research. Written by an international team of specialists, it is divided into four sections: before 1914; the inter-war years; the Cold War; and...
Collier Macmillan, 1983. — 397 p. A study of American militia and the National Guard traces the history of such regiments from the Revolutionary War to the present. A good book for those interested in the history of citizen soldiers in America, especially the National Guard. One of the most interesting aspects of this book is the description of the Guard's testy relationship...
New York: Macmillan, 1979. — 216 p. Profiles the character and motivation of the American mercenary soldiers-adventurers, former Green Berets and other Vietnam-era soldiers, and ex-CIA agents--who sell their military experience and expertise. Who are the mercs? William Morgan: from intrigue to frogs David "Mickey" Marcus: a true hero The French Foreign Legion: a tradition of...
University Press of Kentucky, 2017. — 987 p. As long as there have been wars, victors have written the prevailing histories of the world's conflicts. An army that loses―and especially one that is destroyed or disbanded―is often forgotten. Nevertheless, the experiences of defeated forces can provide important insights, lessons, and perspectives not always apparent to the winning...
Praeger, 2007. — 171 p. Transformation has become a buzz word in today's military, but what are its historical precursors—those large scale changes that were once called Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA)? Who has gotten it right, and who has not? The Department of Defense must learn from history. Most studies of innovation focus on the actions, choices, and problems faced...
I.B. Tauris, 2022. — 192 p. How did the Israeli military learn to cope with the ubiquity of media technologies that routinely document their power abuses? Why did they re-appropriate these to tighten their grip on Palestinian civilians? This book explains why a high-tech nation with advanced military technologies came to rely on the everyday media habits performed by soldiers...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 486 p. — ISBN10 1108485731. — ISBN13 978-1108485739. Culture has an enormous influence on military organizations and their success or failure in war. Cultural biases often result in unstated assumptions that have a deep impact on the making of strategy, operational planning, doctrinal creation, and the organization and training of armed...
U.S. Marine Corps FMFRP 12-18, Department of the Navy, Hadquarters United States Marine Corps, Washington, DC, 1989. — 128 p. What Is Guerrilla Warfare. The Relation of Guerrilla Hostilities to Regular Operations. Guerrilla Warfare in History. Can Victory Be Attained by Guerrilla Operations? Organization for Guerrilla Warfare. How Guerrilla Units Are Originally Formed. The Method...
Routledge, 2009. — 172 p. The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of the people in the Central Asian states from the early twentieth century until the present. This book is the first major, in-depth study of the military institutions in Central Asian states. It examines their hidden story, the...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 342 p. The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of Hezbollah during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the early 1980s. He critically evaluates events including Israel's long...
In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein ’t Hart assesses the success of
the Dutch in establishing their independence through their eighty years’ struggle
with Spain – one of the most remarkable achievements of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Other rebellions troubled the major powers of this epoch,
but none resulted in the establishment of an independent,...
Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1999. — 83 p. — (History of Warfare). The History of Warfare series relates the story of conflict from earlist times to the present. Much more than a blow-by-blow account of wars, it explores all of the world’s major conflicts through the centuries. The series also deseribes the great commanders, key weapons, and decisive battles on lan, at...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 304 p. Through history armies of occupation and civil power have been repeatedly faced with the challenges of insurgency. US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has highlighted this form of conflict in the modern world. Armies, sometimes reluctantly, have had to adopt new doctrines and tactics to deal with the problems of insurgency and diverse...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 400 p. The Partition of British India in 1947 resulted in the establishment of the independent states of India and Pakistan and the end of the British Raj. The decision to divide British India along religious lines led to widespread upheaval and communal violence in the period leading up to and following the official day of independence, 15...
Faber and Faber, 1981. — 378 p. On 21 December 1972, soon after Salisbury's Rotary Club heard Ian Smith again pronounce that Rhodesia had the 'happiest Africans in the world', a communiqué from Security Force headquarters announced a guerrilla attack on a remote farm that signalled the beginning of the decisive phase of the war. Seven years later to the day the signing of the...
University of Minnesota Press, 2015. — 320 p. As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of environmental concerns, engaging in “climate change war games,” and preparing for the effects of climate change—from conflicts due to loss of food, water, and energy to the mass...
Mondadori, 1995. — 401 р. Da Maratona a Waterloo, da Canne al Little Big Horn, alcune grandi battaglie, per la peculiarità del momento storico, della situazione politica o semplicemente del luogo in cui sono avvenute, hanno sensibilmente modificato il corso della storia. L’approfondita analisi svolta in questo volume ci parla di avvenimenti bellici profondamente radicati nella...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 352 p. Since World War II, civil wars have replaced interstate wars as the most frequent and deadly form of armed conflict globally. How do we account for when and where civil wars are likely to occur, when and how they are likely to end, and whether or not they will recur? In this timely book, leading scholars guide us through what...
Duke University Press, 2015. — 320 p. Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption, which he characterizes as the operative logic of our time....
Cornell University Press, 2012. — 334 p. General Douglas MacArthur’s storied career is inextricably linked to Asia. His father, Arthur, served as Military Governor of the Philippines while Douglas was a student at West Point, and the younger MacArthur would serve several tours of duty in that country over the next four decades, becoming friends with several influential...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022. — 197 p. War is changing. The cybersphere, civil society, outer space all are emerging as domains in which battles are fought. What drives this shift? How is it affecting the character and conduct of war? What are the implications for military strategy? As they address these fundamental questions, Jahara Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha show how...
Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press,US Army Combined Arms Center, 2011. — 77 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9841901-9-5 Over the course of the last eight years, a plethora of new primary research material related to the Soviet war in Afghanistan has emerged. With Lester W. Grau and Michael A Gress’s important translation and editing of the Russian General Staff history, titled...
Amber Books, 2020. — 304 p. 'The Armed Forces Security Agency responsible for ranking current threats listed Korea fifth as an area of potential danger, behind Indochina and other countries.' So admitted US military analysts the day North Korean communist forces crossed the partition line and invaded South Korea. By 28 June 1950, Seoul had been captured by the North Korean...
Random House, 2000. — 394 p. This is one of those rare books that puts an entirely new light on a chapter of history, and it must be read by anyone concerned with international affairs. Although cool and scholarly it unrolls like a fascinating thriller. It is an important work of revisionist history and a gruesome study of the way in which wars start, superbly documented...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 365 p. What makes a war just? What makes a specific weapon, strategy, or decision in war just? The tradition of Just War Theory has provided answers to these questions since at least 400 CE yet each shift in the weapons and strategies of war poses significant challenges to Just War Theory. This book assembles renowned scholars from around the...
Chartwell books, 1976. — 255 p. — ISBN-10 0725403322, ISBN-13 978-0890090817 The story of the Japanese War Machine is the tragic and noble history of a gallant people led into a misguided war. The millons who suffered in Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the Japanese War Machine bear silent tribute to its folly.
London: Faber & Faber, 1966. — 349 p. Lt Col John J McCuen’s 1966 book was allegedly the bases of South Africa’s “Total Strategy”, the apartheid government’s scheme to fight a so-called “Total Onslaught”. If so, it certainly was a good guide on the subject, though the reviewer is not qualified to say to what extent the former establishment stuck to the script or ad libbed....
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1998. — 74 p. — ISBN: 0897473930. Reflecting the P-47's use by the 8th, 9th, 12th and 15th Air Forces and misc. Allied units, McDowell's book offers an operator-by-operator summary of the Jug-equipped fighter groups in each. The 12th AF listing, for example, includes the 27th, 57th 79th, 86th, 324th and 350th FGs. The accompanying group histories,...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 1999. — 66 p. — ISBN: 0897473981. P-47s were flown by fighter groups in the 5th, 7th, 10th, 14th and 20th Air Forces as well as the RAF, Mexican Air Force, etc. Twentieth AF fighter groups included the 413th, 414th and 507th FGs, each group's combat exploits - and markings - being summarized in a 1/2- to full-page history. Naturally there's photos...
Routledge, 2010. — 452 p. The Korean War is the most comprehensive and detailed bibliography compiled to date on the American involvement in "The Forgotten War." In this revised and expanded second edition, Keith D. McFarland’s clearly written annotations provide concise descriptions of more than 2,600 of the most important books, articles, and documents written in English on...
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...
National Defense University Press, 2019. — 61 p. When people think of private military contractors, they imagine Blackwater Security Consulting in Iraq circa 2007. However, the market for force has moved on. Firms like Blackwater are quaint compared to the Wagner Group and other contemporary mercenaries. Curiously, this trend is overlooked by scholars, the mainstream media, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 472 p. This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together into one coherent volume a range of international authors, who firmly establish the relevance of war within the discipline of criminology. The chapters address emerging and prevailing issues in the criminological study of war, including state crime, corporate crime, victimology, genocide,...
First published in 1988 by Unwin Hyman, Ltd. — Routledge, 2021. — 255 p. The twentieth century was dominated by war and by preparations for war in a way that is unparalleled in history. Originally published in 1988, this textbook highlights key themes of warfare throughout the world and emphasizes the gulf between the theory of war and its practice. The contributors are...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 270 p. Theodore McLauchlin's Desertion examines the personal and political factors behind soldiers' choices to stay in their unit or abandon their cause. He explores what might spur widespread desertion in a given group, how some armed groups manage to keep their soldiers fighting over long periods, and how committed soldiers are to their...
New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2005. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0-7607-7090-1. В книге рассматриваются 70 величайших поражений и катастроф в военной истории человечества: от древних сражений под Кадешом и Марафоном, до самых последних военных операций в Сомали и Ираке. Книга включает в себя подробный анализ событий, приведших к каждой катастрофе и его губительные последствия.
Silverdale books, 2003. — 264 p. The invasion of Poland, the Fall of France, the Battle of Britain, the North Africa campaign, the siege of Stalingrad, Pearl Harbor, Midway,New Guinea, Guadalcanal, the Russian offensive at Kursk, Normandy, the Ardennes offensive, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. These and dozens more campaigns of World War II are chronicled with concise...
Helion and Company, 2011. — 82 p. Battle for Cassinga is written as a firsthand account by an ordinary South African paratrooper who was at the 1978 assault on the Angolan headquarters of PLAN, the armed wing of SWAPO. The book relates why the South African government took the political risk in attacking the fortress in an external operation and examines the SWAPO claims that...
U.S. Marine Corps History Division, 2014. — 88 p. This is a study of the Second Battle of Fallujah, also known as Operation Al-Fajr and Operation Phantom Fury. Over the course of November and December 2004, the I Marine Expeditionary Force conducted a grueling campaign to clear the city of Fallujah of insurgents and end its use as a base for the anti-coalition insurgency in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 398 p. This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events of America’s major armed conflicts, offering...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 379 p. This second part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the Spanish-American War to the Vietnam War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events of America’s major armed conflicts, offering...
Air University Press, 1997. — 672 p. Airpower is not widely understood. Even though it has come to play an increasingly important role in both peace and war, the basic concepts that define and govern airpower remain obscure to many people, even to professional military officers. This fact is largely due to fundamental differences of opinion as to whether or not the aircraft has...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. — 335 pgs. In a comprehensive institutional and operational history of the Imperial Russian Army during the crucial period of its modernization, Bruce W. Menning surveys the development of organization, doctrine, and strategy from the aftermath of Russia's defeat in the Crimean War through the wars against Turkey in 1877-1878 and...
Potomac Books, 2008. — 288 p. Today the U.S. military is more nimble, mobile, and focused on rapid responses against smaller powers than ever before. One could argue that the Gulf War and the postwar standoff with Saddam Hussein hastened needed military transformation and strategic reassessments in the post–Cold War era. But the preoccupation with Iraq also mired the United...
Columbia University Press, 2012. — 177 p. Master Sun's The Art of War is by no means the only ancient Chinese treatise on military affairs. One chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century BCE, synthesizes the entire corpus of military literature inherited from the Chinese classical era. Drawing on all major,...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 112 p. Volume 4 of Air Power and the Arab World continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab world. The earliest of the Arab air forces to be established trace their histories back to the 1920s and 1930s when the overwhelming majority of Arab countries, and an even larger majority of the...
U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service, 1942. — 50 p. This book, originally published in 1942 by the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service, contains information based on German and British reports explaining German survival and adaptation to the desert. Desert operations have much in common with operations in the other parts of the world. The unique aspects of desert...
Zenith Press, 2003. — 128 p. — ISBN-10 0760315922, ISBN-13 978-0760315927 Nothing has dominated the headlines and news bulletins to rival the impending war with Iraq. As politicians anticipate and pave the way for military action, readers are constantly reminded of the horrors that could be perpetrated by Saddam Hussain's weapons of mass destruction (WMD). As thousands of...
Greenhill Books, 1998. — 112 p. — ISBN-10 1853672998, ISBN-13 978-1853672996 A collection of fifty accounts of the battles that changed the course of World War II, from Dunkirk to The Battle of Britain, includes background facts, commentary, quotes from the major participants, and more than two hundred color and duotone photographs.
St. Martin's Press, 2000. — 136 p. This exciting book, written by an acknowledged expert in the field, presents a detailed historical account of two of the most respected and fearsome groups of fighting men in history: the samurai and the ninja. The book pinpoints the cultural origins of these warriors, tracing their development and placing them in their historical and...
Office of the Chief of Military History, 1987. — 514 p. This account of the Army Service Forces in World War II had its origin in the general effort of the Federal Government to record wartime administrative experiences. On 4 March 1942 President Roosevelt wrote to the director of the Bureau of the Budget expressing his interest in the steps taken to keep a "current record of...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 237 p. The Armed Forces of North Korea: On the Path of Songun seeks to bring order and coherence to the chaotic state of affairs in the intelligence community of North Korea-watchers, as well as to disprove the much-echoed stance that there is little to fear from the DPRK by providing information on a plethora of never-before described weapons...
Scribner, 1980. — 160 p. — ISBN-10 0684167026 ISBN-13 978-0684167022 USAAF at war in the Pacific» — это книга авторов Дэвида Мондейя и Льюиса Наллса. Она является частью серии «At War». Книга была выпущена в январе 1980 года издательством Scribner. В книге описывается военная авиация США и ее участие в Тихоокеанском театре действий во второй мировой войне
Montagu J.D. reenhill Books, 2006. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1853676853. — ISBN13: 978-1853676857 Greek and Roman Warfare: Battles, Tactics and Trickery is a uniquely detailed work which explores the tactics and battle strategies of the Graeco-Roman period. This incisive study goes beyond the arms and armour to reveal the psychology behind history's most emblematic battles. The...
Armoured Tracked Vehicles, Armoured Wheeled Vehicles, Tractors, Transporters, "B"-vehicles, Trailers. — Branch of the QMG Canadian Military Headquarters, December 1944. — 209 p. Справочник транспортных средств армии Канады периода Второй Мировой войны, содержащий краткие характеристики гусеничной бронетехники, бронированных колесных машин, тракторов, транспортеров, прицепов,...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 450 p. This book looks at the development of Israeli-Arab relations during the formative years 1949 to 1956, focusing on Arab infiltration into Israel and Israeli retaliation. Palestinian refugee raiding and cross-border attacks by Egyptian-controlled irregulars and commandos were a core phenomenon during this period and one of the chief causes...
McFarland, 2022. — 259 p. During two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, U.S. service members confronted numerous challenges in their mission to secure the country from the threat of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and assist in rebuilding efforts. Because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan occurred simultaneously, much of the American public conflated them or failed to notice the...
RAND Corporation, 2012. — 202 p. The U.S. Marine Corps, which has long recognized the importance of influencing the civilian population in a counterinsurgency environment, requested an evaluation of the effectiveness of the psychological operations element of U.S. military information operations in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2010 based on how well messages and themes were...
Greenwood, 2009. — 225 p. By definition, the unforeseeable cannot be seen, but one way to bring more variables under consideration when planning a military action is to review those instances where the unforeseeable changed everything. For professionals and enthusiasts alike, Imponderable But Not Inevitable: Warfare in the 20th Century does just that, reviewing specific...
Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2011. — 648 p. Many books have been written about Singapore's much vaunted position as a crucial maritime centre along the East-West trading route, but one aspect of its history—the military perspective—has, for the most part, escaped serious scholarly attention. Between Two Oceans plugs this historical gap. Drawing on an impressive range of...
Routledge, 1993. — 357 p. This book juxtaposes Australian understandings of Vietnam with a description of colonial and postcolonial history that establishes the dynamics of revolutionary warfare in Phuoc Tuy. It evaluates the Australian army's 'counter-revolutionary warfare' strategy developed from Cold War prescriptions.
Cambridge: CUP, 2006. - 299 p. Military history and the history of war. The influence of history on the military profession. The relevance of history to the military profession: a British view. The relevance of history to the military profession: an American Marine’s view. post–world war ii professional military education. an early interest in military history. finding a wider...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 409 p. The Iran-Iraq War is one of the largest, yet least documented conflicts in the history of the Middle East. Drawing from an extensive cache of captured Iraqi government records, this book is the first comprehensive military and strategic account of the war through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 248 p. Humankind has always sought out innovative and new ways of waging war, establishing new forms of warfare. Set against a background of global strategic instability this process of innovation has, over the last two decades, produced a new and complex phenomenon, hybrid warfare. Distinct from other forms of modern warfare in several key aspects, it...
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1862. — 482 p. Биографические материалы об английском адмирале Нэпире, участнике наполеоновских войн и командующем Балтийской эскадрой в Крымскую войну. На английском языке.
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1862. - 454 p. Биографические материалы об английском адмирале Нэпире, участнике наполеоновских войн и командующем Балтийской эскадрой в Крымскую войну. На английском языке.
Rand, 2002. — 172 p. An examination of the 1999 conflict in Kosovo, with a focus on joint military operations.The 1999 military operation against the Yugoslav Army in Kosovo suggests several areas in which Joint military operations were deficient. This study examined all aspects of the Kosovo conflict,including its political and historical underpinnings, in an attempt to...
Leiden: Brill, 2011. — 285 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 68). These essays honor Dennis Showalter, a pioneer in the field of military history and a mentor to an entire generation of scholars. The essays themselves are written by some of the best-known and most highly-respected scholars in the field. They span the globe and cover a wide range of military history topics from...
Arms & Armour; First Edition, 1996. — 432 p. — ISBN-10 1854093495, ISBN-13 978-1854093493 An omnibus edition comprising "Celtic Warriors", "Barbarians" and "Medieval Warlords", this book offers an introduction to ancient and medieval military history. It features characters such as Vlad Dracula, Owen of Wales and warriors from the Greeks, the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans,...
Blandford Pr., 1990. — 160 p. — ISBN-10 0713719656, ISBN-13 978-0713719659 Surveys the history of female military leadership in ancient and medieval warfare.
Thunder Bay Press, 2008. — 320 p. — ISBN 1592238254, 9781592238255 For centuries battles took place on the land and the sea; with the advent of flying machines, war found a new front -- the skies. First taking place in 1911, air warfare revolutionized the art and science of war forever. Air Warfare is a comprehensive history of airborne combat, from pre-WWI skirmishes to...
Routledge, 2014. — 217 p. This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective. Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests that these conflicts reflect and are also a driving force for major societal...
Montvert Publications, 1996. — 74 pages. In about 226 AD the strong and fearsome grandson of the Persian leader Sassan overthrew and killed the last of the Parthian Arsacids and proclaimed himself Ardashir I, Emperor of Iran. So began the renowned Sassanid line which was to last, despite wars against invading Huns and the Romano-Byzantines, until the mid-7th century when the...
Axis Europa Books, 1998. — 312 p. Oversized book, with color dust jacket, including dozens of detailed battle maps, excruciatingly researched and organized orders of battle, on the history of the Hungarian Armed Forces from 1920-1945. Has sections on Hungarian military operation (even the invasion of Yugoslavia). If you are interested in the details and nitty gritty of the...
PSI Books, 2007. — 212 p. From Chechnya in Russia to Kashmir in India to the Basque region in Spain, secessionist movements remain a serious threat to international security. Despite the importance of this issue, the causes that bring about external military intervention in a secessionist war have not, until now, been adequately addressed. In this book, Dos Santos identifies...
Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press, 2008. — 504 p. Contains a discussion of armed groups which are considered to include classic insurgents, terrorists, guerrillas, militias, police agencies, criminal organizations, war-lords, privatized military organizations, mercenaries, pirates, drug cartels, apocalyptic religious extremists, orchestrated rioters and mobs, and...
Oakville: David Brown Book Co., Oxbow Books, 2012. - 144p. Wearing the Cloak contains nine stimulating chapters on Roman military textiles and equipment that take textile research to a new level. Hear the sounds of the Roman soldiers' clacking belts and get a view on their purchase orders with Egyptian weavers. Could armour be built of linen? Who had access to what kinds of...
New York: Hippocrene, 1990. — 395 p. This is an exhaustive study of how warfare was conducted on the 18th century European battlefield. It is a scholarly yet readable book, very probably the best ever on this particular subject. The main parts are on French theory and practice, and then Frederick the Great's development of a Prussian system. The time period covers the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 134 p. Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanotech, robotics, cyberwar, human enhancement, and, non-lethal weapons, weaving a historical, legal, and sociopolitical fabric into a discussion of their development, deployment, and, potential regulation.
Routledge, 2018. — 195 p. This book contributes to an increasingly important branch of critical security studies that combines insights from critical geopolitics and postcolonial critique by making an argument about the geographies of violence and their differential impact in contemporary security practices, including but not limited to military intervention. The book explores...
Rand Publishing, 2004. — 55 p. Although military power is only one component of the portfolio of instruments that can be brought to bear in the fight against terrorist groups, military capabilities play unique and crucial roles in the overall strategy. These capabilities will call for a mix of forces somewhat different from those fielded today as well as new concepts and...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 380 p. The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America’s smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps’ uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 192 p. Committing one's country to war is a grave decision. Governments often have to make tough calls, but none are quite so painful as those that involve sending soldiers into harm's way, to kill and be killed. The idea of 'just war' informs how we approach and reflect on these decisions. It signifies the belief that while war is always a...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 264 p. In book Defense 101, a concise primer for understanding the United States' $700+ billion defense budget and rapidly changing military technologies, Michael O'Hanlon provides a deeply informed yet accessible analysis of American military power. After an introduction in which O'Hanlon surveys today's international security environment,...
Brookings Institution Press, 2015. — 270 p. Offers an analysis of the future of the world's ground forces: Where are future large-scale conflicts or other catastrophes most plausible? Which of these could be important enough to necessitate the option of a US military response? And which of these could in turn require significant numbers of American ground forces in their...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 288 p. This book project, initiated and sponsored by the Swedish National Defence College’s Department of Military Studies, began in the summer of 2008 with the objective of producing a one-volume anthology that would focus on the essence and development of operational art, with equal attention to theory, practice, and utility. The book would be...
Potomac Books, 2014. — 344 p. European Air Power examines the current state of eight separate European air forces and their prospective air power capabilities in a manner that will appeal to a wide audience of air force enthusiasts. Included are perspectives from independent air power experts reviewing the air forces of France, Germany, Turkey, and Great Britain as well as from...
Routledge, 2003. — 345 p. In response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on the second of August 1990, a small group of air power advocates in the Pentagon proposed a strategic air campaign - "Operation Desert Storm" designed to drive the Iraqi army from Kuwait by a sustained effort against the major sources of Iraqi national power. John Andreas Olsen provides a coherent and...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 257 p. Airpower Reborn offers a conceptual approach to warfare that emphasizes airpower’s unique capability to achieve strategic effects. Six world-leading theorists argue that a viable strategy must transcend the purely military sphere, view the adversary as a multi-dimensional system, and pursue systemic paralysis and strategic effects rather than...
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. — 313 p. This is the first scholarly study of the subject for twenty years, and the only one based on extensive archival research. The Indian Army conquered India for the British, and protected the Raj against its enemies within and without. In this evocative and compassionate work, David Omissi examines the origins, motives and protests of the...
Dorrance Publishing, 1984. — 212 p. Preface. The Conquest of Roman Dalmatia, Pannonia, and Illyricum in 626. The Croatian Non-Aggression Treaty With The Holy See (680). Frankish Wars. Bulgarian Wars. Arabic Wars. Hungarian Wars. Byzantine Wars. Wars With Tatars (1241-1242). Venetian Wars. Turkish Wars Outside of Croatia Turkish Wars in Croatia Croatian Wars for Austria...
Praeger, 2010. — 250 p. Private Armed Forces and Global Security: A Guide to the Issues is the first book to provide a comprehensive yet accessible survey of the private military groups involved in conflicts worldwide. Organized around four themes, it covers the history of private military forces since 1600, the main contemporary actors and their defining characteristics, the...
Illustrator: Harry Dempsey. — Osprey Publishing, 2008 — 128 p. Starting operations in the relatively quiet Toul sector in March 1918, the 1st Pursuit Group initially flew Nieuport 28s, given to the Americans because the French did not want them. Expanded by the arrival of additional squadrons, the 1st Pursuit Group went to war in earnest over Château Thierry in July, initially...
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 96 p. Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years. The Crusades gave rise to the Military Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, and were a backdrop to the careers of some of history's most famous leaders including Richard 'The Lionheart' and Saladin. On occasion the savagery of the...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 410 р. From Alexander the Great's 331 BC rout of Darius III to Great Britain's 1982 re-conquest of the Falkland Islands, the author of the Second World War Experience series examines some of history's pivotal battles to determine the human factors that decided their outcomes. Stressing the importance of leadership, courage, deception, and good...
Duke University Press, 2020. — 281 p. In Killer Apps Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves provide a detailed account of the rise of automation in warfare, showing how media systems are central to building weapons systems with artificial intelligence in order to more efficiently select and eliminate military targets. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of political and media...
Routledge, 2020. — 264 p. This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars. In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians and security forces) is used to achieve political objectives....
Cambridge University Press, 1972. — 309 p. — ISBN: 0521084628, 0521099072. — Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
The publication of The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road in 1972 marked the birth of the "new military history", which emphasized military organization--mobilization, pay, supply, morale and, above all, logistics--rather than military "events" such...
Parragon Books, 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 1472357604, ISBN-13 978-1472357601 Explores the key armies and battles from ancient times to the present day. Using beautiful photographs and cutaway illustrations, Great Armies delves into the tactics put forward by the boldest military geniuses as well as the courage of soldiers who formed the most powerful armies in history. The...
Georgetown University Press, 2018. — 270 p. Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things ― with dramatic consequences for international affairs. This book explores the evolutionary origins of human strategy, and makes a provocative argument that Artificial Intelligence will radically transform the nature of...
London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta: Longmans, Green, And Co. 1907. – 46 р. Since my recent book on mediæval archery and ancient weapons was issued, I have obtained a considerable amount of information concerning the projectile engines of the Greeks and Romans. I now print a concise account of the history, construction, and effects in warfare of these engines. In this summary...
Arms&Armour, 1988. — 176 p. — ISBN-10 1854094017, ISBN-13 978-1854094018 This carefully crafted volume introduces the reader to the personalities of Chinese military history and the turning-points in weapon and tactical advancement. Each character is placed in context with the era in which he lived, and his description is broadened to encompass the politics, strategies and...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 352 p. — (General Military Series). From the American War of Independence to World War II, the history of the military combat marksman is one of indifference and cost cutting. Despite the proven effectiveness of the rifleman in battle, for most of the 20th century snipers were regarded as little more than paid assassins. It was not until the Vietnam War...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 301 p. Following the success of Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper, sniper expert Martin Pegler gives us an in-depth study of the emergence of American rifleman, sharpshooter and sniper, examining the evolution of the rifle in America from the earliest firearms of the 15th century to the highly accurate sniping rifles of the 21st...
Diane Publishing, 1991. — 164 p. Lessons Learned: The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988, provides useful information to the reader about the Iran-Iraq War, particularly the lessons that can be drawn from it. This manual starts with an overview of the Iran-Iraq War. It also discusses the strategy followed by both sides and the tactics which evolved as the war unfolded.
Georgetown University Press, 2017. — 310 p. Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict—including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns—require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink twenty-first-century warfare. Yet because cyber capabilities are so new and continually...
Yale University Press, 1977. — 352 p. The importance of Amos Perlmutter's study lies in the fact that it supplies a long-felt about deeply study of the different sides for modern military corporatism. The author distinguishes three types of modern military corporatism: the professional, the praetorians, and the noncorporate revolutionary soldiers.
Arms and Armour Press, 1994. — 248 p. "Seize and hold" operations--or the capture of a bridge or castle in order to debilitate the enemy--have been vital ploys in warfare throughout history. Speed, surprise, and sufficient firepower are necessities to accomplish the task. From the bungled attempt by the Russians to destroy Japanese facilities in 1904 to the Ia Drang Valley...
Brill, 2013. — 851 p. — (History of Warfare, 91).
Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States is the first study to comprehensively treat an aspect of Byzantine, Western, early Islamic, Slavic and Steppe military history within the framework of common descent from Roman military organization to 800 AD. This not only encompassed the army proper, but also a...
The Crowood Press Ltd., 1998. — 96 p. — (The Europa-Militaria Special № 2). — ISBN: 1-86126-264-7. The accurate reconstruction and wearing of military costume of an earlier age is a tradition at least as old as ancient Rome itself.
Presidio Press, 1986. — 384 p. Traces the history of Vietnam's Army, the largest per capita in the world, explains why it has been so successful, and examines its role in Vietnam's future. Pike, whose scholarly works on the Vietcong (History of Vietnamese Communism, etc.) are widely admired, describes the creation of the People's Army of Vietnam as "probably the most astounding...
Warszawa : AON, 2002. — 344 s. — ISBN: 8388062786 "Warto podkreślić, że Autor uwzględnił wszystkie rodzaje działań obronnych jakie wyróżniano w ówczesnych regulaminach i instrukcjach. Skupił się jednak głównie na obronie stałej (bowiem do takiej formy obrony przygotowywały się Wielkie Jednostki i oddziały Grupy Operacyjnej "Bielsko od marca 1939 r.). Druzgocąca przewaga...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 304 p. Steven A. Pomeroy has authored the first history of the American mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a technology the United States spent four decades and billions of dollars creating but never deployed. An Untaken Road showcases how the evolution of a technology that ultimately never existed and the politics that surrounded it...
International Publishers, 1973. — 325 p. A collection of different writings from Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin to the present marxist-authors on armed guerilla struggles for liberation and for socialism.
Columbia University Press, 2009. — 256 p. Westerners have long fetishized the idea of "Oriental" warfare, hoping to either emulate the strategies of foreign armies or assimilate members of Eastern and "martial races," such as Sikhs or Gurkhas, into their ranks. Samurai warriors, obedient to an ancient code of chivalry and honor, and the Mongol hordes thundering across the...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 270 p. Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors throughout Time and Space takes the many, long-standing dimensions of military history, including the various modalities of warfare across cultures and periods, and integrates them with the more recent and very substantial contributions of social history, women’s history, black history,...
Pen and Sword Books, 2001. — 255 p. A Testimony to Courage is the history of the Ulster Defence Regiment from its inception in 1969 until its merger with the Royal Irish Rangers in 1992. It describes its development from a part-time, amateur, under-trained force into a professional regiment composed both of part-time and full time soldiers, both men and women, responsible for...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 200 p. — (Scholarly Presentations at the Conference on Coalition Warfare at the Royal Danish Defence College, 2011). It is unquestionable that the warfare of various post-Cold War 'coalitions-of-the-willing' has drawn much attention over recent years. However, we may also notice that associations of nations fighting, or preparing to fight,...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 384 p. Examining the continuous French military interventions in Chad in the two decades after its independence, this study demonstrates how France's successful counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of François Tombalbaye would ultimately weaken the Chadian state and encourage Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to intervene. In covering the...
Historical Section, Ministry of Defence India, 1972. — 237 p. Operation Polo was the code name of the Hyderabad "military police action" in September 1948, by the then newly independent Dominion of India against Hyderabad State. It was a military operation in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the Nizam-ruled princely state, annexing it into the Indian Union. At the time of...
Vision Books, 1982. — 482 p. The 4th Indian Infantry Division, also known as the Red Eagle Division, is the infantry division of the Indian Army. This division of the British Indian Army was formed in Egypt in 1939 during the Second World War. During the Second World War, it took part in campaigns in East Africa (Eritrea and Sudan), Syria, North Africa and Italy. Post...
Chartwell books, 1977. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 0906286026, ISBN-13 978-0890090916 Книга рассказывает о наиболее важных битвах в которых принимал участие Вермахт.
4th edition. — New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. — 449 pgs. An overview of the development of war in Western society from its beginnings to classical times to the present. Shows the social and technical changes that caused war to evolve, and the social, economic, political, and technical consequences that stemmed from it. Now in its fourth edition since first...
University of Missouri Press, 2020. — 448 p. Colonel Pat Proctor's long overdue critique of the Army's preparation and outlook in the all-volunteer era focuses on a national security issue that continues to vex in the twenty-first century: Has the Army lost its ability to win strategically by focusing on fighting conventional battles against peer enemies? Or can it adapt to...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 568 p.
Medieval warfare was dominated by the attack and defence of fortified places, and siege methods and technology developed alongside improvements in defences. This book uses both original historical sources and evidence from archaeology to analyse this relationship as part of a comprehensive view of the whole subject, tracing links across three...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 550 p.
The siege dominated warfare during the medieval period. Contemporary evidence - from both accounts of sieges, and records of government - survives in relatively large quantites for the later medieval period; together with archaeological evidence, it is used here to offer a full and comprehensive picture of siege warfare. The book shows how similar...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 350 p. This is an eyewitness account of the political and military upheaval in East Pakistan in 1971, which was in the grip of Bangla nationalism. The book covers the period from general elections in December 1970 to the break up of Pakistan in December 1971. Its main focus is on the 1970 elections and the subsequent developments, the civil...
Cornell University Press, 1984. — 244 p. Chronology. The Lebanese Paradox. The Second Civil War, 1975-1976. Political Parties and Factions. The Lingering Crisis. War, June-September 1982. An Interim Assessment. Postscript. Appendix: Speech by President Asad of Syria, July 20, 1976. Notes.
Routledge, 2022. — 364 p. This book studies the wars Pakistan has fought over the years with India as well as other non-state actors. The Military in Decision-Making. The Kashmir War 1947–1948. The 1965 War: Decision-Making and Consequences. The 1971 War: The Pakistani Experience. The 1971 War: The Bangladeshi Experience. Siachen and Kargil. Low-Intensity Operations. War and...
Routledge, 2023. — 247 p. This book offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed technologies in shaping the archival records of war. Despite thriving scholarship on the history of war, the history of Operational Record Keeping in the British Army remains unexplored. Since World War I,...
New York: State University of New York Press, 2017. — viii, 233 p. — ISBN: 9781438465180 (eBook). The present study partakes of this impetus, and also adopts the view—now widely held among specialists—that military thought in early China, like other intellectual strands of that era, should not be described as the output of a discrete school of military philosophers (bingjia...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 144 p. This book argues that the US Army has made four significant shifts in the content of its capstone operations doctrine along a spectrum of war since the end of WWII: 1) in 1954 it made a shift from a doctrine focused almost exclusively on mid-intensity conventional warfare to a doctrine that added significant emphasis to high-intensity nuclear...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 246 p. This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence ― warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone. What role does physical risk and material threat play in the justifications for killing in war? And...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 294 p. This book surveys the history of armed conflict in Africa in the period since decolonization and independence. The number of post-independence conflicts in Africa has been considerable, and this book introduces to readers a comprehensive analysis of their causes and character. Tracing the evolution of warfare from anti-colonial and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 279 p. Inside Defense brings together scholars, policy experts and practitioners to provide a comprehensive view of the U.S. military to understand the military's role in international politics and its relationship with domestic institutions and society.
Marshall Cavendish, 1977. — 392 p. Маркс говорил что труд сделал из Обезьяны человека. Но есть и другая точка зрения. Эволюция человека началась с того что он взял палку и превратился из жертвы в хищника. Затем палка сменилась копьем которое любезно уступило место основного оружия мечу, но где то еще был лук и толстые шкуры сменили доспехи. Война за территорию, стычки между...
Harward: Harvard University Press, 1999. — 309 p.
In this impressive study, David Rich demonstrates how the modernization of Russia's general staff during the second half of the nineteenth century reshaped its intellectual and strategic outlook and equipped the staff to play a strong, and at times dominant, role in shaping Russian foreign policy.
Rich weaves together several...
Penguin Press, 2009. — 434 p. The Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the...
State University of New York Press, 2020. — 248 p. Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence. Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare explores the complex relationship between just war theory and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). One of the challenges facing ethicists of war, particularly just war theorists, is...
Routledge, 2016. — 177 p. This book looks at the evolving relationship between war and international law, examining the complex practical and legal dilemmas posed by the changing nature of war in the contemporary world, whether the traditional rules governing the onset and conduct of hostilities apply anymore, and how they might be adapted to new realities. War, always messy,...
Sussex Academic Press, 2017. — 182 p. The State of Israel faced one of its most difficult challenges during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Though the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eventually emerged as the clear victor in the war, it suffered serious reverses at the outset of hostilities, as well as substantial losses in men and equipment. This book revisits the Yom Kippur War by...
Sussex Academic Press, 2013. — 185 p. The Israel Air Force (IAF) has accumulated as much battle experience as any air force in the world during the post-Second World War era. It has recorded many outstanding accomplishments throughout a seemingly endless string of interstate wars, asymmetrical wars, counterinsurgency campaigns, and special operations. Sword and Shield of Zion...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 250 p. The book aims to explain the factors that brought about a high degree of similarity between American and Canadian foreign and security policies during the Afghanistan intervention. Specifically, it seeks to explain why, despite their different positions in the international distribution of power, the United States and Canada embraced similar...
CRC Press, 2016. — 312 p. A collection of original works covering all aspects of insurgency and counterinsurgency through a multinational lens, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Modern War addresses the need to look beyond the United States and other prominent counterinsurgency actors in the contemporary world. It also reassesses some of the latent and burgeoning insurgent...
Routledge, 2012. — 370 p. This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians’ identity in times of war. Underpinning the physicality of war’s tumult are structural forces that create landscapes of civilian vulnerability. Such forces operate in four sectors of modern warfare:...
Springer, 2022. — 195 p. This book addresses the global history of technology, warfare and state formation from the Stone Age to the Information Age. Using a combination of top-down and bottom-up methodologies, it examines both interstate and intrastate conflicts with a focus on Eurasian technology and warfare. It shows how human agency and structural factors have intertwined,...
Routledge, 2020. — 294 p. Military Thought of Asia challenges the assertion that the generation of rational secular ideas about the conduct of warfare is the preserve of the West, by analysing the history of ideas of warfare in Asia from the ancient period to the present. The volume takes a transcontinental and comparative approach to provide a broad overview of the evolution...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 204 p. As of September 2017, the United Nations alone deployed 110,000 uniformed personnel from 122 countries in fifteen peacekeeping operations worldwide. Soldiers in these missions are important actors who not only have considerable responsibility for implementing peace and stability operations but also have a concomitant influence on...
Methuen Publishing, 1991. — 304 p. The newest, and now the largest, regiment in the British Army, the UDR was raised in 1970 to replace the infamous, all-Protestant auxiliary policy force, the "B Specials". Despite a substantial number of Catholics originally joining the Regiment, it is now, after a campaign of intimidation and murder by the IRA, 97 per cent Protestant, and its...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 592 p. In surprise attacks on Israel in October 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, igniting what became known as the Yom Kippur War. In the north, Israel succeeded in blocking the Syrian advance, but in the south, it failed to achieve an operational decision...
Routledge, 2009. — 219 p. This book explains how the US military reacted to the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), and failed to innovate its organization or doctrine to match the technological breakthroughs it brought about.
Pergamon Press, 1981. — 287 p. Introduction to The Dimensions of Military Professionalism. Professions and Professionalism. An Empirical Reassessment of Military Professionalism. The Dimensions of American Military Professionalism: Two Scholarly Viewpoints. Introduction to Military Professionalism in a Changing Security Environment. American Policy and Low Intensity Conflict:...
Routledge, 2006. — 250 p. This brand new edition of The US Military Profession into the Twenty-First Century re-examines the challenges faced by the military profession in the aftermath of the international terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. While many of the issues facing the military profession examined in the first edition remain, the 'new war' and...
Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2003. - 52 p.
Иллюстрированный очерк немецких бронепоездов на Восточном фронте. Также есть материал о бронепоездах РККА и перечень бронепоездов вермахта.
Язык английский.
Nation Books, 2007. — 241 p.
This book dedicated to fenomen of mercenary private armies and in particular - Blackwater, the most famous and bloodiest. Author deals with its origin,organisation, contingent and conflicts, which this "soldiers of fortune" took part in.
Nation Books, 2013. — 680 p. In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 234 p. In Conflict and Soldiers’ Literature in Early Modern Europe, Paul Scannell analyses the late 16th-century and early 17th-century literature of warfare through the published works of English, Welsh and Scottish soldiers. The book explores the dramatic increase in printed material on many aspects of warfare; the diversity of authors, the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — 397 p. This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Technology, Arms Race and Disarmament which took place at Castiglioncello, Italy, in September 1987. The papers examine strategic defence policies, nuclear weapons proliferation and arms control among many other topics.
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 440 p. In Private Military and Security Contractors (PMSCs) a multinational team of scholars and experts address a developing phenomenon: controlling the use of privatized force by states in international politics. Robust analyses of the evolving, multi-layered tapestry of formal and informal mechanisms of control address the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 330 p. The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much attention from both scholars and practitioners since the start of the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ensuing legal and political problems concerning detainees in those conflicts. This book analyzes these contemporary problems and...
Routledge Group, 2009. — 173 p. — (Cass Military Studies). The intervention of the military in national politics and the everyday lives of citizens is a key question in civil-military relations. This book explains how concordance theory can provide a model for predicting such domestic intervention. Models dealing with the relationship between the military and society are usually...
U.S. Marine Corps History Division, 2014. — 83 p. Includes more than 30 photos, maps and plans This study examines a counterinsurgency campaign conducted during the Iraq War between the fall of 2005 and spring of 2006 in the district of al-Qaim on the Syrian border. In many ways, the struggle to clear and hold the district marked a turning point for the U.S. Marines fighting to...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Annotated edition, 2012. — 308 p. — ISBN-10 1470095246, ISBN-13 978-1470095246. This anthology presents a collection of 21 articles describing the full range of U.S. Marine Corps operations in Iraq from 2004 to 2008. During this period, the Marines conducted a wide variety of kinetic and non-kinetic operations as they fought to...
Routledge, 2017. — 552 p. Introduction The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Context Indies Revenues and Naval Spending: The Cost of Colonialism for the Spanish Bourbons, 1763-1805 Who's Afraid of the French Revolution? Austrian Foreign Policy and European Crisis 1787-1797 The Origins, Causes and Extensions of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon The Collapse of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 217 p. Why did the British win the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902? Although there is truth in the simple statement that they were much stronger than the Boers, it does not explain everything. Therefore, the main focus of this book is to analyze the most important strategic and operational decisions made on both sides, and to measure them according to...
Bayerisches Armeemuseum, 2020. — 250 p. „Forms of War 1600-1815“ is the title of the Bavarian Army Museum’s latest permanent exhibition, opened in 2019 and housed in the New Castle of Ingolstadt. With exhibits from the museum‘s own collection and some important loans, it illustrates the forms of warlike violence in the early modern period. Focal points are the fighting in the...
General Books, 2010. — 122 p. The Balkan Wars consisted of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan Peninsula in 1912 and 1913. Four Balkan states defeated the Ottoman Empire in the First Balkan War. In the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria fought against all four original combatants of the first war. It also faced an attack from Romania from the north. The Ottoman Empire lost the...
Strategic Studies, 2007. — 191 p. North Korea's Military Threat: Pyongyang's Conventional Forces, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, and Ballistic Missiles - North Korea is a country of paradoxes and contradictions. Although it remains an economic basket case that cannot feed and clothe its own people, it nevertheless possesses one of the world's largest armed forces. Whether...
London: Arrow, 1993. — 340 p. Chronicles the inside story of the world's most ruthless terrorist and his international network, which includes links with Iraq, Libya, Syria, as well as with a number of European intelligence agencies. The story of Jorde Abu Iyad's obsession Childhood traumas A black September Made in Baghdad The sponsors The colonel's crony Murder of the...
Helion, 2014. — 598 p. The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age. It was in the skies of North Korea where Soviet and American pilots came together in fierce aerial clashes. The best pilots of the opposing systems, the most powerful air forces, and the most up-to-date aircraft in the world in this period of history came together in...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. — 257 p. The People’s Republic of China is the only large country in the world that does not have a “national” military; its military answers only to a political party, the Chinese Communist Party. For a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the makings of a professional, apolitical military force. The Rise and Fall of an...
Brassey, 1997. — 144 p. — (Brassey's History of Uniforms). A guide to the arms and armour of the barbarian armies. From the disintigration of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th century to the 11th century. With 150 illustrations & photographs.
University of California Press, 2002. — 394 p. David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when international attention is increasingly...
Edinburgh University Press, 2008. — 255 p. Is terrorism ever morally justified? How should historical and cultural factors be taken into account in judging the morality of terrorist acts? What are the ethical limits of state counter-terrorism? For three decades the Provisional Irish Republican Army waged an 'armed struggle' against what it considered to be the British...
3 vol. set. — ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 1195 p. Containing some 500 entries covering the interaction between war and religion from ancient times, the three-volume War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict provides students with an invaluable reference source for examining two of the most important phenomena impacting society today. This all-inclusive reference work will...
Routledge, 2021. — 537 p. 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...
Collins Press, 2006. — 210 p. The Irish war of Independence has generated a wealth of published material but very little from a British perspective. Many British soldiers, sailors and airmen who served in Ireland from 1918-1921 left accounts of their service. Most describe military operations, views on the IRA, the Irish, the actions of their own forces, morale and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 225 p. The command and control of military operations is a difficult art. The Challenges of High Command explores British ideas of how this should be done and, with the guidance of some of Britain's leading military historians, looks at the practicalities of British experience in the First and Second World Wars. The contributors cast new light on themes...
Continuum, 2010. — 269 p. This is a broad ranging reader in the growing subject of War Studies. It includes respected contributors, with each chapter set out clearly and with contextual background. War Studies is an increasingly popular subject at degree, masters and doctorate level, as well as aspects of it being taught at A level. Here at last is a subject reader that will...
United States Department of Defense, 2008. — 243 p. The U.S. Army underwent a decade of significant transformation between 1987 and 1997 that affected strategy, force requirements, structure, and basing requirements. The end of the Cold War provided the initial impetus for defense reshaping and drove the pace and depth of change. Reductions in forces and installations, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 263 p. Many saw the United States' decisive victory in Desert Storm (1991) as not only vindication of American defense policy since Vietnam but also confirmation of a revolution in military affairs (RMA). Just as information-age technologies were revolutionizing civilian life, the Gulf War appeared to reflect similarly profound changes in...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 304 р. Arguing that Israel's conflicts with Egypt and Palestinian infiltrators from Jordan were defensive in nature, Jonathan Shimshoni illuminates the strategy and ethos of guerilla conflict and thereby contributes to our general understanding of non-nuclear deterrence.
Ashgate, 2009. — 232 p. "Is This a Private Fight" explores why some countries join interstate wars well after the war has begun, waiting months and often years before joining wars and thus changing their beliefs about the wisdom of entering a war. It argues that unexpected or 'surprising' events in wars cause neutral players to update their expectations about the trajectory of...
Ashgate, 2012. — 232 p. National leaders often worry that civil wars might spread, but also seem to have little grasp on which civil wars will in fact draw in other states. An ability to understand which civil wars are most likely to draw in outside powers and when this is likely to happen has important policy implications as well as simply answering a scholarly question....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 271 p. This book documents the political ecosystem that legitimized violent military action against military-age males in US military operations after September 11, 2001. It first introduces the military-age male as a category used to identify insurgent combatants who have blended into civilian environments. Though US officials maintained that...
Grub Street, 1990 - 456 p.
Above the Trenches remains the foremost work ever published on the subject of the British Air Forces during WWI.
ISBN10: 0948817194 (eng)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 272 p. On 1 January 2006, soldiers from across Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered to mark the official formation of a unified army; and yet, little over a decade before, these men had been each other's adversaries during the vicious conflict which left the Balkan state divided and impoverished. Building a Multi-Ethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia...
Praeger, 1999. — 304 p. Using recently released French official documents and a variety of other sources, this study explains how the French Army, so recently defeated by the Viet Minh insurgents in Indochina, was able to successfully defeat the Algerian nationalist rebels on the battlefield, while nevertheless losing the war at the conference table. This French success,...
Jacana, 2014. — 200 p. For almost 15 years, South Africa was involved in a civil war in Angola: the so-called Bush War on behalf of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola faction. The climax of the conflict portrayed in this history was the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, the largest military engagement on African soil since World War II. This book provides the...
University Press of the Pacific, 1992. — 387 p. Air University is proud to have joined the Air Staff and the International Security Studies Program of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in sponsoring the April 1991 conference on aerospace challenges and missions that produced this collection of essays. Written by a distinguished group of specialists...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 166 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
Greek and Roman warfare was unlike that of any other culture before or since. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practiced a "Western Way of War," in which the aim is an open, decisive battle - won by courage instilled, in part, by discipline. Here, Harry Sidebottom looks at how...
London-New York: Hutchinson, 1942. — 176 s. Władysław Sikorski (1881 – 1943) was a Polish military and political leader. His most famous work was his 1934 book "Przyszła wojna – jej możliwości i charakter oraz związane z nimi zagadnienia obrony kraju" ("War in the Future: Its Possibilities and Character and Associated Questions of National Defense", published in English in 1943...
Manchester University Press, 2010. — 264 p. Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain’s long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict. The Colonial Police Service was created in 1936 in order to standardise all imperial...
Author P. W. Singer. Language English. Publisher Penguin. Publication date 2009. Pages 400 pages. In Wired for War, P. W. Singer explores the greatest revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: the dawn of robotic warfare. We are on the cusp of a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make real the stuff of I, Robot and The Terminator. Blending...
Cornell University Press, 2008. — 360 p. Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando...
Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1990. — 338 p. A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war between India and Pakistan. Much of their data derive from interviews...
Manuscript from Lessing J. Rosenwald collection. — Ca. 17th century. — 275 p. In Italian. Subjects: Military topography, military engineering. Notes Manuscript on paper. Leaves 4-81 so numbered. Mainly pen and ink diagrs. and drawings, some painted with water colors. The text accompanying part of the illus. is in Italian, a few pages are in Spanish. Francesco Tensini, whose...
Mcgill Queens University Press, 2002. — 200 p. The new campaign in Afghanistan, the Gulf war, and the NATO bombardment of Kosovo show clearly how advances in information technology are driving a high-tech revolution in military affairs (RMA) and transforming the nature of modern warfare. Elinor Sloan outlines the major elements of the RMA and examines the efforts of the United...
Praeger, 2008. — 196 p. Military transformation can be understood as comprising three overlapping and sometimes competing layers—the conventional-force dominated revolution in military affairs, a more recent irregular warfare emphasis, and a wider dimension including homeland defense, space and nuclear policy. The Western world is currently focusing its attention on...
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’....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 316 p. Clausewitz is often quoted but more often misunderstood. On Clausewitz presents his central ideas about war and politics-such as war as an instrument of policy, the concept of Absolute War, friction and the fog of war-in a clear and systematic fashion. On Clausewitz is a thorough survey of all of Clausewitz's most important insights, drawn not...
Greenhill Books, 1999 - 72 p. ISBN10: 1853673765 (eng)
This exciting on-going series covers every aspect of the Luftwaffe in World War II and charts the rise and fall of this mighty force. Each volume makes use of over a hundred rare and valuable photographs, many of them taken by Luftwaffe personnel, to bring history to life and record both the men and the aircraft they flew....
Methuen and Company, 1976. — 256 p. This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the pre-colonial period covers a period of four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century. Smith addresses outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition and...
SAGE Publications, 2003. — 208 p. On 1 October 2001, 29 people were killed at the hands of the Jaish-e-Mohammed in a terrorist attack outside the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. India′s immediate reaction was to insist that unless the US was able to rein in Pakistan, it would be forced to take matters into its own hands, which might be a setback to the US-waged Operation Enduring...
U.S. Department of Defense, 1987. — 160 p. Soviet Policies and Global Ambitions. Forces for Nuclear Attack. Strategic Defense and Space Operations. Forces for Theater Operations. Readiness, Mobility, and Sustainability. Research, Development, and Production. Political-Military and Regional Policies. The US Response.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 239 p. This book identifies and explains the functional and ideational boundaries regarding what states and Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) both do and possess regarding land power, sea power, and air power. Whereas the mercenaries, privateers, and chartered companies of years past held similar characteristics to state military...
Zenith Press, 1990. — 382 p. Profound research about military`s best combat squads in Southeast Asia, their organization, tactics, equipment and so force.
Novato: Presidio Press, 1985. — 411 p. — ISBN: 0-89141-232-8 This battlefield history concentrates on how the United States Army and Marine Corps raised combat units and deployed them to Vietnam, and then how these units were employed and fought during the war. The book highlights significant military factors which affected unit performance in Vietnam. To provide continuity...
I.B. Tauris, 2022. — 264 р. The war against ISIS is often explained through the group's own rise to power. The American side of the story has not yet been told. This book records how the United States and its allies chose to fight the group, what the consequences have been for transatlantic relations, and how these factors may shape future wars the West decides to pursue. The...
Georgetown University Press, 2009. — 352 p. A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. In "Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbours?", defense analyst Brent Sterling examines the historical use of strategic defences such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their...
Georgetown University Press, 2021. — 337 p. Preparing for the next war at an unknown date against an undetermined opponent is a difficult undertaking with extremely high stakes. Even the most detailed exercises and wargames do not truly simulate combat and the fog of war. Thus, outside of their own combat, militaries have studied foreign wars as a valuable source of battlefield...
Temple University Press, 2002. — 271 p. We are all familiar with ROTC, West Point, and other institutions that train young men and women to be military officers. But few people know of the U.S. Army War College, where the Army's elite career officers go for advanced training in strategy, national security policy, and military-government policymaking. This book takes readers...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 259 р. The first comparative history of military occupation as a political phenomenon. An understanding of military occupation as a distinct phenomenon first emerged in the 18th century. This book shows how this understanding developed and the problems that the occupiers, the occupied, commentators and the courts encountered. Covers all major...
Routledge, 2004. — 304 p. Britain was the first country to come under sustained ballistic missile attack, during 1944-1945. Defence against ballistic missiles has been a persistent, if highly variable, subject of political policy and technical investigation ever since. The British Second World War experience of trying to counter the V-2 attacks contained many elements of...
Routledge Group, 2008. — 265 p. — (Cass Military Studies). This volume presents a number of case studies of military advisors and missions in order to provide clear historical examples of the evolution, functioning and motives of foreign military advising in the modern era. Containing essays by US contributors covering a wide range of countries and spanning nearly 200 years of...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 336 p. How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political objectives and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to US policy and strategy, Donald Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war, particularly limited wars. He...
Routledge, 2016. — 280 p. During the first half of the twentieth century, European countries witnessed the arrival of hundreds of thousands of colonial soldiers fighting in European territory (First and Second World War and Spanish Civil War) and coming into contact with European society and culture. For many Europeans, these were the first instances in which they met Asians or...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 334 p.
Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg-Rothe have produced an important - no, an essential - volume of articles that illuminate and explore the core ideas of Carl von Clausewitz. The results of an Oxford Conference on Clausewitz in 2006, the articles both engage current thinking on Clausewitzian theory and open up new areas of relevance of that...
Brassey's History of Uniforms, Brassey's(UK) Ltd, London, 1997. - 146 p.
The Ancient Roman Army is often looked upon as a model of order and uniformity, but this book reveals that this classical ideal is a myth and that Ancient Roman warriors served in a wide variety of armour and equipment, ranging from coats of mail to the exotic garb of crocodile skin. Sometimes they clad...
Shenzhen: 2007. — 180 str. Sun Wu oraz Sun Bin obaj znani jako Sun Tzu. Przekład z języka chińskiego Jarek Zawadzki. 孫子兩位兵法. Sztuka wojny Sun Tzu i Metody wojskowe Sun Pina to kanon literatury militarystycznej. Liczące około 2500 lat traktaty zadziwiają swoją ponadczasowością i walorami poznawczymi. Z każdego odtworzonego i przetłumaczonego przez współczesnych badaczy zdania bije...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. — 145 p. A delightfully illustrated version of Sunzi's classicThe Art of Warby bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai C. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty languages. This volume presents Tsai's delightful graphic adaptation of...
2 vol. set. — Salem Press, 2005. — 862 p. A chronological examination of U.S. involvement in wars from Revolutionary times through the post-Cold War conflicts (including Iraq). Essays have been gleaned from nine other Salem resources and new material has been added. The set is arranged chronologically and each section covering a specific conflict begins with ready reference...
Routledge, 2010. — 149 p. This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing. The aim of this work is to supplement the usual emphasis on strategic and national issues of war in the interest of theorizing aspects of war from the point of view...
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,...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 192 p. Under the leadership of a sagacious and patriotic ruler, who wasn't only cautious about the security of his state but was acting to stabilize worldwide peace by means of keeping the Middle East secure from the danger of Communism, the third most powerful Army Aviation in the world was born and flourished, its efficiency proven during its role...
Routledge, 2004. — 512 p. Arab involvement in the Jewish-Palestine conflict had started during the late 1930s, but it was only in the wake of the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947 that active military intervention was considered. The Arab League tried to form a unified army that would prevent the implementation of the Partition Resolution, but failed. In Egypt, the...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 320 p. In The Dictator's Army, Caitlin Talmadge presents a compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight very well―and sometimes very poorly. Talmadge's framework for understanding battlefield effectiveness focuses on four key sets of military organizational practices: promotion patterns, training...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 1043 p. This handbook provides critical analyses of the theory and practices of small arms proliferation and its impact on conflicts and organized violence in Africa. It examines the terrains, institutions, factors and actors that drive armed conflict and arms proliferation, and further explores the nature, scope, and dynamics of conflicts across the...
Routledge, 2022. — 239 р. — ISBN-13 9781032147154. — ISBN-10 1032147156. This book focuses on the Korean People's Army (KPA) - the armed forces of North Korea - covering its history, structural organisation and lives of the soldiers and officers within its ranks. Utilising extensive Korean, English, Russian and Chinese language sources, as well as multiple interviews with...
ISEAS Publishing, 2018. — 122 p. This study examines the impact of Doi Moi on the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), with particular attention being given to the period after its withdrawal from Cambodia. This study is divided into four chapters. The first provides a brief historical introduction. The second examines the changes ushered in during the early years of Doi Moi. The third...
Routledge, 2013. — 415 p. The Routledge Handbook of U.S. Military and Diplomatic History provides a comprehensive analysis of the major events, conflicts, and personalities that have defined and shaped the military history of the United States in the modern period. Each chapter begins with a brief introductory essay that provides context for the topical essays that follow by...
Toruń: Wyższa Szkoła Oficerska im. gen. J. Bema, 1998. — 207 s. Warto zwrócić uwagę, że przywołana książka jest jedyną pracą o charakterze taktycznym pozostawioną przez uchodzącego za genialnego stratega wojskowego i dowódcę Tadeusza Kościuszkę. W czasie, w którym Kościuszko pisał swoją pracę, była ona kwintesencją współczesnej artyleryjskiej wiedzy i doświadczenia w tym...
Routledge, 2007. — 224 p. US Defence Strategy from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom examines the thirty-year transformation in American military thought and defence strategy that spanned from 1973 through 2003. During these three decades, new technology and operational practices helped form what observers dubbed a 'Revolution in Military Affairs' in the 1990s and a 'New...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 340 p. The past two decades have witnessed the rapid proliferation of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in armed conflicts around the world, with PMSCs participating in, for example, offensive combat, prisoner interrogation and the provision of advice and training. The extensive outsourcing of military and security activities...
Temple University Press, 2016. — 224 p. Today’s warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic,...
Potomac Books, 2018. — 295 p. American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines carried whiskey at Yorktown, Gettysburg, Manila, and Da Nang. It bolstered their courage, calmed their nerves, and treated their maladies. As a serious American whiskey drinker, John C. Tramazzo noticed how military service and whiskey went hand in hand during his service as a commissioned officer in...
Ed. by Colonel Carl W. Reddel. — Washington, D.C.: United States Air Force Academy, Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, 1990. — xxii, 405 p. — ISBN: 0-912799-57-9. Acknowledgements The Twenty-Ninth Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History Introduction, Colonel Carl W. Reddel, USAF Soldiering in Tsarist Russia, John L. H. Keep The Military Legacy of...
Springer, 2023. — 189 p. Great powers have often found that military adventurism to force their will in distant lands comes with the risk of spending excessive military, economic, and moral capital to the extent that war is no longer sustainable. Written by a former BBC Afghanistan correspondent who set up the corporation’s bureau in Kabul in the early 1990s, this book draws...
Marine Corps University Press, 2016. — 260 p. The decade plus of U.S. military combat in Afghanistan and Iraq has resulted in an extraordinary amount of articles, books, documentaries, and films. As with many subjects in U.S. culture today, the resulting productions are often glamorized, politicized, or simply focused on only the most astonishing events of these two conflicts....
Ashgate, 2013. — 264 p. At the heart of this book is the problem of war termination. Britain won an almost unbroken string of tactical military victories during an undeclared war against the Republic of Indonesia in the 1960s, yet it proved difficult to translate this into strategic success. Using conflict termination theories, this book argues that British strategy during...
Routledge, 2001. — 382 p. This authoritative biographical guide to warfare in the twentieth century is at once fascinating reading and an invaluable work of reference for anyone interested in modern military history. As well as the First and Second World Wars, this Who's Who takes in key figures from conflicts in Vietnam, Korea and others. Those whose lives and careers are...
Preface, Part One: The development of. samurai warfare. 1. Early Samurai Warfare. The Ancestors of the Samurai. The Conscript Armies. The Rise of the Mounted. Warrior. The First Samurai. Early Samurai Battles. 2. Military Gentlemen. The Way of Horse and Bow. The Archery Duel. Single Combat and the Samurai. Sword. Single Combat and the Dagger. The Samurai in Group Combat. 3. The...
Warszawa: Edipresse, 2014. — 94 s. — (Wielka księga kawalerii polskiej 1918-1939. Tom 50). На польском языке. Организационная структура кавалерии. Часть 1: полк.
Headquarters, Department of the Army Press, 2019. — 92 p. When properly resourced and integrated, deception has the potential to deter or induce actions that are favorable to the force and can increase the success of friendly activity. In the same way that operations transition from one phase to the next, deception plans integrated into each phase and through each transition...
War Department Press, 1943. — 236 p. Issued by the Military Intelligence Division, United States War Department. This work is substantially a translation of an enemy document which has been edited in the style and format of War Department publications and rearranged in order to present the material in a more logical order than in the original text. All of the illustrations,...
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...
Air University Press, 1994. — 285 p. Maxwell Air force base Alabama 36112-6428. An essential part of the Air War College curriculum consists of the study of military history and specific campaigns. Part 1 of this manuscript presents an attempt to clarify the relationship between air power and maneuver warfare since 1939, a subject that derives its importance from the fact that...
Cassell Publishing, 2000. — 224 p. From Confucian China to the present day, warriors have understood that combat is an art, one requiring sharp, flexible minds capable of adapting quickly to constantly shifting situations. In a survey that looks widely across history and cultures, the theories of some of the finest thinkers and strategists unfold, illuminating the development...
London: Casemate, 2006. — 609 p. Mercenaries have been with us since the dawn of civilization, yet in the modern world they are little understood. While many of today's freelance fighters provide support for larger military establishments, others wage war where the great powers refuse to tread. In War Dog, Al Venter examines the latter world of mercenary fighters effecting...
Delhi: Foundation Books, 2012. — 556 p.
n the history of mankind, armies fought at the behest of a ruler to conquer and expand territories. In due course, war crafts were devised and war logistics were developed. However, armies' food remained much the same as ever for a very long time. Eventually science and technology played a crucial role in bringing army foods and...
El Cid Editor, 2015. — 185 p. During a decade of global counterterrorism operations and two extended counterinsurgency campaigns, the United States was confronted with a new kind of adversary. Without uniforms, flags, and formations, the task of identifying and targeting these combatants represented an unprecedented operational challenge. The existing, Cold War-era doctrinal...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 287 p. The formation of post-colonial states in Africa, and the Middle East gave birth to prolonged separatist wars. Exploring the evolution of these separatist wars, Yaniv Voller examines the strategies that both governments and insurgents employed, how these strategies were shaped by the previous struggle against European colonialism and...
Routledge, 2018. — 381 p. The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the US Military is the first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military. In twenty-one original essays, the contributors tackle themes including gendering the 'other', gender and war disability, gender and sexual violence, gender and...
SUN Press, 2019. — 362 p. This is the first attempt to bring together diverse scholars, using different lenses, to study South Africa’s Border War. As a book, it is critical in approach, provides deeper reflection, and focuses specifically on the SADF experience of the war. The result is a more complex picture of the war’s dynamics and its legacies. Although South Africa is a...
University of North Texas Press, 2015. — 258 p. In an increasingly urbanized world, urban terrain has become a greater factor in military operations. Simultaneously, advances in military technology have given military forces sharply increased capabilities. The conflict comes from how urban terrain can negate or degrade many of those increased capabilities. What happens when...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 356 p. This text explores the events of 1936, when a revolt broke out in Waziristan, a mountainous region of the North-West Frontier Province inhabited by warlike tribes. A Muslim holy man, the Faqir of Ipi, led the Wazirs against the occupying British-Indian regime for many years. The Wazirs' revolt was one of the greatest 20th-century South...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 375 p. War and landpower's role in the twenty-first century is not just about military organizations, tactics, operations, and technology; it is also about strategy, policy, and social and political contexts. After fourteen years of war in the Middle East with dubious results, a diminished national reputation, and a continuing drawdown of...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo 69, 1995. — 228 s.
Ta bogato ilustrowana książka przedstawia ewolucję sztuki wojennej oraz armii świata greckiego i rzymskiego od 1600 r. p.n.e. do 800 r. Tekst ilustruje 125 zdjęć, większość kolorowych, oraz ponad 250 wspaniałych rysunków, w tym 50 planów słynnych bitew toczonych na lądzie i morzu.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 265 p. From sensor-fuzed munitions and autonomous weapons, to ground moving target indication radar, laser vibrometers and artificial intelligence, the weapons of warfare are undergoing a rapid transformation, with modern technologies reshaping how armies intend to fight in the twenty-first century. The Arms of the Future analyses how the...
Praeger, 2007. — 208 p. Professional Military Education (PME) is broader and more rigorous than is widely understood in the United States. Improving educational programs within the military service branches is at the very center of ongoing force transformation efforts and advanced educational opportunities occur at various, set levels of military experience. Military education...
Oxford University Press, 1986. — 378 p. Conflict and intervention in the Middle East are not uncommon occurrences. Yet when civil strife erupted in Lebanon in 1975, the events that followed were unusual indeed. Unlike most patterns of intervention, Syria displayed remarkable tactical flexibility by first intervening on behalf of the rebels, its traditional allies, then shifting...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 254 p. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)―a senior group of officers who lead the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps―is perhaps the most influential military figure in the United States. The chairman is the primary military advisor to the president and is often the public face of the armed forces. As advocates for the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 397 p. A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of authority with the ascendancy of terror groups.
History Division United States Marine Corps, 2017. — 312 p. This volume presents a collection of 21 articles, interviews, and speeches describing many aspects of the U.S. Marine Corps’ participation in Operation Enduring Freedom from 2010 to 2014. This work is intended to serve as a general overview and provisional reference to inform both Marines and the general public until...
Duke University Press Books, 2021. — 304 p. In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964–1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle. In the memoirs of white soldiers fighting to defend white minority rule in Africa long after other countries were...
Routledge, 2020. — 270 p. This book examines the shape, sources and dangers of information warfare (IW) as it pertains to military, diplomatic and civilian stakeholders. Cyber warfare and information warfare are different beasts. Both concern information, but where the former does so exclusively in its digitized and operationalized form, the latter does so in a much broader...
University Press of Kentucky, 2013. — 275 p. Formally titled "General of the Army," the five-star general is the highest possible rank awarded in the U.S. Army in modern times and has been awarded to only five men in the nation's history: George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry H. Arnold, and Omar N. Bradley. In addition to their rank, these...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 264 p. Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and geography of Iraq, but Afghanistan remains a mystery....
Man-at-Arms First published in Great Britain in 2002 by Osprey Publishing Ems Cout, Chapel Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 9LP, United Kingdom ISBN: 1-84176-405-1
Casemate, 2021. — 224 p. The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of postwar Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length. Prepared in 1951 at the height of the Korean War by the Chief of Amphibious Warfare and the Commandant General Royal Marines, this...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018. — 441 p. This book fills a gap in the historiographical and theoretical fields of race, gender, and war. In brief, Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare (RGMWW) offers an introduction into how cultural constructions of identity are transformed by war and how they in turn influence the nature of military institutions and conflicts. Focusing on...
University of Nebraska Press, 2000. — 269 p. The Challenge of Change examines how military institutions attempted to meet the demands of the new strategic, political, and technological realities of the turbulent era between the First and Second World Wars. The contributors chose France, Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States as focus countries because...
Naval Institute Press, 2007. — 232 p. This handsome, large-format book takes the reader on an illustrated tour of the U.S. Army's hard-hitting airborne forces, from the original Parachute Test Platoon of 1940 to the multiple global commitment of the twenty-first century. Featuring more than 150 photographs, some rare or seldom seen and many in color, the work highlights the...
Warszawa: Wydawca Akademia Obrony Narodowej, 2006. — 300 s. Materiały z konferencji naukowej zorganizowanej w Akademii Obrony Narodowej w dniu 29 listopada 2005 roku.
Warszawa: Bellona, 2000. — 336 s. Wojny toczone od zarania ludzkości sprawiły, że wielcy mysliciele i dowódcy doszukiwać się zaczęli zasad i metod, których stosowanie zapewniłoby przewagę ich armii na polu walki. W niniejszej pracy zostały omówione dzieła, które powstały w różnych epokach i na różnych kontynentach. Na uwagę zasługuje wnikliwe omówienie XIX wiecznej myśli...
Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1988. — 344 p. Lech Wyszczelski – polski historyk wojskowości, profesor zwyczajny, pułkownik w stanie spoczynku. W 1973 ukończył Wojskową Akademię Polityczną na Wydziale Historyczno-Politycznym, doktorat uzyskał w 1979 (WAP), habilitował się w Akademii Sztabu Generalnego WP w 1986, a od 1998 posiada tytuł naukowy profesora. Wieloletni...
Warszawa: Neriton, 2009. — 570 s. Geneza myśli wojskowej oraz główne nurty i jej reprezentanci w starożytności i średniowieczu. Myśl wojskowa epoki odrodzenia i oświecenia. Geneza wojen i uzasadnienie konieczności ich prowadzenia. Myśl wojskowa od XIX wieku do wybuchu pierwszej wojny światowej. Kierunki rozwoju myśli wojskowej okresu międzywojennego 1918-1939. Wizja wojen i...
Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. — 442 p. Balanced, authoritative, and highly readable, this is the first book to give equal weight to the Vietnamese and American sides of the Vietname War. It is a riveting history of the war the U.S. fought with Vietnam, beginning with the aid given the French to recover their former colony, as well as a history of the war of resistance the...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 272 p. This study explores the genesis of the civil war in Somalia by analysing the defeat of Somalia in the 1977 Ogaden war, asserting that this defeat, which was prompted by the intervention of the USSR, was a turning point which unleashed long term socio-political forces that led to the collapse of the central government of the country. Muuse Yuusuf...
Boulder, 1981. — 224 p. It is Zamoyski first book of a long line and tell the story when once more Poland stood alone against the Soviets - Soviet-Polish War 1919-1920. There was virtual "help" from the French (amongst others the once to be president de Gaulle and the help of American-polish aviators). The Background The Birth of Two Armies. The Spring Offensive. The Battle of...
Libron, 2006. — 176 р. Dawny wyscig zbrojen toczony pomiedzy obroncami twierdz i oblegajacymi odzywa tylko w wyobrazni podrózujacych w czasie badaczy i archeologów, podobny bardziej do homeryckich opowiesci o Troi niz do dramatów znanych z codziennych wiadomosci. Ta skromna ksiazeczka jest próba takiej podrózy w czasie, odbytej dzieki uprzejmosci anonimowych fotografów sprzed...
Stanford Security Studies, 2010. — 241 p. When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.S. interests, and that cannot be adequately addressed through economic or political pressure, American policymakers and opinion formers have increasingly resorted to recommending the use of limited military force: that is, enough force to attempt to resolve the...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 312 p. — ISBN13 9781682475874. — ISBN10 1682475875. To Rule the Skies: General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War fills a critical gap in Cold War and Air Force history by telling the story of General Thomas S. Power for the first time. Thomas Power was second only to Curtis LeMay in forming the Strategic Air...
Twayne Publishers, 1967. — 502 p. This book describes and looks at the Western Military Experience and history of warfare from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. The authors examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those ranging from Han China and Assyria, Imperial Rome, and Napoleonic France to modern conflicts. They...
Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1975. — 331 s. (польською мовою).
В дослідженні проводится аналіз війскової справи й організації військ Речі Посполитої на фоні загальноєвропейського розвитку військового мистецтва Західної Європи та Близького Сходу із XV по XVIII століття. Аналізується склад військ, озброєння, захисні обладунки, тактика тощо.
М.: Книга, 2012. — 116 с. — ISBN: 973-5-91899-078-0.
Одной из ярких страниц военной истории античности является использование боевых слонов. Экзотические животные, привлекавшие внимание европейцев своим необычным видом и мощью, впервые появились в армии Александра Македонского и активно участвовали в войнах между наследниками его державы. Наряду с македонской фалангой боевые...
Вечерняя Винница, 2000. — 260 с. — ISBN: 966-621-018-5. Перед Вами книга "Полководцы и подвиги". Это не мемуары, не учебник и не художественный вымысел, а книга для чтения по военной истории. Она представляет собой сборник кратких очерков о войнах и армиях, полководцах и подвигах, военной науке и военном искусстве. В ней изложено основное содержание крупнейших сражений с глубокой...
С.-Пб.: Столич. скоропеч., 1902. — 331 c. Предисловие Перечень источников Введение Постоянные и наемные войска до эпохи возрождения включительно Армии Рима; войска феодальной эпохи. Развитие наемных войск в Италии; пехота; конница; артиллерия. Попытка Маккиавелли создать народную армию. Выводы Первые постоянные войска во Франции Падение феодального строя. Армия при Карле VII....
М.: Издание Литиздата НКИД, 1926. — 472 с.
Книге предпослана, обширная вступительная статья (занимающая 106 страниц) проф. Э. Д. Гримма под заглавием — «Политическая обстановка военных операций для захвата Константинополя и Проливов в 1915—1917 гг.» Автор не только дал интересный анализ печатаемых в книге секретных материалов, но всюду постарался сделать сопоставления их с...
Баку: Афполеграф, 2016. — 156 с. Книга “Военная история Азербайджана”, подготовленная в соответствии с указанием Президента страны, Верховного Главнокомандующего Вооруженными Силами Азербайджанской Республики господина Ильхам Алиева, состоит из семи томов. В ней впервые комплексно освещены основные военно-исторические события, происходившие на территории Азербайджана на...
Баку: Афполеграф, 2017. — 276 с. Книга “Военная история Азербайджана”, подготовлена в соответствии с указанием Президента страны, Верховного Главнокомандующего Вооруженными Силами Азербайджанской Республики Ильхам Алиева. В ней комплексно освещены основные военно-исторические события, на территории Азербайджана в период средневековья до начала XVI века на основе анализа широкого...
2-е изд. — М.; Л.: Гос. воен. изд-во, 1931. — 88 с.: черт. В уставе изложены свойства танков и бронеавтомобилей, а также организация и тактическое применение их в различные моменты боя. Широкое применение танков и бронеавтомобилей в мировой войне, равно как и усиленная работа после войны в английской армии по дальнейшему совершенствованию свойства боевых машин и форм применения их...
М.; Л.: Гос. изд-во. Отд. воен. литературы, 1928. — 95, [4] с.: черт., схем. В уставе изложено свойство танков и бронеавтомобилей, а организация и тактическое применение их в различные моменты боя. Широкое применение танков и бронеавтомобилей в мировой войне, усиленная работа после войны в английской армии по дальнейшему совершенствованию свойства бронеповозок и форм применения их...
Изд. 3-е, испр., доп. — Санкт-Петербург: Типография (б.) А.М. Котомина, 1880. — [4], 158, [1] с., 17 л. черт. Предмет военных сообщеній О дорогах Направление дороги Общий вид землянаго полотна дорог. Условия, которым должна удовлетворять дорога Устройство дорог на различных грунтах Каменныя дороги: булыжные и шоссе Железные дороги. Общие сведение об устройстве паровозных...
Москва: Воениздат, 1970. — 240 с. В книге рассматриваются современное состояние и перспективы развития воздушно-десантных войск основных стран НАТО. При описании средств парашютного и посадочного десантирования приводятся основные летно-технические характеристики боевых и транспортных самолетов, парашютных систем и т.д.
СПб.: Военная типография, 1871. — 101 с.
Справочник для "лиц, заведующих продовольственной частью в войсках и управлениях". В настоящее время представляет интерес, как источник сведений о быте войск.
Омск: Исторический архив Омской области, 2022. — 421 с. — ISBN 978-5-8042-0813-5 В настоящем сборнике документов представлены материалы из фондов Исторического архива Омской области, Архива УФСБ России по Омской области, Центрального архива Министерства обороны Российской Федерации, Государственного архива Новосибирской области, Архива УФСБ России по Новосибирской области по...
М.: Центр стратегических оценок и прогнозов, 2014.
В этой книге кратко говорится о зарождении террористической группировки "Исламское Государство Ирака и Леванта"; основная часть книги посвящена описанию целей, задач, способам действий этой организации, а также описанию взаимоотношений этой организации с другими террористическими группировками по состоянию на 2014 год.
М.: Гос. воен. изд-во, 1931. — 125 с., 2 с. объявл.: ил. Принципы применения авиации Сосредоточение в начальном периоде войны Маневр Сосредоточение или маневр воздушных сил и постоянство зон действия Сосредоточение или маневр воздушных сил и единство и непрерывность командования Авиация в прикрытии Численное соотношение воздушных и земных сил в сражении Применение авиации над...
Пер. с фр., примеч. А. В. Банникова; вступит. статья А. А. Попова, А. В. Банникова. – СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2011. – 394 с. – (Historia Militaris). — ISBN: 978-5-8465-1173-6 (Филологический факультет); ISBN: 978-5-98187-879-4 (Нестор-История) Книга П. Д. Арманди, ветерана Наполеоновских войн, была опубликована издательством «Librairie d’Amyot» в...
Санкт-Петербург : Тип. штаба войск гвардии и Петербургского военного окр., 1909. — [4], 20 с. Книга, написанная Генерального штаба капитаном Ассановичем рассказывает о полтавской битве 1709 г. и о роли в ней Петра Первого.
История отечественной военно-энциклопедической литературы / А.И. Бабин, Д.И. Винокуров, М.М. Кирьян, И.И. Ростунов; АН СССР, ИВИ МО СССР. — М.: Наука, 1980. — 174 с. Монография представляет собой краткий исторический очерк возникновения и развития отечественной военно-энциклопедической литературы с начала XVIII в. до наших дней. Она освещает основные вопросы истории русской...
СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ; Нестор-История, 2011. — 264 с.: ил. — (Historia Militaris). — ISBN: 978-5-8465-1105-7; ISBN: 978-5-98187-853-4. В книге рассматриваются этапы развития позднеримской военной системы: ее формирование, длившееся более полувека и завершенное в правление императора Константина 1 (306–337 гг.) и его сыновей; ее модификации, продолжавшиеся вплоть...
СПб.: Евразия, 2012. — 530 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91852-054-3. Книга посвящена античной элефантерии, зародившейся во времена Александра Великого и ставшей затем неотъемлемой частью армий крупнейших эллинистических государств и Карфагена. В течение двух столетий этот вид войск оказывал сильнейшее влияние на развитие военного дела. Основные принципы взаимодействия элефантерии с...
СПб.: Изд-во СПбГУКИ, 2013. — 169 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94708-150-3. Книга посвящена одному из наиболее интересных сюжетов, касающихся военного дела Древнего мира – боевым слонам, чья история прослеживается от эпохи Александра Великого до периода правления Сасанидов. Предпринимается первая в отечественной историографии попытка обобщить и систематизировать весь накопленный материал...
М.; Л.: Гос. изд-во. Отд. воен. лит-ры, 1930. — 140 с.: схем. Предисловие К.А. Неймана Введение Условия подготовки Целевая установка Метод подготовки. Общие замечания и основные принципы Объём подготовки Планировка работ по подготовке Рабочие карточки Примеры упражнений с боевыми стрельбами Тактические учения роты и батальона с боевой подготовкой Заключение примечания К.А. Неймана
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1988. — 303 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-235-00312-3. Книга о героическом прошлом нашего народа, о его славных деяниях в борьбе за Отечество, против иноземных захватчиков и поработителей. В центре повествования — история армии, русских вооруженных сил. Но показана она не только через походы и сражения, но и через поступки, характеры выдающихся полководцев и народных...
М.: Владос, 1999. – 148 с. Перед вами комплексное издание, содержащее подробный рассказ об основных событиях и сражениях Отечественной войны 1812г. и заграничных походах, составе и организации русской армии. Благодаря художнику О. К. Пархаеву перед читателем пройдет строй генералов, офицеров, рядовых - героев войны в полном вооружении, выполненном в мельчайших деталях. Издание...
СПб.: Типо-литография Шредера, 1907. — 110 с. Четыре чтения в Военном и Морском отделах Императорского Русского Технического Общества и Лиги Возрождения Флота в октябре 1906 года.
М.: Красная Звезда, 2022. — 112 с., 52 ил. Учебное пособие посвящено истории комплектования армии России военнослужащими на добровольной основе в период с XVIII века по настоящее время. Пособие предназначено для использования в военно-политической работе с личным составом Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации.
Екатеринбург: Гуманитарный университет, 2006. — 356 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-7741-0075-8. Рассматриваются вопросы военной истории, военная культура и военное искусство Евразии. Для исследователей, преподавателей, аспирантов, студентов исторических, юридических, политологических, социально-экономических специальностей, курсантов военных училищ, а также для всех интересующихся военной...
М.; Л.: Гос. изд-во. Отд. воен. литературы, 1927. — 168 с.: черт., схем. От редакции Введение к переводу Ось связи Устройство оси связи Техническое значение оси связи Оперативное значение оси связи Тактическое значение оси связи Рама связи. Её сооружение и значение для службы связи дивизии в маневренной войне. Общие сведения Проволочная связь Сооружение дивизионной телефонной...
Генеральный штаб Вооруженных Сил СССР. — М.: Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР, 1964. — 184 с. Наставление по полевой службе штабов содержит общие указания по работе штабов объединений, соединений и частей Сухопутных войск, Войск противовоздушной обороны страны и Военно-воздушных сил. В нем устанавливается единый порядок оформления боевых документов и даются...
[сборник] — Москва: АСТ, 2017. — 218, [5] с.: ил. — (Кодекс чести). — ISBN: 978-5-17-099460-1. В русской армии офицерское звание всегда определяло принадлежность не к социальной группе, но к касте, которая жила по своим неписаным законам – по кодексу чести. В том случае, если уложения армейских уставов вступали в конфликт с положениями кодекса, выбор офицера был очевиден – в...
М.: АСТ: Астрель, 2009. — 303 с. Книга включает в себя 50 очерков о наиболее значительных изобретениях в области военной технологии. Переходя от дротиков Древнего мира, римских гладиусов и дракаров викингов к бипланам Первой мировой войны, подводным лодкам и баллистическим ракетам, автор рассматривает историю человеческой цивилизации через призму появления новых видов...
Военно-исторический очерк. — Минск: Военная Академия Республики Беларусь, 2013. — 429 с. Военно-исторический очерк посвящен 60-летию высшей военной школы Республики Беларусь, история которой неразрывно связана с историей первого военного вуза (ГВИРТУ, МВИРТУ, МВИЗРУ, МВВИУ), последующих вузов: МВВПОВУ, МВВПУ, МВВКУ; и ВА РБ. В книге приведены исторические предпосылки и основные...
СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ, 2008. — 782 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8465-0633-6. Монография посвящена изучению вооружения и военного искусства монгольских и тюркских кочевых народов Центральной Азии и Южной Сибири в эпоху позднего Средневековья и Нового времени. В книге анализируются все основные виды оружия дистанционного и ближнего боя, а также средства защиты, применявшиеся...
С.-Петербург: Типография В.С. Балашева, 1885. — 216 с. Павел Осипович Бобровский (1832-1905) - русский генерал, военный юрист и историк, сенатор. В своей работе автор рассматривает: "1) Обстоятельства и условия, определившие неизбежность перехода западной Европы от войск временных и наемных к войскам постоянным и национальным (глава I-я). 2) Устройство и содержание войск в...
М.: Техника - молодежи, 1994. — 68 с.
Военная организация древней и московской Руси принципиально разнилась с западноевропейской. Там армии формировались за счет наемников. На Руси издревле бытовал принцип повинности – обязанности каждого защищать свою землю. Московская рать была первой национальной армией в мире. И Петровская армия почти весь XVIII век была единственной...
Коллективная монография под ред. д.п.н. проф. В.Л. Пашута. — СПб.: Военный институт физической культуры, 2019. — 262 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91076-188-3 Коллективная монография рассчитана на курсантов, слушателей, адъюнктов, преподавателей, командиров и воспитателей, других должностных лиц института, проходящих и проводящих подготовку в военно-учебном заведении, а также интересующихся...
2-е изд. — Пер. с нем. В. Микулина. — Пред. С. М. Буденного. — М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны союза ССР, 1936. — 184 с. Будучи ценным пособием по вопросам конницы для общевойсковых командиров, труд Брандта не менее интересен и для самих конников. Содержание: Предисловие к первому изданию перевода Предисловие автора Исторический обзор Задача армейской...
Мн.: ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2001. - 400 с.: ил. Книга Генриха Отто Рихарда Брикса расширяет и дополняет «Историю конницы» Дж. Денисона. В первой части основное вни мание обращено на историю организации кавалерии, в нее также включены материалы об использовании в армии слонов, верблюдов и боевых колесниц. Дополнения были сделаны к истории польской, литовской, испанской,...
Москва: Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР, 1953. — 145 с. Изложены вопросы воспитания волевых качеств офицера в условиях его служебной деятельности. Основы воспитания воли советского офицера . Основные моменты волевого действия, главный мотив. Волевые качества, необходимые офицеру. Основы воспитания воли: перспектива, мировоззрение, патриотизм, понимание своего...
Монография. — 2-е издание. — М.: Высший военный редакционный совет, 1922. — 279 p. Монография посвящена вопросам эволюции военного искусства в императорской России с петровского времени до русской турецкой войны 1877-1878 гг. С полным комплектом карт. Александр Иванович Верховский (1886 — 1938) — русский военный деятель. Военный министр Временного правительства (1917)....
Владимир: Аркаим, 2006. — 480 с. — ISBN: 5-93767-023-Х. За последние годы возрос интерес граждан России, особенно молодежи, к Ракетным войскам стратегического назначения. Книга об истории формирования и развития ракетной армии, как части РВСН, будет способствовать патриотическому воспитанию молодого поколения, так как позволит узнать о людях и оружии, которое принято на...
Краткий исторический очерк. — Пенза: Пензенское высшее артиллерийское инженерное ордена Красной Звезды училище, 1966. — 195 с. Автор: генерал-полковник артиллерии Волкотрубенко Иван Иванович. К сожалению, по истории артиллерийского снабжения трудов нет, если не считать книги бывшего начальника Главного артиллерийского управления (ГАУ) царской армии генерала А. Малиновского....
Учебник. — М.: Общевойсковая академия, 2008. — 234 с. В учебнике рассмотрены становление и эволюция российской системы государственного и военного управления. В нем рассматривается государственное и военное управление в современной России. Структура учебника и приложения к нему отражают основные исторические этапы развития российского государственного и военного управления....
М.: Центрполиграф, 2009. — 384 с.
На примере типичной европейской крепости, которая здесь называется Ла Рош-Пон, известный французский реставратор и историк архитектуры Виолле-ле-Дюк рассматривает этапы развития фортификационных сооружений и осадных орудий на протяжении более двух тысяч лет. Автор рассказывает о тонкостях политических интриг и проблемах религиозных конфликтов,...
СПб.: Н. Греч, 1826. — 247 с.
Представляет собой 80 рисунков различного рода эволюций войск в сопровождении 167 страниц поясняющего текста. Может представлять интерес для реконструкторов, иллюстраторов, постановщиков исторический фильмов.
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Л.: Воен. изд-во Ленингр. воен. округа, 1924. — 327 с.: схем.; 27 см. — Тираж 5000 экз. Настоящий труд имеет целью изложить основные данные той отрасли военных знаний, которая изучает армию, как один из элементов войны, устройство войск, управление ими, их хозяйство и т. п., т. е. организацию или устройство вооруженных сил в широком смысле этого понятия, в применении к Красной...
Петроград, издано в типографии Главного управления уделов, автор Энгельман В., 1916 г., 35 стр., язык: русский, дореформенный
В брошюре представляется информация о морском бое в годы первой мировой войны между главными силами английского и германского флотов 18-19 мая 1916 г. В издании помещены портреты английских адмиралов, планы боя, карта и чертежи германских судов.
М.: Воениздат, 1971. — 176 с. На большом фактическом материале периода первой и второй мировых войн показывается роль экономики в войне; разоблачаются антинародная, паразитическая сущность империализма и те последствия, которые несут народам империалистические войны. Раскрывается экономическая подготовка США и других империалистических стран к новой мировой войне, дается...
Москва, 2009. — 95 с. — ISBN: 5915680402. Гусары полка Бершени и Конфлан, конные егеря Фишера и "вольные легионы" блестящей эпохи Франции середины XVIII в. - все они, и многие другие формирования призвали к жизни особый род войск, которому вскоре надлежало сыграть одну из главных ролей на полях Европейских сражений: лёгкую кавалерию. С момента начала Французских революционных...
Санкт-Петербург: Военная типография императрицы Екатерины Великой, 1913. — 486 с. Официальный циркуляр содержит большое количество информации о русской армии указанного периода.
М.: Кучково поле, 2018. — 352 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-9950-0919. Авторский коллектив: В.П. Горемыкин (руководитель), Ю.П. Бобров, Р.А. Васильев, С.А. Боцвин, И.С. Науменко, О.Е. Алпеев, В.В. Изонов, А.В. Козлов, С.А. Корин, Д.Г. Мартиросян, А.Ш. Салихов, А.В. Шишов. Книга посвящена 100-летию со дня образования Главного управления кадров Министерства обороны Российской Федерации....
Харків: Фоліо, 2018. — 971 с. Військова справа охоплює всі сторони існування і розвитку будь-якого суспільства, а також стосунки між його членами. Виробнича культура, розвиток і прогрес технології, налагодження виробництва і поява нових технічних засобів завжди пов’язані з війною. Таким чином, можна стверджувати, що військова історія фактично є найбільш повною історією...
Харків: Фоліо, 2019. — 784 с. Військова справа охоплює всі сторони існування і розвитку будь-якого суспільства, а також стосунків між його членами. Виробнича культура, розвиток і прогрес технологій, налагодження виробництва і поява нових технічних засобів завжди пов’язані з війнами. Таким чином можна стверджувати, що військова історія фактично є найповнішою історією людського...
Харків: Фоліо, 2017. — 894 с. Військова справа охоплює всі сторони існування і розвитку будь-якого суспільства, а також стосунки між його членами. Виробнича культура, розвиток і прогрес технології, налагодження виробництва і поява нових технічних засобів завжди пов’язані з війною. Таким чином, можна стверджувати, що військова історія фактично є найбільш повною історією...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 414 с. — (Россия забытая и неизвестная. Российский образ службы). — ISBN: 5-9524-0605-X.
Книга посвящена истории и характеристике Русского офицерского корпуса от середины XVII до начала XX века. Современные читатели, включая военных, не знают о нем почти ничего, либо имеют превратное представление, основанное на однобоких советских стереотипах. В...
Монография. — М.: Воениздат, 1977. — 415 с. В труде рассматриваются актуальные проблемы марксистско-ленинского учения о войне и армии. Коллектив, создавший эту книгу, стремился широко использовать богатое теоретическое наследие классиков марксизма-ленинизма, решения и документы КПСС и всего мирового коммунистического движения, полнее отразить огромный опыт руководства нашей...
М.: Государственное военное издательство Наркомата Обороны СССР, 1937. - 216 с. "30 декабря 1936 введён в действие Временный полевой устав РККА (ПУ-36), четко определивший роль и место родов войск в бою и операции. Его основные положения учитывали значительные изменения в технической оснащённости и организации всех видов и родов войск, достигнутые в 30-х гг." Временный Полевой...
3-е изд. — СПб.: Тип. Штаба войск гвардии и Петербургского военного округа, 1884. — 62 с. Работа профессора Николаевской Академии Генерального штаба, посвящённая устройств генеральных штабов в ведущих в военном отношении странах Европы.
С.-Петербург : Тип. Штаба войск Гвардии и Петерб. воен. окр., 1888. — [4], II, 44 с. В книге учебнике для слушателей Николаевской Академии Генерального штаба Российской империи, на основе законоположений и личного опыта изложены состав и особенности службы по Генеральному штабу в русской императорской армии.
М.: Мегаполис, 2014. — 744, с ил. Под общей редакцией начальника Генерального штаба Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации генерала армии В. В. Герасимова ISBN 978-5-9906160-0-4 (т. 1) ISBN 978-5-9906160-2-8 В военно-историческом труде на основе современных достижений отечественной и зарубежной военно-исторической науки, с привлечением широкой источниковой базы (в том числе...
СПб.: Типография Морского Министерства, 1843. — 94 с. Перечень кораблей, построенных для Балтийского флота с 1827 по 1843 год с указанием их строителей, места и продолжительности постройки.
Монография. — Томск: Изд-во НТЛ, 2009. — 468 с. — ISBN: 5-89503-420-0. В монографии на основе широких архивных и документальных источников, воспоминаний участников боевых действий Второй мировой войны, опубликованных и собранных автором, рассматриваются вопросы подготовки командных кадров для фронта в военных училищах, школах и на курсах на территории Сибирского военного округа...
М.: Информ-Знание, 2010. — 192 с. Настоящее издание представляет собой исследование об истории создания и боевом пути 166-й стрелковой дивизии, сформированной в г. Томске в конце 1939 г. Впервые история этой героической дивизии практически воссоздана на архивных материалах. Кроме того, в книге помещены в качестве приложения найденные в архивах материалы и газетные публикации...
Томск: НТЛ, 2012. — 428 с. — ISBN: 5-89503-504-7. В монографии на основе исследования широких архивных и документальных источников рассматривается история Томского пехотного полка на фоне событий, происходящих в России в XVIII - XX вв. Многие документы публикуются впервые. Предназначена для специалистов-историков, музейных работников, организаций РОСТО, военных комиссариатов по...
Белград, 1923. — 71 с. Конницы всех европейских армий вступили во всемирную войну, исповедуя учения "шока". Картины конных атак эпохи Фридриха и Наполеона упорно гипнотезировали военные умы. Правда. войны 1870-1871 года и особенно позднейшие: Англо-Бурская и Русско-Японская, заставили внести поправки. Но это были только поправки; густое наслоение уступок современности в новых...
Уппсала: Uppsala University, 2017. — 318 с. Взгляд из Швеции. Если тебя ругают враги, значит идешь правильным курсом! Последние четыре года стали периодом военных побед, по которым, как выяснилось, четверть века скучали российские граждане. Все началось в феврале 2014-го, когда «зеленые вежливые люди» заблокировали здание местного парламента в Крыму, перерезали все транспортные...
СПб.: Норма, 2019. — 360 с. Какой должна быть армия сегодня? Как проходила военная реформа в постсоветской России и к каким парадоксальным результатам привела? Почему в нашей стране в последнее десятилетие идет активная милитаризация сознания и есть ли шанс избежать такой тенденции? Об этих и многих других актуальных проблемах, связанных с взаимодействием представителей высших...
М.: Вече, 2006. - 352 с. Российская императорская гвардия, чье начало было положено еще Петром Великим, оставалась не только избранным придворным войском, но и особой средой, обогатившей русскую духовность и культуру такими талантами, как Гавриил Державин, Михаил Лермонтов, Владимир Одоевский, митрополит Серафим и Юрий Галич. О гвардии писали Александр Пушкин и Николай Гумилев,...
Барнаул: Изд-во Алтайского ГУ, 2006. — 40 с.
Библиографический указатель составлен для студентов, магистрантов и аспирантов, специализирующихся на кафедре археологии, этнографии и источниковедения Алтайского государственного университета. В него включены монографии, тематические сборники, статьи из периодических и других изданий на русском языке. Указатель также рассчитан на...
Монография. — Хабаровск: Тихоокеанский государственный университет (ТОГУ), 2021. — 325 с. — ISBN 978-5-7389-3184-0. В монографии отражены результаты многолетних авторских исследований Николаевской-на-Амуре крепости и натурных обследований крепости в период 1978-1986 гг. Показаны выполненные автором обмерные чертежи, зарисовки, описание и фотофиксация более 40 крепостных...
СПб.: издал В.Березовский, тип.Г.А.Шумахера и Б.Д.Брукера, 1913. — 428 с.
Собрание документов (правил, положений, инструкций и т.п.), относящихся к призыву на воинскую службу, организации допризывного обучения и сборов запасных, социальным льготам членам семей призванных, перевозкам призванных и пр.
Петроградъ: Типографія Тренке и Фюсно, 1916. — 424 с. Дореформенная орфография. Служебная книжка строевого офицера Русской армии начала XX века, дополненная всеми законоположениями и разъяснениями, объявленными по 1 мая 1916 года.
СПб.: типография Морского Министерства, 1871. — 170 с.
"Исторический и стратегический этюд Ришильда Гривеля, корабельного капитана. Атака и оборона берегов и портов. Война в открытом море"
2-е изд. — М.: Госиздат, 1921. — 46 с. Я не предполагал, что мне придется выпустить 2-е издание настоящей брошюры: написана она была для заграничных товарищей и лишь в небольшом количестве выпущена на русском языке. Однако, ряд требований на брошюру со стороны русских товарищей побуждает меня выпустить ее 2-м изданием. Загруженность работой не дала мне возможности основательно...
Монография. – М.: Общевойсковая академия, 2007. — 233 с. Введение. Военное искусство в русско-японской войне 1904-1905 гг. Военное искусство в первой мировой войне . Общий ход военных действий, особенности стратегии воюющих сторон. Опыт построения и ведения обороны. Обзор военных действий и военно-политические итоги Гражданской войны в России. Взгляды на оборонительную операцию и...
Учебное пособие. — Ярославль: Ярославский государственный университет им. П.Г. Демидова (ЯрГУ), 2014. — 68 с. Текст лекций содержит характеристику взглядов наиболее ярких авторов основных жанров античной военной литературы, списки источников к каждой теме. Предназначен для студентов, обучающихся по направлениям 030600.62, 030600.68. История (дисциплины «Древние цивилизации:...
Изд. 2-е. — М.: Либроком, 2011. — 240 с. В настоящей книге, написанной русским генералом Л.В. Де-Виттом, подробно исследуется вопрос о вооружении конницы и владении оружием во время боя. Первая глава содержит исторический очерк вооружения конницы в разных странах с древних времен до конца XX века. Вторая глава посвящена описанию предметов вооружения конницы. Автор рассматривает...
М.: Либроком, 2011. — 242 с. — (Энциклопедия конника). — ISBN: 978-5-397-01982-8 В настоящей книге, написанной русским генералом Л.В.Де-Виттом, подробно исследуется вопрос о вооружении конницы и владении оружием во время боя. Первая глава содержит исторический очерк вооружения конницы в разных странах с древних времен до конца XIX века. Вторая глава посвящена описанию предметов...
Монография. — М.: Военный университет, 2018. — 284 с. Монография посвящена эволюции рассмотрения в дореволюционной Государственной думе России – нижней палате парламента – актуальных военных проблем в период ее функционирования, от создания до начала революционных событий 1917 г. В ней изложены результаты анализа полномочий и роли Государственной думы в системе высших органов...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1999. — 418 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему работами и документами. Кроме того, труд выдержан в...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1999. — 354 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему работами и документами. Кроме того, труд выдержан в...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1996. — 450 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-02-028331-2 (Т. III). — ISBN: 5-02-028209-X. — ISBN: 5-87399-041-7 (Т. III). — ISBN: 5-87399-011-5. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1936. — 460 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1937. — 396 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1938. — 518 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1938. — 426 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
СПб.: Наука; Ювента, 1997. — 370 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-02-028209. — ISBN: 5-02-026768-6 (Т. IV). — ISBN: 5-87399-011-5. — ISBN: 5-87399-016-6 (Т. IV). Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники,...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1937. — 400 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1939. — 420 с. "Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему работами...
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны Союза ССР, 1939. — 257 с. Труд Дельбрюка опирается на огромную историческую и военно-историческую литературу, главным образом немецкую, и сам представляет крупное явление в немецкой историографии. Автор изучил многочисленные источники, начиная от древнегреческих и кончая швейцарскими хрониками и современными ему...
Пер. с англ. С. Федорова. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2014. — 758 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5109-4. Джордж Тейлор Денисон, профессиональный военный, автор многих работ по военному делу, создал уникальный труд по всеобщей истории конницы с древнейших времен до второй половины XIX века. На примере величайших сражений автор проследил, как менялась роль и значение конницы в военных действиях...
СПб.: П.П. фон Дервиз, 1897. — 477 с. Книга военного специалиста Джорджа Денисона, впервые опубликованная в России в 1897 г., позволяет проследить историю конницы как рода войск с VII в. до н. э. до XIX в. Автор на примере знаменитых сражений показывает, как менялись тактика и организация конницы на протяжении многих веков. Труд Дж. Денисона является единственной обобщающей...
Москва: Воениздат, 1989. — 231 с. Книга является сборником примеров боевого применения подразделений и частей фугасных, ранцевых и танковых огнемётов, а также примеры применения дымовых средств подразделениями и частями Сухопутных войск и авиации в годы Великой Отечественной войны. Книга рекомендовалась для слушателей и курсантов военных учебных заведений а также для сержантов и...
София, 1903. — 132 с. В книгата се сравняват военните възможности на българската и османската армия в началото на XX век. Обръща се внимание на слабостите и възможностите на двете армии, които биха решили изхода от една евентуална война.
София: Академично издателство Проф. Марин Дринов, 1999. — 283 с. В книгата са проследени различните форми на военни конфликти по света през XX век, както и промяната на характера им чрез анализ на еволюцията в областта на изобретяването на нови оръжия и в сферата на стратегическата военна мисъл.
СПб.:Военно-исторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 2015. - 536с. Тяжеловооруженная конница сяньби-муюнов. Пропаганда и контрпропаганда Красной армии в ходе подготовки и проведения Берлинской наступательной операции. Основные тенденции развития политико-воспитательной работы в РККА в ходе военной реформы 1924–1925 годов. Из истории развития реактивной...
СПб.:Военно-исторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 2015. - 416с. Экспонирование памятников военной истории в сети Интернет: подходы и контексты. «Не дремлет враждебная всему русскому демократическая партия…»: князь Н.П. Вадбольский о российской политике в Иране накануне Великой войны (по материалам рапортов). Основные направления социальной деятельности...
СПб.:Военно-исторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 2015. - 424с.
Осовецкая крепость накануне и в годы Первой мировой войны.
Меч или кинжал? К вопросу атрибуции и назначения некоторых видов холодного клинкового оружия.
Генеральный кригерехт в 1804–1805 годах (организационно-структурный аспект).
Иранское холодное оружие из частных собраний в новом...
СПб.:Военно-исторический музей артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 2015. - 488с.
Введение.
Право войны в русско-китайском военном конфликте в Приамурье (XVII век).
Вопросы совершенствования средств вооруженной борьбы и предметов снабжения армии в работе Особого совещания по обороне государства (1915–1917).
Грузинские палаши «кабиани» в собрании ВИМАИВиВ.
Командные...
Интернет-публикация без места издания и издательства, 2012. — 88 с.
Пер. Д.А. Нагорной с французского издания L'Art Militaire Francois. Paris. 1696. Содержит гравюры и перевод их подписей, изображающие различные строевые приёмы, исполняемые офицерами, прапорщиками, сержантами, гренадерами, мушкетерами и пикинерами французской армии.
Для любителей реконструкции и военной...
СПб., 1807. — 42 с. Барон Генрих Жомини, Антуан-Анри Жомини (фр. Antoine-Henri Jomini; 6 марта 1779 — 24 марта 1869) — французский и русский военный писатель, французский бригадный генерал, российский генерал от инфантерии (1826). Оставил мемуары по истории наполеоновских войн.
Санктпетербургъ: Въ Типографіи Временнаго Департамента Военныхъ Поселеній, 1836 г. - [20] с.; ил.
Жомини. Наука о большихъ военныхъ дѣйствіяхъ / Извлечено из сочиненія Генерала Жомини: Traité des grandes opérations militaires, подъ руководствомъ самаго Автора подполковникомъ Языковымъ. Атласъ чертежамъ къ наукѣ о большихъ военныхъ дѣйствіяхъ.
В атласе, подготовленном...
Санктпетербургъ: Въ Типографіи Временнаго Департамента Военныхъ Поселеній, 1836 г. - Часть II. — VII, 354 с.
Жомини. Наука о большихъ военныхъ дѣйствіяхъ / Извлечено из сочиненія Генерала Жомини: Traité des grandes opérations militaires, подъ руководствомъ самаго Автора подполковникомъ Языковымъ.
Содержание: .
Кампанія 1759 года.
О дѣйствіяхъ Французской и...
Санктпетербургъ: Въ Типографіи Временнаго Департамента Военныхъ Поселеній, 1836 г. - Часть І. — VII, 506 с.
Жомини. Наука о большихъ военныхъ дѣйствіяхъ / Извлечено из сочиненія Генерала Жомини: Traité des grandes opérations militaires, подъ руководствомъ самаго Автора подполковникомъ Языковымъ.
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Краткое обозрѣніе первыхъ войнъ Фридриха отъ 1740 до 1745 года....
М.: Государственное военное издательство наркомата обороны СССР, 1939. — 223 с. В I томе своего классического труда Жомини прежде всего выясняет значение теории военного искусства и дает его подразделение на отдельные дисциплины, а затем рассматривает политические и стратегические вопросы, связанные с ведением войн, иллюстрируя свои соображения и выводы ссылками на военную...
Монография. — Алматы: Қазақ университеті, 2014. — 272 с. В монографии на основе широкого круга источников анализируются проблемы историографии военного дела кочевников Евразии. Отдельное место занимают вопросы историографии военного дела казахов. Данная работа является первым исследованием в казахстанской науке историографии, систематизирующем дореволюционную, советскую,...
Издание 11-е. — Санкт-Петербург: В. Березовский, 1908. В книге расписана вся юридическая и практическая стороны службы адъютанта: его продвижение по карьерной лестнице, обучение, отставка и т. д.
Санкт-Петербург: Печатано в Военной тип. (в здании Главнаго штаба), 1872. — 415 с. Полевая памятная книжка для офицеров, содержащая справочные материалы по организации русской армии, размещению и передвижению войск, по службе в поле, полевому письмоводству, сведения пго производству военно-топографических работ, а также вспомогательные сведения по разным отраслям военного дела.
СПб.: Алетейя, 2022. — 320 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-00165-448-3. На фундаменте письменных источников исследуется «Наука побеждать» как вневременное универсальное учение о ведении войны, которым следует каждодневно руководствоваться при обучении и воспитании современных военнослужащих. На основе впервые публикующихся документов предпринята попытка по-новому взглянуть на некоторые...
2-е изд. испр., доп. — М.-Л.: Государственное издательство, 1928. — 164 с. Настоящий труд представляет собою диссертацию, поданную мною в 1914 году в Академию генерального штаба. Эта работа после рассмотрения ее комиссией была предварительно назначена к печати в журнале «Известия военной академии». Однако печатание в журнале не было закончено {отпечатано около 1/3) ввиду...
Курсъ старшаго класса Николаевской Академіи Генеральнаго Штаба. — С. -Петербургъ: Типо-Литографія Ландау, 1898.
Язык - русский (дореформенный)
Передовой театр
Театр левого берега р. Вислы
Варшавский район
Радомский район
Театр правого берега р. Вислы
Люблинский район
Плоцкий район
р. Буг
Ломжинский район
Седлецкий район
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Учебное пособие по дисциплине «История вооруженных сил России». — М.: Перо, 2017. — 107 с. В учебном пособии представлена авторская концепция истории рекрутской повинности в России в период с 1699 по 1874 годы как исторического явления, дана периодизация данного процесса, детально показаны государственная политика в сфере рекрутчины, система раскладки рекрутской повинности,...
СПб.: тип. Гл. упр. уделов, 1903. — 143 с. В книге приводится много интересных и полезных сведений о внутренней жизни пехоты французской армии. Издание начинается с описания казарменного устройства: помещения рот, столовых, размещения унтер-офицеров, тиров, манежа, полевой гимнастики и т.п. Отдельным разделом даются сведения: о занятиях с офицерами, военных беседах и военных...
Санкт-Петербург : тип. Гл. упр. уделов, 1903. — [2], II, 143 с. Передовыии частями французской арміи на западной и югозападной границахъ, кромѣ кавалеріи, являются стрѣлки, или, какъ ихъ называютъ во Франціи, шассёры (chasseurs à pieds). Части эти, помимо отличій въ формѣ отъ остальной нѣхоты, отличій, для французской арміи весьма характерныхъ, какъ, напримѣръ, отсутствіе...
Создано в интеллектуальной издательской системе Ridero, 2018. ISBN: 978-5-4496-0174-2 Впервые на русском языке представлено всеобъемлющее собрание принципов и правил классической военной мысли Китая – извлечённых из широкого круга источников, как более, так и менее известных, и ориентированных на повседневное использование. Проверенные опытом почти в три тысячелетия и...
Сост. ген.-майором Максимовским и полк. Хорошхиным, под руковод. ген.-лейт. Богдановича. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1879. — XIII, 421, [62] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Сост. ген.-майором Максимовским, ген.-майором Шильдером и полк. Хорошхиным, под руковод. ген.-лейт. Богдановича. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1879. — XI, 477, [114] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Сост. ген.-лейт. Богдановичем и полк. Хорошхиным. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1879. — VIII, 371, [46] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Сост. ген.-майором Шильдером и полк. Хорошхиным, под руковод. ген.-лейт. Богдановича. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1880. — XV, 543, [124] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Сост. ген.-лейт. Богдановичем, ген.-майором Максимовским и полк. Хорошхиным. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1880. — VII, 326, [34] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Сост. полк. Хорошхиным и Еврейновым, под руковод. ген.-лейт. Богдановича. — Санкт-Петербург : тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1881. — XI, 424, [188] с. Основательная работа в 6-ти томах по истории военного управления в России от начала правления Александра Второго до 1880 г.
Кострома: типография Военной академии химической защиты имени Маршала Советского Союза С.К. Тимошенко, 1983. — 116 с. Химические войска и химическая служба в эпоху империализма и годы первой мировой войны. Химические войска и химическая служба в годы иностранной военной интервенции и гражданской войны. Химические войска и химическая служба в годы строительства вооруженных сил в...
Варна; Велико Търново: Зограф; Абагар, 2004. — 218 с. Оръжие за далечен бой. Оръжие за близък бой. Защитно въоръжение. Снаряжение на конника и коня. Заключение. Литература. Каталог. Албум.
Ростов-на-Дону: Книга, 1998. — 384 с. В книге с максимальной полнотой и документальной достоверностью рассказывается об истории создания, становления, реформирования Северо-Кавказского военного округа, о ратных подвигах воинов-северокавказцев в годы гражданской и Великой Отечественной войн, их участии в боевых действиях за пределами нашей Родины, в локальных военных конфликтах....
Варшава, Типография Окружного Штаба, 1902.
В книге описываются различные действия, необходимые для атаки и обороны крепостей: организация и состав осадной армии, ход осады, состав гарнизона и организация службы в крепости, организация обороны и ход обороны крепостей. В приложениях дается общая характеристика осадных артиллерийских средств, принятых в армиях главных европейских...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 255 с. (в данном формате) — (Всемирная история) — ISBN: 978-5-227-07832-2. В настоящей книге кратко и последовательно изложены хронологические данные о казачьих войсках и об их первоочередных частях на основании существующих печатных сведений. Ценность этого справочного издания заключается в документальной обоснованности представленных здесь данных,...
Москва; Ленинград: Государственное издательство. Отдел военной литературы, 1927. — 124 с.: 5 черт. — (СССР. Библиотека командира). Книга рассказывает о тактике ведения боевых действий в особых условиях - лесах, болотах, горах, пустынях и степях. Введение Зависимость организации и тактики войск от особенностей обстановки Малокультурные театры Своеобразный характер операций на...
Новосибирск: НВВПУ, 1991. — 261 с.
Монография дает критико-исторический анализ системы подготовки офицерских кадров в СССР за период с 1917 по 1984 годы. Наряду с анализом развития советской военной школы, работа содержит материал о подготовке офицерских кадров за границей.
Работа рассчитана на офицеров воинских частей, профессорскопреподавательский состав военно-учебных...
М.; Л.: Гос. изд-во. Отд. воен. литературы, 1927. — 92 с.: ил., черт., граф. Предисловие к русскому изданию Введение Служба орудий во время войны Спешность производства и её последствия Износ орудий Нормальная и ненормальная работа компрессоров Приспособление компрессоров для стрельбы при больших углах возвышения Могущество огня Могущество отдельного выстрела Увеличение...
Стенограмма публичной лекции. — Л.: Всесоюзное общество по распространению политических и военных знаний. Ленинградское отделение. 1950. — 33 с. Исполнилось сто пятьдесят лет с того момента, как перестало биться сердце великого русского полководца Александра Васильевича Суворова, автора замечательной инструкции-памятки по воспитанию и обучению войск, названной им «Наукой...
СПб.: Тип. Э Арнгольда, 1890. — 303 с. Краткий справочник для военных чинов, с указанием приказов по военному ведомству и циркуляров главного штаба по всем отраслям военного дела в России. Содержит значительное количество таблиц.
Київ: Либiдь, 2004. — 272 с. — ISBN 966-06-0453-х. У книзі вперше висвітлюється система військових символів у сучасних Збройних Силах України. Представлені у цьому виданні прапори всіх видів Збройних Сил, державні та відомчі нагороди, знаки класної класифікації та нарукавні знаки військовослужбовців. є елементами системи, опрацьованої за роки незалежності України.
М.: НИИ (ВИ) ВАГШ ВС РФ, 2018. — 423 с. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей юбилейное иллюстрированное издание «Несокрушимая и легендарная» посвящено 100-летию создания Красной армии. В книге показаны основные вехи истории ее строительства, участия в войнах и локальных военных конфликтах, эволюция вооружения и техники. Особое внимание уделено современному состоянию Вооруженных сил,...
Смоленск: Русич, 1995. — 24 с.
Блестящие победы петровской армии и флота показали превосходство вооруженных сил России над военной машиной Швеции. Северная война, продолжавшаяся свыше двадцати лет, стала для русской армии поучительной боевой школой.
СПб.: тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1909. - 428с.
Одна из "Справочных книжек Императорской Квартиры", содержащая сведения об артиллерийских соединениях, частях и подразделениях по состояянию на 1909 год, краткие сведения об их истории, а также окомандовании артиллерии.
М.: Книжный магазин В.В. Думнов, 1899. — 50 с.
Исторический обзор тактики русских войск, как введение к ее изучению : (С 9 примерами сражений наших великих полководцев. В тексте 20 схем и чертежей). В книге рассматривается тактика русских войск на примерах сражений: Куликово (1380 г. - Дмитрий Донской), Молоди (1572 г. - Воротынский), Калязин (1609 г. - Скопин-Шуйский), Москва...
М.: Идея, 1917. — 6 с.
Демократизация армии в России в 1917 году — процессы, которые широко развернулись в бывшей Русской императорской армии (в феврале 1917 года переименованной в «Революционную армию свободной России») сразу после Февральской революции. 9 (22) мая 1917 года опубликована «Декларация прав солдата», окончательно уравнявшая солдат в правах с гражданским...
Сборник схем. — М.: Медина-принт, 2006. — 60 с. Структура сборника схем, порядок изложения материала выработаны таким образом, что бы данный научный труд был интересен как специалистам в области военной истории, так и более широкому кругу читателей, увлекающихся военной историей. Вооруженные силы и войны Руси в IX–XIV вв. Тактика русского войска в войнах IX–XIV вв. Вооруженные...
Коллектив авторов. — Учебное пособие. — М.: Общевойсковая академия ВС РФ, 2007. — 471 с. Учебное пособие раскрывает основное содержание военно-исторической науки, функции военной истории и её основные задачи, содержание важнейших этапов развития вооруженных сил России, характеристики и содержание основных войн и вооружённых конфликтов с дренейших времён до наших дней. В пособии...
М.: Общевойсковая академия, 2006. — 66 с. В учебном пособии изложены основы логического аппарата, этапы военно-исторического исследования и их содержание. Пособие предназначено для слушателей академических курсов при изучении ими учебной дисциплины “Методика исследований в области военной истории”. Оно также будет полезно слушателям, участвующим в работе ВНО при кафедре истории...
М.: Общевойсковая академия, 2006. — 71 с. Кириллов А.В., Синицын А.Н., Макушкин С.А., Виниченко М.В., Агеев Н.В., Мельничук А.В. Учебная дисциплина «Методика научных исследований в области военной истории» является составной частью подготовки офицера к выполнению обязанностей организатора военно-исторической работы. Исходя из отмеченных требований и разработано данное учебное...
Ростов-на-Дону: Военный вестник Юга России, 2006. — 192 с. В очерке кратко отражена история формирования службы горючего Северо-Кавказского военного округа.
М.: Военный университет, 2015. — 185 с. В учебном пособии раскрываются вопросы развития вооруженных сил Российской империи в начале XX в. и русского военного искусства в Русско-японской и Первой мировой войнах. В нем анализируются проблемы строительства русской армии накануне Русско-японской войны и в годы военной реформы 1905–1912 гг., ее участия в крупнейших сражениях на суше...
М.: Военный университет, 2009. — 69 с. В течение многих лет Япония проводила в отношении к СССР агрессивный внешнеполитический курс, стремилась закрыть для Советского государства все выходы к Тихому океану, полностью захватить Сахалин, отторгнуть Дальний Восток и Сибирь. В ходе Великой Отечественной войны, нарушая пакт о нейтралитете, она вела по отношению к Советскому Союзу...
СПб.: типография Морского министерства, 1901. — 136 с. Написанное видным русским военно-морским теоретиком описание французского флота в начале XX века. Включает в себя краткую историю французского флота, сведения о его комплектовании и подготовке личного состава, как матросов, так и офицеров, организацию эскадр, их тактику и обучение приёмам боя, манёвры. Также рассмотрены...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография А.С. Суворина, 1905. — 552 с. Язык русский дореформенный. Во всех международных столкновениях последнего времени флот играл выдающуюся роль. Обыкновенно дело с того и начиналось, что у берегов того государства, поведение которого грозило общему миру или которое просто нарушало права живущих на его территории иностранцев, сосредоточивались морские...
Монография. — Тула: Тульский государственный педагогический университет им. Л.Н. Толстого, 2019. — 241 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6042449-6-8. В монографии рассматривается один из важных, но мало исследованных компонентов стратегического инструментария Александра Македонского, которым является координированное наступление – особая форма применения войска, предусматривающая достижение...
Без указания автора. — Италия: рукопись, XVII век. — 601 с.
Малоформатная (12x18 см) тетрадь с эскизами, касающимися военного дела - фортификации, артиллерии, минного дела и пиротехники. И связанных тем - геометрии, геодезии, механики, строительства. Очень интересный манускрипт для тех, кто интересуется историей инженерного дела, в том числе военного. Наиболее интересные эскизы...
М., СПб.:ACT», Terra Fantastica, 2003. – 672 с.- (Серия: Классическая военная мысль) Перед вами книга контр-адмирала британского флота Филипа Коломба «Морская война, ее основные принципы и опыт», которая является классикой военно-морской литературы. Автор обобщил опыт боевых действий на море начиная с XV века, а также изложил созданную им теорию морской войны. Книга снабжена...
Под ред. Н. Жукова. — М.: Военно-морское издательство НКВМФ СССР, 1940. — 379 с. Корабельный Устав Рабоче-Крестьянского Военно-Морского Флота Союза ССР введен в действие Приказом Народного Комиссара Военно-Морского Флота Союза ССР Флагмана флота 2 ранга Кузнецовым №416 от 16 октября 1939 года. Боевая служба корабля Повседневная служба корабля Приложение: Правила службы...
Семинар и симпозиум, посвященный малоизвестному в странах бывшего Варшавского договора вооружённому конфликту в непризнанной республике Родезия в 1965-1980 годах.
Харьков : В Университетской типографии 1843. — с. 46 - 70. Жалкое зрелище представляла Польша в конце XVI века. Со смертью Батория как будто судьба произнесла над нею приговор свой. Власть короля ослабевала, своевольные магнаты забыли всякие границы буйству; на сеймах не было ладу, в судах правосудия, в управлении порядка, в законах святости. Все были недовольны, от короля до...
Исторический очерк / под ред. И.О. Дементьева. — Калининград: Издательство БФУ им. И. Канта, 2020. — 123 с.: ил. — ISBN 978-5-9971-0601-0. Представлены кавалеры ордена Александра Невского, единственного российского ордена, существовавшего в различные периоды российской истории: до революции 1917 г., в советское время и имеющийся в современной Российской Федерации. Приведены...
Литературно-документальное издание. — Днепропетровск: ИМА-пресс, 2015. — 428 c. Политработники 40-й общевойсковой армии в Афганистане (1979 — 1989 гг.). Книга посвящена политработникам частей и соединений 40-й армии в годы Афганской войны.
Минск: Альтиора Форте. — 257 с. — ISBN 978-985-7239-18-4. Великая Отечественная война имеет судьбоносное значение для белорусского народа. Она продемонстрировала неразрывность общерусского цивилизационного смысла. Тема защиты Отечества, борьбы с захватчиками указывает на неразрывную историческую связь событий Великой Отечественной войны с Отечественной войной 1812 года. В книге...
СПб.: Издание Военно-исторического музея артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи, 1998 г. - 671 с. Монография военного историка, видного организатора музейного дела, кандидата исторических наук, члена-корреспондента Российской академии ракетных и артиллерийских наук, начальника Военно-исторического музея артиллерии, инженерных войск и войск связи полковника Валерия...
Санкт-Петербург : Воен. тип., 1899. - VIII, 144 с. Работа составлена офицером генерального штаба, столоначальником главного штаба. Представляет собой справочник, состоящий из систематизированных выдержек из законодательных актов, относящихся к офицерам генерального штаба Российской империи и их службе в мирное и военное время.
Генеральный штаб Рабоче-Крестьянской Красной Армии. — Фрунзе: Киргизгосиздат, 1941. — 226 с. Назначение, права и обязанности штабов Организация работы в штабе Сбор и изучение сведений об обстановке Доклады командиру Порядок отдачи боевых распоряжений Контроль за выполнением отданных распоряжений Донесения и информация Служба связи Служба делегатов связи Дежурство Размещение и...
М.: Московские учебники - СиДиПресс, 2006. — 192 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-8443-0032-7. В книге описана история создания первой в СССР системы противоракетной обороны и полигона для ее испытаний в Казахской пустыне Бетпак-Дала. Автор книги Кулаков Александр Федорович, участник Великой Отечественной войны, прослужил на полигоне 13 лет пройдя путь от инженера-испытателя до заместителя...
3-е изд., испр. и доп. — Нижний Новгород: Чёрная Сотня, 2018. — 152 с.: ил. Книга издана в дореволюционной орфографии, но репринтом, как таковым, не является. Основой для подготовки текста послужило 3-е и 6-ое (дополненное) изданія «Совѣтовъ молодому офицеру» Типолитографіи Р. Радомышельскаго 1916–1917 годовъ. Настоящій текстъ подвергся лишь незначительной корректурѣ, не...
СПб.: Типография Сухопутного кадетского корпуса, 1777. - 204с.
Книга о наукѣ военной, содержащая въ себѣ умозрѣніе и дѣяніе о укрѣпленіи всякихъ полевыхъ и приморскихъ мѣстъ; о нападеніи и оборонѣ крѣпостей и гаваней; съ описаніемъ бывшихъ знатнѣйшихъ атакъ; и съ присовокупленіемъ науки о перспективѣ и словаря инженернаго.
Монография. — Алматы: Дайк Пресс, 2001. — 172 с. В работе предпринята попытка разностороннего изучения вопросов военной истории Казахстана XVII-XVIII вв., показана роль облавной охоты в становлении военного дела кочевников, рассмотрены состав казахского вооружения и формы его использования в боевых условиях, дана социальная характеристика функционирования казахской военной...
Кокшетау: Келешек-2030, 2009. - 170 с. В книге рассматриваются проблемы и особенности становления и формирования военного дела в кочевых обществах Центральной Азии, с привлечением значительного массива разнообразных источников: письменных сведений, этнографической материалов, археологических работ, исторических исследований и специальной военной литературы. Как следует из...
Переводчик: О. Серебровская — (Военная история человечества) — М.: Эксмо, 2008. – 224 с. — ISBN 978-5-699-27073-6 Великолепно проиллюстрированное издание, посвященное искусству осады городов и крепостей с VI века до н. э. до IV века н. э. Интересный и захватывающий рассказ о грандиозных осадах и штурмах ассирийцев, персов, греков, карфагенян и римлян. Карты и схемы...
Новосибирск: Сибирское книжное издательство, 2013. — 152 с. Книга посвящена описанию военного мундира и истории войсковых частей, находившихся на территории Новосибирска и Новосибирской области в период 1904-1920 гг. От автора. Как всё начиналось. Верой и правдой. В начале русской смуты. Под знамёнами адмирала. Великий отход. Послесловие. Источники.
Москва, Ленинград: Государственное издательство. Отдел военной литературы, 1927. — 84 с. — (Библиотека иностранной военной литературы). От редакции. Предисловие автора. Случаи применения ночных атак. Военно-исторические примеры и их уроки. Участие в ночной атаке различных родов войск и оружия. Ночная атака в германских и других уставах. Психологическая сторона. Подготовка войск к...
Санкт-Петербург : Т8 Издательские технологии, 2022. — 262 с. Монография посвящена вопросам зарождения, становления и формирования организации защиты северо-западного региона России (СССР) от воздушного нападения. Временные границы исследования охватывают 10-30-е годы XX века, включая периоды Первой мировой войны и Гражданской войны и военной интервенции в России. При подготовке...
СПб.: Типография А.А. Пороховщикова, 1898. — 162 с. Сочинение скорее военно-фантастического, чем реалистического плана, однако включающее в себя исторический обзор, описание театра военных действий, целей и выгод сторон, английские планы обороны (также, видимо, по открытым литературным источникам, прежде всего полемизируя с Маг-Грегором, на данном сайте также представленным...
Москва: Воениздат МО СССР, 1957. — 287 с. — (Библиотека офицера). Книга «Марксизм-ленинизм о войне и армии» написана коллективом преподавателей Военно-политической ордена Ленина Краснознаменной академии имени В. И. Ленина. Глава 1 - полковник Федоров Г. А. (параграфы 1, 2, 3, 4) и полковник Леванов И. Н. (параграф 5). Глава 2 — полковник Хоменко Е. А. Глава 3 — подполковник...
СПб.: тип. В. Безобразова и К°, 1875. — 32 с. Армии, которые были разбиты, были еще до поля сражения разбиты. Главная и второстепенные причины военных явлений войны 1870-1871 г. Ошибки в деле первоначального сосредоточения войск на театре военных действий едва ли могут быть исправлены в течение целых кампаний. Параллельный разбор плана Мольтке и плана Наполеона III. Приемы обоих.
Сост. ген.-майор Леер, засл. проф. Николаев. акад. Ген. штаба... Вып. 1-2. — Санкт-Петербург: Русская скоропечатня (П. С. Нахимова), 1877-1880. — 2 т.; 24 см. — Вып. 1. — 1887. — 485 с. разд. паг
Книга представляет собой 2-е издание вышедшего в 1866 г. учебника «Записки тактики для военных училищ», который сегодня стал библиографической редкостью.
Монография. — Владивосток: Дальневосточный федеральный университет, 2016. — 140 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7444-3653-7. В монографии рассматриваются взаимоотношения Великобритании и США по проблемам морских вооружений на протяжении первого десятилетия после окончания Первой мировой войны. Автор анализирует истоки англо-американского морского соперничества, а также причины, по которым...
М.: Воениздат НКО СССР, 1941. — 240 с. Приказ Народного Комиссара Обороны СССР № 65 23 апреля 1937 г. г. Москва Ввести в действие объявляемый „Боевой Устав Артиллерии РККА, часть II, 1937 г.“ (БУА-II-37). Боевой Устав Артиллерии, ч. II, 1927 г. (приказ РВС СССР № 326) - отменить. Народный комиссар обороны Союза ССР Маршал Советского Союза К. Ворошилов Боевое использование...
Перевод и предисловие С. М. Белицкий. — Москва, Ленинград: Государственное военное издательство, 1926. — 90 с. — (Библиотека иностранной военной литературы). Довоенная доктрина во Франции и Германии. Лето и осень 1914 года. Зима 1914-1915 гг. и весь 1915 год. Период уточнения выводов. 1917 г. Крайние решения. 1918 г. Прорыв укрепленных позиций и возврат к полевой войне....
СПб.: тип. Морского Сборника, 1886. — 61 с. Изложение тактических и технических идей адмирала (тогда флигель-адъютанта) С.О.Макарова в форме военной фантастики, описания войны "Белой и Синей республик", несуществующих государств Тихого Океана, одно из которых внедрило усовершенствования, сходные с предлагавшимися Макаровым, а второе потратило средства на увеличение численности...
Статьи из газ. "Сталинский сокол" и "Кр. звезда".—- М: Воениздат, 1942. — 88 с. : ил., схем. и карт. — (Библиотека летчика. Сталинская авиация в борьбе с германским фашизмом; вып. 8). Воздушная разведка — глаза наступающей армии. Подполковник Ю. Mакаров. Воздушная разведка. Батальонный комиссар Д. Ткаченко. Что раскрывают аэроснимки. Старший лейтенант К. Ремизов. Истребители идут...
Изд. 7-е. — М.: Т-во А. М. Мамонтова; Земля, 1915. — 984 с., ил. Систематизирована вся информация, необходимая для офицера Российской императорской армии в военное время: организация службы, тактические наставления, юридические сведения, примеры служебной документации, сведения об иностранных армиях и многое другое.
М: Харвест, АСТ, 2002. – 384 с.
Данная книга знакомит с боевыми и спортивными единоборствами, а также с методами воинской подготовки, составляющими важную часть национальных традиций народов Евразии. Речь идет о народах, населяющих все регионы бывшего СССР: европейскую часть, Сибирь, Дальний Восток, Кавказ, Среднюю Азию и Казахстан. В отличие от многочисленных современных...
2-е изд., испр. и доп. — М.: Воениздат, 1986. — 400 с., 25 л. ил. В очерке, рассчитанном на массового читателя, рассказывается о строительстве, боевом применении и совершенствовании советских воздушно десантных войск, о героизме и мужестве воинов-десантников в годы Великой Отечественной войны и в мирное время. Введение Начало пути Становление воздушно-десантных войск Год...
М.: Воениздат, 2001. - 262 с. Антология. Об истории возникновения кадетских корпусов и юнкерских училищ, быте воспитанников, их участии в белом движении говорится в воспоминаниях Анатолия Маркова, питомца Воронежского великого князя Михаила Павловича кадетского корпуса, а впоследствии Николаевского кавалерийского училища. Художественные очерки `Многострадальные` ярко и...
Тверь: Типо-Литография Ф.С. Муравьева, 1890. — 390 с. Труд по истории конницы М. И. Маркова, командира 1-го лейб-драгунского Московского его величества полка, изданный в конце XIX века в пяти томах, сегодня признан безусловной библиографической редкостью. Капитальная монография, уникальная по объему собранного материала, написана занимательным, живым языком. Издание охватывает...
Тверь: Типо-Литография Ф.С. Муравьева, 1894. — 682 с.
Труд по истории конницы М. И. Маркова, командира 1-го лейб-драгунского Московского его величества полка, изданный в конце XIX века в пяти томах, сегодня признан безусловной библиографической редкостью. Капитальная монография, уникальная по объему собранного материала, написана занимательным, живым языком. Издание охватывает...
Тверь: Литография Ф.С. Муравьева, 1896. — 624 с. Труд по истории конницы М. И. Маркова, командира 1-го лейб-драгунского Московского его величества полка, изданный в конце XIX века в пяти томах, сегодня признан безусловной библиографической редкостью. Капитальная монография, уникальная по объему собранного материала, написана занимательным, живым языком. Издание охватывает...
Москва: Де'Либри, 2023. — 272 с. В массовой культуре образ самурая обычно ассоциируется с японским вариантом рыцаря-всадника, а пехотинцы японских армий, как правило, представлены в виде плохо экипированных крестьян с копьями или аркебузами. Однако и в древние века, и в феодальный период истории Японии пехота играла существенную роль на полях сражений, как внутри страны, так и...
СПб.: Типография А.С. Суворина, 1900. — 334 с. В книгу вошли очерки осады Севастополя и Бельфора курса "История крепостной войны" читанного Масловым А. Н. в Николаевской инженерной академии. Алексей Николаевич Ма́слов (литературный псевдоним А. Бежецкий; 1852—1922) — русский инженер-генерал, писатель и публицист, писавший главным образом на военные темы, участник Среднеазиатских...
Москва : Университетская типография, 1888. — XXVI, 268 с. Сборник документов Бурхарда Кристофа Миниха относительно атаки г. Гданська в в 1734 г., собранные Гененерального штаба полковником Д. Масловским
Москва : Университетская типография, 1888. — XXVI, 268 с. Сборник документов Бурхарда Кристофа Миниха относительно атаки г. Гданська в в 1734 г., собранные Гененерального штаба полковником Д. Масловским
СПб.: Типиграфия В. Безобразова и компании, 1891. — 356 с.
Общая характеристика реформ Петра Великого.
Периоды в постепенном переходе Петра I к регулярному устройству войск.
Гродненская и Полтавская операции как классические образцы.
Общий очерк состояния военного искусства России в конце царствования Петра Великого.
Состояние военного искусства России при императрице Анне....
СПб.: Типография В.Безобразова и компании. Издано при содействии Николаевской академии генерального штаба, 1894. — 507 с.
Кольбергская операция Румянцева 1761 года.
Царствование Екатерины Великой. Причины быстрого и вполне самостоятельного развития русского военного искусства в это царствование.
Краткий очерк деятельности графа Румянцева.
Первая война с польскими...
Вып. 2: Обеспечение южных границ в 1736 г. План кампании и довольствия войск в 1738 г. Документы Ставучанской операции Миниха. Сборник документов похода вспомогательнаго корпуса русских войск в войну за Австрийское наследство 1748 г. Москва : Университетская тип., 1890. - XVI, 294 с. Представленная книга написана военным историком, профессором кафедры истории военного искусства...
Вып. 1: Проект плана кампании 1708 года Крюиса. Оригинал ордера де-баталии под Лесной с собственноручною резолюциею Петра Великаго. К истории флота времен Петра I. Организация и действие в бою артиллерии времен Елизаветы. Предисловие. — Москва : Университетская тип., 1889. — XXXII, 23, [1] с., [1] л. Представленная книга написана военным историком, профессором кафедры истории...
Устав о строевой пехотной службе фельдмаршала Миниха. Документы Финляндской войны 1743 года. — Москва : Университетская тип., 1892. — XIV, 147, [1] с. Представленная книга написана военным историком, профессором кафедры истории военного искусства Николаевской акдемии генерального штаба, генерал-майором русской армии Дмитрием Федоровичем Масловским (1848-1894) Масловский...
М.: Университетская типография, 1889. — 533 с.
Документы по военной истории, подготовленные полковником Масловским, свидетельствуют, что русское военное искусство ни есть сплошное заимствование с Запада.
Масловский видит одну из задач военно-исторических исследований, в беспристрастном выделении периодов, где брала вверх отечественная или иностранная военная мысль, а не просто...
Издано при содействии Николаевской Академии Генерального штаба. — СПб.: Типография Безобразова и Ко, 1894. — 258 с. Книга представляет приложение ко второй части "Истории русского военного искусства". Содержит примечания и указатель фамилий.
Санкт-Петербург : тип. Гл. упр. уделов, 1894. — 21 с. Рецензия выдающегося военного теоретика Дмитрия Фёдоровича Масловского на 7 вып. "Сборника военно-исторических материалов".
М: Тип. Окружного штаба, 1883. — 264 с. Дмитрий Фёдорович Масловский — русский военный историк. Масловский ищет корни военного искусства России XVIII века в первых воинских наставлениях и указах, чтобы с практической точки зрения объяснить качественное изменение тактики и стратегии армии. По его глубокому убеждению, только зная организационные и хозяйственные аспекты формирования...
Одесса: «Славянская» типография Е. Хрисогелос, 1904. — 155 с.
Книга известного русского инженера-технолога рассказывает о новейших военно-технических изобретениях: Часть I. Вопросы продовольствія: Хлѣбъ изъ зерна.—Китайскій горохъ, гаолянъ, маньчжурское просо и пр. — Консервы.—Продовольствіе въ экстренныхъ случаяхъ. Очистка воды и пр. Часть II. Взрывчатыя вещества.—Мины. —...
Авториз. пер. с англ. Н. Эдельмана, под науч. ред. О. Айрапетова. — М.: Модест Колеров, 2015. — 424 с. — (Selecta. XXIII). — ISBN: 978-5-905040-19-1. Оригинал: Bruce W. Menning . Bayonets Before Bullets. The Imperial Russian Army, 1861–1914. Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1992. Тридцать лет назад эта книга началась как изучение тактических нововведений в Русской императорской...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. - 528 с.
ISBN: 5-89173-056-1
В книгу вошли очерки и отдельные главы из трудов Ф. Меринга, в которых освещается эволюция военного искусства, начиная с греко-персидских войн до наполеоновских. Для российского читателя будет необычным то, что историю ряда войн автор рассматривает с позиции Пруссии и ее национальных интересов. Но эта позиция Ф. Меринга делает...
М.: Воениздат НКО ССР, 1941. — 338 с. В книге излагается история военного искусства, начиная с древнейших времен до начала XIX столетия. Предисловие История военного искусства Метод Марафон и Фермопилы Пелопоннесская война Ганнибал и Цезарь Битва в Тевтобургском лесу Средние века Швейцарцы Военно-исторические экскурсии Внешняя и военная политика Фридриха II Дипломатия и...
СПб.: Типография военно-учебных заведений, 1845. — 4, II, 43 c., 7 л. карт. Составлено в Гвардейском Генеральном штабе капитаном Милютиным. В книге рассматриваются основные приемы атаки и обороны деревень, лесов, оврагов и др. Приводятся примеры (предположения) атаки и обороны для егерских и гренадерских батальонов, Все примеры снабжены картами (чертежами).
Новосибирск: НВИ имени генерала армии И.К. Яковлева войск национальной гвардии РФ, 2017. — 236 с. — ISBN: 978-5-906431-50-9. В монографии впервые в российской историографии в полном объеме представлена детальная историческая реконструкция создания и развития системы тылового ополчения в СССР 1930-х годов. Практически весь материал исследования подготовлен на основе материалов,...
С.-Пб.: Морская типография, 1826. — 108 с. Язык русский (дореволюционный). Михаил Иванович Миницкий (1772 - 1829) - командир бригады 3-й флотской дивизии. Известен также тем, что написал труды: "О порядке производства работ при вооружении кораблей для плавания по морям" и "О действии орудиями на кораблях при сражении с неприятелем". Первая из работ предлагается читателю. В ней...
Выходные данные неизвестны. 1732. — 388 с. В документе 1732 года, адресованном на имя Императрицы, производится попытка классификации используемого на тот момент вооружения (с чертежами), а также структуры российской армии. Отдельные части посвящены минерам, береговой артиллерии и артиллерийским школам, а также финансовой стороне обеспечения.
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет телекоммуникаций (СПбГУТ) имени М.А. Бонч-Бруевича, 2016. — 85 с. В четырех частях данного учебного пособия рассматриваются основные этапы развития вооруженных сил с древности по настоящее время. Раскрываются общие направления эволюции военной мысли и военного искусства, развития вооружения и военной...
Военно-исторический очерк. — Минск: Военная Академия Республики Беларусь, 2008. — 458 с. Военно-исторический очерк посвящен 55-летию первого военного вуза Белоруссии, который с 1953 г. имел различные названия, и 25-летию с момента образования Минского высшего военно-политического общевойскового училища (МВВПОУ), а также 10-летию Военной академии Республики Беларусь (ВА РБ). Это...
М.: Издание С. Михеева и А. Казачкова, Типография Окружного штаба/Типография Штаба Московского Военного округа, 1910. — 94 с. Язык: русский дореформенный Эпоха Петра Великого. Цѣль настоящаго изданія—служить пособіемъ при изученіи юнкерами военныхъ и юнкерскихъ училищъ исторіи русской арміи. Въ зависимости отъ указанной цѣли содержаніе распадается на двѣ части: теоретическую,...
М.: Издание С. Михеева и А. Казачкова, Типография Окружного штаба/Типография Штаба Московского Военного округа, 1911. — 89 с.
Язык: русский дореформенный
Эпоха войн с Наполеоном I.
Цѣль настоящаго изданія—служить пособіемъ при изученіи юнкерами военныхъ и юнкерскихъ училищъ исторіи русской арміи.
Въ зависимости отъ указанной цѣли содержаніе распадается на двѣ части:...
М.: Издание С. Михеева и А. Казачкова, Типография Окружного штаба/Типография Штаба Московского Военного округа, 1911. — 75 с.
Язык: русский дореформенный
Переходная эпоха (1815-1856)
Цѣль настоящаго изданія—служить пособіемъ при изученіи юнкерами военныхъ и юнкерскихъ училищъ исторіи русской арміи.
Въ зависимости отъ указанной цѣли содержаніе распадается на двѣ части:...
М.: Издание С. Михеева и А. Казачкова, Типография Окружного штаба/Типография Штаба Московского Военного округа, 1911. — 117 с.
Язык: русский дореформенный
Эпоха реформ.
Цѣль настоящаго изданія—служить пособіемъ при изученіи юнкерами военныхъ и юнкерскихъ училищъ исторіи русской арміи.
Въ зависимости отъ указанной цѣли содержаніе распадается на двѣ части: теоретическую,...
М.: Издание С. Михеева и А. Казачкова, Типография Окружного штаба/Типография Штаба Московского Военного округа, 1912. — 104 с.
Язык: русский дореформенный
Новейшая эпоха.
Цѣль настоящаго изданія—служить пособіемъ при изученіи юнкерами военныхъ и юнкерскихъ училищъ исторіи русской арміи.
Въ зависимости отъ указанной цѣли содержаніе распадается на двѣ части: теоретическую,...
Сборник. — Москва: МО РФ, 2020. — 213 с. В сборнике отражены основные достижения Вооруженных Сил Российской Федерации за 2020 год, в сравнении с предыдущим 2019 годом
Калининград: Страж Балтики, 2019. — 255 с. — ISBN 978-5-91728-133-9. "Автор-составитель предлагает читателю практически новый, расширенный взгляд на историю штурма Кёнигсберга, которая открывается после изучения рассекреченных архивных документов. В оборот вводятся новые, до этого времени неизвестные широкому кругу читателей, историков и любителей истории имена и документы....
Изд. 41-е испр. — СПб.: Товарищество "В. А. Березовский", 1916. — 114 с. Последняя (41-я) редакция самого популярного учебника для рядовых пехоты Российской империи. Содержит массу ценных сведений исторического характера и, что не менее ценно, дух ушедшей эпохи.
М.: Государственное военное издательство Наркомата Обороны СССР, 1936. — 216 с. "30 декабря 1936 введён в действие Временный полевой устав РККА (ПУ-36), четко определивший роль и место родов войск в бою и операции. Его основные положения учитывали значительные изменения в технической оснащённости и организации всех видов и родов войск, достигнутые в 30-х гг." Временный Полевой...
М.: Мир энциклопедий Аванта+, Астрель, 2011. — 319 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98986-505-5; ISBN: 978-5-271-36341-2. Книга посвящена самым известным битвам в истории человечества. Это пылкий, порой художественный рассказ о "героях былых времен", задуманный как триединое повествование о полководце, великом сражении и оружии. Тройственность сюжета позволяет показать войны прошлого с разных...
М. : Рипол Классик, 2016. — 224 с. : ил. — (Подарочная полка). — ISBN: 978-5-386-09157-6. В Российской империи звание «русский офицер» было не просто обозначением профессиональной либо социальной принадлежности. Звание «офицер» означало принадлежность к особой касте людей, для которых честь и достоинство были дороже жизни. За честь сражались, за нее же и умирали. Во время...
СПб.: Алетейя, 1996. — 350 с. — (Античная библиотека). После опубликования в русском переводе трактата о военном деле римлян Вегеция в настоящем издании предлагается новый материал по специальной области военного дела - по искусству осады городов. Античные писатели, из них главным образом греческие авторы, оставили нам в этой области немало различных наставлений, инструкций...
Великобритания, Франция, Австрия, Пруссия и прочия государства Германии. — СПб.: Военная типография, 1867. — VI, 312 с. Сборник представляет собой первое российское военно-статистическое исследование вооружённых сил стран мира.
Италия, Испания, Португалия, Швейцария, Бельгия, Голландия, Дания, Швеция с Норвегию, Греция, Турция и вассальные владения. — 1868. — III, 349 с. Сборник представляет собой первое российское военно-статистическое исследование вооружённых сил стран мира.
Персия, Афганистан, Белуджистан, Средне-Азиятския владения, Китай, Япония, Северо-Американские Соединенные штаты, Мексика, Бразилия и республики Средней и Южной Америки. — СПб.: Военная типография, 1868. — III, 338 с. Сборник представляет собой первое российское военно статистическое исследование вооружённых сил стран мира.
М.: Артефакт, 1998. — 35 с. Небольшая но в тоже время достаточно редкая (всего 500 экз.) брошюрка. История участия железнодорожных войск, бронепоездов Третьего рейха во Второй мировой войне. (Структура, Организация, Вооружение, Тактика Ж/Д войск).
СПб.: без указания типографии, 1797. — 198 с. Печатный сборник описаний мундиров, которые были учреждены по прусскому образцу императором Павлом. Всеподданейше подготовил к монаршьему изволению граф Салтыков. На документе сохранились правки рукой Павла о переименовании полков по фамилиям их шефов. Этот документ был использован Висковатовым для проработки темы реформ павловского...
Навч. посіб. — Київ: Нац. акад. СБУ, 2017. — 276 с. З урахуванням актуальності, спадщини історії та реалій семи поколінь війн, це видання презентує в еволюції узагальнені реалії та специфіку воєнного мистецтва. Автори посібника підводять читача до загального розуміння воєнного мистецтва. Розкривають особливості війн та воєнного мистецтва починаючи з часів давнього світу до...
Навч. посіб. — Київ: Нац. акад. СБУ, 2017. — 336 с. З урахуванням актуальності, спадщини історії та реалій семи поколінь війн, це видання презентує в еволюції узагальнені реалії та специфіку воєнного мистецтва. Автори посібника підводять читача до загального розуміння воєнного мистецтва. Розкривають особливості війн та воєнного мистецтва починаючи з часів давнього світу до...
Отчетъ о военно-инженерной дѣятельности въ Восточную войну 1877 года, и при приготовленiяхъ на случай возобновленiя войны въ 1878 году, въ районе дѣйствiя и расположенiя Кавказской армiи. Выпускъ III. — Тифлисъ, 1879. — 154 с. Типографiя Главнаго Управленiя Намѣстника Кавказскаго. Печатано по распоряженiю Начальника Инженеровъ Кавказского Военнаго Округа. Постройка свайнаго...
Отчетъ о военно-инженерной дѣятельности въ Восточную войну 1877 года, въ районе дѣйствiя и расположенiя Кавказской армiи. Выпускъ IV. — Тифлисъ, 1879. — 138 с. Типографiя Окружнаго Штаба Кавказскаго Военнаго Округа. Печатано по распоряженiю Начальника Инженеровъ Кавказского Военнаго Округа. Содержанiе IV выпуска. I. Постройка каючнаго моста чрезъ р. Рiонъ въ м. Орпири. Военнаго...
Отчетъ о военно-инженерной дѣятельности въ Восточную войну 1877 и 1878 годовъ, въ районе дѣйствiя и расположенiя Кавказской армiи. Выпускъ V. — Тифлисъ, 1879. — 193 с. Типографiя Главнаго Управленiя Намѣстника Кавказскаго. Печатано по распоряженiю Начальника Инженеровъ Кавказского Военнаго Округа. Случаи наводки Каучуковаго моста, состоявшаго при 2 Кавказскомъ Саперномъ...
Петроград: Типография Штаба Петроградского военного Округа, 1917. — 51 с. Как пользоваться противогазами. Наставление для пользования сухим угольным противогазом профессора Зелинского. Наставление для пользования сухим угольным противогазом с клапанами. Наставление для пользования влажной маской Химического Комитета. Наставление для пользования английской маской-шлемом....
Санктпетербург: В типографии Департамента народнаго просвещения, 1818. — [4], XI, [1], 80 с. Полевая памятная книжка для офицеров, содержащая справочные материалы по организации русской армии, размещению и передвижению войск, по службе в поле, полевому письмоводству, сведения пго производству военно-топографических работ, а также вспомогательные сведения по разным отраслям...
М.: МИЛИАРИ, 2022. — 184 с. Военно-исторический труд посвящен истории комплектования армии России военнослужащими на добровольной основе в период с XVIII века по настоящее время. В нем на основе архивных материалов и документов, исторической и специальной литературы исследуется опыт создания и развития института добровольной военной службы в тесной взаимосвязи с основными...
М.: РИЦ ГШ ВС РФ, 2003. — 224 с. Книга посвящена 85-летию со дня образования Главного управления кадров Министерства обороны Российской Федерации. Одной из основных целей авторы книги ставили поиск исторических предшественников первых органов военного управления, занимавшихся подбором, изучением и расстановкой военных кадров в армии Российского государства. Предпринята также...
СПб.: Остров, 2004. — 67 с. В книге рассказывается об истории создания, боевых действиях и последующей судьбе одной из батарей знаменитого Атлантического вала, расположенной на оккупированном в 1940-1945 гг. немцами английском острове Гернси и вооруженной русскими 305-мм пушками в 52 калибра длиной с бывшего линейного корабля Черноморского флота "Император Александр III". Подробно...
С-Петербург: Тип. Морского Министерства, 1888. — 413 с. Вполне одобрена и рекомендована Ученым Отделением Морского Технического Комитета. Поступление на службу. Прохождение службы. О матросском довольствии. Постановления по военно-судной части. О здоровье, жилье, одежде, пище и питье матросов. Дополнительные сведения. Береговая служба. Служба в плавании. Караульная служба на...
СПб.: Тип. Морского Министерства, 1888. - 154с.
Содержание:
Поступление на службу.
Прохождение службы.
О матросском довольствии.
Постановления по военно-судной части.
О здоровье, жилье, одежде, пище и питье матросов.
Дополнительные сведения.
СПб.: Тип. Морского Министерства, 1888. - 259с.
Содержание:
Береговая служба.
Служба в плавании.
Караульная служба на берегу.
Караульная служба на корабле.
Строевая служба.
Служба в военное время.
Ручное огнестрельное оружие.
СПб.: В.Н. Мещерский, 1891. — 63 с. Два доклада генерала морской артиллерии Филимона Васильевича Пестича, участника обороны Севастополя во время Крымской войны, председателя артиллерийского отделения Морского Технического Комитета. Представляют интерес и как "взгляд очевидца", и как свидетельство взглядов артиллеристов того времени.
СПб.: Военная типография, 1893. — 418 с. Книга «Влияние турецких войн с половины прошлого столетия на развитие русского военного искусства» представляет собой двухтомное издание, в котором автор рассматривает причины конфликтов между Россией и Турцией. Проводит подробный анализ и дает оценку военной подготовки, оснащенности обеих армий. Подробно описывает кампании 1769–1774 и...
СПб.: Военная типография, 1894. — 396 с. Книга «Влияние турецких войн с половины прошлого столетия на развитие русского военного искусства» представляет собой двухтомное издание, в котором автор рассматривает причины конфликтов между Россией и Турцией. Проводит подробный анализ и дает оценку военной подготовки, оснащенности обеих армий. Подробно описывает кампании 1769–1774 и...
М.: Ленанд, 2010. — 176 с. В книге проведен анализ служебной деятельности военных профессионалов США и их гражданских коллег в центральных органах управления вооруженными силами, показаны особенности взаимоотношений военных и гражданских служащих в рамках системы министерства обороны. На примере мероприятий командования ВС США обозначены практические шаги по исправлению...
Монография. — М.: СГУ, 2009. — 266 с. — ISBN 978-5-8323-0600-1. В монографии разработана историография военно-инженерного образования до Первой мировой войны, систематизирован опыт подготовки офицерских кадров для инженерных войск русской армии, военно-инженерное образование рассмотрено как система (подсистема военного образования), дана оценка возможности и целесообразности...
Монография. — М.: Современный гуманитарный университет, 2012. — 486 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8323-0836-4. Исследование посвящено зарождению и развитию военно-инженерного образования сухопутных войск Российской империи, Советского Союза и Российской Федерации. Описаны предпосылки зарождения военно-инженерного образования, раскрыта история основных военно-инженерных учебных заведений с...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 735 с. Труд "Операции Советских Вооруженных Сил в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 (военно-исторический очерк)" разработан Военно-историческим отделом Военно-научного управления Генерального штаба и выпускается в четырех томах. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942. Описанию этих событий предшествует...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 516 с. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942 г. Описанию этих событий предшествует раздел, раскрывающий военно-политическую обстановку накануне Великой Отечественной воины и подготовку Советского Союза к отражению фашистской агрессии. Во второй том включены события, происходившие в период с начала...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 825 с. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942 г. Описанию этих событий предшествует раздел, раскрывающий военно-политическую обстановку накануне Великой Отечественной воины и подготовку Советского Союза к отражению фашистской агрессии. Во второй том включены события, происходившие в период с начала...
М.: Воениздат, 1959. — 869 с. Первый том включает описание событий от начала Великой Отечественной войны до осени 1942 г. Описанию этих событий предшествует раздел, раскрывающий военно-политическую обстановку накануне Великой Отечественной воины и подготовку Советского Союза к отражению фашистской агрессии. Во второй том включены события, происходившие в период с начала...
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 263 с. Труд "Операции Советских Вооруженных Сил в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 (военно-исторический очерк)" разработан Военно-историческим отделом Военно-научного управления Генерального штаба и выпускается в четырех томах. Тема второго тома: Зимняя кампания 1942/43 года. Контрнаступление под Сталинградом и общее наступление Советской Армии.
М.: Воениздат, 1958. — 422 с. Труд "Операции Советских Вооруженных Сил в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 (военно-исторический очерк)" разработан Военно-историческим отделом Военно-научного управления Генерального штаба и выпускается в четырех томах. Тема третьего тома: Операции советских вооружённых сил в период решающих побед.
М.: Воениздат, 1959. — 439 с. Труд "Операции Советских Вооруженных Сил в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 (военно-исторический очерк)" разработан Военно-историческим отделом Военно-научного управления Генерального штаба и выпускается в четырех томах. Тема четвёртого тома: Операции советских вооружённых сил в период завершающих побед Советского Союза над фашистской Германий....
Сороки, Бес. губ. : тип. Г. Вайсмана, 1888. — [2], II, III, 123 с., 1 л. ил. Повторительный курс полковых учебных команд кавалерии: По: 1) устройству войск, службе и довольствию солдата; 2) сведению из Военно-уголовных законов; 3) ручному огнестрельному оружию; 4) сбережению здоровья; 5) сведению о лошади и 6) чтению топографических карт. Составлено по программам, приложению к...
Ростов н/Д: Феникс; Донецк: Кредо, 2006. — 304 с. — ISBN: 5-222-10053-7. Общеизвестен печальный факт: все свои изобретения и открытия человек направлял на уничтожение и порабощение себе подобных. Приручение диких зверей не стало исключением. Не знающие угрызений совести боевые кони, собаки, быки, слоны восполняли недостатки древних армий в военной технике. Здесь изложены...
Варшава: Губернская типография, 1892. — 226 с. Свод мнений по вопросу об управлении войсками в бою. Об ординарцах и посыльных, по уставным о них правилам. Сущность военных приказаний и донесений.
СПб.: Типография В. С. Балашева, 1894. — 283 с. Документальное описание истории конноартиллерийских частей Российской императорской армии за период 1794—1894 годов. Приведены подробная хронология исторических событий, описания боевых действий, редкие архивные изображения, списки лиц императорской фамилии, числящихся в конной артиллерии, списки генералов, штаб- и обер-офицеров,...
Приказ генерала Хабалова по Петроградскому военному округу от 11 января 1917 N037 - о выдаче пособий для приобретения тёплых вещей военным почтальонам, рассыльным полевых почтовых конто, телеграфных отделений и чиновникам полевых и крепостных казначейств
Учебно-методическое пособие для курсантов. Ответственный редактор - доцент Леушин С.Г. — Пенза: ПАИИ, 2002. — 15 с. Пособие подготовлено начальником кафедры гуманитарных и социально-экономических дисциплин полковником Пугачёвым Н.И. и предназначено для курсантов и офицеров института.
СПб.: Издание В. Березовского, 1884. — 269 с. Пособие, написанное полковником Генерального штаба. Первоначально настоящій нашъ трудъ появился въ „Военномъ Сборнике" 1882 года въ виде ряда статей, а затемъ выпущенъ былъ и въ отдельныхъ оттискахъ. Такъ какъ отпечатанные экземпляры разошлись въ продаже, a между темъ требованія войсками на книгу предъявляются, то мы и решились...
СПб.: Типография штаба войск Гвардии и Петербургского военного округа, 1884. — 235 с. С отдельным атласом. Первая часть посвящена развитию военного искусства от краха Римской Империи и её военной системы до Крестовых походов включительно. Изучение средневекового военного искусства необходимо не только для уяснения того пути, по которому развивалось военное дело, но и для...
СПб.: Военно-учёный комитет, 1883. — 13 с. В первой части указаны книги по различным отраслям военного дела, которые рекомендуется приобретать для полковых библиотек с целью самоподготовки офицеров. Во второй части темы для обсуждения офицерами различных вопросов тактики, стратегии, военной техники, обучения войск и других аспектов боевой подготовки.
СПб.: Б. и., 1844. — 522 с.
Первая часть "Истории Императорской Российской Гвардии" охватывает время восьми царствований — от Петра Великого до Павла I.
Не ограничиваясь повторением рассказа о сражениях и победах, отдельная история Гвардии в частности должна объяснить подробно внутреннюю жизнь Гвардии и причины, содействовавшие возведению ее на высшую степень величия и...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. — 562 с. — ISBN: 5-89173-039-1 (XXXI в. до н. э. - VI в. н. э.) ISBN: 5-89173-038-3. В первом томе, который печатается по изданию: Е. А. Разин. «История военного искусства», т. 1, Воениздат 1955 г., показано военное искусство примитивных рабовладельческих государств (Египет, Ассирия, Персия) и классических рабовладельческих государств (Греция и Рим). Здесь...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. — 655 с. — ISBN: 5-89173-040-5 (VI - XVI вв.), ISBN: 5-89173-038-3. Второй том «Истории военного искусства» профессора, генерал-майора Е. А. Разина, изданный в 1957 г., охватывает развитие военного искусства народов мира за тысячелетний период (VI-XVI вв.), т.н. средневековья. В своих исследованиях автор описывает практически все известные этапы в развитии...
СПб.: Полигон, 1999. — 734 с. — ISBN: 5-89173-041-3 (XVI - XVII вв.), ISBN: 5-89173-038-3. Третий том «Истории военного искусства» включает исследование вооруженной организации, военной науки и военного искусства первого этапа — второй половины XVI-XVII вв. Это был период первых буржуазных революций, изменявших состав, характер и численность армий, век развития мануфактурной...
Войсковой учебник. Составлен Особой Комиссией. — СПб.: Издательство Березовского, 1900. — 623 с. — (Войсковые учебники). В учебнике рассматриваются: воинские уставы, боевые действия конницы, наставления для обучения стрельбе, полевая служба, устройство войск, денежное и вещевое довольствие, конно-саперное дело, справочная таблица наград, и другое.
М.: ACT; Астрель, 2005. — 61 с. — (Цитадель). — ISBN: 5-17-030450-1 (ООО «Издательство ACT»); ISBN: 5-271-11200-4 (ООО «Издательство Астрель»); ISBN: 1-84176-428-0 (англ.). Продолжительная и кровопролитная борьба за контроль над оккупированными японцами островами Тихого океана во время Второй мировой войны является одним из самых ярких моментов в истории войн XX в. Для...
Новосибирск: Millitary History, 2005. — 99 с.: илл. В альбоме собраны 72 работы замечательного художника П.Конрада, отличающегося точностью и тщательностью изображения униформы и её деталей. Особенно эффектно в его творчестве представлена кавалерия французской империи, в чем может убедиться сам читатель. Сопроводительный текст дает сведения о составе различных видов кавалерии,...
Перевод с немецкого А.К. Пузыревского под ред. А.Е. Станкевича. — СПб.: Типография В.П. Воленса, 1876. — 343 с. — (Военная библиотека. Том пятнадцатый). С 55 планами и чертежами. Автор книги — Фридрих Вильгельм Рюстов (1821 - 1878), немецко-швейцарский военный теоретик и историк. Предисловие к русскому изданию. Предисловие автора. Книга первая. Пехота древних времен. Пехота как...
Перевод с немецкого А.К. Пузыревского под ред. А.Е. Станкевича. — СПб.: Типография И.П. Попова, 1876. — 336 + 24 c. + картографический материал. — (Военная библиотека. Том шестнадцатый).
Автор книги — Фридрих Вильгельм Рюстов (1821 - 1878), немецко-швейцарский военный теоретик и историк.
Книга четвертая. Пехота XVII столетия.
Влияние 30-летней войны на качества и положение...
М.: Детгиз, 1941. — 343 с. В этой книге рассказывается, как люди воевали в старину у как они сражаются теперь, как постепенно изменялась армия, ее вооружение, тактика, укрепления. Эта книга писалась накануне Великой Отечественной войны. О разных войнах, начиная с древних времен вплоть до современной войны с белофиннами, говорится в этой книге. Читатель узнает немало примеров...
Қарағанды: ҚарМУ, 2016. — 163 б. Әскери нысанды киіміндегі айырым белгілердің қазіргі кезеңдегі қызметі – ол әскери атақтар мен әскер тҥрлерін ерекшелеп айыру ҥшін екені мәлім. Ал оның жылдан жылға ӛзгертілуінің мәні, қаншалықты әскер ҥшін маңызды және жалпы Қазақстан әскеріне қалай жетіп, қандай тарихи оқиға себепші болғаны жайлы осындай мәселенің тӛңірегінде монографияда...
Харьков: Курсор-Лтд, 1997. — 25 с. Эта работа посвящена одному из родов войск - карабинерам. этот вид кавалерии начал своё существование ещё в XVII веке в качестве элитных подразделений лёгкой кавалерии. В первой части этой работы подробно описывается история карабинеров, их униформа, которую они носили с 1791 г. по 1809 г.
Учебное пособие. — М.: Академический Проект; Жуковский: Кучково поле, 2002. — 864 с. Александр Андреевич Свечин (1878-1938) - русский и советский военноначальник, выдающийся теоретик военного искусства, один из крупнейших стратегов начала XX века, автор классического труда "Стратегия" (1927). Книга охватывает период с древности до начала XX века. Автор выстраивает единую линию...
М.: Яуза: Эксмо, 2007. — 704 с. — (В воздушных боях) — ISBN 978-5-699-19160-4. Корейская война 1950-1953 гг., едва не переросшая в Третью мировую, была первой и единственной полномасштабной воздушной войной реактивной эры. Именно в небе Кореи "сталинские соколы" впервые сошлись в бою с "американскими ястребами". И, несмотря на огромное численное преимущество авиации США и их...
М.: Авиоиздательство, 1926. - 150 с.
Включает в себя общий очерк истории Гражданской войны с точки зрения авиатора, описания боёв на Польском фронте, Восточном фронте и Южном фронте, "особые элементы обстановки" и "особые случаи действий" (подавление Кронштадтского мятежа, Тамбовского восстания, борьба с рейдом Мамонтова и п.), перечень погибших авиаторов.
Рязань: Рязанская обл. типография, 2014. — 600 с. Характеризуя слабость и несостоятельность политиков, война через поведение солдат и офицеров раскрывает истинное лицо участвующих в ней народов, наций и религий. История одного парашютно-десантного батальона, выполняющего интернациональный долг в Афганистане в долине реки Панджшер на протяжении нескольких долгих, суровых и...
Монография. — 2-е изд., испр. — М.: МАКС Пресс, 2020. — 344 с. — ISBN: 978-5-317-06327-6. Монография посвящена проблеме происхождения Второй мировой войны. На основе современных достижений исторической науки и теории международных отношений представлена новая концепция динамики «баланса сил» великих держав накануне войны. В центре внимания автора стоит проблема незавершенной...
СПб.: Тип. Морского Министерства, 1887. — 114 с.
О десанте вообще.
Изготовление десанта
Ведомость вещам, которые нужно иметь на шлюпках с десантом
О строях и эволюциях гребных судов с десантом
Обращение с артиллерией
Атака берега
Ведение боя на берегу
Походное движение десанта
Расположение на ночлег
Оставление берега
[пер. с польск. М. В. Сазанова]. — М. : Росспэн, 2020. — 266 с. Книга польского историка Радослава Сикоры знакомит читателя с элитной кавалерией Речи Посполитой – крылатыми гусарами, гусарией, – существовавшей 300 лет и не имевшей равных в бою. Гусария составляла главную наступательную силу польской армии и играла решающую роль в ее великолепных победах. На полях сражений...
2-е изд. — Перевод с польского Я.А. Кротовской. — М.: Государственное военное изд-во наркомата обороны Союза СССР, 1936. — 250 с. Среди огромного количества литературы по вопросу о будущей войне и ее характере, издаваемой за последние годы в буржуазных странах и в подавляющем своем большинстве сугубо фантастической и малоценной, книга польского генерала Владислава Сикорского,...
Пер. с англ. А.Ю. Колгашкина. — М.: Кучково поле; Институт внешнеполитических исследований и инициатив, 2015. — 482 с. — (Реальная политика). — ISBN 978-5-9950-0372-4. В своей книге американский журналист Джереми Скейхилл раскрывает историю превращения обыкновенного охранного предприятия в крупнейшую частную армию в мире, основную деятельность которой составляет участие в...
СПб.: Федеральное государственное казенное учреждение культуры и искусства «Центральная военно-морская библиотека» Министерства обороны Российской Федерации, 2023. — 39 с. В связи с началом 24 февраля 2022 года специальной военной операции Центральная военно-морская библиотека начала ведение электронной картотеки, посвященной хронике военных событий. Картотека формируется на...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1955. — 718 с. Капитальный труд "История военного искусства" профессор Александр Александрович Строков создавал в течение почти двадцати лет. Три тома освещают историю военного искусства (а не историю войн) на примерах конкретных военно-исторических событий и фактов с соблюдением их хронологической последовательности и охватывают период от...
СПб.: Полигон, 1994. — 682 с. Военное искусство России и стран Западной Европы в конце XVII в. - начале XVIII в. Создание регулярной армии и флота в России. Северная война 1700-1721 гг. Образование Российской империи и создание регулярной армии и флота Реформы в русском государстве и их классовый характер Петр I как полководец Создание регулярной армии и флота Численность войск...
СПб.: Омега-Полигон, 1994. — 712 c. — ISBN: 5-85391-008-6. Особенности ведения войн периода империализма. Военное искусство в империалистических войнах конца XIX —начала XX века. Русско-японская война 1904—1905 гг. Подготовка и начало первой мировой войны. Состояние военно-теоретической мысли. Провал германской стратегии быстротечного поражения Франции и России. Маневренный...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1965. — 693 с. Капитальный труд "История военного искусства" профессор Александр Александрович Строков создавал в течение почти двадцати лет. Три тома освещают историю военного искусства (а не историю войн) на примерах конкретных военно-исторических событий и фактов с соблюдением их хронологической последовательности и охватывают период от...
М.: Военное издательство МО СССР, 1967. — 714 с. Капитальный труд "История военного искусства" профессор Александр Александрович Строков создавал в течение почти двадцати лет. Три тома освещают историю военного искусства (а не историю войн) на примерах конкретных военно-исторических событий и фактов с соблюдением их хронологической последовательности и охватывают период от...
Бочаров Л.Ю., Корчак В.Ю., Тужиков Е.З., Реулов Р.В., Волковский Н.Л. — Москва: Техносфера, 2015. — 208 с. — ISBN: 978-5-94836-392-9. В книге представлены материалы, содержащие анализ, обобщение и систематизацию опыта США и Германии, накопленного при организации, планировании, финансировании и проведении оборонных исследований. Выбор этих стран неслучаен и определен наличием...
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Российский государственный гидрометеорологический университет, 2018. — 228 с. Учебное пособие посвящено истории разработки оборонных проектов в ленинградских научных школах в первое послевоенное десятилетие, в частности, созданию атомного проекта, оборонной химии, противовоздушной обороне, морским ядерным силам и др. Особое внимание в пособии уделено...
М.: интернет-издание, 2015. - 43с. В 1904 году капитан британской армии, ветеран Англо-бурской войны Э. Д. Суинтон (будущий генерал-майор и создатель британских танковых войск) опубликовал небольшую повесть "The Defence of Duffer's Drift", главный герой которой, молодой британский лейтенант, в серии сменяющих друг друга шести ночных кошмаров раз за разом пытался защитить...
Ницца: Издание автора, 1908. — 110 с. Критическое описание состояния русского флота в начале XX века и причин цусимской катастрофы. "Нечего и говорить, что главная причина разложения нашего флота, это гнилой государственный строй, благодаря которому создается и дряблый питомник, именующийся морским кадетским корпусом. Этот притон избалованных дворянских и сановных сынков,...
М.: Эксмо, 2005. — 448 с. — ISBN: 5—699—08512—2
Фундаментальная работа известного специалиста в области военно-морской истории Брайана Танстолла "Морская война в век паруса. 1650-1815 гг. Сражения великих адмиралов" посвящена эволюции военно-морской тактики от голландских войн XVII века до конца Первой империи в 1815 г. В книге рассматривается весь тот период, когда парусные...
Минск: Харвест, 1999. — 432 с.: ил. — (Библиотека военной истории). — ISBN: 985-433-496-1. Три тысячи лет конница была главной ударной силой на полях сражений. Однако после 1917 года ни одной книги по истории конницы на русском языке не издавалось. Предлагаемая работа призвана восполнить этот пробел. Проанализировав множество источников, а также исследования военных историков...
Пер. с англ. — М.: АСТ, Астрель, 2005. — 72 с.: ил. — (Цитадель). — ISBN 5-17-029172-8 (АСТ), ISBN 5-271-11419-8 (Астрель), ISBN 1-84176-429-9 (англ.).
В книге подробно рассказывается о роли классического японского замка в военной и гражданской жизни Японии, при этом особое значение придается военной функции замка. Текст сопровождается множеством фотографий и реконструкций....
Учебно-методическое пособие для студентов и школьников старших классов. — Феодосия: РИО НИЦ, 2018. — 136 с. Учебно-методическое пособие посвящено всем кампаниям и стратегическим, фронтовым и армейским операциям Вооруженных Сил СССР в Великой Отечественной войне, история которых рассмотрена через призму фактов и статистических данных. Особое внимание уделяется соотношению сил и...
Монография. — РАН, ИНИОН, Отд. Европы и Америки. — Москва, 2022. — 360 c. — ISBN 978-5-248-01008-0. Раскрываются особенности, в том числе «узкие места», семи масштабных преобразований «военной машины» Пруссии и затем Германии, начиная с правления Фридриха Великого и заканчивая «эрой Меркель» в ФРГ. Оцениваются роль и место фактора развития и наступательного использования...
РСФСР. Отдел военной литературы при Революционом военном совете Республики. — Москва: Государственное издательство, 1921. — 140 с. : ил. Содержание Стратегия национальная и классовая Политика и стратегия в гражданской войне Возникновение гражданской войны Революция извне Красная армия и милиция Статистика в гражданской войне Укрепленные районы Марш-маневр и организация...
Монография. — Омск: Омский государственный технический университет (ОмГТУ), 2014. — 200 с. — ISBN 978-5-8149-1783-6. Монография посвящена вопросу специфики и динамики русского военного дискурса XIX – начала XX века. Автор останавливается на вопросах структуры и особенностей русского военного подъязыка длительного периода времени, мало изученного с точки зрения представленности...
Москва: Издание IV управления штаба РККА, 1933. — 179 с. Устав корабельной службы Германского военного флота (нем. Reichsmarine, флот Рейха, «имперский флот»), обязателен для всех действующих кораблей и судов военного флота, а также для судов, нанятых или занятых военным флотом. В 1935 году, через два года после прихода к власти нацистов, ВМС Германии получили название...
СПб.: Евразия, 2001. — 448 с. Предисловие. Шесть секретных учений Тай-гуна. Методы Сыма. Искусство войны Сунь-Цзы. У-цзы. Вэй-Ляо-цзы. Три стратегии Хуан Ши-Гуна. Вопросы танского Тай-цзуна и ответы Ли Вэй-гуна . "У-цзин" является уникальным, если не единственным, учебником стратегического мышления, дошедшим до нас через тысячелетия беспрестанных конфликтов и войн, становления...
М.: Оружие и технологии, 2008. — 720 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93799-036-5
В книге рассматривается история Разведки ВМФ: от зарождения в 1798г. до нашего времени.
СПб.: Типография Морского Министерства, 1871. - 332с.
Записки морской артиллерии для преподавания в школе артиллерийских унтер-офицеров. Сост. лейт. А. Федотов; Лабораторныя записки для унтер-офицеров морской артиллерии. Сост. подполк. Ф. Максимовым.
М.: ОГИЗ, Политиздат; 1941. — 68 с.
Содержание: .
Роль минерального сырья в войне.
Уроки первой империалистической войны.
Подготовка новой войны.
Потребности современной войны в сырье.
Анализ главнейших видов стратегического сырья.
Борьба фашистской Германии за сырье.
Стратегическое сырье и богатства недр Советского Союза.
Наука и война.
М.: изд-во не указано, 2023. — 513 с. Монография, посвящённая 60-летию создания Политического управления РВСН, рассказывает об истории партийно-политической, воспитательной, военно- политической работы в Ракетных войсках стратегического назначения по обеспечению морально-политической и психологической готовности стратегических ракетчиков к выполнению задач по предназначению,...
София: Печатница на Армейская военно-издателски фондъ, 1931. — 91 с. Уводъ Общи начала Характеристика на гледищата отъ древностьта до появата на огнестрелното оръжие Характеристика на гледищата следъ появата на огнестрелното - до въвеждане на нарезното оръжие Характеристика на гледищата презъ епохата на нарезното оръжие - съвременни схващания Общо заключение
С.-Петербург: Паровая Скоропечатня А.В. Пожаровой, 1895. — 247 c. Сочинение представляет собой обзор истории развития крепостного строительства в России с древнейших времен до начала XIX века. Приводится описание обороны городов, строительства укрепленных пунктов, обзор деятельности Петра I по созданию инженерных частей и т.д. Оглавление Предисловие История крепости в России до...
М.: Воениздат НКО СССР, 1942. — 264 с. Описана работа штабов как общевойсковых, так и уровня батальон-полк в различных видах боевых действий, организация работы и внутренний распорядок, связь, боевое и тыловое обеспечение, организация перевозок.
София: Придворна Печатница Б. Шимачекъ, 1890. — 111 с. Предговор. Встъпление. Военното дело у древните народи. Военното дело и тактиката на гърците. Македонско военно дело и тактика при Филип и Александър Велики. Римско военно дело и тактика. Сравнение манипулярния строй на легиона с фалангообразния. Римско тактическо изкуство в епохата на Юлий Цезар. Римско тактическо изкуство...
Третье издание. — Петроград: Типография "Артиллерийского Журнала", 1917. — 72 с. Оглавление . Общие замечания о газовой борьбе. Физиологическая классификация ядовитых веществ. Действие ядовитых средств на людей после газовых атак. Профессиональные отравления и меры предупреждения их. Организация подачи врачебной помощи газоотравленным. Медицинские меры, рекомендуемые для лечения...
СПб.: Т-во В. А. Березовского, 1891.
Качество низкое — отфотографировано без специальных приспособлений. Распознаванию не подлежит, но читать вполне можно.
Настоящее положение, определяющее порядок заведывания и распоряжения всем состоящим в роте казенным имуществом и средствами разного рода.
Без выходных данных, 1938. - 118 с. Българитѣ на военна служба въ турската войска. Българитѣ въ турскитѣ размирици. Българитѣ въ чужди войски противъ Турция. Самостоятелни борби на българитѣ срещу Турция. Българинътъ отъ турско време като воененъ елементъ.
Учебное пособие. — М.: ВУ РГСУ, 2025. — 123 с. Учебное-методическая пособие основано на методических материалах по дисциплине «Военная история» для курсантов Военного университета и студентов Российского государственного социального университета (разработаны на основании федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования по направлению подготовки...
Москва: Ломоносов, 2016. — 228 с. — ISBN 978-5-91678-299-8. В 241 году до н. э. в Вавилоне появился на свет мальчик, названный Антиохом. Много позже, когда он вернет могущество монархии, созданной его прапрадедом, и будет править обширной эллинистической империей, которая раскинется от Босфора до Инда, к его имени присоединят титул «Великий». Империя Антиоха Великого, как ни...
Монография. — М.: Мир науки, 2023. — 147 с. — ISBN 978-5-907603-83-7. В монографии дается характеристика стратегии гибридной войны, которая нацелена на изнурение страны-жертвы с использованием широкого спектра действий, от иррегулярных формирований до кибернетических атак. В монографии показано как, следуя такой стратегии, агрессор тайно, без формального объявления войны...
Монография. — М.: Мир науки, 2022. — 155 с. — ISBN 978-5-907603-50-9. Исследование представляет интерес для специалистов в области истории военного искусства, профессорско-преподавательского состава, слушателей и курсантов высших военных учебных заведений, а также широкого круга читателей, интересующегося военной историей. Введение. Историческая ретроспектива зарождения и...
Военное издательство Министерства Обороны СССР, 1974. — 285 с. В военно-политическом очерке представлены данные о: - вооружённых силах стран-участниц НАТО (США, Великобритании, Франции, ФРГ, Италии, Канады, Нидерландов, Бельгии, Турции, Груди, Норвегии, Греции, Португалии, Люксембурга)- органах управления НАТО - сухопутных войсках, военно-воздушных силах, военно-морском флоте,...
СПб.: Тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1909- г. - 232 с.
Из состава тематического сборника "Армейская пехота".
Аварский 187-й пехотный полк; Александро-Невский 198-й пехотный полк; Ардагано-Михайловский 204-й пехотный полк; Асландузский 186-й пехотный полк и т.д. по алфавиту.
2-е издание. — СПб.: Типография В.Д. Смирнова, 1910. — 216 с. Описаны история создания и основные моменты истории всех полков и подразделений Императорской гвардии, с указанием всех командиров, боев и походов, боевых наград. Содержит множество цветных иллюстраций мундиров различных полков и подразделений. Широко известные цветные таблицы униформы, составленные В. К. Шенком.
СПб.: Тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1909.— 106 с. Краткие истории кавалерии русской армии, наименования и переименования, командиры, шефы, боевой путь, награды кавалерийских частей. Широко известные цветные таблицы униформы, составленные В. К. Шенком.
Справочная книга Императорской главной квартиры. Сост. Казин В.Х. Санкт-Петербург. Тип. В.Д. Смирнова. 1912. - с. 462 :илл. прил.
Списки особ Императорских фамилий, иностранных владетельных домов, состоящих в настоящее время и состоявших ранее шефами казачьих частей. "Вечные" шефы и их краткие биографии. Хроника возникновения и образования казачьих войск. Упраздненные казачьи...
СПб.: Тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1910.— 102 с. Из состава тематического сборника "Армейская пехота", в который входят: Гренадерские и Пехотные полки. Стрелковые части.
СПб.: Тип. В.Д. Смирнова, 1909. — 496 с. Краткие истории казачьих частей русской армии, хронологические сведения, наименования и переименования, командиры, шефы, боевой путь, награды. Содержание: Вместо предисловия. Особы Императорской Фамилии, состоящия Шефами и числящияся в казачьих частях. Особы иностранных владетельных домов, числящихся в казачьих войсках. Особы...
М.: Политиздат, 1941. — 280 с. Одной из отличительных черт эпохи империализма является напряженная и ожесточенная борьба за источники сырья. Эта борьба приобретает особо острый характер, потому что источники сырья уже захвачены крупнейшими капиталистическими монополиями и борьба ведется за новый передел уже поделенных территорий. От автора Проблема минерального сырья в Первой...
СПб.: Тип. В.Ф. Демакова, 1881. — 272 с.
Изложено для нижних чинов полковником бароном Штакельбергом.
Стандартная "история полка", только очень подробная и содержащая достаточно много персоналий. Есть рисунки, показывающие, как выглядели конногвардейцы в различное время.
Москва: Воениздат, 1937. — 276 с. Автор, исследуя богатый исторический материал по ведению операций подводных лодок в империалистическую войну, главным образом, основными противниками — Германией и Англией, — сосредоточивает внимание на методах ведения этих операций и на их развитии в ходе мировой войны на море. Параллельно с развитием подводного оружия и методов его применения...
М.: Московскiй Печатный двор, 1709. - 248с.
Штурм Леонхард Кристоф (1669-1719) – немецкий писатель, теоретик архитектуры и богослов, профессор Университета Франкфурта-на-Одере (1702).
Сочинение по фортификации, изложено им в форме беседы мастера с учеником. Искусство строительства крепостей: обозрение ведущих архитектурных школ своего времени. Изложение концепций французского...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2012. — 256 с. Фрэнк Эзра Эдкок, выступая с позиций беспристрастного историка, старается дать объективную и непредвзятую оценку римской военной машине и особенностям ведения войны греками и македонцами. Не разбирая подробностей военных кампаний, автор рассматривает, как древние воины распоряжались теми средствами, которые у них были в наличии, в какой мере...
М.: Госвоениздат, 1931. — 189 с.
Написана автором на основании личного опыта и по документам 5-й армии, ведшей борьбу с Колчаком. Труд представляет собой первую попытку систематизировать особенности тактики гражданской войны. Богатейший исторический материал, использованный автором, делает его труд интересным и ценным пособием при изучении истории и тактики гражданской войны....
Ростов-на-Дону: Военный вестник Юга России, 1997. — 24 с. Издание посвящено 80-летию Северо-Кавказского военного округа, в помощь офицерскому составу войск округа.
Благовещенск: БГПУ, 2012. — 192 с. В учебном пособии даны вопросы по военной истории и географии, приведены сведения о наиболее крупных военных сражениях древности, средневековья, нового и новейшего времени, вплоть до Первой мировой войны. История войн рассматривается с прогрессом военной техники. Из военной истории России приведены примеры крупнейших побед и поражений, роль...
Благовещенск: БГПУ, 2012. — 214 с. В учебном пособии даны вопросы по военной истории и географии Второй мировой войны и современности. Автор акцентирует внимание на крупнейших победах и поражениях, истории отдельных родов войск и оружия, на отдельных подвигах и героях. В ответах на вопросы приведено много интересных фактов. Книга адресована учащимся общеобразовательных...
Монография. — Санкт-Петербург: 1883. — 40 с.
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Вступление
Русское войско до Петра I
Царь Петр I
Потешные (первое регулярное войско)
Доблести первого регулярного войска
Издание с портретом императора Петра I и первого Российского солдата Бухвостова, а также виньетками художника Панова и изображения одежды и вооружения потешных. Издание Склада учебных пособий...
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