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by Brett Green
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK. Brett Green details the prerequisites of airbrushing, including the different types of spray equipment and air sources available, offering advice on appropriate thinners, paint ratios and air pressures to ensure the most appropriate paint coverage across a range of different...
Navy SEAL Sniper
An Intimate Look at the Sniper of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
The sniper is a battlefield threat second to none. Mastering the art of marksmanship is critical but is only part of what makes a Navy SEAL sniper. Snipers must be able to apply the craft in an urban environment or alone on a hostile mountain top with equal effectiveness. Today’s sniper must not...
After the War
Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
From the post-World War II era through the Cold War, post-Cold War era, and current war on terrorism, this volume assesses how U.S. presidential decisionmaking style and administrative structure can work in favor of, as well as against, the nation-building goals of the U.S. government and military and those of its coalition partners and allies.
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
RAND Counterinsurgency Study--Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
This study explores the nature of the insurgency in Afghanistan, the key challenges and successes of the U.S.-led counterinsurgency campaign, and the capabilities necessary to wage effective counterinsurgency operations. By examining the key lessons from all insurgencies since World War II, it finds...
From Insurgency to Stability
Volume I: Key Capabilities and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
This book identifies the procedures and capabilities that the U.S. Department of Defense, other agencies of the U.S. government, U.S. allies and partners, and international organizations require in order to support the transition from counterinsurgency, when the military takes primary responsibility...
The Long Shadow of 9/11
America's Response to Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This book provides an array of answers to the question, In the ten years since the 9/11 attacks, how has America responded? In a series of essays, RAND authors lend a farsighted perspective to the national dialogue on 9/11's legacy; assess the military, political, fiscal, social, cultural, psychological,...
Crisis Stability and Long-Range Strike
A Comparative Analysis of Fighters, Bombers, and Missiles
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
To effectively manage an international crisis, the United States must balance its threats with restraint. It must posture forces in ways that deter aggression without implying that an attack is imminent, while limiting its own vulnerability to surprise attack. A RAND study sought to identify which long-range...
Guerrilla Warfare
A Historical and Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
As the author makes clear, every book has a history; Guerrilla Warfare is no exception. Together with its sequel Terrorism (and two companion readers) it was part of a wider study: to give a critical interpretation of guerrilla and terrorism theory and practice throughout history. It did not aim at...
In Athena's Camp
Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1997
The information revolution--which is as much an organizational as a technological revolution--is transforming the nature of conflict across the spectrum: from open warfare, to terrorism, crime, and even radical social activism. The era of massed field armies is passing, because the new information...
Penaid Nonproliferation
Hindering the Spread of Countermeasures Against Ballistic Missile Defenses
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
An attacker's missile-borne countermeasures to ballistic missile defenses are known as penetration aids, or penaids. To support efforts to prevent the proliferation of penaid-related items, this research recommends controls on potential exports according to the structure of the international Missile Technology Control Regime.
Dark Journey
Three key NZ battles of the western front
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
this significant volume will see the completion of over seven years' writing and research by esteemed military historian Glyn Harper. the book will include the revision and reissuing of his two earlier detailed histories of the New Zealand Divisions' major Western Front battles of World War One: Massacre...
Passchendaele
The Anatomy of a Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
A fresh look at the battles of Passchendaele that reveals, for the first time, where responsibility for the tragedy really lies. this extensively researched book tells the story of one of the darkest hours of Australia and New Zealand's First World War military. With the forensic use of decades-old...
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Collected here in one omnibus edition are Niccolò Machiavelli's most important works, The Art of War and The Prince. It was Niccolò Machiavelli who essentially removed ethics from government. He did it with The Prince, when he asserted that The Prince (president, dictator, prime minister, etc.)...
Tolstoy On War
Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace"
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays...