Strategy category: 1253 books
Organizing Victory
The War Conferences 1941–1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
How decisions during World War II were made at the highest level, and how these decision affected every facet of the warTo understand the end result of World War II is to understand the leaders organizing the action from behind the scenes; from the main figureheads to the silent chiefs of staff, this...
The First Victory
The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important...
Japan's Imperial Army
Its Rise and Fall
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
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...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book an outgrowth of questions raised about the conduct of air operations in the war between Iran and Iraq. Unlike previous Middle Eastern wars, this one had continued over a protracted period while we in the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In the Aleutian Campaign of 1942-1943, the United States of America fought the only land battle against an invading nation on American territory during the past 100 years at the Battle of...
The Day We Lost the H-Bomb
Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Disrupting an insurgent's access to sanctuary and safe-haven is a critical aspect of operational planning for counterinsurgent forces. By denying an insurgent's access to safe-havens early in the conflict, the counterinsurgent will gain a marked advantage over the initially weaker force. Only through...
Repairing the Damage
Possibilities and Limits of Transatlantic Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The damage that has been done to the transatlantic alliance will not be repaired through grand architectural redesigns or radical new agendas. Instead, the transatlantic partners need to restore their consensus and cooperation on key security challenges with a limited agenda that reflects the essential...
The Missile Next Door
The Minuteman in the American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In the 1960s the Air Force buried 1,000 ICBMs in pastures across the Great Plains to keep U.S. nuclear strategy out of view. As rural civilians of all political stripes found themselves living in the Soviet crosshairs, a proud Plains individualism gave way to an economic dependence on the military-industrial complex that still persists today.
Friends, Foes, and Future Directions
U.S. Partnerships in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Report evaluates strategies for dealing with U.S. partners and adversaries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in a time of diminishing defense budgets and American public preference for a domestic focus. The three proposed strategies are to be more assertive, to be more collaborative, or to retrench...
Modern War and the Utility of Force
Challenges, Methods and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war.
After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally...
by Terrence K. Kelly, James Dobbins, David A. Shlapak
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Looking to the 2030–2040 time frame, U.S. policy and military strategy will need to strike a balance among maintaining a cooperative relationship with China, deterring Chinese aggression in regional disputes, and preparing for the possibility that China could become more assertive. The U.S. Army...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The purpose of this study is to examine the use of indirect coercion as an element of political warfare and as a policy option for the United States. This thesis synthesizes the concepts of...
Such Troops as These
The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had been adopted.
The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the...