Strategy category: 1253 books
The Defense of Hill 781
An Allegory of Modern Mechanized Combat
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
“Brilliant, hardhitting description of modern war on the U.S. Army’s premier training ground. A must-read tactical primer for today’s warrior.”—John C. “Doc” Bahnsen, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.)
At the turn of the century a small, humorous book on tactics was published. The...
Concrete Hell
Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
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...
by Robert Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Weather and Warfare dramatically retraces the meteorological forces during battlefield engagements that doomed or saved civilizations. In 1588 more than half of the Spanish Armada, on its way around northern Britain, was destroyed by storms in retreat back to Spain. Napoleon’s attack on Russia was...
Military Capabilities for Hybrid War
Insights from the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon and Gaza
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
The Israel Defense Forces have gained much experience against hybrid opponents--Hezbollah and Hamas--in recent conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza. The lessons from these experiences are relevant to understanding the capabilities the U.S. Army and the joint force will require in the future. Principal findings...
The Myth of Martyrdom
What Really Drives Suicide Bombers, Rampage Shooters, and Other Self-Destructive Killers
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
A startling look at the deepest, darkest secrets that terrorists pray you'll never know
For decades, experts from the most powerful governments and prestigious universities around the world have told us that suicide bombers are psychologically normal men and women driven by a single-minded...
by Ir.Budiman Djoko Said, MM, Gatot Soedarto
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Di dalam buku ini disampaikan topik-topik mengangkut Geopolitik dan Hubungan Internasional, serta beberapa topik terkait dengan Kepentingan Nasional dan Tujuan Nasional dalam hubungannya dengan perkembangan politik, ekonomi, dan militer dewasa ini.
Geopolitik diaplikasikan...
by RADM (Ret) Ir.Budiman Djoko Said,MM
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Buku ini membahas peran doktrin militer dalam hubungannya dengan strategi, dan mengkaji hubungan antara visi - misi dengan strategi. Visi adalah impian organisasi, sesuatu yang membentang antara imaginasi dan motivasi iuntuk memikir ulang realita perwujudannya. Misi menjelaskan apa yang diperbuat...
by Harris Nicolas
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
About the middle of the year 1414, Henry the Fifth, influenced by the persuasions of Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury, by the dying injunction of his royal father not to allow the kingdom to remain long at peace, or, more probably, by those feelings of ambition which were no less natural to his...
Cataclysm 90 BC
The Forgotten War that Almost Destroyed Rome
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A dramatic account of a rebellion against the Roman republic—by a confederation of its Italian allies.
We know of Rome’s reputation for military success against foreign enemies. Yet at the start of the first century BC, Rome faced a hostile army less than a week’s march from the capital....
Frederick the Great
A Military Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
For tactical and strategic ingenuity, for daring and ruthless determination and the capacity to inspire troops, Frederick the Great was without equal. In this detailed life of ‘Old Fritz’, Christopher Duffy, who has written widely on the army of Frederick and on the armies of his adversaries, Austria and Russia, has produced a definitive account of his military genius.
by Denis Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Napoleon called him “a Quixote who was not mad... a man who has a sacred fire in his soul.” President John Adams said his plan to liberate Spanish America was “as visionary as an excursion to the moon in a cart drawn by geese.”
For 30 years the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda plotted to free...
With an ambulance during the Franco-German war
Personal experiences and adventures with both armies, 1870-1871
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Original book in ePub format.
WITH AN AMBULANCE DURING THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR
Personal Experiences and Adventures with Both Armies 1870-1871
by CHARLES E. RYAN, F.R.C.S.I., M.R.C.P.I.
Knight of the Order of Louis II, of Bavaria
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
153-157 Fifth Avenue
1896
Aberdeen University Press.
La Suisse face à l’espionnage - 1914-1918
Documentaire historique
Language: French
Release Date: January 4, 2016
L’espionnage en Suisse durant la Grande GuerreLa Première Guerre mondiale ne se déroula pas uniquement sur les champs de bataille. Elle se développa, de manière insidieuse, dans les pays neutres, sous des formes moins sanglantes mais tout autant efficaces. La Suisse, à proximité immédiate des...
Hitler's Soldiers
The German Army in the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture....