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by Joseph H. Daves
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Volume 3 in this three-volume set covers the final days of General Soeharto's New Order regime, the 1997-1998 monetary crisis and the May 1998 nationwide riots that forced his resignation in disgrace. Packed with first-hand accounts and original source material, this book details the continuing...
L'action de l'Armée Belge
Pour la défense du pays et le respect de sa neutralité
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Extrait : "La première mesure d'ordre militaire que la Belgique décida à l'occasion du conflit diplomatique qui divisa l'Europe en juillet 1914, fut la mise de l'armée sur le pied de paix renforcé, c'est-à-dire le rappel de trois classes de milice. Cette décision constituait une simple mesure...
Essai d'un abrégé de la philosophie de la guerre
ou Recueil de maximes militaires
Language: French
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Extrait : "1. Les lois sont les rapports nécessaires qui dérivent de la nature des choses. (Montesquieu.) 2. La science est la classification des notions positives et des lois fournies par l'observation, l'expérience et le raisonnement. (Fontenelle.) 3. Il n'est presque aucun objet saisi par les sens...
Guerre
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Partez à la découverte de la guerre avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Les groupes humains, quelle que soit leur taille, se reconnaissent comme tels et affirment leur unité en se distinguant d'autres groupes. Il y a entre eux à la fois des affinités et des oppositions qui affectent leurs...
by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Language: French
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Dès le commencement du Xème siècle, il existait déjà sur l’emplacement actuel du château de Coucy une forteresse bâtie par un archevêque de Reims. Ce territoire appartenait au siége de Reims depuis saint Rémi, à qui il aurait...
Roman Spaces
Essays Around an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
It has been fashionable to view the Classical past as a thing dead and frozen, scarcely accessible and certainly of no relevance to current international affairs. It has also been fashionable to over-sensationalize the past, and draw conclusions that are hard to justify in the light of the available...
Ready for Battle
Technological Intelligence on the Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Technology and its proper use constitute key components in the strength of any armed forces. However, battlefield technologies constantly evolve in the quest for competitive advantage, with the rate at which new concepts and devices appear steadily increasing. In the world of technological intelligence,...
by War Department
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This authentic handbook provides a wealth of revealing information on life in the Union Army during the Civil War. Cited regulations include details of military discipline, rank and command, care and armament of fortifications, and dozens of other topics. A must for serious Civil War historians, buffs, and battle scene reenactors.
Hegemonic Peace and Empire
The Pax Romana, Britannica and Americana
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
This book examines the language and the ideology of the Pax Romana, the Pax Britannica and the Pax Americana within the broader contexts of 'hegemony' and 'empire'. It addresses three main themes: a conceptual examination of the way in which hegemony has been justified; a linguistic study of how...
Making Sense of Proxy Wars
States, Surrogates & the Use of Force
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
by H. C. B. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book, originally published in 1977 examines in detail the organisation, training, and personnel of the British Army during the eighteenth century, and explains how the government policies of containing the enemy and colonial conquest were achieved. It also illustrates how the Army survived the...
Setting Priorities in the Age of Austerity
British, French, and German Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Examines the British, French, and German armies’ approaches to accommodating significant budget cuts while attempting to sustain their commitment to full spectrum operations. Specifically, it looks at the choices these armies are making with respect to how they spend dwindling resources: What force...
Secret Wartime Britain
Hidden Places That Helped Win the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
During the Second World War, thousands of sites across Britain were requisitioned to support the war efforts. Additionally countless others were built from scratch regardless of cost. Often the purpose of these locations was concealed even from those living close by.
The author of Secret Wartime...
La Bataille des Ardennes
21-25 aout 1914
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
« De toute la « Bataille des frontières » la partie restée la plus obscure jusqu’ici est la lutte engagée du 20 au 30 août dans la région des Ardennes et de la Meuse du Luxembourg belge. Sur un front d’au moins cent kilomètres, trois armées allemandes, trois armées françaises, se livrèrent...