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by Thomas M. Kane
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This work argues that logistics in warfare is crucial to achieving strategic success. The author identifies logistical capabilities as an arbiter of opportunity, which plays a critical role in determining which side will hold the strategic iniative in war. Armies which have secured reliable resources...
by Thomas M. Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
by Thomas M. Kane, David J. Lonsdale
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Understanding Contemporary Strategy provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of modern strategy.
Covering all the main issues in the field, the book explores the major themes through a combination of classical and modern strategic theory, history and...
Financing Armed Conflict, Volume 2
Resourcing US Military Interventions from the Spanish-American War to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
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...
by Major Thomas M. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The rise of industrialization coupled with the growth of technology have contributed to creating a complexity to modern warfare that far exceeds the primitive conditions of earlier periods. Defined as the creative use of distributed operations for the purposes of strategy, success at the operational...
Ladies in the Laboratory II
West European Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
The lives of many of the nineteenth century's most notable women of science are presented in English for the first time in this companion volume to Ladies in the Laboratory: American and British Women in Science. The present volume bridges a considerable gap in English literature available on women...
by Major Thomas M. Hough
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In 1979 the age old struggle for the control of Islam between the Shiite and Sunni sects re-emerged in the Middle East. Four events occurred in 1979 that defined the context of contemporary Middle Eastern politics: the Islamic revolution in Iran, the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords,...
New Essays on Samuel Johnson
Revaluation
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary,...
by Thomas M. Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The Historical Dictionary of Panama covers the history of Panama through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture....
Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War
Reflections on the Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In March 1757 – early in the Seven Years’ War – a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bordeaux with a cargo of wine and French luxury goods. Amongst the cargo seized were 125 letters from members of the Irish expatriate community,...
Child Welfare in the Legal Setting
A Critical and Interpretive Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Explore legal issues that often hinder the work of child welfare practitioners!
Child Welfare in the Legal Setting: A Critical and Interpretive Perspective is a revolutionary study of the child welfare system that is essential for practitioners, educators, and students interested in public...
The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597
Building the Faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain's Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
English Catholic voices, once disregarded as merely confessional, are now acknowledged to provide important perspectives on Elizabethan society. Based on extensive archival research, this book builds on previous studies for the first thorough investigation of the Jesuit mission to England during a...
by Claudia Bernardi, Roberto Cuéllar, Rev. Carlos Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Archbishop Romero and Spiritual Leadership in the Modern World presents a contemporary and integrated understanding of one of the most remarkable pastoral leaders of our time. This bishop, Oscar Romero of El Salvador, experienced deeply the overwhelming sufferings of the Salvadoran people, as well...
History as a Science and the System of the Sciences
Phenomenological Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This volume goes beyond presently available phenomenological analyses based on the structures and constitution of the lifeworld. It shows how the science of history is the mediator between the human and the natural sciences. It demonstrates that the distinction between interpretation and explanation...