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Arms and Equipment of the Civil War by Jack Coggins
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Jack Coggins

24-POUNDER GUN ON BARBETTE CARRIAGE 150-POUNDER ARMSTRONG MUZZLE-LOADING RIFLE An Armstrong gun of this type was “built up” of a series of concentric wrought-iron tubes made from spiral coils welded ...
( Category: Military Technology March 23,2020 )
On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Herman Kahn [Kahn, Herman]

The next question asked in Table 52 is, Do we believe the answers? This question is, of course, highly relevant. Even conventional scientific and engineering analyses are much more uncertain ...
( Category: Military Technology March 23,2020 )
French Foreign Legion 1831–71 by Martin Windrow
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Martin Windrow

The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, 1870–71 France declared war on Prussia on 19 July 1870. By early October half the French Army, under Bazaine, was encircled at Metz ...
( Category: Military Technology March 22,2020 )
Wellington's Rifles by Mark Urban
epub |eng | 2009-03-21 | Author:Mark Urban

The stormers moved up, with a couple of hundred riflemen of Right Wing who would provide a covering fire. O'Hare caught sight of George Simmons, the subaltern he had tutored, ...
( Category: Military Technology March 22,2020 )
The Science of War by O'Hanlon Michael E.; O'Hanlon Michael E. E.;
epub |eng | | Author:O'Hanlon, Michael E.; O'Hanlon, Michael E. E.;

KEY REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING Betts, Richard K., Surprise Attack (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1982). Biddle, Stephen, Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton ...
( Category: Military Technology March 20,2020 )
Never Fight Fair! by Orr Kelly
epub |eng | | Author:Orr Kelly

CHAPTER 26 A Taste for Ears From their earliest days in World War II, the navy’s frogmen have surrounded much of what they do—at times, even their very existence—with secrecy. ...
( Category: Military Technology March 19,2020 )
War and Technology by Jeremy Black
epub |eng | 2013-03-16 | Author:Jeremy Black

POST-1945 Tanks were not suited to or available for many of the conflicts that followed 1945. Revolutionary forces tended not to have any, while the terrain and vegetation of the ...
( Category: Military Technology March 17,2020 )
Combat Shooting with Massad Ayoob by Massad Ayoob
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Massad Ayoob [Ayoob, Massad]

CLOSEUP OF THE COVER of the book Gun Fighters by Col. Charles Askins, Jr. That’s Charlie (a southpaw) in the drawing, taken from a famous photo of Askins. Note that ...
( Category: Firearms March 15,2020 )
The Art of War by Baron de Jomini
epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:Baron de Jomini [Jomini, Baron de]

It should be observed that these different orders are not to be understood precisely as the geometrical figures indicate them. A general who would expect to arrange his line of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 14,2020 )
Napoleon's Military Maxims by G. Chandler David;
epub |eng | 2015-09-13 | Author:G. Chandler, David;

XVIII A general of ordinary talent occupying a bad position, and surprised by a superior force, seeks his safety in retreat; but a great captain supplies all deficiencies by his ...
( Category: Military Technology March 14,2020 )
US Army Rangers & LRRP Units 1942-87 by Gordon Rottman
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon Rottman

Student Recon. Team members of the MACV Recondo School off-load from a UH-1H ‘Huey’ during their three-day graduation patrol on Hon Tra Island, Bay of Nha Trang, Dec. 1969. They ...
( Category: Military Technology March 13,2020 )
The Iran–Iraq War 1980–1988 by Efraim Karsh
epub |eng | | Author:Efraim Karsh

( Category: Military Technology March 13,2020 )
Napoleon's Guard Infantry (2) by Philip Haythornthwaite
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Philip Haythornthwaite

Fusiliers-Grenadiers Like that of the Fusiliers-Chasseurs, the uniform of the Fusiliers-Grenadiers was styled upon that of their parent corps, the Grenadiers à Pied. A German watercolour (probably by Kolbe) c. ...
( Category: Military Technology March 12,2020 )
The Book of War by Sun Tzu
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sun Tzu [Tzu, Sun]

* * * XII ASSAULT BY FIRE Sun the Master said:— There are five ways of attack by fire: The first is called barrack burning; the second, commissariat burning; the ...
( Category: Military Technology March 9,2020 )
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON by David G. Chandler
mobi |zh | 2009-11-30 | Author:David G. Chandler [Chandler, David G.]

P.M. on 27th June, they watched the Guard infantry on parade; next day, Davout’s corps maneuvered elaborately for the imperial delectation; the 29th found Davout again being inspected on the ...
( Category: Military Technology March 7,2020 )

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