epub |eng | | Author:Bryan Perrett [Perrett, Bryan]

CHAPTER 8 The Defence of Outpost Snipe 27 OCTOBER 1942 The Second Battle of Alamein had been raging for almost three days when Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Turner, the commanding officer of ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-04 | Author:Stephen P. Cohen & Sunil Dasgupta [Cohen, Stephen P. & Dasgupta, Sunil]

Crisis Management The many India-Pakistan crises have produced a debate over “red lines,” shorthand for the limits of national tolerance and a signal to an adversary regarding the latter's plans ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Matthew Moten [Moten, Matthew]

Harry Truman viewed himself as a man who differentiated clearly between black and white, with little interest in shades of gray. Yet, like all people, he overlooked his own compromises. ...

epub |eng | 2009-02-17 | Author:David Galula [David Galula]

1. The insurgent's cause has little appeal (but we have assumed that no wise insurgent would launch an insurgency unless the prerequisite of a good cause had been fulfilled). 2. ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Dee H. Andrews & Robert P. Herz & Mark B. Wolf

Figure 10.3 NC2IF Extreme Events Laboratory On-going Experiments Currently a number of experiments are being conducted in the NC2IF Center. These include the following: • Characterization of human reports—We are ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Steven Kornguth Rebecca Steinberg & Michael D. Matthews

Methods Participants This study was approved by the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the San Diego State University (SDSU) Institutional Review Boards and all subjects signed informed consent. ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Sun Tzu [Tzu, Sun]

19. Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to which the enemy will act. [Ts`ao Kung's note is "Make a display ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jock Brocas

Footnotes * This is due to the positively charged negative energy that is not a vibrational match. † From The Sense of Being Stared At by Rupert Sheldrake. Three Rivers ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Hew Strachan [Strachan]

9 Technology and strategy The strategic contours of war in the early twenty-first century have not been as decisively shaped by technology as our own belief in the remorselessness and ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-06 | Author:Latimer, Jon

THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE The introduction of air power and submarines radically transformed naval warfare. The submarine was eventually defeated by the convoy system among other things, but ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Naunihal Singh [Singh, Naunihal]

Conspiracy Prospective mutineers are handicapped at each step of their attempt to seize power, starting with their limited ability to conspire. Open discussion of politics in the mess hall or ...

epub |eng | | Author:Miyamoto Musashi [Musashi, Miyamoto]

One Cut You can win with certainty with the spirit of "one cut". It is difficult to attain this if you do not learn strategy well. If you train well ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Ford, Daniel [Ford, Daniel]

Defeating a guerrilla campaign Boyd then segues into the problem of how to combat an insurgency – indeed, in Patterns of Conflict, he treats counter-guerrilla operations under the same heading ...