Military
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

CHAPTER XV. HOW THE FRENCH SOUGHT REFORMS BEFORE LIBERTIES. IT is noteworthy that of all the ideas and feelings which prepared the Revolution, the idea of political liberty, properly so ...
( Category: Europe May 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Emma Smith

Well – not quite. There remain various obstacles that must be surmounted. Under the prevailing rules and regulations of a country at war, a person can’t just change jobs on ...
( Category: Memoirs May 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Douglas L. Wilson [Wilson, Douglas L.]

Lincoln then concluded the story so that it drew its own moral. When word of the peace was finally received, Jackson withdrew martial law and permitted himself to be fined ...
( Category: Americas May 13,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:E.B. Potter [Potter, E.B.]

CHAPTER 17 GALVANIC AND FLINTLOCK ADMIRAL NIMITZ DIRECTED the principal officers of Operation Galvanic to make CinCPac an information addressee on all important radio messages passing between their commands. From ...
( Category: Military May 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Henrik Lunde [Lunde, Henrik]

Additional forces were added in the far north between the fall of 1942 and the spring of 1943. These included: 210th Infantry Division with five fortress infantry battalions. Division Group ...
( Category: Europe May 13,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Paul Scharre [Scharre, Paul]

WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG, BAD AI? The fear that AI could one day develop to the point where it threatens humanity isn’t shared by everyone who works on AI. ...
( Category: Engineering May 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Santi Corvaja [Corvaja, Santi; Miller, Robert L.]

X. The Italian Crisis Berchtesgaden: January 19–20, 1941 The last thing on Mussolini’s wish list was to spend a weekend in the middle of winter with Adolf Hitler, in the ...
( Category: Historical May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Giangreco Giangreco

The Second General Army’s decision to allow its formations considerable flexibility in the conduct of the defense may not have been seen as much of a compromise by those advocating ...
( Category: Military May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-02 | Author:Roland Philipps [Philipps, Roland]

13 Collapse Away from the increasing stresses and evasions of Cairo, Donald Maclean was once again the relaxed family man on holiday in Italy, playing tennis, drinking in moderation and ...
( Category: True Crime May 8,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:John Dower

“The Inherent Character of the People,” a key chapter in Cardinal Principles of the National Polity, began with a quotation from the seventeenth-century scholar Yamaga Sokō: “The Land of Japan ...
( Category: Asia May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Major General David Fraser

The key to operations is intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Without knowing what is out there, you will never have good situational awareness. Canada bought the Sperwar, an unmanned aerial vehicle ...
( Category: Military May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Stephen G. Hyslop & Winston Groom

The Anzio beachhead is portrayed as a death trap in this German propaganda leaflet, air-dropped to Allied troops to break their morale . Credit 57 Allied commanders miscalculated again in ...
( Category: Military May 8,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-14 | Author:James Lee McDonough [McDonough, James Lee]

AREA OF SHERMAN’S CHATTANOOGA OPERATIONS Grant intended for Sherman to play the decisive role at Chattanooga, paving the way for Thomas and Hooker to move against Rebel positions farther south. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People May 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Bing West [West, Bing]

CASEY LEAVES On February 1, the Senate held another hearing, voting 83 to 14 to confirm Casey as the chief of staff of the U.S. Army. His promotion had been ...
( Category: Military May 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-01 | Author:David Hackett Fischer [Fischer, David Hackett]

The Death of General Hugh Mercer, a sketch by John Trumbull (1786). The defiant American leader refused British orders to surrender and was bayoneted on the battlefield. Here again Trumbull’s ...
( Category: Americas May 6,2018 )