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Physicians and the Peace Movement by Nick Lewer
epub |eng | 2013-09-13 | Author:Nick Lewer [Lewer, Nick]

Penrose also made a mathematical analysis of voting procedure at the United Nations and formulated a fairer way of voting, which he regarded as an ‘essential component in the mechanism ...
( Category: Military March 4,2023 )
Pictures of Southern Life, Social, Political, and Military by William Howard Sir Russell
epub |eng | 1861-01-15 | Author:William Howard, Sir Russell [William Howard, Sir Russell]

* * * NEW ORLEANS, May 24, 1861. It is impossible to resist the conviction that the Southern Confederacy can only be conquered by means as irresistible as those by ...
( Category: Military March 4,2023 )
Pietro Monte's Collectanea by Jeffrey L. Forgeng
epub |eng | 2018-05-23 | Author:Jeffrey L. Forgeng [Forgeng, Jeffrey L.]

Chapter 91: The jineta saddle used by the Spanish and Africans128 Jineta saddles, or saddles for light riding in the Spanish manner, commonly have a major defect since the points ...
( Category: Firearms March 4,2023 )
The Permanent Crisis by Shashank Joshi
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:Shashank Joshi [Joshi, Shashank]

4 J David Goodman, ‘Microphone Catches a Candid Obama’, New York Times, 26 March 2012. 5 Muhammad Sahimi, ‘Ahmadinejad-Khamenei Rift Deepens into Abyss’, PBS Frontline: Tehran Bureau, 7 May 2011. ...
( Category: Military March 4,2023 )
The Personal Narrative of a Private Soldier by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2016-11-11 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

CHAPTER XVIII.—THE SIEGE OF BURGOS. IN a few days we reached within one league of Burgos, where we halted and bivouacked: next morning we marched in two columns upon Burgos, ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars March 4,2023 )
Personalities, War and Diplomacy by T.G. Otte C. Pagedas
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:T.G. Otte, C. Pagedas [T.G. Otte, C. Pagedas]

NOTES 1. See the following: Brian McKercher, ‘The Last Old Diplomat: Sir Robert Vansittart and the Verities of British Foreign Policy 1903–1930’; Charles Morrisey and Michael Ramsay, ‘Giving a Lead ...
( Category: Military March 4,2023 )
Operations Of The Fifth Or Picton's Division In The Campaign Of Waterloo by Anon
epub |eng | 2010-11-17 | Author:Anon [Anon]

The hollow, in the twilight of a summer evening, presented a scene of great interest—the wounded of both armies crying piteously for "water! water!" We had much ado to avoid ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars March 3,2023 )
Organisational Learning and the Modern Army by Tom Dyson
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Tom Dyson [Dyson, Tom]

Strategic culture and the civil–military gap: a double-edged sword A number of variables exogenous to the military have had an important influence on learning within the British armed forces. In ...
( Category: Iraq War March 3,2023 )
Over There - War Scenes on the Western Front by Arnold Bennett F. J. Harvey Darton
epub |eng | 2019-10-11 | Author:Arnold Bennett, F. J. Harvey Darton [Arnold Bennett, F. J. Harvey Darton]

IV. AT GRIPS I have before referred to the apparent vagueness and casualness of war on its present scarcely conceivable scale. When you are with a Staff officer, you see ...
( Category: World War I March 3,2023 )
On War and Leadership by Owen Connelly
epub |eng | 2009-01-10 | Author:Owen Connelly [Connelly, Owen]

XIII Joseph Warren Stilwell (1883–1946) “VINEGAR JOE” GENERAL JOSEPH W. STILWELL was hated by many—both those above and below him in the command chain, and casual acquaintances. Irascible, acerbic, he ...
( Category: Regiments March 3,2023 )
Operation Corporate: Operational Artist's View Of The Falkland Islands Conflict by Lieutenant Colonel Richard C. Dunn USMC
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Lieutenant Colonel Richard C. Dunn USMC [USMC, Lieutenant Colonel Richard C. Dunn]

ARGENTINE FORCE EMPLOYMENT In stark contrast to the British integrated use of all forms of combat power at the operational level of war, the Argentinean employment of forces was demonstratively ...
( Category: Persian Gulf War March 3,2023 )
On the Battlefields of France 1918 by Emil Gansser
epub |eng | 2020-02-25 | Author:Emil Gansser [Gansser, Emil]

VIII. BACK AT JUMP OFF LINE All is quiet on the front when Gordon and I arrive back at the road from which we had started forward in the gray ...
( Category: World War I March 3,2023 )
Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power by unknow
epub |eng | 2012-05-04 | Author:unknow

State as fiction, phantom, fetish To imagine the state as fiction or phantom has a long history within the discipline. In State Fetishism, for example, Michael Taussig traces the state’s ...
( Category: World War I March 3,2023 )
The World at War by Various Authors
epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Various Authors [Various]

Chapter III When I came back to the front we still lived in that town. There were manymore guns in the country around and the spring had come. The fields ...
( Category: World War I March 2,2023 )
On The Road With Wellington by August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann
epub |eng | 1999-05-31 | Author:August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann [Schaumann, August Ludolf Friedrich]

* * * * “Eu morre de fam.” * This appears from Schaumann’s description to have been the disease known as “sand crack.”—TR. * “Son Demonios!’ Elvas—Commissary in Viçosa—Heavy Duties—Mr. ...
( Category: Napoleonic Wars March 2,2023 )

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