Military
mobi, epub |zho | 2003-10-27 | Author:Keegan, John [Keegan, John]

CHAPTER SIX Midway: The Complete Intelligence Victory? THE DEFEAT of Admiral Von Spee’s East Asiatic Cruiser Squadron in 1914 laid the basis for Japan’s conquest of the oceanic perimeter of ...
( Category: Strategy April 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Peter Englund [Englund, Peter]

One of the men interjects that the communiqué has carefully refrained from mentioning their own losses, but all of the rest are strangely gratified and repeat time after time—like a ...
( Category: World War I March 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:James Hayward [Hayward, James]

5 Trench Myths The principal trench and battlefield myths examined in this chapter are those of the Crucified Canadian in 1915, and the German corpse conversion plant, which first gained ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 31,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Max Hastings [Hastings, Max]

On 27 March, another landmark was passed when the first UN troops – ROK I Corps – once more crossed the 38th Parallel. They took the town of Yangyang four ...
( Category: United States March 30,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-12-27 | Author:David Miller

THE SOVIET NAVY The Soviet navy’s first major post-war building programme included fourteen new Sverdlov-class cruisers, which began to enter service in 1951, causing considerable alarm in Western navies. They ...
( Category: Military March 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-16 | Author:Matt Kennard

CHAPTER FOUR Outsiders GREEN CARD SOLDIERS The only for sure way of gaining citizenship through military service in the United States armed services is to die. Marco Amador, filmmaker, 20101 ...
( Category: Social Policy March 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Jessica Goodell

Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) quickly became the favorite weapon of the insurgents. They were easy to make, transport, conceal, and detonate. And they were effective. (Photo courtesy of Bill Thompson) ...
( Category: Veterans March 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 1997-03-27 | Author:H. R. McMaster [McMaster, H. R.]

General Westmoreland did not share Taylor’s reluctance to introduce American ground combat units. Like Harold Johnson, Westmoreland believed that ground forces should deploy to South Vietnam before the initiation of ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 28,2014 )
azw |eng | 2006-07-31 | Author:Salazar, Jaime [Salazar, Jaime]

( Category: Military March 28,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-05-30 | Author:Richard Preston

Panic in the Gray Zone JANUARY 12, 2000 HENSLEY WAS WORKING ALONE in her blue suit in hot suite AA4, near the center of the Institute. It was about three ...
( Category: Biological & Chemical March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-13 | Author:Andrea Jones [Jones, Andrea]

Chapter 19 A Comparable Captain “Mr. Smee.” Jill paused at the door to her quarters and stole a quick look behind her. She and the captain had enjoyed a late ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David R. Dorondo

Map 5. Eastern Front, General Situation, Late September 1941 Despite constant references in this period to the threat posed by partisans and the emphatic order that the men should always ...
( Category: Military March 27,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Damage

( Category: Military March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-23 | Author:Department of the Army & Jay McCullough [Army, Department of the & McCullough, Jay]

OTHER EXPEDIENT WEAPONS You can make other field-expedient weapons such as the throwing stick, archery equipment, and the bola. Throwing Stick. The throwing stick, commonly known as the rabbit stick, ...
( Category: Instructional March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-02 | Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]

ALLISON DUBOIS IS seated in a striped armchair in one of the four rooms that make up the Human Energy Systems Laboratory. (At the time I visited, the lab was ...
( Category: Near-Death Experiences March 27,2014 )