Strategy
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Craig L. Symonds [Symonds, Craig L.]
PUTTING A LID ON THE CATASTROPHE did not mean there were no repercussions. Ernest King ordered eight more destroyers from the U.S. Navy to join Ramsay’s command, adding, “Experience against ...
( Category:
World War II
May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Tim Everson
SHIELDS Although helmets and armour were worn by warriors before and after the introduction of hoplite warfare, it was the hoplite shield that helped to bring about the change. From ...
( Category:
Greece
May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-01 | Author:Paul A. Rahe
CHAPTER 7 Salamis A man, a Greek, coming from the Athenian host, Told your son Xerxes these things: That when dusk arrives and, then, black night, The Hellenes would not ...
( Category:
Greece
May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Sidney Toy
Plan of Sherborne Castle CHAPELS The chapel held an important place in the life of the castle. In many cases it was included within the keep, as described above. When ...
( Category:
Strategy
April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-21 | Author:Timothy May
The Hungarians The Mongols carried out their invasion of Europe in 1241 on a wide front, striking both Hungary and Poland. Poland, however, was a secondary target, while the main ...
( Category:
Strategy
April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-07 | Author:Martin Pegler
Neither was the use of periscopes limited to observation, for a number of inventors immediately appreciated their possible use for mounting to a rifle, to enable it to be fired ...
( Category:
World War I
April 21,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-04-12 | Author:Rob Roy & Chris Lawson [Roy, Rob]
VINCENT: Who taught you? SAM: I don’t remember. That’s the second thing they teach you. In our case, feel free to remember Geoff as your teacher. And remember to trust ...
( Category:
Decision Making
April 13,2016 )
epub | | 2009-02-03 | Author:Mcraven, William H.
Notes 1. Charles Whiting, Skorzeny (New York: Ballantine, 1972), 17. 2. Glenn B. Infield, Skorzeny: Hitler’s Commando (New York: Military Heritage, 1981), 230. 3. Testimony of Otto Skorzeny at Nuremberg, ...
( Category:
Strategy
April 13,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-19 | Author:Fallows, James [Fallows, James]
THE PRELUDE: LATE 2001 Success in war requires an understanding of who the enemy is, what resources can be used against him, and how victory will be defined. In the ...
( Category:
Specific Topics
March 21,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:R.P. Newman
Attack Positions Attack positions are used only occasionally during night ops, and normally they are only occupied for brief periods of time due to their propensity for suffering spoiling attacks. ...
( Category:
Specific Topics
March 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-12 | Author:Leo Barron
These comments [McMahon’s and Abrams’s] motivated me so the barn was set afire with a grenade to chase the enemy away so we could move forward without being under fire ...
( Category:
World War II
February 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:John Arquilla
12 Emir Dynamite: T. E. Lawrence © Bettmann/Corbis The idea of sending off a handful of one’s own soldiers to train, guide, and sometimes lead far off but friendly forces ...
( Category:
Strategy
January 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Harold M. Tanner
LIN BIAO’S HESITATION The feasibility of Chiang’s plan of action can be gauged by Lin Biao’s reaction: it nearly caused him to call off the attack on Jinzhou. To understand ...
( Category:
China
January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Nathan Prefer [Prefer, Nathan]
That attack came the next morning after an intense artillery and mortar barrage. Communications between Sergeant Bell and the rest of Company I were disrupted by the intense shellfire, and ...
( Category:
Germany
January 13,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Stephen Budiansky [Budiansky, Stephen]
Blackett emphasized the need for scientists in this role to steer clear of “technical midwifery” so they could focus on current operational questions. Williams jumped right into the most basic ...
( Category:
World War II
December 23,2015 )
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