epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sun-Tzu [Sun-Tzu]

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food. If those who are sent to draw water begin by themselves drinking, the army is ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Matthew Carr [Carr, Matthew]

“… in their innermost recesses.” Mock German village with observation bunker, Dugway Proving Ground. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. In late July 1943, the Eighth Air Force carried out ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Christopher Simpson

8 The Legacy of Psychological Warfare Wilbur Schramm deserves special mention in any discussion of the evolution of ideas about communication among social scientists in the United States. Schramm’s biographer, ...

epub |eng | 2008-10-22 | Author:Thomas Huynh [Huynh, Thomas]

17The fourth of the five factors is preparation. According to Sun Tzu, a prepared army is a strong army, whereas an unprepared army is a weak army. This relates to ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Ward Wilson [Wilson, Ward]

Those living in the three generations after Waterloo had wondered at the long peace and sought explanations in events that were happening simultaneously. They noticed that international peace coincided with ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-17 | Author:Callum MacDonald

7 Return While Beneš’ agents were still kicking their heels in Britain the military situation changed dramatically. On 5 December the Russians launched a counter-attack in front of Moscow, forcing ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

AD 69 XXV. YEAR OF THE FOUR EMPERORS Legion versus legion “A year … which well nigh brought the commonwealth to an end.” TACITUS, Histories, I, 11 From the moment ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alan Moorehead [Moorehead, Alan]

CHAPTER ELEVEN DURING the months of June and July neither side made any serious attempt to attack at Anzac, and while an uneasy stalemate continued there five pitched battles were ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Bruce Hoffman [Hoffman, Bruce]

“If it is accepted that the problem of defeating the enemy consists very largely of finding him,” General Sir Frank Kitson, arguably Britain’s preeminent expert on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, has ...

mobi |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Erwin Rommel

Sketch 29 Preparations for the attack of August 11, 1917. View from the west. Soon the bushes in front of us began to thin out and we advanced another hundred ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Frederick Kempe [Kempe, Frederick]

Lincoln scribbled furiously in shorthand as Kennedy continued to dictate, the words falling into perfect sentences and paragraphs. This means that if the United States and the Soviet Union become ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:Mark Urban [Urban, Mark]

Dorsenne’s dispatch was crassly enciphered, as bad in its way as the General Montbrun letter of August 1811 that had proven vital to the breaking of the Army of Portugal ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Isabel George [George, Isabel]

Comfort for the Dying 9.30a.m.:With thirty floors still to negotiate before they reached ground level, Salty’s reluctance to leave Omar’s side became an inspiration to Donna and the other hopefuls ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-23 | Author:Lawrence Malkin [MALKIN, LAWRENCE]

As the pressure of producing more pounds slacked off, and apprehension rose about progress toward acceptable replicas of dollars, the prisoners amused themselves and even satirized their jailers in a ...

mobi |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Dickie, Iain & Jestice, Phyllis & Jorgensen, Christer & Rice, Rob S. & Dougherty, Martin J. [Dickie, Iain]

Deadly Melee Hawke’s 100-gun flagship, the Royal George, bore down on the 70-gun Superbe and sank it with a single, massive broadside at the waterline. It sank with all hands, ...