epub |eng | 2006-12-24 | Author:John English [English, John]

Emmanuel Mounier, the French Catholic personalist and founder of Esprit, had taught Trudeau to “see, judge, act.” It was now the time to act. That summer, Trudeau began to encounter ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Richard Overy [Overy, Richard]

* * * No. 52 OPERATION DESERT STORM 17 January – 28 February 1991 * * * The brief campaign in which the American-led Coalition compelled the Iraqi army of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-10-12 | Author:John Keegan [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 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Bolger

General David Petraeus took command on February 10, 2007. Within days, he was at Camp Ramadi, his first troop visit. “I’m so happy I could kiss you guys,” he exclaimed. ...

mobi |es | 2011-02-15 | Author:Antony Beevor

14 — «¡Todo para el frente!» El plan para la operación Urano, la gran contraofensiva soviética contra el VI ejército, tuvo una gestación insólitamente larga, si uno considera la desastrosa ...

mobi |es | 2011-08-21 | Author:Gordon Thomas

interminable en el que caía dormida, agotada, y se despertaba lentamente para empezar otro día gris en el que sufría dolores atroces; lloraba, pero las lágrimas no aliviaban la tortura ...

epub |eng | 2009-11-05 | Author:Beevor, Antony [Beevor, Antony]

The Guards Armoured Division, originally delayed by the great storm, was by now ready to take part. Its officers were urged to visit the different fronts in Jeeps to pick ...

epub |deu | | Author:Carl von Clausewitz

Sechstes Buch: Verteidigung [338] Erstes Kapitel: Angriff und Verteidigung Begriff der Verteidigung Was ist der Begriff der Verteidigung? Das Abwehren eines Stoßes. Was ist also ihr Merkmal? Das Abwarten dieses ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Scott Anderson

TO THE ANNOYANCE of defense-minded military commanders throughout history, civilians have a tendency to stay put in their homes until an enemy invading force is just over the horizon. Then, ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Marlantes, Karl [Marlantes, Karl]

7 LOYALTY Warriors have always had to deal with loyalty. Concepts of loyalty change, however, and warriors have to cope with that as well. Through much of history loyalty pretty ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ira A. Hunt Jr.

Seven line items made up about 85 percent of the tonnage of ground munitions.152 Table 18 shows the authorized supply rate for 1 November 1973 and the weapon densities for ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2007-01-06 | Author:Sun-Tzu & Carl von Clausewitz & Niccolo Machiavelli [Sun-Tzu & Clausewitz, Carl von & Machiavelli, Niccolo]

Camp in high places, facing the sun. Do not climb heights in order to fight. So much for mountain warfare. After crossing a river, you should get far away from ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-02-16 | Author:David Kilcullen [Kilcullen, David]

Treat local tribal irregular fighters as local allies, or a local “coalition of the willing,” not as “our new employees.” They began this rebellion because AQ tried to push them ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fred Kaplan

16. The Surge In mid-September David Petraeus received a phone call from General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A consensus was forming among senior officers in ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Warren, James A. [Warren, James A.]

PHASE TWO Giap renewed the attack at 1700 on March 30, when the 312th and the 316th jumped off from their trenches to seize five key hills within strongpoints Dominique ...