mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-04 | Author:Robinson, Linda [Robinson, Linda]

CHAPTER 9 WESTERN IRAQ The Battle of the War Pigs What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy. —SUN TZU ON MARCH 19, as soon ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Weeks, Albert L.

NEGLECT OF RETREAT The anathema of retreat afflicting Red Army war planning was the other side of the offensist coin. In spring 1941 no concerted preparations were made for tactical, ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Ann Scott Tyson

CHAPTER 20 ONE WARM SPRING EVENING under a sky brimming with stars, Noor Afzhal rose from a wooden cot in the courtyard of his Mangwel qalat. The village was quiet ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Davis, Paul K.

GUSTAVUS NEXT HAD TO MEET the redoubtable Albrecht von Wallenstein, once again the commander of imperial forces. Born in 1583 to poor but noble parents, Wallenstein served in wars against ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Carl von Clausewitz

APPENDIX SUMMARY OF THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCE IN THE YEARS 1810, 1811, AND 1812 SCHEME WHICH WAS LAID BEFORE GENERAL VON ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Carl von Clausewitz

CHAPTER XII DEFENSIVE POSITION EVERY position in which we accept battle, at the same time making use of the ground as a means of protection, is a defensive position, and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Carl von Clausewitz

CHAPTER VI ON EXAMPLES EXAMPLES from history make everything clear, and furnish the best description of proof in the empirical sciences. This applies with more force to the Art of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2001-03-25 | Author:John Mosier [Mosier, John]

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES To put it somewhat differently, the Allies were unable to grasp the difference between a goal and an objective. Joffre, for example, had a laudable goal: to ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:John C. McManus

See the Hill, Take the Hill: The Horror of 875 The tension was palpable, jolting, like an electrical current. Here and there, morning fog hung in the valleys. For three ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dennis Showalter

II ON APRIL 5, 1942, Hitler issued Directive 41, outlining the operational plan for the summer of 1942. Its focus would be in the south: a major drive toward the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Downing [Downing, David]

VI During the next few days, as 90th Motorised reconnaissance units moved east along the coastal road in the wake of the retreating British, the defenders and population of the ...

epub |eng | 2005-07-04 | Author:Andrew Roberts [Roberts, Andrew]

They had two more hours of such hell to go before the cavalry attacks — some counted fourteen in all — ceased. There was some vigorous countercharging by British cavalry ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Shore, Zachary

The Escalation Paradox Le Duan argued repeatedly that America faced a dilemma. The more troops it deployed, the weaker it became. He articulated this and other assessments of American constraints ...

mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:===========================================================================

IN the beginning, in order to keep unknown the fact that the warehouse was used by Doc Savage, they had arranged the warehouse telephone circuit themselves so that it tapped, ...