A Compendium Of Armaments And Military Hardware Routledge Revivals

Author : Christopher Chant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134646685

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A Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware (Routledge Revivals) by Christopher Chant Pdf

First published in 1987, The Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware provides, within a single volume, the salient technical and operational details of the most important weapons. The complete range of hardware used in land, sea and air forces throughout the world at the time of publication is covered, from tanks to rocket systems, helicopters to cruise missiles, alongside full details of size, weight and operational range. The book’s main strength lies in the detail it gives of armament and associated ammunition capabilities, and of the sensors and other electronics required for the weapons to be used effectively. A key title amongst Routledge reference reissues, Christopher Chant’s important work will be of great value to students and professionals requiring a comprehensive and accessible reference guide, as well as to weapons ‘buffs’.

Author : Christopher Chant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1199 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134646753

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A Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware (Routledge Revivals) by Christopher Chant Pdf

First published in 1987, The Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware provides, within a single volume, the salient technical and operational details of the most important weapons. The complete range of hardware used in land, sea and air forces throughout the world at the time of publication is covered, from tanks to rocket systems, helicopters to cruise missiles, alongside full details of size, weight and operational range. The book’s main strength lies in the detail it gives of armament and associated ammunition capabilities, and of the sensors and other electronics required for the weapons to be used effectively. A key title amongst Routledge reference reissues, Christopher Chant’s important work will be of great value to students and professionals requiring a comprehensive and accessible reference guide, as well as to weapons ‘buffs’.

Author : Paul J. Cook
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648899003

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A Shot in the Dark: A History of the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group by Paul J. Cook Pdf

This book presents the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group (AWG) as an example of successful change by the Army in wartime. It argues that creating the AWG required senior leaders to create a vision differing from the Army’s self-conceptualization, change bureaucratic processes to turn the vision into an actual unit, and then place the new unit in the hands of uniquely qualified leaders to build and sustain it. In doing this, it considers the forces influencing change within the Army and argues the two most significant are its self-conceptualization and institutional bureaucracy. The work explores three major subject areas that provide historical context. The first is the Army’s institutional history from the early 1950s through 2001. This period begins with the Army seeking to validate its place in America’s national security strategy and ends with the Army trying to chart a path into the post-Cold War future. The Army’s history is largely one of asymmetric warfare. The work thus examines several campaigns that offered lessons for subsequent wars. Some lessons the Army took to heart, others it ignored. As the AWG was a direct outgrowth of the failures and frustrations the Army experienced in Afghanistan and Iraq, the book examines these campaigns and identifies the specific problems that led senior Army leaders to create the AWG. Finally, the work chronicles the AWG’s creation in 2006, growth, and re-assignment from the Army staff to a fully-fledged organization subordinate to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command in 2011 to its deactivation. This action resulted not from the unit’s failure to adapt to a post-insurgency Army focusing on modernization. Rather, it resulted from the Army failing to realize that while the AWG was a product of counterinsurgency, it provided the capability to support the Army during a period of great strategic and institutional uncertainty.

Author : Thomas F. Glick,Steven J. Livesey,Faith Wallis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351676175

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine (2006) by Thomas F. Glick,Steven J. Livesey,Faith Wallis Pdf

First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation. In Europe, the Islamic world, South and East Asia, and the Americas, individuals built on earlier achievements, introduced sometimes radical refinements and laid the foundations for modern development. Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. This comprehensive resource discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. It also looks at the relationship between medieval science and the traditions it supplanted. Written by a select group of international scholars, this reference work will be of great use to scholars, students, and general readers researching topics in many fields, including medieval studies, world history, history of science, history of technology, history of medicine, and cultural studies.

Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317908210

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Newspeak (Routledge Revivals) by Jonathon Green Pdf

George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald the year 1984, Jonathon Green compiled nearly 8, 000 entries – selected from the slangs and specific vocabularies of trades, professions and interests – covering such areas as the world of entertainment, the media, the military economics, and finance. This dictionary provides an accurate and useful linguistic guide for students of lexicography and an interesting compendium for the general inquisitive reader.

Author : Christopher Duffy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135794583

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Military Experience in the Age of Reason by Christopher Duffy Pdf

First published in 1987. War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Christopher Duffy's investigates the brutalities of the battlefield and also traces the lives of the officer to the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement, and shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.

Author : Lyndel V. Prott
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789231041280

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Witnesses to History by Lyndel V. Prott Pdf

This Compendium gives an outline of the historical, philosophical and ethical aspects of the return of cultural objects (e.g. cultural objects displaced during war or in colonial contexts), cites past and present cases (Maya Temple Facade, Nigerian Bronzes, United States of America v. Schultz, Parthenon Marbles and many more) and analyses legal issues (bona fide, relevant UNESCO and UNIDROIT Conventions, Supreme Court Decisions, procedure for requests etc.). It is a landmark publication that bears testament to the ways in which peoples have lost their entire cultural heritage and analyses the issue of its return and restitution by providing a wide range of perspectives on this subject. Essential reading for students, specialists, scholars and decision-makers as well as those interested in these topics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Smashbooks
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Chinese Navy by Anonim Pdf

Author : John J. McGrath
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160869501

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Boots on the ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations by John J. McGrath Pdf

This paper clearly shows the immediate relevancy of historical study to current events. One of the most common criticisms of the U.S. plan to invade Iraq in 2003 is that too few troops were used. The argument often fails to satisfy anyone for there is no standard against which to judge. A figure of 20 troops per 1000 of the local population is often mentioned as the standard, but as McGrath shows, that figure was arrived at with some questionable assumptions. By analyzing seven military operations from the last 100 years, he arrives at an average number of military forces per 1000 of the population that have been employed in what would generally be considered successful military campaigns. He also points out a variety of important factors affecting those numbers-from geography to local forces employed to supplement soldiers on the battlefield, to the use of contractors-among others.

Author : Michael D. Krause,R. Cody Phillips,Center of Military History (U S Army)
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : History
ISBN : 016072564X

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Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art by Michael D. Krause,R. Cody Phillips,Center of Military History (U S Army) Pdf

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art, a companion volume to Clayton R. Newell's and Michael D. Krause's On Operational Art, captures the doctrinal debate over the evolving concept of operational art-the critical link between strategy and tactics-in the face of the new complexities of warfare and the demands of irregular operations in the twenty-first century. Consisting of fifteen original essays selected and edited by Michael D. Krause in collaboration with R. Cody Phillips, the well-organized anthology presents the collective view of distinguished military historians and scholars that operational art must be adjusted to accommodate the changing circumstances happening around the world, especially when dealing with broad coalitions and alliances in regional environments and at an international level. Related products: The Rise of iWar: Identity, Information, and the Individualization of Modern Warfare can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01198-2 Yemen: A Different Political Paradigm in Context can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-070-00865-3 A Masterpiece of Counterguerrilla Warfare: BG J. Franklin Bell in the Philippines 1901-1902 is avaialble here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01000-5 Operational Culture for the Warfighter: Principles and Applications is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01061-7

Author : Michael Biggs,Henrik Karlsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136897931

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The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts by Michael Biggs,Henrik Karlsson Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade. Contributions are located in the contemporary intellectual environment of research in the arts, and more widely in the universities, in the strategic and political environment of national research funding, and in the international environment of trans-national cooperation and communication. The book is divided into three principal sections – Foundations, Voices and Contexts – each with an introduction from the editors highlighting the main issues, agreements and debates in each section. The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts addresses a wide variety of concepts and issues, including: the diversity of views on what constitutes arts-based research and scholarship, what it should be, and its potential contribution the trans-national communication difficulties arising from terminological and ontological differences in arts-based research traditional and non-traditional concepts of knowledge, their relationship to professional practice, and their outcomes and audiences a consideration of the role of written, spoken and artefact-based languages in the formation and communication of understandings. This comprehensive collection makes an original and significant contribution to the field of arts-based research by setting down a framework for addressing these, and other, topical issues. It will be essential reading for research managers and policy-makers in research councils and universities, as well as individual researchers, research supervisors and doctoral candidates.

Author : Andrew Scobell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1222072740

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Shaping China's Security Environment :. by Andrew Scobell Pdf

Author : Sverre Lodgaard,Bremer Maerli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134110001

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Nuclear Proliferation and International Security by Sverre Lodgaard,Bremer Maerli Pdf

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has long been key in non-proliferation and disarmament activities. The Treaty is the major international legal obstacle for states seeking nuclear weapon capabilities. In retrospect, and despite setbacks, the overall impact of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has been significant and gratifying. Its continued success is by no means guaranteed. As old nuclear dangers persist and new ones evolve, policies to halt nuclear proliferation are more disparate than at any other time. Nuclear weapons remain an essential part of the security policies of leading states and many developmental states maintain strong nuclear weapon ambitions, while terrorists have actively been seeking nuclear capabilities. In search of an overarching strategy that recognizes both the flaws of the existing non-proliferation regime, and the value of some of the corrections proposed by regime critics, this volume assesses contemporary efforts to stem nuclear proliferation. In doing so, Nuclear Proliferation and International Security examines a number of cases with a view to recommending better non-proliferation tools and strategies. The contributors comprise renowned international scholars, who have been selected to obtain the best possible analyses of critically important issues related to international non-proliferation dynamics and the future integrity of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Author : Petrina, Stephen
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781599043395

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Advanced Teaching Methods for the Technology Classroom by Petrina, Stephen Pdf

"This book provides a comprehensive, critical approach to meeting the new challenges of technology in the classroom. It gathers together research on technology methods, principles, and content, acting as a reference source for proven and innovative methods. It presents an introduction to teaching educational technology, design, and engineering and contains strategies for innovation in technology education"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8120813464

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Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Pdf

Buddhist philosophy of Anicca (impermanence), Dukkha (suffering), and