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Author : Kevin Dougherty
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Command of troops
ISBN : 1906626332
Author : Maccabees, Knights of. Michigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063879707
Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Military biography
ISBN : BL:A0026672741
Author : Charles King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Battles
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014345656
Author : Dr. Christopher Gabel
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894469
Includes 3 maps and 7 illustrations The command of military forces in combat is unlike any other field of human endeavor. If war is the ultimate form of human competition, then the commander is the ultimate competitor. The commander operates in an environment of chance, uncertainty, and chaos, in which the stakes are, quite literally, life and death. He or she contends against an adversary who is using every means, fair or foul, to foil his plans and bring about his defeat. The commander is ultimately responsible for every variable that factors into military success or failure-training, logistics, morale, equipment, planning, and execution. The commander reaps the lion’s share of plaudits in victory, but also must accept the blame in defeat, warranted or not. Very often the line that separates fame and ignominy is slender indeed. It is not difficult to identify “great” commanders, though the overwhelming majority of generals who win battles are never considered “great.” Something more than a favorable ratio of wins to losses is needed to establish greatness...The truly great commander is generally considered to be one who attains the unexpected or the unprecedented; one who stands above his contemporaries through his skill on the battlefield, or through the sheer magnitude of his accomplishments. ...The commanders selected were masters of warfare in their particular time and environment. Each capitalized upon the social, political, economic, and technological conditions of his day to forge successful military forces and win significant and noteworthy victories that profoundly altered the world in which he lived.-Dr Christopher R. Gabel. The Great Commanders covered by this volume are Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, John J. Pershing, Erwin Rommel and Curtis E. LeMay
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11456145
Author : Military Society of Ireland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXP5Q9
Author : Robert Ellis Thompson,William Wilberforce Newton,Otis H. Kendall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015006967130
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858046270124
Author : Kenneth M. Swope
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185040
The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Korea’s appeal to China’s Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a six-year war involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers and encompassing the whole region. For Japan, the war was “a dragon’s head followed by a serpent’s tail”: an impressive beginning with no real ending. Kenneth M. Swope has undertaken the first full-length scholarly study in English of this important conflict. Drawing on Korean, Japanese, and especially Chinese sources, he corrects the Japan-centered perspective of previous accounts and depicts Wanli not as the self-indulgent ruler of received interpretations but rather one actively engaged in military affairs—and concerned especially with rescuing China’s client state of Korea. He puts the Ming in a more vigorous light, detailing Chinese siege warfare, the development and deployment of innovative military technologies, and the naval battles that marked the climax of the war. He also explains the war’s repercussions outside the military sphere—particularly the dynamics of intraregional diplomacy within the shadow of the Chinese tributary system. What Swope calls the First Great East Asian War marked both the emergence of Japan’s desire to extend its sphere of influence to the Chinese mainland and a military revival of China’s commitment to defending its interests in Northeast Asia. Swope’s account offers new insight not only into the history of warfare in Asia but also into a conflict that reverberates in international relations to this day.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Atlases
ISBN : IOWA:31858044700890
Author : William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Atlases
ISBN : NLI:3005193-20
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015802551
Author : Alfred Dundas Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Navigation
ISBN : OXFORD:590964676
Author : Anthony Livesey
Publisher : Tiger Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1855010690
"Twenty famous victories, won by some of the most outstanding field commanders in history, are ... portrayed in this ... book. Selected because of their vital contribution to the development of battlefield tactics, the commanders in this book span more than two thousand years of warfare ... The battles chosen reveal the vital links between the manner in which victory was achieved and the military skill and leadership of each great commander"--Jacket