Instruments Of War

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440836558

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Instruments of War by Spencer C. Tucker Pdf

This highly detailed and well-illustrated single-volume work documents the evolution of warfare across history through weaponry and technological change. In war, the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically alter the outcomes of warfare—and consequently change the course of history itself. This reference work provides a fascinating overview of the major weapon systems and military technologies that have had a major impact on world history. Addressing weapons as crude as the club used by primitive man to the high-tech weapons of today such as unmanned drones, Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History offers nearly 270 profusely illustrated entries that examine the key roles played by specific weapons and identify their success and failures. The book begins with an introductory essay that frames the subject matter of the work and discusses the history of weapons as a whole. The text is concise and accessible to general readers without extensive backgrounds in military history yet provides the detailed information necessary to convey the complexity of the evolution of warfare through technological change.

Author : Christopher Duffy
Publisher : Helion
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
ISBN : 1912390965

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Instrument of War. Volume 1 by Christopher Duffy Pdf

This book is the most important examination of an 18th Century army yet done, written by the premier military historian of the era.

Author : Dennis Showalter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472813015

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Instrument of War by Dennis Showalter Pdf

Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by – yet also defeated by – warfare in the modern age, which struggled to capitalize on its victories and ultimately forgot the lessons of its defeat. Exploring the internal dynamics of the German Army and detailing how the soldiers coped with the many new forms of warfare, Showalter shows how the army's institutions responded to, and how Germany itself was changed by war. Detailing the major campaigns on the Western and Eastern fronts and the forgotten war fought in the Middle East and Africa, this comprehensive volume, now publishing in paperback, examines the army's operational strategy, the complexities of campaigns of movement versus static trench warfare, and the effects of changes in warfare.

Author : Christopher Duffy
Publisher : Combined Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Anglo-French War, 1755-1763
ISBN : 1883476194

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Instrument of War by Christopher Duffy Pdf

The Austrian Empire of the 18th century was the most ethnically diverse in Europe. The large number of subject peoples with their own styles of warfare gave Austrian generals the potential to have the most flexible army in Europe during the wars of the 1700s. If Austria's aristocratic generals usually failed to utilize their diverse army properly on the battlefield, Austrian units nevertheless introduced new methods of warfare that were copied by more effective armies and are in some cases still in use today. Austria's Hungarian hussars, or light cavalry, introduced a new mobility to the battlefield, with an increased role for scouting and raiding. Prussia, France and most European countries soon created hussar units, even copying the Hungarian national dress that they wore. Horse artillery was also introduced by the Austrians, but more effectively utilized by others later. The Austrian army in the field was screened by a vast swarm of Serbs, Bosnians, and Croats, who introduced principles of light infantry and guerrilla operations that many associate with the American frontier. Renowned military historian Christopher Duffy has been given unprecedented access to the Austrian archives in Vienna to bring this important multi-national army fully to life for the first time.

Author : Steven Walton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047407034

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Instrumental in War by Steven Walton Pdf

Research and instrumentation in warfare since 1500 demonstrates the rise of the scientific military, the complicated interaction with military institutions, and details of how scientists and engineers developed artillery and explosives, surveying and geophysics, pilot testing and siegework, and the role of national and university laboratories.

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199733538

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Six-Legged Soldiers by Jeffrey A. Lockwood Pdf

Examines how insects have been used as weapons in wartime conflicts throughout history, presenting as examples how scorpions were used in Roman times and hornets nests were used during the MIddle Ages in siege warfare and how insects have been used in Vietnam, China, and Korea.

Author : Spencer Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 9798400670725

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Instruments of War by Spencer Tucker Pdf

In war, the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically alter the outcomes of warfare-and consequently change the course of history itself. This reference work provides a fascinating overview of the major weapon systems and military technologies that have had a major impact on world history. Addressing weapons as crude as the club used by primitive man to the high-tech weapons of today such as unmanned drones, Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History offers nearly 270 p.

Author : Auguste Demmin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : History
ISBN : OXFORD:600026381

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Weapons of war, tr. by C.C. Black by Auguste Demmin Pdf

Author : Emma Hanna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108480086

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Sounds of War by Emma Hanna Pdf

Music in all its forms was an indispensable part of everyday life in Britain's armed forces during the Great War.

Author : Rosella Cappella Zielinski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501706516

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How States Pay for Wars by Rosella Cappella Zielinski Pdf

Armies fight battles, states fight wars. To focus solely on armies is to neglect the broader story of victory and defeat. Military power stems from an economic base, and without wealth, soldiers cannot be paid, weapons cannot be procured, and food cannot be bought. War finance is among the most consequential decisions any state makes: how a state finances a war affects not only its success on the battlefield but also its economic stability and its leadership tenure. In How States Pay for Wars, Rosella Cappella Zielinski clarifies several critical dynamics lying at the nexus of financial and military policy.Cappella Zielinski has built a custom database on war funding over the past two centuries, and she combines those data with qualitative analyses of Truman's financing of the Korean War, Johnson’s financing of the Vietnam War, British financing of World War II and the Crimean War, and Russian and Japanese financing of the Russo-Japanese War. She argues that leaders who attempt to maximize their power at home, and state power abroad, are in a constant balancing act as they try to win wars while remaining in office. As a result of political risks, they prefer war finance policies that meet the needs of the war effort within the constraints of the capacity of the state.

Author : D. Robert Worley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781612347547

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Orchestrating the Instruments of Power by D. Robert Worley Pdf

National security, a topic routinely discussed behind closed doors by Washington’s political scientists and policy makers, is believed to be an insider’s game. All too often this highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the grasp—and interest—of the American public. Author D. Robert Worley disagrees. The U.S. national security system, designed after World War II and institutionalized through a decades-long power conflict with the Soviet Union, is inadequate for the needs of the twenty-first century, and while a general consensus has emerged that the system must be transformed, a clear and direct route for a new national security strategy proves elusive. Furnishing the tools to assist in future national security reforms, Orchestrating the Instruments of Power articulates and synthesizes the concepts of America’s economic, political, and military instruments of power.

Author : David V. Nowlin,Ronald J. Stupak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047102754

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War as an Instrument of Policy by David V. Nowlin,Ronald J. Stupak Pdf

War as an Instrument of Policy examines the principles of war and how they may apply to the method of decision making in the higher realms of government when military and civilian leaders meet. It begins with an exploration of the emergence of a new kind of limited war beginning with the Vietnam conflict and discusses the principles of war along with typical military theory and strategy to clearly provide an understanding of the thought processes and actions behind the conducting of a war. Two contemporary examples, the Gulf War in 1990 and the South African invasion of Angola in 1987, provide the opportunity to examine the process of military decision-making on every level in these conflicts. Finally, methods of successfully and carefully employing a military methodology of decision making to capitalize on the success of war are suggested.

Author : Gordon Dammann
Publisher : Pictorial Encyclopedia of Civi
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Medical
ISBN : CORNELL:31924104598713

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Pictorial Encyclopedia of Civil War Medical Instruments and Equipment by Gordon Dammann Pdf

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Arms control
ISBN : UOM:39015020840537

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Weapons Don't Make War by Colin S. Gray Pdf

Weaponry does not equal strategy, argues Colin Gray, but the two are often confused, resulting in such linguistic errors as strategic weapons. There may be an interactive relationship between policy, strategy and weaponry but, he contends, policy and strategy always take the front seat.