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Author : Louise A. Tumchewics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Urban warfare
ISBN : 1955055661
"Explores how today's professional armies can overcome the challenges of-and even find advantages in-conducting urban operations"--
Author : Louise A. Tumchewics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Urban warfare
ISBN : 1955055300
Avoid cities or die within"" has been the prevailing attitude in the military when it comes to waging war in urban areas. So why do armies continue to fight there? What tactical advantages do they seek? What pitfalls do they face, and how can they achieve success? The authors of this book tackle these strategic questions, drawing on a range of cases to explore how today's professional armies can overcome the challenges of - and even find advantages in - conducting urban operations.
Author : Anthony King
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509543670
Warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major military battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas. Why has this happened? What are the defining characteristics of urban warfare today? What are its military and political implications? Leading sociologist Anthony King answers these critical questions through close analysis of recent urban battles and their historical antecedents. Exploring the changing typography and evolving tactics of the urban battlescape, he shows that although not all methods used in urban warfare are new, operations in cities today have become highly distinctive. Urban warfare has coalesced into gruelling micro-sieges, which extend from street level – and below – to the airspace high above the city, as combatants fight for individual buildings, streets and districts. At the same time, digitalized social media and information networks communicate these battles to global audiences across an urban archipelago, with these spectators often becoming active participants in the fight. A timely reminder of the costs and the horror of war and violence in cities, this book offers an invaluable interdisciplinary introduction to urban warfare in the new millennium for students of international security, urban studies and military science, as well as military professionals.
Author : Warren W. Wiersbe
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0781435315
With this final installation in this six-volume set, Dr. Wiersbe has covered the entire Bible!
Author : Andrew V. Edwards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781442246522
Every year, perhaps even every week, there is some new gadget, device, service, or other digital offering intended to make our lives easier, better, more fun, or more instantaneous--making it that much harder to question how anything digital can be bad for us. Digital has created some wonderful things and we can hardly imagine life without them. But digital—the most relentless social and economic juggernaut humanity has unleashed in centuries—is also destroying much we had taken for granted. And what is your place in this brave new world? In Digital Is Destroying Everything, futurist and digital marketing consultant Andrew Edwards tours the “blasted heath” digital is leaving behind and takes a fearless look at the troubled landscape that may lie ahead. The book is not, despite its title, a dystopian rant against all things digital and technological. Instead, expect to find a lively investigation into the ways digital has opened us to new and sometimes quite wonderful experiences, driven down costs for consumers, and given information a chance to be free. But the book also takes a clear-eyed look at many of the good (and sometimes bad) things—businesses and behaviors—digital has destroyed, and how the world may be diminished, compromised, and altered forever in its wake. This tour of the effects of digital technologies on our lives is sure to raise questions, touch a nerve, and enlighten even the most dedicated digital enthusiasts.
Author : Paul E. Doutrich
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786461783
The two pennant winners in 1926, the National League's Cardinals and the American League's Yankees, were a study in contrasts. The Yankees were heavily composed of first- and second-generation Americans and based in New York, the epicenter of baseball; the Cardinals, on the other hand, were mostly a collection of farm boys playing at the western fringe of the major leagues. But both teams arrived battle-tested, as St. Louis had fought a long, close race with Cincinnati and New York had survived a dramatic late-season run by Cleveland. Their classic World Series meeting went seven games and produced one of the legendary pitcher-batter confrontations of baseball history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : MINN:319510014441643
Author : Anni Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313070389
Anni Baker has created a fascinating exploration of life in the armed forces, as it has been experienced by millions of men, women, and children over the past six decades. Her book examines the factors that shape military service and military culture, from grueling training exercises to sexual relations with local women, from overseas duty to the peculiar life of the military brat. The book begins with an examination of the enlistment process, follows the military lifecycle through career decisions, promotions, raising families, and retirement, explores the impact of war on military society, and ends with a discussion of the place of the armed forces in the United States. A wide variety of sources were used in this study, including contemporary scholarship, government and military records, public media, and, most important, interviews and written materials from military personnel, retirees, family members, and civilian employees. Using a lively and readable style, Baker blends clear explanations of elements of military life, information on the development of military society, and the voices of those who serve into an insightful account of this fascinating subculture. It is the author's view that not only is study of the U.S. military a valuable undertaking in itself, but in addition it will enrich our perspective on civilian life and culture in the United States. The military is a distinct society based on a set of common values that are sometimes, though not always, at odds with those of civilian society. The extent to which active duty personnel, family members and civilians internalize these values dictates their comfort with military life and their choice of a military career. Through a discussion of life in the military, Baker examines how the values, traditions and norms of the armed forces are articulated and shared, how they influence the individual and the institution, and what their role is in American society as a whole.
Author : William Glenn Robertson,Lawrence A. Yates
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89089135107
First published by the Combat Studies Institute Press. The resulting anthology begins with a general overview of urban operations from ancient times to the midpoint of the twentieth century. It then details ten specific case studies of U.S., German, and Japanese operations in cities during World War II and ends with more recent Russian attempts to subdue Chechen fighters in Grozny and the Serbian siege of Sarajevo. Operations range across the spectrum from combat to humanitarian and disaster relief. Each chapter contains a narrative account of a designated operation, identifying and analyzing the lessons that remain relevant today.
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620975183
American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself—and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn’s hundredth birthday Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the late Howard Zinn and “an eloquently hopeful introduction for those who haven’t yet encountered Zinn’s work” (Booklist). Here is an unvarnished, yet ultimately optimistic, tour of American history—told by someone who was often an active participant in it. Viewed through the lens of Zinn’s own life as a soldier, historian, and activist and using his paradigm-shifting A People’s History of the United States as a point of departure, these conversations explore the American Revolution, the Civil War, the labor battles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, U.S. imperialism from the Indian Wars to the War on Terrorism, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the fight for equality and immigrant rights—all from an unapologetically radical standpoint. Longtime admirers and a new generation of readers alike will be fascinated to learn about Zinn’s thought processes, rationale, motivations, and approach to his now-iconic historical work. Zinn’s humane (and often humorous) voice—along with his keen moral vision—shine through every one of these lively and thought-provoking conversations. Battles over the telling of our history still rage across the country, and there’s no better person to tell it than Howard Zinn.
Author : Benjamin Yang
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1563241552
This collection of documents covers the rise to power of the Chinese communist movement. They show how the Chinese Communist Party interpreted the revolution, how it devised policies to meet changing circumstances and how these policies were communicated to party members and public.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UIUC:30112100064895
Author : Mary Tucker Magill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Virginia
ISBN : UVA:X030166186
Author : Philippe Droz-Vincent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108477420
Compares the crucial role of Arab armies in state building, a decade after the 2011 Arab Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.
Author : Alvaro Blanco
Publisher : Author House
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467890090
Memoirs of a Revolutionare: Days of War is the first in a series of three books about a humanity in the future and its struggles to survive an intergalactic war. The story is all told through the memoirs of Juan Salvador, who is the main character. Juan is the son of a senator and a nurse, and after college he decides to join the army, not knowing that the people of his home planet were going to be attacked by aliens in just a few months. This story is about his journey through the war and his fight to survive a treacherous battle. Faced with love, loss and devastating events in his life, Juan grows and changes as a human being.