Download Full eBooks in PDF
The Defense Of The United Kingdom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Defense Of The United Kingdom book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Basil Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:32000002845917
Author : Basil Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:844441312
Author : Michael Partridge
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019849416
Based upon exhaustive research in numerous archival sources, including the personal papers of the major British military and political leaders of the day, this is a comprehensive study of British military planning during a period in which long-successful defense and military strategies had to be reappraised in light of new technological advances. As Michael Partridge notes, Britain emerged victorious in 1814 after twenty-two years of war with revolutionary and Napoleonic France; however various technical and international developments--particularly the invention of the steam engine--gravely undermined Britain's security between 1814 and 1870. Because steam power enabled ships to maneuver independently of wind and tide, Britain was now vulnerable to attack from all sides, forcing her to devise new defensive strategies to repel invasion. Partridge thoroughly examines Britain's response to the advent of steam power as well as the special military defense problems faced by the country as a result of its geographical position and contemporary political realities. Following a brief introduction, Partridge offers an overview of Britain's strategic position in the years following the war with France. Subsequent chapters examine each aspect of the country's military planning in detail, beginning with an exploration of the decline of the Royal Navy--at one time the unchallenged mistress of the seas and far larger than any rival's naval force. Partridge then addresses the internal machinery of defense planning, the political constraints placed upon defense planners, the effects of popular aversion to a standing army, and the new awareness of Britain's strategic vulnerability. Individual chapters are devoted to the three major prongs of Britain's land defenses: the regular army, fortifications, and the militia, yeomanry, and volunteers. A bibliography is included for those who wish to pursue further research in this area. Indispensable for students of military history, this study offers important new insights into Britain's ability to adapt to the new military and technological realities of the early Nineteenth-Century.
Author : Robert S. Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351117685
Constitutional reform is a topic of perennial academic debate, perhaps now more than ever amid sharp polarization in the electorate and government. At once a cogent, new contribution to the scholarly literature and appropriate for American politics and government students, this book mounts a provocative, nonideological defense of the US Constitution, directly engaging proposals for reform and providing a rare systematic argument for continuity: Our politics may be broken but our system is not. Writing from an international perspective with an array of fascinating data, the author draws on theory, law, and history to defend the republican order under political stress and intellectual challenge.
Author : George Chesney
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547310334
The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is an 1871 novella by George Tomkyns Chesney, starting the genre of invasion literature and an important precursor of science fiction. Written just after the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War, it describes an invasion of Britain by a German-speaking country referred to in oblique terms as The Other Power or The Enemy. Excerpt: "You ask me to tell you, my grandchildren, something about my share in the great events that happened fifty years ago. 'Tis sad work turning back to that bitter page in our history, but you may perhaps take profit in your new homes from the lesson it teaches. For us, in England, it came too late. And yet we had plenty of warnings if we had only made use of them."
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCBK:C026031251
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X004178956
Author : Greg Kennedy
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700629480
There is more to defense than military might and more to the military than a fighting force. At a moment of global upheaval, domestic turmoil, and political uncertainty, this timely volume seeks to define and reframe the terms of defense engagement—the use of military capabilities to exert soft power (influence) as opposed to hard power (military force). Defense Engagement since 1900 is a work of applied military history that brings lessons of the past to bear on current issues. In a number of case studies spanning the twentieth century and the globe, the authors explore various dimensions of defense engagement. Their work, which attempts to recast the role of a state’s military from wielder of force to employer of power, is squarely aimed at tackling the causes of designated security threats and not merely managing their consequences. The chapters, by scholars and practitioners representing diverse points of view, focus primarily on the British experience—perhaps the most extensive example of the use of military power in a nonmartial fashion in pursuit of policy goals. However, the chapters also consider events in the United States, Canada, Japan, the Middle East, and Africa. Intelligence, diplomacy, deterrence, alliances, coalitions, and networks: all are within the authors’ scope as they address the need to use a wide range of attributes and capabilities associated with military power in various contemporary conflicts and national security strategies. The understanding their work provides will prove critically important to strategic thinkers of our day, as democratic states increasingly contend with hybrid, subthreshold, and Gray Zone warfare.
Author : Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117353776
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCAL:B5203608
Author : Great Britain. Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UCAL:C2670283
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : OSU:32435029220209
Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1472 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951D00349664N
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112021279309
The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
Author : Theo Farrell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473522404
Afghanistan was an unwinnable war. As British and American troops withdraw, discover this definitive account that explains why. It could have been a very different story. British forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda. Instead, in the years that followed, Britain paid a devastating price for their presence in Helmand province. So why did Britain enter, and remain, in an ill-fated war? Why did it fail so dramatically, and was this expedition doomed from the beginning? Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports, government documents and senior individuals, Professor Theo Farrell provides an extraordinary work of scholarship. He explains the origins of the war, details the campaigns over the subsequent years, and examines the West's failure to understand the dynamics of local conflict and learn the lessons of history that ultimately led to devastating costs and repercussions still relevant today. 'The best book so far on Britain's...war in Afghanistan' International Affairs 'Masterful, irrefutable... Farrell records all these military encounters with the irresistible pace of a novelist' Sunday Times