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Warfighting and Disruptive Technologiesby Terry Pierce
Routledge 2004; US$ 49.95This book examines how senior military leaders achieve major warfighting innovations. more...
Officer Candidate Testsby Fred N. Grayson
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 22.99The CliffsTestPrep series offers full-length practice exams that simulate the real tests; proven test-taking strategies to increase your chances at doing well; and thorough review exercises to help fill in any knowledge gaps. Once you’ve made the decision to apply for Officer Candidate School (or Officer Training School), CliffsTestPrep Officer Candidate Tests offers you a complete guide to test preparation. This book will help you develop skills while adding some knowledge about the types of questions you will encounter on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Aviation Selection Test Battery (ASTB) Armed Services Vocational Academic Battery (ASVAB) This guide covers the careers and specialties... more...
Army Distance Learningby Michael Shanley; John D. Winkler; Henry A. Leonard
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This report examines ways in which distance learning can help the US Army more quickly alleviate active component manpower shortages in understrength military occupations. It addresses the costs and benefits of these potential changes as well as potential problems. more...
Enhancing Stability and Professional Development Using Distance Learningby Henry A. Leonard
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This study looks at the effects of distance-learning (DL) on the availability of soldiers and leaders to their assigned units, stability of arrangements, and some of aspects of institutional training costs. It offers insights into how DL contributes to general education and development goals. more...
European Armies And The Conduct Of Warby Hew Strachan
Taylor & Francis 1983; US$ 36.95Through the eyes of the major theorists of the day, and discussing the key issues of modern warfare, Hew Strachan?s work examines the theory and practice of land warfare in Europe since 1700. more...
Warriorsby Max Hastings
Knopf Publishing Group 2006; US$ 11.99Heroism in battle has been celebrated throughout history, yet it is one of the least understood virtues. What makes some men and women perform extraordinary deeds on the battlefield? What makes them risk their lives in the pursuit of victory?Max Hastings, one of our foremost military historians, has seen combat up close and written about it for decades. In Warriors , he brings us the experiences of fourteen soldiers who fought in the wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From an exuberant cavalry officer in Napoleon’s army to an abused orphan who in World War II became America’s youngest general since Custer, to an Israeli officer who recovered from a devastating injury to save his country, each portrait depicts a unique... more...
The Soldiers' Taleby Samuel Hynes
Penguin Group Inc. 1998; US$ 5.99The story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and bombed cities. Interweaving his own reflections on war with brilliantly chosen passages from soldiers? accounts, he offers vivid answers to the question we all ask of men who have fought: What was it like? In these powerful pages the experiences of modern war, which seem unimaginable to those who weren?t there, become comprehensible and real. The wide range of writers examined includes both famous literary memoirists like Robert Graves, Tim O?Brien, and Elie Wiesel,... more...
The Philosophy of Chinese Military Cultureby William H. Mott; Jae Chang Kim
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00Drawing on ancient texts and modern interpretations, this work explores the foundations for war in China's strategic culture Shih, Li and Tao. It uses Shih theory to explain the anomalies that continue to perplex Euro-American observers in modern China's uses of force. more...
Warriors and Scholarsby Peter B. Lane; Ronald E. Marcello
University of North Texas Press 2005; US$ 24.95Presents scholarship from eminent historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the war being discussed. The editors have added contextual and commentary footnotes. These papers, originally from the University of North Texas's annual Military History Seminar, are organized chronologically, starting from World War II. more...
Troubled Heroby Randy K. Mills
Indiana University Press 2006; US$ 19.95Born in rural Illinois, Ken Kays was a country boy who flunked out of college and wound up serving as a medic in the Vietnam War. On May 7, 1970, after only 17 days in Vietnam and one day after joining a new platoon, the young medic found himself in a ferocious battle. As a conscientious objector, Kays did not carry any weapons, but his actions during that engagement would earn him the Congressional Medal of Honor. Yet Kays' valor came during just another unheralded fire fight near the end of a long and seemingly fruitless war. He returned home and, with other vets, struggled to reconcile his anti-war beliefs with what he and others... more...