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Название: Spies: The U.S. and Russian Espionage Game From the Cold War to the 21st Century
Автор(ы): Kalic Sean
Издательство: Praeger
Год: 2019
Страниц: 264
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 11,20 MB


In the post-World War II era, the Soviet Union and the United States wanted to gain the advantage in international security. Both engaged in intelligence gathering. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the espionage game. For more than four decades after World War II, the quest for intelligence drove the Soviet Union and the United States to develop a high-stakes "game" of spying on one another throughout the Cold War. Each nation needed to be aware of and prepared to counter the capabilities of their primary nemesis.

Название: Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team
Автор(ы): Smith Michael
Издательство: Cassell
Год: 2007
Страниц: 356
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 11,40 MB


The 25-year history of a top-secret US Army special operations unit. ‘The Activity’, as it became known to insiders, has hidden behind a myriad of code-names like Gray Fox and Torn Victor. It has been publicly ‘disbanded’ and then secretly resurrected so often that it has near mythical status, even among the world's special operations elite. Michael Smith has spoken to many former members of ‘The Activity’ and we follow them on operations from the undercover ops in Beirut in the 1980s to the capture of Saddam Hussein and the assassination of key members of al Qa'eda. They were also active in South America, spearheading the war on the drug barons and providing the electronic surveillance that led Colombian ‘death squads’ to the hideouts of Pablo Escobar and his men. Killer Elite reveals the truth behind the world’s most secret Special Operations organisation: a unit that is at the forefront of the war on terror.

Название: Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves
Автор(ы): Martinez Ordonez Lucia
Издательство: Springer International Publishing
Год: 2017
Страниц: 110
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 1,79 MB


This book employs game theory to warfare and in particular to military operations. It aims at scrutinizing the validity of the two ideas that have governed the literature on war and warfighting: One is the Clausewitzian Fog of War, which suggests that he who is able to "see" through the gunsmoke and observe his opponent’s moves before he has to commit to some strategy himself, should be able to gain an advantage over that enemy; the other is the tradition of understanding military conflict as a zero-sum game. Combined, these ideas seem to imply that war always gives rise to a second-mover advantage. This book questions the validity of this presumption at the operational level of military planning. It provides a simple but rigorous game-theoretic framework in order to analyse operational alternatives for a whole range of typical conflicts Western military forces are facing, including the most recent ones such as Anti-Access/Area-Denial and supporting host nations' counterinsurgency campaigns.

Название: More than Fighting for Peace? Conflict Resolution, UN Peacekeeping, and the Role of Training Military Personnel
Автор(ы): Curran David
Издательство: Springer International Publishing
Год: 2017
Страниц: 150
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 1,78 MB


This book provides a contemporary account of the linkages between the academic field of conflict resolution and the practice of military peacekeeping, through the lens of pre-deployment training for military personnel about to embark on UN peacekeeping operations. Military personnel serving on United Nations peacekeeping operations are deployed into highly challenging post-conflict environments, where the likelihood of violence remains high. Moreover, these personnel are deployed part of a wider peace process, and are thus situated as an anchor point in a transition from war to peace. This dimension of their work therefore means that a range of skills and techniques are relied upon, which come not from traditional military training, but from other, non-traditional fields. It is into this gap where the academic field of conflict resolution has made a valuable contribution to understanding international peacekeeping. Since the 1970’s, studies have sought to understand international peacekeeping as a necessary stage in conflict de-escalation, and ultimately transformation. From this, there is a history of engagement including studies which seek to understand the skills peacekeepers may need to assist them in their day to day activities, and the role that international peacekeeping plays in wider projects of conflict transformation.

Название: The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations, 1565-1970
Автор(ы): Hingley Ronald
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2021
Страниц: 322
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 342,48 MB


This book, first published in 1970, is an important study of Russia’s security services from their earliest years to the mid-twentieth century. Ronald Hingley demonstrates how the secret police acted, both under the Tsars and under Soviet rule, as a key instrument of control exercised over all fields of Russian life by an outstandingly authoritarian state. He analyses the Tsarist Third Section and Okhrana and their role in countering Russian revolutionary groups, and examines the Soviet agencies as they assumed the roles of policeman, judge and executioner. This masterly evaluation of Russian and Soviet secret police makes extensive use of hard-to-find Russian documentary sources, and is the first such research that studies Russian political security (Muscovite, Imperial and Soviet) as a whole.

Название: Take the Slow Road: France - Inspirational Journeys Round France by Camper Van and Motorhome
Автор: Martin Dorey
Издательство: Conway
Год: 2021
Формат: ePUB
Страниц: 432
Размер: 105 mb
Язык: English

Forget hurrying. Forget putting your foot down and racing through sweeping bends. Forget the understeer (whatever that is). Forget the blur of a life lived too fast. This is a look at taking life slowly. It's about taking the time to enjoy journeys and places for their own sake. It's about stopping and putting the kettle on. Stopping to take a picture. Stopping to enjoy stopping.

Название: Lens Magazine
Год / месяц: 2021 May / май
Номер: 80
Формат: pdf
Размер: 73,7 Мб
Язык: английский

Israeli Lens Magazine for contemporary Fine Art Photography. Israeli Art Market represents the top emerging artists and photographers from Israel. The magazine exhibits original works of art, lithographs and quality fine art prints for sale. We are passionate about our collections and continually looking for talented artists to join our community. We provide a premium marketing service for selling artwork on our site to destinations worldwide. Free shipping on all artwork!

Название: Россказни Жана-Мари Кабидулена. Великолепная Ориноко
Автор: Жюль Верн
Издательство: Ладомир
Год: 1995
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 488
Размер: 18,0 Мб
Язык: русский

В тринадцатый том серии «Неизвестный Жюль Верн» включены новые переводы романов «Россказни Жана-Мари Кабидулена» (1901) и «Великолепная Ориноко» (1898).

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Издательство: Московское издательство П. П. Сойкина и И. Ф. Афанасьева
Год: 1925
Номер: 02
Формат: pdf
Размер: 101.1 Мб
Язык: русский

Иллюстрированный журнал повестей и рассказов. «Мир Приключений» – первый журнал в Российской Империи и Советском Союзе, который на своих страницах печатал только произведения приключенческого и фантастического жанра российских и зарубежных писателей, очерки и статьи об интересных достижениях науки и техники.

Название: Amateur Photographer
Год / месяц: 2021 July / июль
Формат: pdf
Размер: 22,3 Мб
Язык: английский

Amateur Photographer - самый старый всемирный еженедельный журнал для энтузиастов фотографии.