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Название: Military Strategy: Principles, Practices, and Historical Perspectives
Автор(ы): Collins John M.
Издательство: Potomac Books
Год: 2001
Страниц: 350
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 7,69 MB


John M. Collins has distilled the wisdom of history’s great military minds to tutor readers on the necessary intellectual skills to win not only battles but also wars. He illuminates practices that worked well or poorly in the past, together with reasons why. He discusses national security interests, strategic building blocks, military strategies across the conflict spectrum, methods for developing talent and strategic acumen, and recent case studies that put principles into practice. Collins never tells readers what to think, but in Military Strategy he provides them with the intellectual tools to think for themselves. Written in a clear, straightforward style, this book will appeal to officers, policy-makers, students, and the public.

Название: Outsourcing the Global War on Terrorism: Private Military Companies and American Intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan
Автор(ы): Lovewine George C.
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2014
Страниц: 242
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 1,32 MB


The US military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan made use of private military and private security companies on an unprecedented scale. In this environment, actions and operations can greatly affect the efficacy of the US military - creating unintended diplomatic and tactical consequences. Lovewine combines an insider's perspective on the use of Private Military Companies in Department of Defense contingency operations with rigorous research. Exploring the involvement of contractors from Iraq to Afghanistan and from intelligence collection to security services, Outsourcing the Global War on Terrorism shows why Private Military Companies have a major impact on the success or failure of US military operations and policies.

Название: Biological and toxin weapons: research, development, and use from the Middle Ages to 1945
Автор(ы): Geissler E., Courtland Moon John Ellis van
Издательство: Oxford: Oxford University Press
Год: 2003
Страниц: 300
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 39,94 MB


This interdisciplinary volume is a history and comparative examination of major biological warfare programmes up to 1945. It analyses the origins of biological warfare planning and preparation up to the end of World War II. During World War II several countries developed major biological warfare programmes. Their relevance to contemporary concerns is addressed. The argument is made that the verification protocol to strengthen the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, now being negotiated, ought to be adopted.

Название: Alexander the Great and Hernan Cortes: Ambiguous Legacies of Leadership
Автор(ы): Lyons Justin D.
Издательство: Lexington Books
Год: 2015
Страниц: 255
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2,67 MB


This is a biographical pairing of two of the greatest conquerors in human history, drawing its inspiration from Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Like Plutarch, the purpose of the pairing is not primarily historical. While Plutarch covers the history of each of the lives he chronicles, he also emphasizes questions of character and the larger lessons of politics to be derived from the deeds he recounts. The book provides a narrative account both of Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire and Cortes's conquest of the Aztec Empire while reflecting on the larger questions that emerge from each. The campaign narratives are followed by essays devoted to leadership and command that seek to recover the treasures of the Plutarchian approach shaped by moral and political philosophy. Analysis of leadership style and abilities is joined with assessment of character. Special emphasis is given to the speeches provided in historical sources and meditation on rhetorical successes and failures in maintaining the morale and willing service of their men.

Название: Russian Cyber Operations: Coding the Boundaries of Conflict
Автор(ы): Jasper Scott
Издательство: Georgetown University Press
Год: 2020
Страниц: 232
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2,18 MB


Russia has deployed cyber operations to interfere in foreign elections, launch disinformation campaigns, and cripple neighboring states ― all while maintaining a thin veneer of deniability and avoiding strikes that cross the line into acts of war. How should a targeted nation respond? In Russian Cyber Operations, Scott Jasper dives into the legal and technical maneuvers of Russian cyber strategies, proposing that nations develop solutions for resilience to withstand future attacks. Jasper examines the place of cyber operations within Russia's asymmetric arsenal and its use of hybrid and information warfare, considering examples from recent French and US presidential elections and the 2017 Not Petya mock ransomware attack, among others. Jasper shows the international effort to counter these operations through sanctions and indictments has done little to alter Moscow's behavior and instead proposes that nations use data correlation technologies in an integrated security platform to establish a more resilient defense. Russian Cyber Operations provides a critical framework for determining whether Russian cyber campaigns and incidents rise to the level of armed conflict or operate at a lower level as a component of competition. Jasper's work offers the national security community a robust plan of action critical to effectively mounting a durable defense against Russian cyber campaigns.

Название: Firearms in American History
Автор(ы): Berger Michael L.
Издательство: Franklin Watts
Год: 1979
Страниц: 64
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 14,31 MB


Highlights the history of firearms from their appearance in Europe in the 14th century through the settling of America and the Civil War. Discusses firearms in sport and competition and the art of gunsmithing.

Название: The Spy Who Came in From the Co-Op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage
Автор(ы): Burke David
Издательство: Boydell Press
Год: 2009
Страниц: 209
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 1,00 MB


On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article - Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed Britain for 40 years. The spy who came in from the Co-op. Melita Norwood, the last of the atomic spies, had finally been run to ground, but at 87 she was deemed too old to prosecute. Her crime: the shortening of the Soviet Union's atomic bomb project by up to 5 years. At a time when the world faces fresh dilemmas caused by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, this is the remarkable story of a much earlier drama. After the atomic bomb strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, British and American intelligence estimated the earliest date for the production of a Soviet bomb to be 1953. In fact, the Soviet Union went nuclear in 1948, and tested an atomic bomb in 1949. The Soviet Union's bomb coincided with the onset of The Cold War, and threatened humankind with extinction. Melita Norwood was a member of one of those communist spy networks in America and Britain, who by guaranteeing those weapons of mass destruction threw down a challenge to America as sole superpower in the post-Second World War era. This fascinating book sets her in the context of the times, and uses her as a prism and focus through which to investigate the whole milieu. Dr DAVID BURKE is a Supervisor for the Rise of the Secret World: Governments and Intelligence Communities since 1900 at the University of Cambridge

Название: The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists
Автор(ы): Burke David.
Издательство: Boydell Press
Год: 2014
Страниц: 309
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 45,24 MB


The Isokon building, Lawn Road Flats, in Belsize Park on Hampstead's lower slopes, is a remarkable building. The first modernist building in Britain to use reinforced concrete in domestic architecture, its construction demanded new building techniques. But the building was as remarkable for those who took up residence there as for the application of revolutionary building techniques. There were 32 Flats in all, and they became a haunt of some of the most prominent Soviet agents working against Britain in the 1930s and 40s, among them Arnold Deutsch, the controller of the group of Cambridge spies who came to be known as the "Magnificent Five" after the Western movie 'The Magnificent Seven'; the photographer Edith Tudor-Hart; and Melita Norwood, the longest-serving Soviet spy in British espionage history. However, it wasn't only spies who were attracted to the Lawn Road Flats, the Bauhaus exiles Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer; the pre-historian V. Gordon Childe; and the poet (and Bletchley Park intelligence officer) Charles Brasch all made their way there. A number of British artists, sculptors and writers were also drawn to the Flats, among them the sculptor and painter Henry Moore; the novelist Nicholas Monsarrat; and the crime writer Agatha Christie, who wrote her only spy novel 'N or M? in the Flats'. The Isokon building boasted its own restaurant and dining club, where many of the Flats' most famous residents rubbed shoulders with some of the most dangerous communist spies ever to operate in Britain.

Название: Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life of George Alexander Hill
Автор(ы): Day Peter
Издательство: Biteback Publishing
Год: 2018
Страниц: 291
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 6,19 MB


George Hill was a British spy who had befriended Trotsky during the Russian Revolution. He had smuggled the Romanian crown jewels out of the Soviet Union and was involved in an attempt to rescue the Tsar. During the Second World War he acted as the link between Churchill's Special Operations Executive and Stalin's secret service, the NKVD.

Название: Rebecca
Издательство: HW-Verlag
Год / месяц: November - Februar 2020 - 2021
Номер: 84
Формат: PDF
Размер: 12 MB
Язык: немецкий

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