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Название: No Armour but Courage: Colonel Sir George Lisle, 1615-1648
Издательство: Helion & Company
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 510
Размер: 14 Mb
Язык: English

No Armour but Courage: Colonel Sir George Lisle, 1615-1648

Название: The Strategic Use of Force in Counterinsurgency: Find, Fix, Fight
Автор(ы): Kitts Miles
Издательство: Lexington Books
Год: 2020
Страниц: 234
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 4,50 MB


The Strategic Use of Force in Counterinsurgency: Find, Fix, Fight focuses on how to understand the relationship between the use of force and the outcomes of such use. Specifically, there is debate as to how to evaluate counterinsurgency conflicts, and what prescriptions flow from that evaluation. The Neo-Classicist school emphasises prescriptions which are either directly from, or inspired by, Cold War counterinsurgency efforts undertaken by anti-communist states. The Revisionist school focuses on how best to evaluate the political dimensions of such conflicts. This book finds that a third approach, Reflective-Action, is best as it combines Neo-Classicism’s strength of issuing practical prescriptions with Revisionism’s strength for conceptually evaluating counterinsurgency conflicts. This conceptual debate is exposited in three cases. They are the British counterinsurgency during the Malayan Emergency of the 1940s and 1950s, American counterinsurgency in South Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s, and the Coalition counterinsurgency in Iraq during the 2000s.

Название: On Absolute War: Terrorism and the Logic of Armed Conflict
Автор(ы): Fleury Eric
Издательство: Lexington Books
Год: 2019
Страниц: 212
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 1,21 MB


Nearly two decades after the declaration of a 'War on Terror,' the precise relationship between warfare and terrorism remains unclear. The United States and its allies have long sought to inflict a decisive defeat upon groups such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, while regarding their individual members as malevolent criminals undeserving of combatant status. A clearer understanding of how terrorists define victory, and how their method of fighting relates to conventional military forces, is necessary in order to devise more realistic and effective strategies of counterterrorism. On Absolute War constructs a theoretical framework for the study of terrorism based on Carl von Clausewitz's On War, widely regarded as the greatest analysis of war ever written. Through a review of Clausewitz's work and a set of historical case studies ranging from the Fenian Dynamite Campaign of the 1880s to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Prof. Fleury reveals just how closely terrorism mimics the logic of war. Terrorism attempts to restore war to its theoretical baseline, a condition that Clausewitz called 'absolute war' featuring relentless escalation toward a climactic result. While never achieving this ideal in practice, terrorists succeed to the extent that they compel their enemies and their prospective followers to engage mutual escalation, which will ultimately favor whichever side is better able to jettison logistical and normative limits. Consequently, states must engage terrorists on the basis of Clausewitz's two most important injunctions, namely that war is temporary and subordinate to political controls. Given the very real prospect of a war without any temporal and spatial limits, On Absolute War provides the theoretical basis for a strategy of limiting the effects of terrorism, rather than repeatedly trying and failing to destroy it.

Название: FBI Surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos, 1920-1980
Автор(ы): Gutierrez Jose Angel
Издательство: Lexington Books
Год: 2020
Страниц: 380
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 1,61 MB


A multi-chapter book, first of its kind, that identifies, describes, and analyzes FBI documents revealing the hidden history of surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos in the United States of America. Jose Angel Gutierrez, achieved in his book an exemplary research work which shows extraordinary tenacity. His originality resulted in the revelation of the abuse of power and impunity carefully documented as the institutionalization of racism and ideological obsessions, in addition to a historical account of internal policies of ethnic hate on the part of the FBI.

Название: FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940-1980: The Eagle Is Watching
Автор(ы): Gutierrez Jose Angel
Издательство: Lexington Books
Год: 2021
Страниц: 274
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 1,74 MB


A multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on two well known persons of Mexican origin, Luisa Moreno and Ernesto Galarza; four Chicanos, Ambassador Raymond Telles and his wife Delfina Navarro, Francisco "Pancho" Medrano, Freddy Fender; two organizations, the Texas Farm Workers Union and teh American G.I. Forum; and, one event, the Zoot Suit police riots in Los Angeles, California during the 1940s. In this well-researched and detailed book, José Angel Gutiérrez, as a scholar and a fearless leader for decades on behalf of Chicanas and Chicanos in the U.S., does an excellent job in exposing the civil/human rights abuses of the American government in general and oppressive FBI apparatus in particular against los de abajo. As a self-described Chicano militant, the author exposes a contradiction of the FBI’s racist surveillance against brown people, where the gaze of Big Brother doesn’t differentiate in spying on righteous militants, aspiring for radical/structural transformations, versus moderate Mexican Americans and groups, seeking reformist changes.

Название: Gun Button to Fire: A Hurricane Pilot's Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain
Автор(ы): Neil Tom
Издательство: Amberley Publishing
Год: 2012
Страниц: 320
Язык: English
Формат: MOBI
Размер: 5,95 MB


The amazing story of one of the 'Few', fighter ace Tom Neil who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain. This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When the Germans were blitzing their way across France, Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received his first posting - to 249 Squadron. Nineteen years old, fresh from training at Montrose on Hawker Audax biplanes he was soon to be pitch forked into the maelstrom of air fighting on which the survival of Britain was to depend. By the end of the year he had shot down 13 enemy aircraft, seen many of his friends killed, injured or burned, and was himself a wary and accomplished fighter pilot.

Название: Osprey Campaign 40 - Sekigahara 1600. The final struggle for power
Автор: Anthony J Bryant
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781855323957
Год: 1995
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 51,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Sekigahara was the most decisive battle in Japanese history. Fought against the ritualised and colourful backdrop of Samurai life, it was the culmination of a long-standing power struggle between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hashiba Hideyoshi, two of the most powerful men in Japan. Armies of the two sides met on the plain of Sekigahara on 21 October 1600, in thick fog and deep mud.

Название: Arab-Israeli Air Wars 1947-82 (Osprey Combat Aircraft 23)
Автор: Shlomo Aloni
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1841762946
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 100
Размер: 51,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

When the UN called for the end of the British mandate and the partition of Palestine into two independent states, the RAF found itself under attack from both sides. Tracing the development of hostilities in the Middle East, this book covers the period from the establishment of the first proper Israeli Air Force in 1948 to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Israel's War of Independence against its Arab neighbours, the inevitable 'round two', the Suez Crisis of 1956, the Six Day War of 1967, the Yom Kippur wars of 1973 and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 are all detailed in this fascinating chronicle of war in the Middle East.

Название: Fire and Ice: The Korean War, 1950-1953
Автор: Michael Varhola
Издательство: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 978-1882810444
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 317
Размер: 32,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

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This handy "At A Glance" volume contains an exceptional amount of material on the Korean Conflict, with much information that will be new to virtually all readers, such as dissension between the U.S. and South Korea, the differing treatment of prisoners by the Chinese and North Koreans, the widespread service of Korean nationals in American units, and the important contribution made by Turkey, the British Commonwealth and other nations to the U.N. effort.

Название: Iraq Insurgency: US Army Vehicles in Action (Part 2) (Concord 7519)
Издательство: Concord Publications
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 58
Размер: 68 Mb
Язык: English

Iraq Insurgency: US Army Vehicles in Action (Part 2)