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Название: The Strategy Process: A Military-Business Comparison
Автор(ы): Grattan Robert F.
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2002
Страниц: 280
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2,00 MB


This book investigates strategy formulation by comparing military & Business practices. It assesses whether the strategy process in the business field also prevails in the military context. Based on interviews and case studies, the author uses a framework of influences including organisation, leadership, risk, theory and context to consider the areas of similarity and difference. While significant parallels can be found, greater importance is placed on the formulation of aims and goals, and the identification and training of leaders in the military. This provides valuable lessons for business strategists.

Название: The Rhodesian War: Fifty Years On
Автор(ы): McLaughlin Peter, Moorcraft Paul
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2020
Страниц: 208
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 3,04 MB


Fifty years on, this superb and exciting book depicts the military history of Southern Rhodesia from the first resistance to colonial rule, through the period of UDI by the Smith government to the Lancaster House agreement that transferred power. There are vivid accounts of the operations against the black nationalist 'guerillas' by the security forces and the intensity of the fighting and courage of the participants will surprise and enthrall readers. Atrocities were undoubtedly committed by both sides but equally the protagonists were playing for very high stakes. But this is more than just a book on military operations. The Authors are able to provide expert analysis of the historical situation and examines events up to the present day, including Mugabe's operations against rival tribes and white farmers. For a thorough work on its subject this book cannot be bettered. Essential reading for those wishing to learn more about a counterinsurgency campaign. The ingenuity of the Rhodesian military fighting against overwhelming odds and restricted by sanctions is impressive but the outcome culminating in the Lancaster House Agreement was inevitable.

Название: The Last of Africa’s Cold War Conflicts: Portuguese Guinea and its Guerilla Insurgency
Автор(ы): Venter Al J.
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2020
Страниц: 240
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 5,14 MB


Portugal was the first European country to colonize Africa. It was also the last to leave, almost five centuries later. During the course of what Lisbon called its “civilizing mission in Africa” the Portuguese weathered numerous insurrections, but none as severe as the guerrilla war first launched in Angola in 1961 and two years later in Portuguese Guinea. While Angola had a solid economic infrastructure, that did not hold for the tiny West African enclave that was to become Guinea-Bissau. Both Soviets and Cubans believed that because that tiny colony- roughly the size of Belgium - had no resources and a small population, that Lisbon would soon capitulate. They were wrong, because hostilities lasted more than a decade and the 11-year struggle turned into the most intense of Lisbon's three African colonies. It was a classic African guerrilla campaign that kicked off in January 1963, but nobody noticed because what was taking place in Vietnam grabbed all the headlines. The Soviet-led guerrilla campaign in Portuguese Guinea was to go on and set the scene for the wars that followed in Rhodesia and present-day Namibia.

Название: Military Low-Flying Aircraft: The Men Who Fly and the Skill of the Photographers that Capture Them
Автор(ы): Leek Michael
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2012
Страниц: 272
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 5,45 MB


The UK has some of the most dramatic landscapes for NATO pilots to exercise the increasingly important military art of high-speed low flying. It also offers splendid opportunities for photography of close-up dramatic shots taken from the hillsides and mountains of Wales, Scotland and other steep terrain within the UK. Pilots training for operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and other potential war zones, learn their skills flying through the valleys of the UK at near subsonic speed. For the legions of enthusiastic aviation photographers, thousands of whom can be seen at air shows, it provides ideal viewpoints.This book contains firsthand accounts from the pilots and expert advice for the photographer, together with stunning close-up color photos of the aircraft flying at eye-level and sometimes below the camera. It has the full support of the Royal Air Force and articles by the leading photographers in this field.

Название: Spymaster’s Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression
Автор(ы): Devine Jack
Издательство: Potomac Books
Год: 2021
Страниц: 304
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 8,15 MB


In Spymaster's Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression legendary former spymaster Jack Devine aims to ignite public discourse on our country’s intelligence and counterintelligence posture against Russia, among other adversaries. Spymasters are not spies - their mission is to run and handle spies and spy networks. They exist in virtually all sophisticated intelligence services around the world, including the more high-profile services like the CIA, SVR, SIS, MSS, VAJA and Mossad. Without exception, these spymasters are highly trained and broadly experienced top-level government officials who are at the heart of the intelligence business. They make the life and death decisions.

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.