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Book Synopsis Amateur Soldiers, Global Wars by : Michael C. Fowler
Download or read book Amateur Soldiers, Global Wars written by Michael C. Fowler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational politics, modern communications, and access to the tools of warfare have combined to give political movements the ability to wage global war to promote their own agendas, a development that has changed the face of both politics and warfare. Fowler examines current aspects of conducting war, including mobilization, funding, training, fighting, and intelligence to demonstrate how they are accessible to anyone and are well-suited to waging insurgency efforts in many places around the world. Such efforts force governments to deal with unforeseen enemies who violently advance their agendas in a quest for increased power and authority. Because global insurgents, such as al Qaeda, build more direct connections between politics and the use of force, confronting them requires solutions that emphasize politics as much as the use of force. National governments must unite to seek cooperative solutions to issues that affect them. The implications of the adoption of such strategies by groups with varied agendas will undoubtedly change foreign policy planning for decades to come.
Book Synopsis A Soldier's Quartet by : Colin Baldwin
Download or read book A Soldier's Quartet written by Colin Baldwin and published by Shawline Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONRAD BENTLEY ENJOYS HIS RETIREMENT. By chance, he comes across a letter from WWI - a German father writes about his grief of losing a son to war - buried by his three comrades near a small French village. The letter resonates with Conrad and he commits to researching its backstory. Months later, Conrad makes contact with the fallen soldier's family. He falls deeper into their history and other untold stories from this era, including the fate of young Tasmanian soldiers who also fought on the Western Front. A Soldier's Quartet is inspired by true events, a story of perseverance and happenstance that transcends time and reaches across continents. It presents the human faces behind uniforms and battle plans, conveys love and hope set against various landscapes. Conrad's discovery of the letter brings the past into the present as he reflects on his own life and loss.
Download or read book Band of Giants written by Jack Kelly and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of war. We know Fort Knox, but what about Henry Knox, the burly Boston bookseller who took over the American artillery at the age of 25? Eighteen counties in the United States commemorate Richard Montgomery, but do we know that this revered martyr launched a full-scale invasion of Canada? The soldiers of the American Revolution were a diverse lot: merchants and mechanics, farmers and fishermen, paragons and drunkards. Most were ardent amateurs. Even George Washington, assigned to take over the army around Boston in 1775, consulted books on military tactics. Here, Jack Kelly vividly captures the fraught condition of the war—the bitterly divided populace, the lack of supplies, the repeated setbacks on the battlefield, and the appalling physical hardships. That these inexperienced warriors could take on and defeat the superpower of the day was one of the remarkable feats in world history.
Download or read book Militia Myths written by James A. Wood and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of farmers and workers called to the colours endures in Canada’s social memory of the First World War. But is the ideal of being a citizen first and a soldier only by necessity as recent as our histories and memories suggest? Militia Myths brings to light a military culture that consistently employed the citizen soldier as its foremost symbol, but was otherwise in a state of profound transition. At the time of Confederation, the defence of Canada itself represented the country’s only real obligation to the British Empire, but by the early twentieth century Canadians were already fighting an imperial war in South Africa. In 1914, they began raising an army to fight on the Western Front. By the end of the First World War, the ideological transition was complete: for better or for worse, the untrained civilian who had answered the call-to-arms in 1914 replaced the long-serving volunteer militiaman of the past as the archetypical Canadian citizen soldier. Militia Myths traces the evolution of a uniquely Canadian amateur military tradition -- one that has had an enormous impact on the country’s experience of the First and Second World Wars. Published in association with the Canadian War Museum.
Download or read book Soldier of Arete written by Gene Wolfe and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1989-08-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who, while fighting in Greece, received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis The Irish amateur military tradition in the British Army, 1854–1992 by : William Butler
Download or read book The Irish amateur military tradition in the British Army, 1854–1992 written by William Butler and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period from the re-establishment of the Irish militia during the Crimean War until the disbandment of the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1992, this book examines the Irish amateur military tradition within the British Army, distinctive from a British amateur military tradition. Irish men and women of both religions and political persuasions made a significant contribution to these forces, and in so doing played an important role within the British Empire, whilst also providing a crucial link between the army and Irish society. Utilising new source material, this book demonstrates the complex nature of Irish involvement with British institutions and its Empire. It argues that within this unique tradition, two divergent Protestant and Catholic traditions emerged, and membership of these organisations was used as a means of social mobility, for political patronage, and, crucially, to demonstrate loyalty to Britain and its Empire.
Book Synopsis Detailed Minutiæ of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by : Carlton McCarthy
Download or read book Detailed Minutiæ of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 written by Carlton McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Horse Soldier, 1776-1943: The last of the Indian wars, the Spanish-American War, the brink of the Great War, 1881-1916 by : Randy Steffen
Download or read book The Horse Soldier, 1776-1943: The last of the Indian wars, the Spanish-American War, the brink of the Great War, 1881-1916 written by Randy Steffen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States by :
Download or read book Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Soldier's Dream by : William Doyle
Download or read book A Soldier's Dream written by William Doyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For six months in 2006, a charismatic young U.S. Army captain and Arab linguist named Travis Patriquin unleashed a diplomatic and cultural charm offensive upon the Sunni Arab sheiks of Anbar province, the heart of darkness of the Iraqi insurgency. He galvanized American support for the “Sunni Awakening,” the tribal revolt against Al Qaeda that spread through the province and eventually across Iraq, a turning point that led to dramatically lower levels of violence in the country. The Awakening may not have succeeded without Patriquin, who was so beloved by Iraqis that they adopted him into their tribes and loved him as a brother. This is the true story of a man who loved Iraq, and a soldier who helped engineer the turning point of the Iraq War. It is the story of America’s T.E. Lawrence—Travis Patriquin.
Book Synopsis A Soldier's Sailoring by : Sir Alexander Bruce Tulloch
Download or read book A Soldier's Sailoring written by Sir Alexander Bruce Tulloch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence by : M Dixon
Download or read book On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence written by M Dixon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and penetrating book surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the disasterous campaigns of the First World War and the calamities of the Second. It examines the social psychology of military organizations, provides case studies of individual commanders and identifies an alarming pattern in the causes of military disaster. Absorbing and original, this is the definitive history of military failures.
Book Synopsis Service Afloat and Ashore During the Mexican War by : Raphael Semmes
Download or read book Service Afloat and Ashore During the Mexican War written by Raphael Semmes and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal by :
Download or read book Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Military Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Directory of members, constitution and by-laws of the Society of American Military Engineers, 1935" inserted in v. 27.
Book Synopsis The Soldier's Steadfast Bride by : Lorana Hoopes
Download or read book The Soldier's Steadfast Bride written by Lorana Hoopes and published by Lorana Hoopes. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was just a pretend pact between children. Wasn't it? Heidi isn’t used to the fame that’s followed her after appearing on the reality dating show, and her dating life has suddenly picked up. But when one of the men who shows up is a blast from her past, will she accept his offer or send him packing? Cory Kingman hasn’t thought of Heidi in years, but when he sees her on the television, his mind wanders back to the pact they made as kids. He never thought he’d actually use it, but when the military calls him away and his daughter’s welfare is at risk, he knows he must at least try. Fans of Colleen Coble, Melissa McClone, and Susan May Warren will love this new inspirational romance from best-selling author Lorana Hoopes. Grab your copy today!
Book Synopsis Essays, Military and Political, Written in India by : Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence
Download or read book Essays, Military and Political, Written in India written by Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
