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Machines of War

Author : DK
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0241325390
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Machines of War written by DK and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient flint hand daggers to the futuristic M1A2 tanks of today, flip through a series of stunning visuals to discover the weapons and vehicles that have shaped the military world. With rich illustrations, striking photography, and inputs from experts, Machines of War presents the story of all forms of weaponry that have dominated the battlefield, right from the pre-industrial age to the 21st century. Get a close-up look at firearms, aircraft, tanks, warships, and learn about the invention, evolution, and progression of arms and armaments through the ages. Presenting weapons and vehicles in innovative detail, this one-of-a-kind reference book offers a unique perspective on military developments in the Industrial era, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the modern world. Readers will uncover intriguing aspects of the Gatling gun, the Spitfire fighter plane, the T-72 Tank and many more with virtual tours. Whether you're a history lover or a science buff, Machines of War is guaranteed to enthral you by putting you at the helm of war's most formidable weapons.

War Machine

Author : Daniel Pick
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300067194
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book War Machine written by Daniel Pick and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing study examines Western perceptions of war in and beyond the nineteenth century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, philosophers, poets, natural scientists, and journalists to trace the terms of modern thought on the nature of military conflict. Daniel Pick brings together philosophical and historical models of war with fictions of invasion, propaganda from the Great War, interpretations of shellshock and speculations about the biological value of conquest. He discusses the work of such familiar commentators as Clausewitz, Engels, and Treitschke, and examines little-known writings by Proudhon, De Quincey, Ruskin, Valery, and many others, culminating in the extraordinary dialogue between Freud and Einstein, Why War? He analyses Victorian fears of French contamination through the Channel Tunnel as well as the widespread continuing dread of German domination. And he charts the history of the pervasive European belief that war is beneficial or at least functionally necessary. A central theme of the book is the disturbing relationship between machinery and destruction. Visions of relentless technological 'progress' and the inexorable advance of the military-industrial complex often seem to distort our understanding of war, even to reduce it to a sophisticated game played out by high-precision automata. Pick explores both the reassuring and troubling aspects of such representations. Shorn of human agency or responsibility, war apparently threatens to become technologically unstoppable, the remorseless 'perfect abattoir' of the industrial age. War Machine explores the enduring historical fascination with - and recoil from -brutal mechanical slaughter, and the modern aquiescence in, and enthusiasm for (in Rilke's phrase), 'these days of monstrously accelerated dying'.

The Spoils of War

Author : Andrew Cockburn
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839763655
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book The Spoils of War written by Andrew Cockburn and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the United States go to war?—a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers. A withering exposé of runaway military spending and the private economic interests funding the U.S. war machine—for fans of Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now! America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the West from the dangers of Islamists. The US soldiers stationed in over 800 locations across the world are meant to be the righteous arbiters of justice. Against this background, Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the true intentions behind Washington’s martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the private passions and interests of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money. Thus, as Cockburn witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer’s urgent financial requirements; the US Navy’s Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and prostitutes; senior Marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017 for budgetary reasons. Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: as profoundly squalid as it is terrifyingly deadly.

Britain's War Machine

Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199911509
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Britain's War Machine written by David Edgerton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in command of a global production system. Rather than belittled by a Nazi behemoth, Britain arguably had the world's most advanced mechanized forces. It had not only a great empire, but allies large and small. Edgerton shows that Britain fought on many fronts and its many home fronts kept it exceptionally well supplied with weapons, food and oil, allowing it to mobilize to an extraordinary extent. It created and deployed a vast empire of machines, from the humble tramp steamer to the battleship, from the rifle to the tank, made in colossal factories the world over. Scientists and engineers invented new weapons, encouraged by a government and prime minister enthusiastic about the latest technologies. The British, indeed Churchillian, vision of war and modernity was challenged by repeated defeat at the hands of less well-equipped enemies. Yet the end result was a vindication of this vision. Like the United States, a powerful Britain won a cheap victory, while others paid a great price. Putting resources, machines and experts at the heart of a global rather than merely imperial story, Britain's War Machine demolishes timeworn myths about wartime Britain and gives us a groundbreaking and often unsettling picture of a great power in action.

War in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Author : Manuel De Landa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book War in the Age of Intelligent Machines written by Manuel De Landa and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author aims to show how the emergence of intelligent and autonomous bombs and missiles equipped with artificial perception and decision-making capabilities represents a profound historical shift in the relation of human beings both to machines and to information.

Rise of the War Machines

Author : Raymond Patrick O'Mara
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682477495
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Rise of the War Machines written by Raymond Patrick O'Mara and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II examines the rise of autonomy in air warfare from the inception of powered flight through the first phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive in World War II. Raymond P. O’Mara builds a conceptual model of humans, machines, and doctrine that demonstrates a distinctly new way of waging warfare in human-machine teams. Specifically, O’Mara examines how the U.S. Army’s quest to control the complex technological and doctrinal system necessary to execute the strategic bombing mission led to the development of automation in warfare. Rise of the War Machines further explores how the process of sharing both physical and cognitive control of the precision bombing system established distinct human-machine teams with complex human-to—human and human-to-machine social relationships. O’Mara presents the precision bombing system as distinctly socio-technical, constructed of interdependent specially trained roles (the pilot, navigator, and bombardier); purpose-built automated machines (the Norden bombsight, specialized navigation tools, and the Minneapolis-Honeywell C-1 Autopilot); and the high-altitude, daylight bombing doctrine, all of which mutually shaped each other’s creation and use.

The War Machines

Author : Danny Hoffman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350777
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The War Machines written by Danny Hoffman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ethnographic research among militias in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor on battlefields and in dangerous unregulated industries.

Confronting the War Machine

Author : Michael S. Foley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854365
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Confronting the War Machine written by Michael S. Foley and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the draft resistance movement in Boston in 1967-68, this study argues that these acts of mass civil disobedience turned the tide in the antiwar movement by drawing the Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were largely young, middle-class, liberal, and from suburban backgrounds--the core of Johnson's constituency.

America's War Machine

Author : James McCartney
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466878762
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book America's War Machine written by James McCartney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When President Dwight D. Eisenhower prepared to leave the White House in 1961, he did so with an ominous message for the American people about the "disastrous rise" of the military-industrial complex. Fifty years later, the complex has morphed into a virtually unstoppable war machine, one that dictates U.S. economic and foreign policy in a direct and substantial way. Based on his experiences as an award-winning Washington-based reporter covering national security, James McCartney presents a compelling history, from the Cold War to present day that shows that the problem is far worse and far more wide-reaching than anything Eisenhower could have imagined. Big Military has become "too big to fail" and has grown to envelope the nation's political, cultural and intellectual institutions. These centers of power and influence, including the now-complicit White House and Congress, have a vested interest in preparing and waging unnecessary wars. The authors persuasively argue that not one foreign intervention in the past 50 years has made us or the world safer. With additions by Molly Sinclair McCartney, a fellow journalist with 30 years of experience, America's War Machine provides the context for today's national security state and explains what can be done about it.

Land, Sea & Air

Author : Parragon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472371546
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Land, Sea & Air written by Parragon and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Egyptian war chariots to modern fighter jets, from land to air to sea, Land, Sea & Air explores the history and technology of combat vehicles, dissecting over 60 incredible battle-ready machines from throughout history, with 3-D cutaway illustrations.

Plans for Stalin's War-Machine

Author : L. Samuelson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230286763
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Plans for Stalin's War-Machine written by L. Samuelson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new doctrine of mobile warfare and 'deep operations'. The military requirements of armaments and industrial production in the event of war was a central parameter in Stalinist industrialization. Based on recently opened Russian archives, the book analyzes military dimensions of Soviet long-term economic and military reconstruction plans from the mid-1920s until 1941. It presents a new framework for estimating the Soviet war-economic preparations, drastically underestimated by contemporaries.

Genghis Khan and the Mongol War Machine

Author : Chris Peers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783400560
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Genghis Khan and the Mongol War Machine written by Chris Peers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a soldier and general, statesman and empire-builder, Genghis Khan is an almost legendary figure. His remarkable achievements and his ruthless methods have given rise to a sinister reputation. As Chris Peers shows, in this concise and authoritative study, he possessed exceptional gifts as a leader and manager of men - he ranks among the greatest military commanders - but he can only be properly understood in terms of the Mongol society and traditions he was born into. So the military and cultural background of the Mongols, and the nature of steppe societies and their armies, are major themes of his book. He looks in detail at the military skills, tactics and ethos of the Mongol soldiers, and at the advantages and disadvantages they had in combat with the soldiers of more settled societies. His book offers a fascinating fresh perspective on Genghis Khan the man and on the armies he led.

The Machinery of War

Author : Outlet
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 : 9780517120798
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Machinery of War written by Outlet and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1988-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hitler's War Machine

Author : William Carr
Publisher : Salamander Books
ISBN 13 : 9780861018482
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Hitler's War Machine written by William Carr and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published Hamlyn, 1976. In 1939 Adolf Hitler unleashed the most formidable fighting force the world had ever known, yet this proved to be a failure. This book explores the impact of these forces and examines how and why they met their downfall

Cross of Iron

Author : John Mosier
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429900776
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Cross of Iron written by John Mosier and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the origins and development of the German army that breaks through the distortions of conventional military history Acclaimed for his revisionist history of the German Army in World War I, John Mosier continues his pioneering work in Cross of Iron, offering an intimate portrait of the twentieth-century German army from its inception, through World War I and the interwar years, to World War II and its climax in 1945. World War I has inspired a vast mythology of bravery and carnage, told largely by the victors, that has fascinated readers for decades. Many have come to believe that the fast ascendancy of the Allied army, matched by the failure of a German army shackled by its rigidity, led to the war's outcome. Mosier demystifies the strategic and tactical realities to explain that it was Germany's military culture that provided it with the advantage in the first war. Likewise, Cross of Iron offers stunning revelations regarding the weapons of World War II, forcing a reevaluation of the reasons behind the French withdrawal, the Russian contribution, and Hitler as military thinker. Mosier lays to rest the notion that the army, as opposed to the SS, fought a clean and traditional war. Finally, he demonstrates how the German war machine succeeded against more powerful Allied armies until, in both wars, it was crushed by U.S. intervention. The result of thirty years of primary research, Cross of Iron is a powerful and authoritative reinterpretation of Germany at war.

Roman War Machine

Author : John Peddie
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780938289852
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Roman War Machine written by John Peddie and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1996-06-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging account of the military and naval structure of the late Republic and early Empire, John Peddie draws on first-hand sources to reveal the true nature of events ont he battlefield.

Chariot

Author : Arthur Cotterell
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781585678051
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Chariot written by Arthur Cotterell and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rich in historical anecdote and narrative, Chariot otters descriptions of the military confrontations in which the deployment of chariots heavily influenced the outcome of battles and changed the fates of countries and empires.