Los años posteriores a la derrota de las potencias del Eje dieron lugar a un mundo bipolar dominado por el enfrentamiento entre dos fuerzas ideológicamente opuestas, cada una con una dotación de armamento capaz de asegurar la destrucción del planeta.
Ein Essay über Krieg und Frieden: Orientierung in einer ewigen MenschheitsfrageDa dachten wir, Krieg sei in Europa undenkbar: Wer Krieg verhindern will, muss aber fragen, unter welchen Bedingungen er moralisch gerechtfertigt wäre.
'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildFIVE DARING ESCAPES CARRIED OUT BY THE FAMOUS FIGHTING FORCE DURING WWIIFrom the infamous 1944 desert campaign to the unforgiving terrain of the Vosges Mountains; from a perilous escape across Europe aided by Resistance networks to three Captains fleeing an Italian Prisoner of War camp in 1943, and a death-defying return to Britain via boat, tunnel and train.
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Nuclear Deterrence is an accessible and authoritative introduction to the deterrent tactics employed to prevent war, drawing on the unprecedented power of nuclear weapons.
In this follow-on report to Europe's High-End Military Challenges: The Future of European Capabilities and Missions, the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and International Security Program examine the other side of the coin of European military effectiveness: the political will of European countries to conduct military missions and operations.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES'A hugely important book .
This explosive book reveals the conspiracy between British Military Intelligence and the gunman of the UDA who targeted and killed both Republican terrorists and ordinary Catholics.
Created in 1961 as a result of the amalgamation of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and the Seaforth Highlanders, the Queen's Own Highlanders embody the history and traditions of some of Scotland's oldest Highland regiments.
Fünf Fallstudien untersuchen die Schweizer Rüstungsgüter in der Zeit des Kalten Krieges in ihren vielfältigen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Militär, Industrie, Politik und Öffentlichkeit.
Saudi-Arabien spielt eine Schlüsselrolle in den Konflikten des Nahen Ostens, doch über seine Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft oder religiöse Ausrichtung sowie über die Machtkämpfe seines Königshauses wissen wir kaum etwas.
Peter Scholl-Latour kennt Indochina wie kaum ein anderer, er ist mit allen Ländern zwischen dem Golf von Bengalen und dem Golf von Tonking vertraut: Vietnam, Kambodscha, Laos, Thailand, Burma und Singapur.
Mucho se ha escrito sobre el "tiroteo en Miami" que tuvo lugar el 11 de abril de 1986: dos sanguinarios atracadores de bancos, ocho agentes del FBI y ciento cincuenta disparos.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategyThe Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategy"e;The Art of War"e; is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategyThe Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategy"e;The Art of War"e; is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategy"e;The Art of War"e; is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategyThe Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategyThe Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
This almanac compiles the most historically significant events in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1800-2020, containing vignettes of more than 700 events organized per month and specific calendar day, with a foreword from Admiral James Stavridis.
Wer knappe, klare und anschauliche Informationen über die Geschichte der deutschen Marinen von der Bundesflotte von 1848 bis zur heutigen Deutschen Marine sucht, wird hier mit Sicherheit fündig.
La Flomar avanzaba decidida hacia el que era su objetivo militar, «la ocupación territorial de las islas para, por su parte, otras fuerzas atacar a lo largo de la frontera».
La estrategia bélica explicada a través de metáforas y eficaces ejemplos, convierte a El arte de la guerra en uno de los más vigorosos libros de psicología aplicada jamás escrito.
El volumen que presentamos a continuación bajo el titulo de Escritos Militares es una compilación de dos importantes trabajos en el periodo de la guerra de resistencia contra los Estados Unidos: Guerra de Liberación (1971) y Armar a las masas revolucionarias, construir el ejército popular (1972).
En marzo de 1954, los vietnamitas abrieron fuego contra el bastión del colonialismo francés de Dien Bien Phu, lanzando varias oleadas cuya última, el primero de mayo, aniquiló a un enemigo ya desmoralizado.
El pensamiento del general chino Sun Tzu ha influido en la obra de Maquiavelo, fue decisivo en los planes militares de Napoleón, modeló las ideas políticas de Mao Tse Tung y se apoya en estos dos preceptos: Todo el arte de la guerra se basa en el engaño.
El general Vo Nguyen Giap fue uno de los más destacados jefes militares de todos los tiempos, líder comunista y comandante revolucionario de una de las mayores epopeyas de liberación del siglo XX: la resistencia armada del pueblo de Vietnam a la ocupación norteamericana que lo tuvo como actor central, en la peor derrota política y militar que hayan conocido los Estados Unidos en su historia.
'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of MosquitoSummer 1939.
What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents?
Unlike his contemporary American theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britain's eminent maritime strategist, Sir Julian Corbett, believed that victory in war did not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this had never been the case.
Spy Sub is the acclaimed story of the secret mission by the USS Viperfish to find a lost Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles in the great depths of the Pacific Ocean.
