Military engineering

The Katana, a symbol of Japanese culture and martial arts, is not merely a simple sword but a reflection of Japan's history, philosophy, and craftsmanship.

Considered to be "e;the god of modern war"e; by the Soviet army, artillery played a vital role in the Cold War period.

This ambitious work which took the better part of a decade to produce will be essential reading for all serious defence study students, and of absorbing interest to military professionals and lay people concerned with the future of warfare and all aspects of response to military attack.

William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerston's extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century.

The Winchester Rifle, the iconic gun made in New Haven, Connecticut, and sold in its hundreds of thousands around the world, mirrors American expansion at a key period in the young country's history.

The British Empire, the largest empire in history, was fundamentally a maritime one.

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first truly global conflicts.

Beginning with the chapters on warfare in the first three volumes of the New Cambridge Modern History, Sir John Hale's writings on the subject present an original and rich assessment of war's place in Renaissance life and thought.

This reader provides authoritative and thought-provoking pieces of War Studies scholarship in an accessible form.

Same Colt!

Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.

In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "e;stories"e; about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2.

Thorough examination of the antebellum fortifications that formed the backbone of U.

In the Persian Gulf War, Americans of all races fought in integrated units under the leadership of the first African-American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Attempts to answer difficult questions about battle tactics employed by the United States Army Weapons improved rapidly after the Civil War, raising difficult questions about the battle tactics employed by the United States Army.

In the past decade, the United States has rapidly deployed militarized drones in theaters of war for surveillance as well as targeted killing.

The theory that put victory in the skies.

A military history study that traces the development of precision guided munitions from World War I through the Gulf War, examining how advances in weapons technology reshaped air power, military strategy, and U.

For much of the nation's history, the participation of blacks in the armed forces was ap-proximately in line with their proportion in the total population.

Includes two new chapters!

The U.

According to Robin Higham and Stephen J.

The tank revolutionized the battlefield in World War II.

The U.

Same Colt!

Intrigued by hints of ';the bigger man' behind the war personality of Gen.

Technical artist and military historian George Bradford has been producing detailed drawings of armored fighting vehicles for over thirty years.

Filled with fine-scale drawings of Russian armored fighting vehicles including:*; T-34 Model 1940*; BA-64B Model 1943 Light Armored Car*; BT-7 (Model 1937 Fast Tank)*; SU-76i (on Pz.

A top-selling reference now updated and revised to include new and changed terminology of the U.

Technical artist and military historian George Bradford has been producing detailed drawings of armored fighting vehicles for over thirty years.

Filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, and Romania.

Filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from the U.

While, over the last 30 years, the global economy's center of gravity has shifted to East Asia, the region has remained surprisingly free of interstate military conflict.

Intervention in armed conflicts is full of riddles that await attention from scholars and policymakers.

"e;An outstanding work.

An estimated 3,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel currently volunteer to serve in the Israeli military, a force fighting other Palestinians just miles away in occupied territories.

Steele and his comrades expected war to be a glorious adventure, their personal intersection with events of historic importance.

Although the RMA has been the subject of much discussion in the United States for over a decade, it has not received the same level of analytic attention in Canada and other NATO and allied countries.

Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience.

Basing his study on some two-hundred-and-fifty German novels, memoirs, fictionalized histories, and films (including Das Boot), Michael Hadley examines the popular image of the German submarine and weighs the values, purposes, and perceptions of German writers and film makers.

How War, Pornography, and Fast Food Have Shaped Modern TechnologyGuns, Germs, and Steel meets the age of technology in this rollicking history of how our pursuit of lust, gluttony, and rage has led to our greatest technological advancements.

The Civil Wars single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so weve been told for years.

An informative study of how corporations, governments, and individuals are perfecting the ability to monitor and sabotage Internet infrastructure.

An invaluable addition to the literature on UAV guidance and cooperative control, Cooperative Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is a dedicated, practical guide to computational path planning for UAVs.

An invaluable addition to the literature on UAV guidance and cooperative control, Cooperative Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is a dedicated, practical guide to computational path planning for UAVs.

Ballistic Materials and Penetration Mechanics deals with ballistically protective materials and penetration mechanics.

Windship Technology, Part A contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on Windship Technology (WINDTECH '85), held at the University of Southampton, England, on April 24-25, 1985.

This volume is the only current treatment of security issues in Central Asia for the nonspecialist, as well as specialists and policy-makers.

This selected bibliography on modern European fortifications, from 1850 to 1950, provides a selection of the most important books and articles written on this topic.