Military engineering

In this fully illustrated ebook, TV's Dan Snow brings to life a cavalcade of medieval fortifications and allows the reader to experience the clashes up close.

With the end of the Cold War, the Department of Energy is engaged in a review of its policies regarding the classification of information.

Since the end of the Cold War, U.

The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis programs at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).

In Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare, David K.

In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P.

The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services.

The M16 was first introduced in 1958 and was revolutionary for its time as it was made of lightweight materials including special aluminum and plastics.

This book explores the attitudes of Polish migrants towards the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union and considers possible return migration trajectories that may result.

Making its debut in 1935, the Browning High-Power was the world's most widely used military pistol for much of the 20th century.

Before the twentieth century ships when relied upon visual signaling, vessels beyond range of sight or a cannon shot, were blind, deaf, and dumb in the dark, making night battles at sea rare, and near always accidental.

This is the remarkable story of an airplane that became a legend--with a sleek silhouette and bent wings, it doubled as a day and night fighter, could fly off carriers or from land, and served both as a dive bomber and reconnaissance plane.

In Leigh Armistead's second edited volume on warfare in the Information Age, the authors explore the hype over possibilities versus actuality in their analysis of Information Operations (IO) today.

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and carefully chosen photographs, this study charts the SVD Dragunov rifle's development, combat use and lasting legacy, from Vietnam to Syria.

Protecting the Empire's Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776.

The modern means of communication have turned the world into an information fishbowl and, in terms of foreign policy and national security in post-Cold War power politics, helped transform international power politics.

Since the 1990s, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have intervened in civil wars around the globe.

Your home is your castle, but could it withstand an attack by Attila and the Huns, Ragnar and the Vikings, Alexander and the Greeks, Genghis Khan and the Mongols, or Tamerlane and the Tartars?

In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P.

Recent advances in ultra-high-power lasers, including the free-electron laser, and impressive airborne demonstrations of laser weapons systems, such as the airborne laser, have shown the enormous potential of laser technology to revolutionize 21st century warfare.

A military study of the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan-the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems.

In recent years there have been reports of actions purportedly taken by People's Liberation Army (PLA) units without civilian authorization, and of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) civilian leaders seeking to curry favor with the military-suggesting that a nationalistic and increasingly influential PLA is driving more assertive Chinese policies on a range of military and sovereignty issues.

Naval warfare was confined for centuries to surface combat, or undersea clashes.

While the PP and PPK were intended for police work, the Walther P 38 was produced for the Germany military; all three pistols have garnered a formidable international reputation since the 1930s.

Handbook of Defence Electronics and Optronics Anil K.

Protecting the Empire's Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776.

This highly illustrated title details the history of the Panzer III throughout World War II, from its early development in the pre-war years, through its pivotal role in the Blitzkrieg campaigns in Poland and Western Europe, to its eventual obsolescence on the Eastern Front.

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

Developed to replace the Model 1892 Krag-J rgensen rifle, the Model 1903 Springfield was a five-shot bolt-action rifle that introduced the .

Recent advances in ultra-high-power lasers, including the free-electron laser, and impressive airborne demonstrations of laser weapons systems, such as the airborne laser, have shown the enormous potential of laser technology to revolutionize 21st century warfare.

Turbine Main Engines deals with the principle of operation of turbine main engines.

Following the 9/11 attacks, a war against al Qaeda by the U.

A compelling narrative of the largest land battle of its time, and the decisive engagement of the Russo-Japanese War.

Noted authority Steven J.

Military alliances provide constraints and opportunities for states seeking to advance their interests around the globe.

Space has been militarized for over four decades.

A lethal germ is unleashed in the U.

The M14 may have only been the primary US service rifle for a little over a decade before being replaced by the M16, but it is still considered by many experts to be the best rifle to ever see US service.

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Naval Analytical Capabilities assesses current Department of Defense initiatives and the Department of the Navy's progress in transitioning from a requirements-based to a capabilities-based organization.

Merchant Ship Stability presents the theory and application of methods for maintaining ship stability.

Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H.

Nazi Germany's MP 38 and MP 40 submachine guns are among World War II's most recognizable weapons.

"e;We were certainly pioneers as the Trieste was one of only two such vehicles in the world-the French Navy's bathyscaphe FNRS-3 was the other.

The science of small arms ballistics is seriously underdeveloped and underappreciated.

Designed by a motorcycle racer turned small-arms engineer, George Patchett, the submachine gun that eventually became known as the Sterling was developed during World War II.

The Department of Defense is in the process of transforming the nation'sarmed forces to meet the military challenges of the 21st century.

Drawing upon the considerable existing body of technical material related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed and assessed the key technical issues that arose during the Senate debate over treaty ratification.

Historian and systems engineer Lars Celander surveys the different types of drones, detailing their navigation, communication, sensor systems and weaponry.