Military engineering

The fascinating true story of the controversial development and deployment of the supersonic fighter jet that changed aerial warfare foreverThe McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet was born in 1978, a state-of-the-art supersonic fighter and attack aircraft with a top speed of Mach 1.

The story of the HMS Hood, the last great warship of the British Royal Navy, told by the bestselling author of Hannibal.

The evolution of the battleship through centuries of war, told by a nautical expert and author of The Mighty Hood.

Ten major wars and two hundred minor actions comprise the history of the United States Marine Corps, and parallel the history of America itself.

This book consists of fifteen cartoons inspired by an 1866 Harpers Weekly article about the hypothetical length of the Thirty Years War at different periods in time and extending into the future when both sides had developed the ultimate weapons to end all wars.

The first two volumes of this outstanding history of Canada's defence and foreign policy have drawn unanimous acclaim from scholars and critics alike.

In Defence of Canada: Appeasement and Rearmament is a companion and sequel to Eayrs' In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression (Toronto 1964).

Since the dramatic end of the Pacific War in 1945 the threat of nuclear war has exercised the minds of many.

Admiral Gorshkov has transformed the Soviet fleet into a world sea power for the first time in Russian history.

European Security: Nuclear or Conventional Defence?

Prospects for Peace is an eight-chapter text that focuses on the issues and controversies in the so-called global peace.

Centralized and Automatic Controls in Ships provide a non-mathematical basic introduction to the subject of control engineering applied in the marine field.

Radio Remote-Control and Telemetry and their Application to Missiles provide information pertinent to the developments in the design of remote-control and telemetry equipment.

Ship Fire Prevention provides an introduction to fire prevention methods in ships.

Electronic Warfare: Element of Strategy and Multiplier of Combat Power describes how the application of electronic warfare allowed the Allies to multiply combat power during World War II in order to accomplish strategic objectives.

Marine Engineering Series: Marine Electrical Practice, Sixth Edition focuses on changes in the marine industry, including the application of programmable electronic systems, generators, and motors.

Strategic Military Deception explains the nature of deception, its processes, and the elements and conditions when a person used and succeeds at deception.

The Genesis of New Weapons: Decision Making for Military R&D covers the meeting held to convene military officers, civilian managers of R&D programs, and members of the research groups in industry and get insights from them regarding the decision-making process for initiation and carrying out of R&D programs.

Ship Stabilizers: The Design and Operation in Correcting the Rolling of Ships presents the working principles and operation of various types of gyrocompasses and automatic pilots.

Defense Manpower Planning discusses the important set of national security issues related to defense manpower for the 1980s.

Monitoring Underground Nuclear Explosions focuses on the checking of underground nuclear explosions, including the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTB), seismological stations, earthquake-source models, and seismicity.

Toward a Consensus on Military Service: Report of the Atlantic Council's Working Group on Military Service examines the experience and prospects of the U.

Soviet Military Strategy in Europe focuses on the development, form and content, implications for international relations, and goal of Soviet military plan in Europe.

Marine Gyro-Compasses and Automatic Pilots, A Handbook for Merchant Navy Officers: Volume Two, Automatic Pilots is a reference book describing automatic pilots and ancillary equipment that are normally used in British Merchant Ships.

Proliferation, Plutonium and Policy/Institutional and Technological Impediments to Nuclear Weapons Propagation provides a comprehensive account of the political and technological aspects of nuclear weapons proliferation.

Marine Combustion Practice reviews developments in marine combustion practice and covers topics ranging from combustion equipment for boilers to diesel injection equipment, nuclear reactors, and the use of natural gas in marine boilers.

Why ABM?

Great Power Competition for Overseas Bases: The Geopolitics of Access Diplomacy explores the geopolitics of the major powers' overseas basing systems in relation to global strategies and changes in the international system in three fairly distinct phases: the interwar, early postwar, and recent postwar periods.

Muckle's Naval Architecture, Second Edition is concerned with problems related to resistance, propulsion, and vibration in naval architecture.

Introduction to Marine Engineering explains the operation of all the ship's machinery, with emphasis on correct, safe operating procedures and practices at all times.

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

Notes on Instrumentation and Control presents topics on pressure (i.

Pounder's Marine Diesel Engines, Sixth Edition focuses on developments in diesel engines.

Naval Architecture for Marine Engineers focuses on resistance, propulsion, and vibration aspects of ships.

Introduction to Marine Engineering discusses machineries and related equipment in ships.

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

Radar and Electronic Navigation, Sixth Edition discusses radar in marine navigation, underwater navigational aids, direction finding, the Decca navigator system, and the Omega system.

Marine Steam Boilers: Fourth Edition deals with the involved concepts, parts and construction, usage and maintenance, and the future direction of steam boilers.

Radar and ARPA Manual focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of electronic navigation.

Marine Engineering Series: Marine Steam Turbines and Engines, Fourth Edition deals with the principles behind how turbines and engines function, how they progressed over the years, and how they operate.

Marine Engineering Series: Marine Control Practice deals with the instrumentation and its associated control systems that are found onboard ships.

Marine Auxiliary Machine: Sixth Edition explains the correct operation and maintenance of marine auxiliary machinery.

Bretnor covers "e;Vulnerability and the Equations of War,"e; "e;Destructive Forces and the Equations of War,"e; "e;Time and the Equations of War,"e; "e;The Critical Imbalance,"e; and "e;The Optimum Response.

In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to existential danger.

In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "e;supersoldiers"e; capable of withstanding extreme trauma.

Militarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon.

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It was not Robert Oppenheimer who built the bomb--it was engineers, chemists and young physicists in their twenties, many not yet having earned a degree.

From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.

From the very earliest days of organized warfare, combatants have wanted to develop weapons with more firepower.