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Gentlemen bastards : on the ground in Afghanistan with America's elite Special Forces
Describes how the focus of the Green Beret Special Forces in Afghanistan's has shifted over a period of nine years, from the offensive raids of the early occupation to their later training of Afghan security forces and assistance in building a new government.
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The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces
As a result of new strategic threats, Europe's land forces are currently undergoing a historic transformation which may reflect wider processes of European integration. Europe's mass, mainly conscript armies are being replaced by smaller, more capable, professionalised militaries concentrated into new operational headquarters and rapid reaction brigades, able to plan, command, and execute global military interventions. At the same time, these headquarters and brigades are co-operating with each other across national borders at a level which would have been inconceivable in the twentieth century. As a result, a transnational military network is appearing in Europe, the forces in which are converging on common forms of military expertise. This book is a groundbreaking study of the military dimensions of European integration, which have been largely ignored until now. It will appeal to scholars across the social sciences interested in the progress of the European project, and the nature of the military today.
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Understanding cyber conflict : 14 analogies
Analogies help us think, learn, and communicate. The fourteen case studies in this volume help readers make sense of contemporary cyber conflict through historical analogies to past military-technological problems. The chapters are divided into three groups. The first--What Are Cyber Weapons Like?--examines the characteristics of cyber capabilities and how their use for intelligence gathering, signaling, and precision strike compares with earlier technologies for such missions. The second section--What Might Cyber Wars Be Like?--explores how lessons from several wars since the early 19th century, including the World Wars, could apply or not apply to cyber conflict in the 21st century. The final section--What Is Preventing and/or Managing Cyber Conflict Like?--offers lessons from 19th and 20th century cases of managing threatening actors and technologies.
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Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945
Allied Fighting Effectiveness is a collection of scholarly papers focusing on a variety of different aspects of the major campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy, ranging from operation TORCH to the end of the war in Europe.
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The elite : the A-Z of modern special operations forces
\"Created by a world leader in modern Special Forces with access to some of the most secretive elite units, this book provides a fascinating overview of Special Forces units around the world, including the SAS and Delta Force.\"-- Amazon.com.
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Classification, military applications, and opportunities of unmanned aerial vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are cutting-edge technologies used for military purposes world-wide at tactical, operational, and strategic levels. This study provides an overview of the history and current state of military drones, considering a global and Ecuadorian background. Then, a classification of the UAVs developed and built in Ecuador is conducted based on their endurance, altitude, and wing span to understand the national context and progress. The research also delves into the applications of UAVs in several military operations and missions, aiming to create a framework that aligns UAV capabilities with specific operational needs; this permits the identification of the challenges and opportunities the country faces. Unmanned aerial systems have changed the battlefield, and the government needs to adapt to a national strategy that incorporates this technology; this research analyzes and provides insights to improve military capabilities such as exploring modern UAV military applications, technical updates in communication, navigation, and data acquisition systems; and the integration of emerging technologies like smart materials, artificial intelligence, and electric propulsion systems. This study provides valuable insights into the Ecuadorian UAVs that enhance the country’s military operations and offer some applications and uses of this technology for national security.
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The Collaborative Fight
The beautiful picture of brothers in arms vanquishing a tyrant.
The power of a well-orchestrated army and navy winning historic
battles. Overwhelming military might and ability through teamwork.
This is how the US military services portray themselves to the
public and to their own service members through official doctrine.
However, under the veneer of jointness, deeply fraught processes
are at play. Frequently, the services think more about protecting
organizational turf than about national security and maintaining an
advantage against the United States' external adversaries. Uniting
US military services is a difficult endeavor that becomes even more
so the farther from a battlefield and the higher up the command
structure the unifying needs to happen.
In The Collaborative Fight , Paul R. Birch and Lina M.
Svedin examine cases of institutional jointness among US military
services from the late nineteenth century into the twenty-first
century. They draw actionable conclusions for practitioners in the
defense establishment while giving examples of successful joint
cooperation that overcame the difficulties inherent in pursuing it.
Even the successful cases that Birch and Svedin discuss show that
the US military services face bureaucratic incentives and
organizational leadership issues that make battlefield cooperation
less than ideal.
Birch and Svedin adeptly translate theory and history into
approaches useful to practitioners in the field while examining the
theoretical framework outlining the drivers in joint military
cooperation.
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Spirit mission : a novel
\"Flying across Iraq in a stolen helicopter, Army Lieutenant Colonel Sam Avery knows that tonight will be his last mission. He and his crew will either be shot down by ISIS, or court-martialed when they return. Sam doesn't care. He can't care--there is too much at stake\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare
A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about \"strategic\" bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on--and gained validity from--widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from the social and political context of the day and were maintained largely through cognitive error and bias. Tami Davis Biddle explains how air theorists, and those influenced by them, came to believe that strategic bombing would be an especially effective coercive tool and how they responded when their assumptions were challenged. Biddle analyzes how a particular interpretation of the World War I experience, together with airmen's organizational interests, shaped interwar debates about strategic bombing and preserved conceptions of its potentially revolutionary character. This flawed interpretation as well as a failure to anticipate implementation problems were revealed as World War II commenced. By then, the British and Americans had invested heavily in strategic bombing. They saw little choice but to try to solve the problems in real time and make long-range bombing as effective as possible. Combining narrative with analysis, this book presents the first-ever comparative history of British and American strategic bombing from its origins through 1945. In examining the ideas and rhetoric on which strategic bombing depended, it offers critical insights into the validity and robustness of those ideas--not only as they applied to World War II but as they apply to contemporary warfare.
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