Tag: Arms

Free Download The Hussite Wars 1419-36 (Men-at-Arms, 409) by Stephen Turnbull, Angus McBride
English | May 25, 2004 | ISBN: 1841766658 | 48 pages | MOBI | 26 Mb
In 1415, the judicial murder of the religious reformer Jan Hus sparked a major uprising in Bohemia. His death led within a few years to the ‘Hussite’ revolution against the monarchy, the German aristocracy and the Church establishment. For two decades the largely peasant Hussite armies successfully defied a series of international ‘crusades’; they owed many of their victories to the charismatic general Jan Zizka, and his novel tactical methods based on the use of ‘war wagons’. This remarkable episode in medieval warfare is remembered not only as the Czech national epic, but as an important forerunner to the wars of the Reformation the following century.

Free Download Neil Cooper, David Mutimer, "Reconceptualising Arms Control: Controlling the Means of Violence"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415849268, 0415688833 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 0.4 mb
The theory and practice of arms control seemed to have its heyday during the height of the Cold War, with its focus on the East-West conflict and nuclear arms. In the past twenty years, both arms technologies and various practices aimed at their control have continued to develop, but scholarly thinking has not kept up. This volume seeks to redress this scholarly neglect of the range of issues associated with the control of the means of violence, by asking the question: what does arms control mean in the 21st Century?

Free Download Rumela Sen, "Farewell to Arms: How Rebels Retire Without Getting Killed "
English | ISBN: 0197529879 | 2021 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
How, in the absence of institutional mechanisms, do Maoist rebels in India quit an ongoing insurgency without getting killed?

Free Download Arms and Influence (Veritas Paperbacks) by Thomas C. Schelling
English | March 17, 2020 | ISBN: 0300246749 | PDF | 336 pages | 15.2 MB
"This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing."-Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review

Free Download Reinhard Drifte, "Arms Production In Japan: The Military Applications Of Civilian Technology"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367160641, 0367010771 | EPUB | pages: 134 | 0.8 mb
This book presents an overview of Japan’s arms production capability to contribute to a better understanding of Japan’s economic success by highlighting a special segment of Japan’s industry that plays a major role in its future direction.

Free Download Wolfram F. Hanrieder, "Arms Control, The Frg, And The Future Of East-west Relations"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367163640, 0813373530 | EPUB | pages: 138 | 0.8 mb
This book explores the implications of arms control negotiations for the Federal Republic of Germany and considers why Germany has traditionally found it impossible to divorce considerations of arms control from their larger political context.

Free Download Richard Burt, "Arms Control And Defense Postures In The 1980s"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367168537 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 1.0 mb
This book explores problems of arms competition in the 1980s and stresses the need for a complete reassessment of U.S. security interests lest negotiations become curiously disconnected from defense policy. It explains the Soviet approach to integrating national security with arms control policies.

Free Download G. Pope Atkins, "Arms And Politics In The Dominican Republic"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0865311129, 0367168529, 0367018659 | EPUB | pages: 158 | 0.5 mb
This chronicle and interpretation of recent military and political events in the Dominican Republic analyzes the political behavior of the countryfs armed forces and scrutinizes policies put in action since the nation’s civil war and the subsequent U.S. intervention of 1965. Dr. Atkins covers the course of Joaquin Balaguer’s lengthy presidency, the remarkable events surrounding the 1978 election of President Antonio Guzman, and the first months of Guzman’s administration, with particular attention being given to the role of the armed forces in political processes. In describing the Dominican experience with arms and politics, Dr. Atkins notes that it is a case of noninstitutionalized civil-military relations revolving around the president, his key associates, and the officers of the military.

Free Download A.J.R. Cormack – Small Arms: Concise History of Their Development
Profile Publications | 1982 | ISBN: 0853830851 | English | 160 pages | PDF | 106.37 MB
Traces the development of pistols, revolvers, rifles, machine guns, and anti-tank weapons, explains how each type of firearm worked, and looks at future trends in small arms manufacture.

Free Download F. W Hackley – History of Modern U.S. Military Small Arms Ammunition Volume 1: 1880-1939
The Macmillan Company | 1967 | ISBN: N/A | English | 344 pages | PDF | 212.79 MB
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