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Free Download Ralph Payne-Gallwey – The Crossbow: Its Military and Sporting History, Construction and Use
Merlin Unwin Books | 2007 | ISBN: 1873674074 | English | 404 pages | PDF | 152.95 MB
This Unique Exploration of a weapon used for centuries will fascinate historians and enthusiasts alike. This crossbow, probably forst introduced to England by the Norman invaders in 1066, was once considered so barbarous that it was prohibited as a "weapon hateful to God and unfit for Christians." Tey it successfully defended many an early Briton and its present-day corollaries are used by sportsmen everywhere. Here you will find a comparison of military and sporting crossbow and their dimensions, components, and ranges; hard-to-find information on crossbow construction; details about modern crossbows, such as the popinjay; and the Chinese repeating crossbow. Also carefully considered are the weapons from which the crossbow is thought to have been adapted, including the ballista and similar siege engines. Comprehensively illustrated with original drawings and selections from historical manuscripts, this is an essential reference for the historian, weapon connoisseur, or crossbowman.

Free Download Jaime G. Duenas, "Evaluting Military Compensation "
English | ISBN: 1607414767 | 2009 | 85 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book evaluates military compensation. To attract and retain the military personnel it needs, the Department of Defense (DOD) must offer a competitive compensation package – one that adequately rewards service members for the rigors of military life. After reenlistment rates declined in the late 1990’s, lawmakers and the DOD began increasing cash and non-cash elements of military compensation. In 2000, for example, they authorised that basic pay for service members would rise 0.5 percentage points faster that wages in the civilian sector through 2006. Housing allowances and other compensation were also increased. This book looks at compensation for the 83 percent of active-duty U.S. service members who are enlisted personnel. It considers various ways to measure military compensation and examines common methods of, and problems with, comparing that compensation with pay and benefits in the civilian sector. The analysis also explores the connection between the components of military compensation and the military’s recruiting and retention of personnel. It also discusses possible options to make the military compensation system visible to service members and decision-makers more efficient.

Free Download Kill Box: Military Drone Systems and Cultural Production (Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society) by Alex Adams
English | December 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 1538189828 | 166 pages | True EPUB | 1.25 MB
Drone warfare represents one of the most pressing moral and political problems of contemporary military ethics. Since the beginning of the American drone program in the late twentieth century, drone technologies have been used to conduct remote extrajudicial assassinations, to violate national sovereignty, and to conduct intrusive surveillance in contravention of international human rights norms, among other controversial uses. Today, military drones are used by dozens of military forces. As such, these technologies pose urgent questions which problematize well-established ways of thinking about central aspects of the ethics of warfare, such as justice, sovereignty, battlefield trauma, the political and physical limits of conflict, and, perhaps most prominently of all, the legitimacy of military violence. Though some of these concerns are well-worn, their central role in – and reconfiguration by – drone warfare means that they deserve serious reconsideration.

Free Download Samuel E. Fleischer, "Measuring China’s Military Might "
English | ISBN: 1608768465 | 2010 | 141 pages | PDF | 32 MB
This volume focuses on the potential implications of China’s naval modernization for future required US Navy capabilities. Moreover, China’s new phase of military development is discussed, by articulating roles and missions for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) that go beyond China’s immediate territorial interests.

Free Download Home Military Survival Hacks: Proven Special Operations Defense Tactics to Transform Your Home into a Fortress Against Any Crisis
by Delmer Vyncent
English | December 12, 2024 | ASIN: B0DQFMBJTD | 103 pages | PDF | 39 Mb

Free Download Helene Sjursen, "Civilian or Military Power?: European Foreign Policy in Perspective"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0415380480, 0415568536 | EPUB | pages: 172 | 0.6 mb
This text critically examines the belief that the EU not only has an impact on the international system but also a ‘normative’, ‘civilian’ and ‘civilizing’ power. The contributors question whether this assertion fits with the empirical record or is merely based on anecdotal evidence and whether there is a theoretical basis for the expectation of a ‘normative’ or ‘civilizing’ power. Moving the research agenda forward, the book establishes criteria and assessment standards for examining the EU’s international role and its putative normative dimension. Such an endeavour is particularly important against the backdrop of recent developments in European security and defence. The acquisition of military means, or the EU’s ambition to acquire such means, might weaken at least the argument that the EU is a ‘civilian’ power and could provoke a shift towards a policy more akin to traditional ‘great powers.’

Free Download David R Mares, EDITOR , "Civil-military Relations: Building Democracy And Regional Cooperation In Latin America, Southern Asia, And Central Europe"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0813324211, 081332422X | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.7 mb
With the end of the Cold War the attention of policymakers, political activists, and academics has focused on the factors which promote democracy and regional peace. From both a theoretical and empirical perspective, the contributors to this volume examine the claim that civilian domination is the only form compatible with democracy and regional peace. By focusing on political values and the institutional rules of politics, the authors not only dispute this claim but clarify the conditions under which a partnership between civilians and the military can help promote both. The authors provide in-depth analyses of the normative and institutional aspects of the civil-military relationship to demonstrate that it is the politics of the relationship rather than its form that influences the likelihood of democracy and regional peace. Their analysis provides new reasons for expecting that democracy and regional peace can proliferate in the post-Cold War world.As a study of civil-military relations in twelve countries across Latin America, Asia, and Europe, Civil-Military Relations is an accessible and valuable book for policymakers, academics, and general readers.

Free Download Katarzyna Maksymiuk, Ilkka Syvanne, "The Military History of the Third Century Iran"
English | 2018 | pages: 151 | ISBN: 837051894X | PDF | 4,2 mb

Free Download Hidden Secrets of American Military Strategy and Tactics: The Historical Secret and Perspective You Were Never Told
by The Ghost Wryter
English | October 30, 2024 | ASIN: B0DLLNCT48 | 372 pages | PDF | 164 Mb

Free Download Jerry Laurienti, "The U.S. Military and Human Rights Promotion: Lessons from Latin America"
English | 2007 | pages: 201 | ISBN: 0275999386 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Many years before the U.S. military had to deal with the repercussions of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the U.S. armed forces were vigorously engaged in helping their Latin American counterparts to recognize the strategic imperatives of respecting human rights on the battlefield. Before Iraqi accusations of massacre at Haditha forced the U.S. military to again scramble to defend its honor and reputation, U.S. forces in Latin America were more than a decade into repairing their image after taking the blame for numerous human rights crises. Indeed, U.S. military relations with Latin America are at the center of numerous academic and policy debates, particularly regarding U.S. military assistance and its impact on human rights and broader democratic development. Until now, however, no book has focused on determining whether the U.S. military could serve as a primary source of human rights promotion. Meanwhile, U.S. military human rights promotion efforts in Latin America have become central to the Department of Defense Strategic Engagement Plan since the end of the Cold War.