Tag: Military

Frederick the Great A Military Life


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English | ISBN: 1138924652 | 2015 | 446 pages | EPUB, PDF | 56 MB + 34 MB
For tactical and strategic ingenuity, for daring and ruthless determination and the capacity to inspire troops, Frederick the Great was without equal. In this detailed life of ‘Old Fritz’, Christopher Duffy, who has written widely on the army of Frederick and on the armies of his adversaries, Austria and Russia, has produced a definitive account of his military genius.

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Combat Shotguns (Greenhill Military Manuals)


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Greenhill Books / Stackpole Books | 2002 | ISBN: 1853675156 | English | 152 pages | PDF | 114.01 MB
The combat shotgun is one of the most devastating yet most misunderstood close combat weapons. A great intimidator, the combat shotgun is widely used my military and police units for crowd control. The shotgun is also quite versatile, capable of acting as a short range countersniper weapon with rifled slugs, a delivery system for a "funnel of death" with buckshot, a door remover in counterterrorist operations, a launcher for tear gas or other chemical munitions, or a method of accurately firing less-lethal munitions. This book traces the history of the combat shotgun, specialized tactics for its usage, the myriad ammunition choices, and the wealth of combat shotguns available to the military or police operator.

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7 Seconds to Die A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting


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English | February 3, 2022 | ISBN: 1636241239 | 160 pages | PDF | 7.93 Mb
The first full analysis of the second Nagorno-Karabakh War―the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems.

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The Territorials 1908-1914 A Guide for Military and Family Historians


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English | 2012 | ISBN: 1848843607 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 4.8 mb
The Territorials 1908-1914 is a unique, comprehensive record of the part-time soldiers who made up the Territorial Force that supported the regular army in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War. Previously information on the history and organization of these dedicated amateur soldiers has been incomplete and scattered across many sources but now, in this invaluable work of reference, Ray Westlake provides an accessible introduction to the Territorial Force and a directory of the units raised in each county and each town.

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The Armenian Military in the Byzantine Empire. Conflict and Alliance Under Justinian and Maurice


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2014 | 149 Pages | ISBN: 2917329599 | PDF | 9 MB
Second, revised and expanded edition. This book brings to light one of the least known, yet most turbulent periods in the history of the Armenian military and its complex relationship with the Byzantine Empire. In its first part, Armen Ayvazyan embarks on a military-historical analysis of the Armenian uprising against Emperor Justinian’s government in 538-539. While revealing and evaluating various tactical elements and stratagems employed by the Armenian forces, he carefully considers earlier and later evidence regarding their military operations, including both conventional warfare and high risk missions such as targeting killings of enemy commanders-in-chief and assassination Descriptions against the heads of colonial administrations. And in the second part, Ayvazyan examines the Byzantine attitudes towards the Armenians and their armed forces, revealing, inter alia, that the underlying source for continuity of the anti-Armenian images with the analogous Roman tradition of prejudice was essentially geopolitical.

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