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Nigeria in Search of a Stable Civil-Military System


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367019094 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 1.2 mb
This book is a critical study of the evolution and conduct of military government as well as civil-military relations in Nigeria since 1970, examining the essentially military clauses of both the draft and final Constitution drawn up for post-1979 Nigeria.

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Losing Small Wars British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan


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English | ISBN: 0300166710 | 2011 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 733 KB
Partly on the strength of their apparent success in insurgencies such as Malaya and Northern Ireland, the British armed forces have long been perceived as world class, if not world beating. However, their recent performance in Iraq and Afghanistan is widely seen as-at best-disappointing; under British control Basra degenerated into a lawless city riven with internecine violence, while tactical mistakes and strategic incompetence in Helmand Province resulted in heavy civilian and military casualties and a climate of violence and insecurity. In both cases the British were eventually and humiliatingly bailed out by the US army.

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Dimensions of Western Military Intervention


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English | 2002 | ISBN: 0714682489 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.5 mb
Military intervention to protect civilians in danger has emerged as a key challenge for the West. This book explores the West’s reaction to these challenges and some of the limits on its actions.

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Asia’s New Geopolitics Military Power and Regional Order (ISSN)


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English | 2021 | ASIN: B09HDV1KCZ | EPUB | pages: 230 | 1.2 mb
Intensifying geopolitical rivalries, rising defence spending and the proliferation of the latest military technology across Asia suggest that the region is set for a prolonged period of strategic contestation. None of the three competing visions for the future of Asian order – a US-led ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’, a Chinese-centred order, or the ASEAN-inspired ‘Indo-Pacific Outlook’ – is likely to prevail in the short to medium term. In the absence of a new framework, the risk of open conflict is heightened, and along with it the need for effective mechanisms to maintain peace and stability.

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Arms Production In Japan The Military Applications Of Civilian Technology


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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.

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A WASP Among Eagles A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II


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English | 2010 | ISBN: 1560988703, 1560988428 | EPUB | pages: 132 | 3.6 mb
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of them, Ann Baumgartner, was assigned to the Fighter Flight Test Branch at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. There she would make history as the only woman to test-fly experimental planes during the war and the first woman to fly a jet.

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‘Tis Not Our War Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (PDF)


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English | June 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 0811775380 | 457 pages | True PDF | 12.59 MB
James McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained "why men fought in the Civil War"-and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have explored why men did not fight. That’s the question Paul Taylor answers in this groundbreaking Civil War history that examines the reasons why at least 60 percent of service-eligible men in the North chose not to serve and why, to some extent, their communities allowed them to do so. Did these other men not feel the same patriotic impulses as their fellow citizens who rushed to the enlistment office? Did they not believe in the sanctity of the Union? Was freeing men held in chains under chattel slavery not a righteous moral crusade? And why did some soldiers come to regret their enlistment and try to leave the military?

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‘Tis Not Our War Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (EPUB)


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English | June 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 0811775380 | 456 pages | True EPUB | 7.94 MB
James McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained "why men fought in the Civil War"-and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have explored why men did not fight. That’s the question Paul Taylor answers in this groundbreaking Civil War history that examines the reasons why at least 60 percent of service-eligible men in the North chose not to serve and why, to some extent, their communities allowed them to do so. Did these other men not feel the same patriotic impulses as their fellow citizens who rushed to the enlistment office? Did they not believe in the sanctity of the Union? Was freeing men held in chains under chattel slavery not a righteous moral crusade? And why did some soldiers come to regret their enlistment and try to leave the military?

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The Second World War A Military History


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2010 | 624 Pages | ISBN: 1843548941 | EPUB | 5 MB
This is a landmark reassessment of the Second World War, of its origins and prosecution. It looks set to become the definitive single-volume military history. In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe, Soviet Russia and North Africa; the other against Japan in the Far East and Pacific. Each conflict had distinct causes and had to be fought in different ways against very different enemies, who rarely, if ever, coordinated their efforts. This is a new and cogent account of an immense, exhausting six-year conflict that continues to fascinate. Corrigan examines the agendas of the warring nations and offers fresh and vivid interpretations; Britain’s own part in the war comes in for particularly close scrutiny: militarily, the British suffered an agonising series of defeats before the tide turned. The country emerged economically broken, with the loss of her empire a virtual certainty. "The Second World War" is vast in its erudition and epic in its execution. It will change forever the way we think about the titanic conflicts that dominated the years 1939 to 1945. It is suitable for fans of Gordon Corrigan’s "Mud, Blood and Poppycock" and "Blood, Sweat and Arrogance", and Andrew Roberts’ "The Storm of War", as well as Anthony Beevor, Max Hastings, and Richard Holmes.

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The Samurai (General Military)


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English | 2016 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1472813723 | EPUB | 17,8 mb
The world of the samurai, the legendary, elite warrior cult of old Japan, has for too long been associated solely with military history and has remained a mystery. In this exciting new book, Stephen Turnbull, the world’s leading authority on the samurai, goes beyond the battlefield to paint a picture of the samurai as they really were. The world of the samurai warrior is revealed to be one of great richness, with familiar topics such as the cult of suicide, ritualized revenge, and the lore of the samurai sword, seen in the context of an all-encompassing warrior culture that was expressed through art and poetry as much as through violence.

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