Tag: Tactical

American Folk Music as Tactical Media


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English | ISBN: 9462984948 | 2017 | 200 pages | PDF | 832 KB
American folk music has long presented a problematic conception of authenticity, but the reality of the folk scene, and its relationship to media, is far more complicated. This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes of communication that can be uncovered from the long American folk revival. From Alan Lomax’s cybernetic visions to Bob Dylan’s noisy writing machines, this book retrieves a subterranean discourse on the concept of media that might help us to reimagine the potential of the networks in which we work, play, and sing.

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Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009364170 | 330 Pages | PDF | 5.3 MB
This book introduces a much-needed theory of tactical air power to explain air power effectiveness in modern warfare with a particular focus on the Vietnam War as the first and largest modern air war. Phil Haun shows how in the Rolling Thunder, Commando Hunt, and Linebacker air campaigns, independently air power repeatedly failed to achieve US military and political objectives. In contrast, air forces in combined arms operations succeeded more often than not. In addition to predicting how armies will react to a lethal air threat, he identifies operational factors of air superiority, air-to-ground capabilities, and friendly ground force capabilities, along with environmental factors of weather, lighting, geography and terrain, and cover and concealment in order to explain air power effectiveness. The book concludes with analysis of modern air warfare since Vietnam along with an assessment of tactical air power relevance now and for the future.

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Tactical Barbell Mass Protocol


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English | December 9th, 2018 | ISBN: 1999559312 | 162 pages | True AZW3 (Retail Copy) | 4.56 MB
Tactical Barbell I and II were initially written with a unique population in mind; tactical law enforcement and military special operations/combat-arms. Excessive mass can potentially be detrimental to this group.

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Tactical Barbell Green Protocol


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English | May 14th, 2022 | ISBN: 9798815193253 | 194 pages | True AZW3 (Retail Copy) | 2.15 MB
Green Protocol is a comprehensive strength & conditioning system for a specifictype of military athlete: the combat arms soldier. The term ‘combat arms’ refers to troops that engage in direct ground warfare: the infantry, special operations, recce, like that. The combat arms soldier is the ultimate hybrid athlete. At the elite end of the spectrum, he needs the endurance of an ultra runner coupled with the strength and structural integrity of a cyborg. These qualities have to coexist to some degree for any combat arms role on the spectrum.

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Tactical Defensive Training for Real-Life Encounters


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Paladin Press | 2003 | ISBN: 1581604270 | English | 192 pages | PDF | 33.14 MB
Even though this book also deals with firearms and bladed weapons, and it is targeted towards Law Enforcement – it is equally valid for anyone interested in self-defense. In short: It is a great book about awareness, preparation, common sense, self-preservation and self-defense – armed or unarmed.

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2nd Tactical Air Force Volume Two Breakout to Bodenplatte, July 1944 to January 1945 (2024)


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Classic Publications | 2005 | ISBN: 1903223415 | English | 193 pages | PDF | 152.82 MB
It is more than 30 years since the original and highly-acclaimed history of 2nd Tactical Air Force was first published, and this book has long been out of print. Now at last a completely rewritten and greatly expanded account of this important command’s vital contribution to the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of the forces of the Third Reich in Western Europe has been prepared. The 2nd TAF which, equipped with rocket- and bomb-carrying Typhoons and Tempests, Spitfires, Mosquitos, Mustangs and medium bombers, flew ground attack and tank-busting missions in support of Montgomery’s 21st Army Group as it advanced through Normandy and north-west Europe in 1944-45.

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