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This collection includes seven of the most famous military texts of ancient China. Highlighted by Sun Tzu's the Art of War, this new translation brings to light several texts that display an understanding of strategy and warfare that still has relevance millennia after their original publication. From the 11th-century AD onward, these texts became required reading for Chinese military officers.
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Jehan Morel, experimentado soldado y estudioso de la ciencia militar, expone el intrigante mundo de la guerra de guerrilla y contraguerrilla en este libro absorbente. Basándose en su pericia y experiencia de primera mano en la Indochina francesa y África Central, ha creado un manual parcialmente práctico y un examen en parte histórico de los principales movimientos geopolíticos contemporáneos.
Usando una lupa distintiva no occidental, analiza...
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A comprehensive guide for the ultimate guardians of American freedom-the U.S. soldier.
The Soldier's Guide applies to every soldier in the Army-active, reserve, and National Guard-in every rank and specialty. It condenses important information from a number of U.S. Army regulations, field manuals, and other publications into one crucial volume. This manual describes the soldier's role in the Army and the soldier's obligations. Other subject areas...
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Este diálogo entre el Hagakure y El arte de la guerra nos invita a reflexionar sobre la forma en que Japón y China han condensado su saber sobre la figura del guerrero y las diversas formas en que uno debe conducirse por la vida para alcanzar sus objetivos. Veremos que estos textos poseen muchos puntos en común, pero me gustaría remarcar primero que para estos pueblos el guerrero es, ante todo, un héroe. En su origen griego, la palabra "héroe"...
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This concise history chronicles the role of military recon, from the ancient warfare of Greeks and Romans to the operations of modern scout snipers. Since the earliest recorded military history, scouting and reconnaissance have been key tools for military commanders in order to make tactical decisions. As military strategy, weapons, and equipment developed over the centuries, methods of scouting and reconnaissance evolved as well but were never discarded.
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Staff Sergeant Melvin Morris is an honored veteran of the Vietnam War. He served almost 30 years in the United States Army and was even part of a Special Forces Group. Brave and excelling at his career in the military, Morris would do two tours of duty in Vietnam before retiring in 1985.
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Caesar portrayed his invasion of Gaul as being a defensive pre-emptive action. Most historians agree that the wars were, fought primarily to boost Caesar's political career and to pay off his massive debts. Even so, Gaul was extremely important to Rome, as they had been, attacked many times by the Gauls. Conquering Gaul allowed Rome to secure the natural border of the river Rhine. Caesar painstakingly describes his military campaign, and this is still...
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First published in 1911, this vintage book contains an fascinating account of how British cavalry was influenced by German practices and techniques at the turn of the twentieth century.
Contents include: "Introductory", "Sir John French on", "The Arme Blanche", "The British Theory of The Arme Blanche", "Cavalry In Combat", "Tactics Against The Various Arms", "The Fight Of The Independent Cavalry", "Tactics Against The Various Arms", "The Fight Of...
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Outgunned and outmanned on the Pacific Ocean, a small American fleet defied the odds and turned the tide of World War II On the morning of June 4, 1942, doom sailed on Midway. Hoping to put itself within striking distance of Hawaii and California, the Japanese navy planned an ambush that would obliterate the remnants of the American Pacific fleet. On paper, the Americans had no chance of winning. They had fewer ships, slower fighters, and almost no...
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From award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis comes a blistering account of one of the most daring raids of WWII-and the top-secret weapon that changed the course of history . . .
In the winter of 1941, as Britain faced defeat on all fronts, an RAF reconnaissance pilot photographed an alien-looking object on the French coast near Le Havre. The mysterious device-a "Wurzburg Dish"-appeared to be a new form of radar technology: ultra-compact, highly...
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Collected here in one omnibus edition are Niccolò Machiavelli's most import works, The Art of War and The Prince. It was Niccolò Machiavelli who essentially removed ethics from government. He did it with The Prince, when he asserted that The Prince (president, dictator, prime minister, etc.) does not have to be concerned with ethics, as long as their motivation is to protect the state. It is this questionable belief that in many ways had lead to...
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Firearms technology dominates the modern day battlefield, but how did the earliest guns affect battles in the Middle Ages? From their earliest incarnations in the 14th Century – which were as much a danger to their operator as they were to the enemy – to the muskets and breech-loading rifles of the 19th century, Piers Platt traces the technological advancements that revolutionized weapons, and how infantry tactics were forced to evolve as new...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la batalla de Azincourt, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Comprender el origen de la guerra de los Cien Años y de las constantes luchas de poder que se instalan entre Francia e Inglaterra, que desembocan en la batalla de Azincourt
• Seguir las estrategias de ambos bandos y analizar los errores y...
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Written by Hoepner's chief of staff on the Eastern Front, this military biography of the German WWII general is available in English for the first time.
This biography of Erich Hoepner was written by Walter Chales de Beaulieu, a general staff officer who fought alongside him. It examines his leadership of panzer formations in Poland in 1939, France in 1940, and Russia in 1941. Hoepner was one of the most competent tank commanders of World War II,...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la bataille d'Azincourt en moins d'une heure !
Le 25 octobre 1415, par un matin pluvieux, deux armées se font face. Les pieds enfoncés dans la boue, Anglais et Français s'observent depuis quelques heures déjà. Seule une centaine de mètres les séparent. Ils sont sur le point d'engager une bataille qui marquera durablement l'histoire.
Tout en nous plongeant au cœur de ce conflit majeur de la...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la batalla de Poitiers, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Analizar la evolución de la conquista musulmana en Occidente y las bases del sistema carolingio que Carlos Martel aprovechará para imponer su autoridad como príncipe de los francos
• Descubrir los pasos de los árabes en su camino hacia...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la batalla de las Termópilas, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Entender en qué consiste la amenaza del Imperio persa en un contexto en el que Grecia, organizada en ciudades, se encuentra tremendamente dividida
• Conocer la estrategia que implementa Grecia, con Leónidas a la cabeza y en inferioridad...
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