Автор: Bruce LaFontaine
Издательство: Dover Publications
Год издания: 2001
isbn: 0486415503
Количество страниц: 45
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Carefully researched, meticulously rendered illustrations of remarkable women who played significant roles in aviation history, among them Eileen Collins, the first woman space shuttle commander; American astronaut Shannon Lucid, assigned to the Russian MIR space station; Sally Ride, the first American woman in space; Russian Valentina Tereshikova, the first woman in space; and Amelia Earhart, who made a solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932. Captions provide historic and biographical information.
Автор: Andrew J. Birtle
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год издания: 2006
Количество страниц: 588
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942-1976, is the second installment in the two-volume study on the U.S. Army's experience in "small war" situations and the development of low-intensity conflict doctrine. As the U.S. government wrestles with tough questions on how to bring peace and stability to countries torn by internal strife, Andrew J. Birtle provides context for these concerns by describing how the United States attempted to suppress insurgencies and build nations during the Cold War. Employing a range of primary and secondary sources, Birtle explains how the Army in the 1950s and 1960s developed a dual strategy that combined military measures with political and socioeconomic reforms. On the military side, he states, doctrine advocated aggressive offensive operations, elaborate intelligence networks, and extensive security measures to drive the guerrillas away from inhabited areas and to secure the population from rebel influence and intimidation. On the civil side, Birtle continues, doctrine called for the implementation of measures to restore the norms of social and economic life; to establish efficient and popular government; and to redress, when possible, the causes of unrest. Birtle uses case studies of counterinsurgency wars in Greece, Korea, the Philippines, Latin America, and Vietnam to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's approach to counterinsurgency. Although the United States' counterinsurgency record was mixed, Birtle shows that the precepts underpinning U.S. doctrine have remained surprisingly constant over the years. By furnishing an in-depth look at how the Army performed its counterinsurgency and nation-building responsibilities during a previous era of global instability, Birtle sheds some needed light on the work that must be done today and tomorrow.
Автор: Andrew J. Birtle
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год издания: 2009
Количество страниц: 334
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1860-1941, is the first of a two-volume study on the U.S. Army's experience in "small war" situations and the development of low-intensity conflict doctrine. Focusing on the suppression of insurgent or other irregular forces during overseas constabulary and contingency operations from the Civil War years up to America's entry into World War II, Andrew J. Birtle has filled an important omission in military historiography by writing about the underlying theories, concepts, and methods employed in the conduct of myriad unconventional missions with soldiers serving as governors, constables, judges, diplomats, explorers, colonizers, educators, administrators, and engineers. Even though official, codified, written doctrine for counterguerrilla, pacification, and nation-building activities prior to World War II has long been viewed as nonexistent, Birtle uncovers through his meticulous research an evidentiary thread of continuity in the Army's performance and thus maintains that some of the central principles governing such operations were indeed incorporated into official Army doctrinal literature. The events discussed unquestionably occurred long ago, but many of the issues raised by Birtle have enduring relevance for today's Army. People, places, and events may change, yet the fundamental questions involved in suppressing insurrections, fighting irregulars, administering civilian populations, and conducting foreign intervention remain surprisingly constant in this unpredictable world of ethnic tensions and turmoil. By studying how soldiers dealt with these complex issues in the past, Birtle's well-written account offers valuable insights to guide current and future soldiers when called upon to conduct similar operations.
Автор: U.S. Marine Corps
Издательство: U.S. Marine Corps
Год издания: 1991
Количество страниц: 526
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This fascinating guide book is drawn not only from the experience of the Marine Corps but also that of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force and South Vietnamese armed forces. It provides detailed information on combating the guerrilla warfare tactics of the NLF, including extensive discussion and diagrams on tunnel warfare, the use of CS (tear) gas to clear them, interdiction of villages suspected of harboring guerrillas, and rear area patrolling. A particularly interesting section describes and illustrates the wide variety of NLF grenades and mines, many of them constructed from scrap or empty U.S. shell casings, which jeopardized American troops on land and water. It also provides detailed information on American military logistics, communications, and medicine at the unit level.
Автор: Краснов Н. И.
Издательство: Спб. тип. бр. Пантелеевых
Год издания: 1886
Количество страниц: 20
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
В 1710 году, после десятилетнего преследования донского казачьего мореходства, царь Петр Алексеевич требует поставки донским казакам для предстоящей войны с Турцией 85 казачьих лодок. Книга представляет собой краткое сообщение (доклад) Краснова Н. И. от 28 марта 1886года, посвященное донскому казачьему флоту.
Автор: William M. Donnelly
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год издания: 2007
Количество страниц: 102
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Transforming an Army at War examines the origins of the modular concept, the reasons for undertaking it, and the process for developing modular unit designs. The Army had been exploring the notion of modularity since shortly after the end of the Cold War. Modularity, at its most basic, was the idea for creating a pool of standardized, self-contained units - combat, support, and headquarters - that could plug into (and unplug from) unit formations as needed with minimal augmentation or reorganization. A modular force would greatly improve the Army's ability to configure packages of units tailored for specific missions by the regional combatant commands. This would be the most far-reaching transformation of the operational forces since World War II and the most radical since the Pentomic reorganization of the late 1950s. This account of designing the modular force highlights a critical part of the Army's program to prepare itself for an increasingly turbulent world and illustrates the intellectual and organizational resources the service can call on in that effort.
Автор: Зыков А. С.
Издательство: СПб. тип. Т-ва Общественная польза
Год издания: 1898
Количество страниц: 186
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
В книге описываются: психологические основания человеческих поступков, способы управления поступками человека, способы влияния на человека, влияние человека на толпу, организация войск, голод, жажда и усталость, печаль, радость и гнев, страх, управление войсками и др.
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