Instruments Of War

Author : Steven A. Walton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instrumental in War written by Steven A. Walton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research and instrumentation in warfare since 1500 demonstrates the rise of the scientific military, the complicated interaction with military institutions, and details of how scientists and engineers developed artillery and explosives, surveying and geophysics, pilot testing and siegework, and the role of national and university laboratories.

Author : Christopher Duffy
Publisher : Combined Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781883476199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instrument of War written by Christopher Duffy and published by Combined Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Austrian Empire of the 18th century was the most ethnically diverse in Europe. The large number of subject peoples with their own styles of warfare gave Austrian generals the potential to have the most flexible army in Europe during the wars of the 1700s. If Austria's aristocratic generals usually failed to utilize their diverse army properly on the battlefield, Austrian units nevertheless introduced new methods of warfare that were copied by more effective armies and are in some cases still in use today. Austria's Hungarian hussars, or light cavalry, introduced a new mobility to the battlefield, with an increased role for scouting and raiding. Prussia, France and most European countries soon created hussar units, even copying the Hungarian national dress that they wore. Horse artillery was also introduced by the Austrians, but more effectively utilized by others later. The Austrian army in the field was screened by a vast swarm of Serbs, Bosnians, and Croats, who introduced principles of light infantry and guerrilla operations that many associate with the American frontier. Renowned military historian Christopher Duffy has been given unprecedented access to the Austrian archives in Vienna to bring this important multi-national army fully to life for the first time.

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instruments of War written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly detailed and well-illustrated single-volume work documents the evolution of warfare across history through weaponry and technological change. In war, the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically alter the outcomes of warfare—and consequently change the course of history itself. This reference work provides a fascinating overview of the major weapon systems and military technologies that have had a major impact on world history. Addressing weapons as crude as the club used by primitive man to the high-tech weapons of today such as unmanned drones, Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History offers nearly 270 profusely illustrated entries that examine the key roles played by specific weapons and identify their success and failures. The book begins with an introductory essay that frames the subject matter of the work and discusses the history of weapons as a whole. The text is concise and accessible to general readers without extensive backgrounds in military history yet provides the detailed information necessary to convey the complexity of the evolution of warfare through technological change.

Author : Christopher Duffy
Publisher : Helion
ISBN 13 : 9781912390960
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instrument of War. Volume 1 written by Christopher Duffy and published by Helion. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most important examination of an 18th Century army yet done, written by the premier military historian of the era.

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Walton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047407032
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instrumental in War written by Steven Walton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research and instrumentation in warfare since 1500 demonstrates the rise of the scientific military, the complicated interaction with military institutions, and details of how scientists and engineers developed artillery and explosives, surveying and geophysics, pilot testing and siegework, and the role of national and university laboratories.

Author : Dennis Showalter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472813014
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instrument of War written by Dennis Showalter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by – yet also defeated by – warfare in the modern age, which struggled to capitalize on its victories and ultimately forgot the lessons of its defeat. Exploring the internal dynamics of the German Army and detailing how the soldiers coped with the many new forms of warfare, Showalter shows how the army's institutions responded to, and how Germany itself was changed by war. Detailing the major campaigns on the Western and Eastern fronts and the forgotten war fought in the Middle East and Africa, this comprehensive volume, now publishing in paperback, examines the army's operational strategy, the complexities of campaigns of movement versus static trench warfare, and the effects of changes in warfare.

Author : D. Robert Worley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612347541
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orchestrating the Instruments of Power written by D. Robert Worley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National security, a topic routinely discussed behind closed doors by Washington’s political scientists and policy makers, is believed to be an insider’s game. All too often this highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the grasp—and interest—of the American public. Author D. Robert Worley disagrees. The U.S. national security system, designed after World War II and institutionalized through a decades-long power conflict with the Soviet Union, is inadequate for the needs of the twenty-first century, and while a general consensus has emerged that the system must be transformed, a clear and direct route for a new national security strategy proves elusive. Furnishing the tools to assist in future national security reforms, Orchestrating the Instruments of Power articulates and synthesizes the concepts of America’s economic, political, and military instruments of power.

Author : Annegret Fauser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199323763
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sounds of War written by Annegret Fauser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role did music play in the United States during World War II? How did composers reconcile the demands of their country and their art as America mobilized both militarily and culturally for war? Annegret Fauser explores these and many other questions in the first in-depth study of American concert music during World War II. While Dinah Shore, Duke Ellington, and the Andrew Sisters entertained civilians at home and G.I.s abroad with swing and boogie-woogie, Fauser shows it was classical music that truly distinguished musical life in the wartime United States. Classical music in 1940s America had a ubiquitous cultural presence--whether as an instrument of propaganda or a means of entertainment, recuperation, and uplift--that is hard to imagine today, and Fauser suggests that no other war enlisted culture in general and music in particular so consciously and unequivocally as World War II. Indeed, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Group Theatre director Harold Clurman wrote to his cousin, Aaron Copland: "So you're back in N.Y. . . ready to defend your country in her hour of need with lectures, books, symphonies!" Copland was in fact involved in propaganda missions of the Office of War Information, as were Marc Blitzstein, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, Roy Harris, and Colin McPhee. It is the works of these musical greats--as well as many other American and exiled European composers who put their talents to patriotic purposes--that form the core of Fauser's enlightening account. Drawing on music history, aesthetics, reception history, and cultural history, Sounds of War recreates the remarkable sonic landscape of the World War II era and offers fresh insight to the role of music during wartime.

Author : Emma Hanna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110848008X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sounds of War written by Emma Hanna and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in all its forms was an indispensable part of everyday life in Britain's armed forces during the Great War.