The Brandenburgers Global Mission

Author : Franz Kurowski
Publisher : J.J. Fedorowicz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brandenburgers Global Mission written by Franz Kurowski and published by J.J. Fedorowicz. This book was released on 1997 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ery few books have been written about this elite and somewhat mysterious clandestine operations unit. Noted author Franz Kurowski has produced a very informative account of the Brandenburgers and their diverse missions which took them from Western Europe to Rumania, Russia, Egypt, Afghanistan and many other countries in a series of daring actions."--

Author : Paul Borthwick
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830866051
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Christians in Global Mission written by Paul Borthwick and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missions specialist Paul Borthwick brings an urgent report on how the Western church can best continue in global mission. Providing current analysis of the state of the world and Majority World opinion, Borthwick offers concrete advice for Western churches who want to avoid the pitfalls of colonialism.

Author : Franz Kurowski
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811750531
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brandenburger Commandos written by Franz Kurowski and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare look into the secret military operations of Hitler's Germany Page-turning narrative detailing the unit's exploits Very few books have been written about this clandestine operations unit, which was run by the German Army's intelligence service. Trained to be quick, mobile, and self-reliant and steeped in local customs and languages, the Brandenburgers operated behind enemy lines around the world. From Western Europe to Romania, Russia, Egypt, Afghanistan, and World War II's other fronts, they seized bridges and other strategic targets and engaged in sabotage, espionage, and other daring missions-often bending the rules of war in the process. Although the unit was dissolved in 1944, its tactics influenced special forces around the world both during the war and after.

Author : Chris Mason
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898077
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Falling From Grace: The German Airborne In World War II written by Chris Mason and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1930’s, an aggressive and innovative rearmament program in Nazi Germany gave rise to the tactics of vertical envelopment. Pioneering the use of gliders as troop carriers, parachutists, and the air landing of reinforcements to exploit tactical success, the German Wehrmacht used the new technique of airborne warfare with startling success as part of the Blitzkrieg campaign against the Low Countries and France in 1940. -When the tactical doctrine used to seize bridges, strong points and road junctions in Fall Gelb was transferred to the seizure of an entire island that was heavily defended in 1941, however, the German airborne effectively committed suicide. -In ten days in May 1941, half the airborne forces in the entire German army were killed or wounded on Crete. Hitler wrongly ascribed the disaster to a playing out of the surprise factor, and banned further parachute operations until 1943. -The right conclusions were arrived at by the commander of the German airborne himself, General Kurt Student, in post-battle analysis. His own insistence on faulty tactics was devastating... The German innovation of vertical envelopment in the 1930’s was as revolutionary to modern military tactics as the simultaneous development of the integrated combined arms offensive known today as the Blitzkrieg. In putting Billy Mitchell’s ideas into practice, Luftwaffe General Student demonstrated vision, innovative thinking and practical military skill. Poor intelligence and reliance on his “spreading oil drops” tactics for the deployment of his paratroopers, the Fallschirmtruppe, on Crete, however, led directly to their removal as a significant weapon from the German arsenal in World War II.

Author : Adrian O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137427914
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) written by Adrian O'Sullivan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length work to be published about the spectacular failure of the German intelligence services in Persia (Iran) during WWII. Based on archival research it analyzes a compelling history of Nazi planning, operations, personalities, and intrigues, and follows the protagonists from Hitler's rise to power into the postwar era.

Author : Bruce Newsome
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0275998312
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made, Not Born written by Bruce Newsome and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do the combat capabilities of individual soldiers vary so much? This book seeks to provide an answer to this and other questions about variability in combat performance. Some soldiers flee quickly from the battlefield, while others endure all hardships until the bitter end. Some combat units can perform numerous types of missions, while others cannot keep themselves organized during peacetime. Some militaries armed with obsolete weapons have out fought enemies with the latest weapons, just as some massively outnumbered armies have beaten back much larger opponents. In this first social scientific study of the effectiveness of combat troops, Newsome evaluates competing explanations for the varying combat capabilities and performances. There are four main explanations, each emphasizing the influence of a single factor. The first focuses on material endowments. How well funded are the troops? Do they have the latest protective gear and the most advanced weaponry? Second, some analysts claim that democracies produce better commanders, superior strategies, more motivated personnel, or better-managed personnel; others, however, associated those characteristics with more authoritarian forms of government. Third is the idea that giving more power to the troops on the ground in individual combat units empowers them with decision-making capability and adaptability to fast-changing situations and circumstances. Newsome presents evidence that decentralized personnel management does correlate with superior combat performance. Fourth, soldier capabilities and performance often are assumed to reflect intrinsic attributes, such as prior civilian values. Newsome argues that the capabilities of combat soldiers are acquired through military training and other forms of conditioning, but he does not entirely discount the role of a soldier's individual character. In the age-old nature vs. nurture argument, he finds that intrinsic qualities do count, but that extrinsic factors, such as training and environment, matter even more.

Author : David R. Higgins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178200601X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind Soviet Lines written by David R. Higgins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1942, following the invasion of Russia the previous year, Hitler's 'Brandenburger' commando units undertook a daring operation deep inside Soviet-held territory. Disguised as members of Stalin's NKVD, the secret police dreaded by most Soviet citizens and soldiers, the Brandenburgers passed unsuspected past the Red Army's checkpoints, before launching their surprise operation to seize the vital Soviet oil facilities around Maikop – delivering them intact into Nazi hands. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this expert assessment of the Maikop operation casts new light on German special-forces operations on the Eastern Front.

Author : James D Kiras
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197793932
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Void written by James D Kiras and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of how global special forces can and should evolve into a future-ready capability, responding to today's post-War on Terror challenges.

Author : Adrian O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030151832
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baghdad Set written by Adrian O'Sullivan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first ever intelligence history of Iraq from 1941 to 1945, and is the third and final volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2014), and Espionage and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2015). This account of covert operations in Iraq during the Second World War is based on archival documents, diaries, and memoirs, interspersed with descriptions of all kinds of clandestine activity, and contextualized with analysis showing the significance of what happened regionally in terms of the greater war. After outlining the circumstances of the rise and fall of the fascist Gaylani regime, Adrian O’Sullivan examines the activities of the Allied secret services (CICI, SOE, SIS, and OSS) in Iraq, and the Axis initiatives planned or mounted against them. O'Sullivan emphasizes the social nature of human intelligence work and introduces the reader to a number of interesting, talented personalities who performed secret roles in Iraq, including the distinguished author Dame Freya Stark.

Author : Lieutenant-Colonel Wayne D. Eyre
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178289795X
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Rösselprung And The Elimination Of Tito, 25 May 1944: A Failure In Planning And Intelligence Support written by Lieutenant-Colonel Wayne D. Eyre and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation RÖSSELPRUNG was a Second World War German operation conducted in Bosnia, which aimed at eliminating the leadership of the Partisan movement, namely Marshal Josip-Broz Tito. It was a direct action raid, which involved an airborne (parachute and glider) assault by 500 SS Fallschirmjäger (Parachute) Battalion on the suspected site of Tito’s Headquarters and a subsequent linkup with the German XV Mountain Corps converging from all directions. Operation RÖSSELPRUNG failed due to mediocre intelligence support and inadequate tactical level planning. Intelligence shortfalls were rooted primarily in poor German inter-organization relations and cooperation, including the sharing of intelligence, which resulted in missed opportunities and a failure to pinpoint Tito’s location with sufficient precision. Given the quality of intelligence provided, the plan for the airborne assault did not include sufficient flexibility for the execution of contingencies. There are three major conclusions from the failure of this operation that can be applied to contemporary operations of a similar nature: The first deals with tactics to be employed in the face of uncertain intelligence. The degree of intelligence certainty is critical in determining both the size of the force and the extent of the objective area in a direct action raid. The second is the requirement for contingency planning. Contingency planning provides commanders with flexibility once an operation has commenced to deal with the unexpected, and is especially vital in the face of uncertain intelligence. The third, and probably most critical, concerns the importance of interagency intelligence cooperation. It is vital that different intelligence organizations that are pursuing a similar goal, especially in the same theatre of operations, cooperate to the greatest extent possible.