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  • Alone in the Ring

    Decision-making in Critical Times

    by Gen General N.C. Vij ...
    When General N.C. Vij was the Chief of Army Staff from 2003 to 2005, he made decisions that have continued to influence national security. In Alone in the Ring he looks back at the choices he made under difficult conditions and their consequences.A bold one, with great impact, was the visionary decision to construct a fence of 740 kilometres along the Line of Control from the river Chenab to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Canadian Forces in Afghanistan 3-Book Bundle

    No Easy Task / No Ordinary Men / No Lack of Courage

    by Colonel Bernd Horn, Dr. Emily Spencer ...
    Canadian Forces, including Special Operations Forces, have played an outsize role in the conflict in Afghanistan, often under a cloak of secrecy. For the first time, Col. Bernd Horn reveals the stories of the troops and operations behind Canada’s pivotal involvement in the Afghanistan conflict.No Ordinary MenPeels back the cloak of secrecy and reveals four untold special operations that Joint Task ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kargil-From Surprise TO Victory

    by V.P. Malik ...
    In February 1999, Pakistani Army personnel, disguised as jihadi militants, infiltrated into mountainous Kargil and occupied key vantage points. Their intrusion triggered a limited war between the world's newest nuclear states. It was a bitter battle, and one that threw up important lessons for India's defence preparedness, as also its responses to conflicts such as this. This incisive book by ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • My Long War

    Leadership and Lessons from a Quarter Century of Coalition Warfare

    by Roger Noble ...
    Six deployments. Twenty-six years. A soldier’s account of Australia’s long wars.For more than a quarter of a century, Major General Roger Noble stood at the centre of Australia’s contribution to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor. His career spans the evolution of Coalition warfare from the immediate aftermath of the Cold War to the brutal fight against ISIS.As a 26-year-old captain, he ... Read more

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  • A History of the Pakistan Army

    Wars and Insurrections

    by Brian Cloughley ...
    The scope of this study of the Pakistan Army must be wide and in-depth, as the army has played a major part in the country’s history. The author describes Pakistan’s violent internal politics and erratic international relations with a deep knowledge gained through his long association with the country and its armed forces. Pakistan’s wars with India are covered vividly, drawing on unpublished ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The RAF's Air War In Libya

    New Conflicts in the Era of Austerity

    by Dave Sloggett ...
    The uprising in Libya in the spring of 2011 took the world by surprise. The Gaddafi regimes brutal attempts at suppressing the uprising, however, soon prompted the international community to respond. NATO agreed to impose a no-fly zone across Libya, which was led by Britain, France and the USA.For the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, the deployment of RAF and Royal Navy assets in support of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Losing Small Wars

    British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars

    by Frank Ledwidge ...
    This new edition of Frank Ledwidge’s eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military performance since 2011—including Libya, ISIS, and the Chilcot findings—Ledwidge shows how lessons continue to go unlearned.   “A brave and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Belfast to Benghazi

    by Rupert Wieloch ...
    Rupert Wieloch has seen more than his share of front-line military action, having served as a platoon commander during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, before leading a squadron during the Gulf War in 1990. Deploying to Bosnia with the United Nations, his troops became renowned by the press as "Saviours of the Children" after he planned and executed the largest defensive battle fought by a ... Read more

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  • Somalia

    US Intervention, 1992–1994

    by Peter Baxter ...
    Series Book 9 - Africa@War
    The end of the Cold War introduced an altered global dynamic. The old bond of East/West patronage in Africa was broken, weakening the first crop of independent revolutionary leadership on the continent who no longer had the support of one or other of the superpowers. With collapse of the Soviet Union, all this changed. The question of global/strategic security devolved into regional peacekeeping ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pride and Fall

    The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001–2014

    by Sergio Miller ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE SOCIETY FOR ARMY HISTORICAL RESEARCH'S 2025 TEMPLER MEDALA detailed new account of the British military campaign in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014**, based on the experiences of those who served.**On 11 September 2001 19 al-Qaeda-inspired jihadists hijacked four aircraft and mounted the deadliest terrorist attack in history. The outrage triggered a chain of events that saw ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • The Retreat from Strategy

    Britain's Dangerous Confusion of Interests with Values

    by David Richards, Julian Lindley-French ...
    Britain is sleepwalking to disaster, because London has abandoned all forms of proper strategy. That is the sobering message of this powerful analysis exposing the great failings of British security and defense policy. Britain long ago abandoned the art and science of grand strategy, even though this is crucial for establishing the country's direction of travel. Without grand strategy, national ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Kargil

    The Heights of Bravery

    by Azad Singh Rathore ...
    Ask anyone from India about Jammu and Kashmir, and he or she will tell you it is the home of spirituality. Its a beautiful place blessed by the gods with beautiful rivers, calm lakes, picturesque waterfalls, and cypress trees. Its famous for its ancient Mughal heritage and Hindu shrines. But toady these places are in news for something else: Islamic extremistsespecially those operating from ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD