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  • Quantifying Counterfactual Military History

    by Brennen Fagan, Ian Horwood, Niall MacKay, Christopher Price, A. Jamie Wood ...
    Series series ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society
    Forces shaping human history are complex, but the course of history is undeniably changed on many occasions by conscious acts. These may be premeditated or responsive, calmly calculated or performed under great pressure. They may also be successful or catastrophic, but how are historians to make such judgements and appeal to evidence in support of their conclusions? Further, and crucially, how ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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  • The Art of Maneuver

    Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle

    by Robert Leonhard ...
    The Art of Maneuver shows how true maneuver-warfare theory has been applied in campaigns throughout history. With a genius for apt analogy the author shows how our obsession with fighting and winning set-piece battles causes us to overlook an enemy’s true vulnerabilities. But as low-intensity conflicts promise to become the dominant warfare of the future, the importance of maneuver in attacking an ... Read more

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  • Understanding Modern Warfare

    by David Jordan, James D. Kiras, David J. Lonsdale, Ian Speller, Christopher Tuck, C. Dale Walton ...
    Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Blackett's War

    The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare

    by Stephen Budiansky ...
    A Washington Post Notable BookIn March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone to defeat Nazi Germany, by revolutionizing the Allied anti-submarine effort through the disciplined, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • How to Fight a War

    by Mike Martin ...
    Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on military decision-making, from over-ambitious goals to disregarding intelligence, terrain, or enemy capabilities. This not only wastes the lives of civilians, the enemy and one's own soldiers, but also fails to achieve geopolitical objectives, and usually lays the seeds for more ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Science of Bombing

    Operational Research in RAF Bomber Command

    by Randall Thomas Wakelam ...
    After suffering devastating losses in the early stages of the Second World War, the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force established an Operational Research Section within bomber command in order to drastically improve the efficiency of bombing missions targeting Germany. In The Science of Bombing,Randall Wakelam explores the work of civilian scientists who found critical solutions to the navigational ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Military Power

    Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle

    by Stephen Biddle ...
    In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which materiel is actually used. In a landmark reconception of battle and war, this book provides a systematic ... Read more

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  • The Relentless Offensive

    War and Bomber Command, 1939–1945

    by Roy Irons ...
    During the years before World War II, the Royal Air Force, created amid the bloodshed of the Great War, saw salvation in the doctrine of a relentless offensive by a bomber force which would sail over trenches and then on to the enemy cities and annihilate the ability of the enemy to wage war. This book gives a view of how that doctrine, driven by courage and coldly sharpened by scientists, brought ... Read more

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  • A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America's War on Terror

    by Daniel Ford ...
    John Boyd was arguably the greatest American military theorist since the sea power strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan at the turn of the 20th Century. Best known for his formulation of the OODA Loop as a model for competitive decision making, Colonel Boyd was also an original thinker in developing tactics for air-to-air combat, designing warplanes, and the fluid, mobile warfare known to the Germans as ... Read more

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  • War and Technology

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "[A] scholarly overview of military technology throughout history—starting roughly in the 15th century and extending into the future . . . insightful."— Publishers WeeklyIn this engaging book, Jeremy Black argues that technology neither acts as an independent variable nor operates without major limitations. This includes its capacity to obtain end results, as technology's impact is far from simple ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Air Power

    The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq

    by Stephen Budiansky ...
    No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Military Innovation in the Interwar Period

    Edited by Williamson R. Murray, Allan R. Millett ...
    In 1914, the armies and navies that faced each other were alike right down to the strengths of their companies and battalions and the designs of their battleships and cruisers. Differences were of degree rather than essence. During the interwar period, however, the armed forces grew increasingly asymmetrical, developing different approaches to the same problems. This study of major military ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD