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Machines & Minds eBook Series

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  • The Cannons That Broke the Walls

    How Gunpowder Ended the Medieval World

    Series series Machines & Minds
    In 1453, the unthinkable happened. The mighty walls of Constantinople — defenses that had stood for a thousand years — crumbled under the thunder of Mehmed II’s great cannons. It was more than the fall of a city. It was the end of an age.The Cannons That Broke the Walls tells the dramatic story of how gunpowder changed the world forever. From the siege of Constantinople to the rise of centralized ... Read more

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  • The Mongol Horse and Bow

    How Steppe Warfare Forged an Empire

    Series series Machines & Minds
    How did a simple horse and a compact bow help create the largest land empire in world history?This book explores how the Mongols transformed everyday steppe skills into the foundations of imperial power. Life on horseback gave Mongol societies unmatched mobility, endurance, and communication across vast distances. The composite bow, small but powerful, provided speed, range, and flexibility on the ... Read more

    $4.65 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Longbow: The Weapon That Broke the Knight

    How a Simple Bow Reshaped Medieval Warfare

    Series series Machines & Minds
    For centuries, the knight ruled the battlefield—armored, mounted, and seemingly invincible. Then came a simple weapon of wood and string: the English longbow. At Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt, its arrows darkened the sky and shattered the dominance of Europe’s nobility.The Longbow: The Weapon That Broke the Knight tells the story of how this unassuming bow transformed warfare and society alike. ... Read more

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    Tactical Leadership Skills of Business Managers

    A brief biography and photos of General Patton helps readers visualize one of the great military leaders of all time. The inspirational content will make this book an indispensable compaion for busy executives everywhere.This collection of George S. Patton’s pithy one-liners shows how business managers can succeed by applying the combat-tested principles of one of America's most famous battlefield ... Read more

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  • The Art of Maneuver

    Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle

    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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  • The Principles of War for the Information Age

    The crisis is upon us: We have no viable doctrine for tomorrow's wars. Now that the world has entered the information age, principles that have served to enlighten the art of war no longer work. Born of agrarian times and honed during the industrial age, the classical principles of war are, in large part, hopelessly outdated. Radical change is needed now. The Principles of War for the Information ... Read more

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  • Technology and War

    From 2000 B.C. to the Present

    In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, logistics, intelligence, communications, transportation, and command. This revised paperback edition has been updated to include an account of the range of technology in the recent Gulf War. ... Read more

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  • Hope Is Not a Method

    What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army

    Since the end of the Cold War, the United States Army has been reengineered and downsized more thoroughly than any other business. In the early 1990s, General Sullivan, army chief of staff, and Colonel Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War army into the Information Age. Faced with a 40 percent reduction in staff and funding, they focused on new peacetime missions, dismantled a ... Read more

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  • On Operations

    Operational Art and Military Disciplines

    On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational level of war should be rejected as fundamentally ... Read more

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  • On Tactics

    A Theory of Victory in Battle

    Originally setting out to write the very book that he would have wanted to own as a young infantryman, the author penned On Tactics as a remedy for navigating the chaotic and inchoate realm of tactical theory. Challenging centuries-old conventional wisdom regarding the principles of war, tactics, and the roles of strategy, doctrine, experiential learning, and military history, Friedman's work ... Read more

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  • Warfighting

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    Warfighting is an authentic American philosophy of action that will thrill the millions of fans of SunTzu's The Art of War and Musashi's The Book of Five Rings. This modern classic of strategy and philosophy is the quintessential guide to prevailing in competitive situations, be it war, work, play, or daily living.Sometimes life is war and sometimes business is war and sometimes you need to call ... Read more

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    The manual describes the general strategy for the U.S. Marines but it is beneficial for not only every Marine to read but concepts on leadership can be gathered to lead a business to a family. If you want to see what make Marines so effective this book is a good place to start. ... Read more

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