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Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals
Throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy had a peculiar problem: it had too many talented and ambitious officers, all competing for a limited number of …
Wars and Insurgencies of Uganda 1971-1994
In 1971, Idi Amin Dada, a former officer of the King’s African Rifles and commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in a military coup in Uganda. Characterised by human rights …
Oil and Security in the Arabian Gulf
The issue of security in the Gulf has an importance which goes far beyond the regional location of the area. It is enough to note that instability in the area may result in the …
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel seeks to reconstruct and elucidate the processes behind the decisions made by the Johnson Administration during the years …
Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany
When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This is no ordinary historical document but a …
U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: Anthology and Annotated Bibliography
Counterinsurgency Warfare and Brutalisation
This book offers the first analysis of the brutalisation paradigm in counter-insurgency warfare.Minimising the use of force and winning over the population's opinion is said to be …
The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America
A narrative account of the eighteenth-century war fought in the wilderness between Nova Scotia and Ohio traces the campaigns to capture forts Ticonderoga, Duquense, and Niagara; …
The Soviets, Germany, And The New Europe
This book assesses the evolution of the Soviet approach toward European security policy since the mid-1980s, as seen from the prism of assessments of and policy toward the Federal …
Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Ai
Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power covers the life and professional career of Adm. John S. McCain Sr. (1884-1945). McCain was among the select few officers …
Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941
Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second …