Handbook of Military Sciences

This open access handbook is a major reference work in the field of Military Sciences. Its main purpose is to inform and enlighten those dealing with the military on the role and contributions of science in describing, understanding and explaining military life, knowledge and doings. The handbook provides a comprehensive thematic introduction to various sub-fields of Military Sciences. The …

Napoleonic Governance in the Netherlands and Northwest Germany

“Van der Burg presents an innovative transregional study of Napoleonic governance in the often-overlooked northern periphery of the Empire. This book carefully examines the Empire’s administrative structure in the north, focusing on the heterogeneous community of prefects and subprefects as ‘tools of incorporation’, binding the regions to the central state. His rich comparative analysis…

Bordieuan Field Theory as an Instrument for Military Operational Analysis

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a lens through which to examine military operations. Novel in its approach, this innovative text provides a better, more nuanced understanding of the modern ‘battlespace’, particularly in instances of prolonged low-intensity conflict. Formed in two parts, this book primarily explores th…

NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2021

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1

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978-94-6265-471-6

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NL ARMS

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XI, 309

Russia-China Relations

This open access book examines Russia-China relations across a variety of civilian and military areas of cooperation. Leading experts in the field present empirical case studies covering a wide range of strategic cooperation areas between Russia and China, such as technological, military, economic and political cooperation. The contributing authors shed new light on Chinese and Russian strategi…

Innovation in Bayern

​Dieses Open-Access-Buch befasst sich mit der Einstellung der bayerischen Militärführung in Hinblick auf die Rezeption als auch Adaption technischer Innovation bzw. deren ersten praktischen Anwendung im Krieg von 1866. Das 19. Jahrhundert stellte das bayerische Königreich vor mehrere Herausforderungen. Die militärische Partizipation an den Napoleonischen Kriegen endete zwar erfolgreich…

Street Riot Drill and Sword Exercise

The formations used in this drill were devised by Lieutenant W. F. Fulhim, U. S. Xavy. Some of the battalion movements were based upon the work of the late General Brownell X. GS. X. Y. The company movements are new. They are of special value, because, in dispersing a mob, it may at times be wise to assign each company of a battalion to a separate street with orders for all to rendezvous later …

Innovation in Bayern

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1

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978-3-658-39561-2

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4 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

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978-3-658-39561-2

Democracy's Arsenal: Creating a Twenty-First-Century Defense Industry

The author describes the transformations needed in government and industry to achieve a new, more effective system of national defense.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The heirs of Archimedes : science and the art of war through the Age of Enlig…

Essays analyze the connections between science and technology and military power in the late medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment periods.The integration of scientific knowledge and military power began long before the Manhattan Project. In the third century BC, Archimedes was renowned for his research in mechanics and mathematics as well as for his design and coordination of defensive sieg…