In 1975, U.S. Army Center of Military History commissioned a report on the History of Strategic Air and Ballistic Missile Defense, Volume I (1945-1955) and Volume II (1956-1972), which was part of a larger study of the strategic arms competition that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II. The report addresses each country's approach to civil defense against the threat from the air and each country's emphasis on specific elements of air defense strategy at various periods between 1945 and 1972. Two central questions concerned the U.S. and Soviet defense planners: "How might we be attacked?" and "How shall we defend our country?"

Originally published in 1941. 84 pages. ill.

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In this era of globalization, the world is facing a host of challenging security problems --from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to international terrorism to accelerating climate change to energy security --that cannot be resolved unilaterally, especially through the unilateral use of military force. One key issue that requires urgent global attention is literally "out of this world" the military use of outer space.

This collection of essays by leading Russian experts analyzes the current military use of outer space. The book describes the space weapons programs of various countries. It details the history of negotiations to prevent, or at least control, the weaponization of space, including analyses of the political, military, technical, and legal problems facing negotiators trying to avoid a catastrophic new space race.

Together With A Narrative Of The Campaigns And Battles Of The Civil War In Which The Author Took Part, 1861-1865. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.

The Indian alliance, so assiduously sought by the Southern Confederacy and so laboriously built up, soon revealed itself to be most unstable.

The Shelf2Life Weapons and Warfare Collection is an intriguing set of pre-1923 materials focused on the art and science of weaponry and its use in wars. From the study of topography, field artillery weapons and types of projectiles to military strategies and tactics, these titles offer a behind-the-scenes look at the extensive preparations for battle. Significant attention is given to training, including photographs and descriptions of drill instruction, the study of fire discipline and detailed directions on cleaning and care of equipment, highlighting the meticulous precision and precautions soldiers practiced to prevent disastrous errors on the battlefield. The Weapons and Warfare Collection provides historians, researchers and militarists with a broader understanding of the intense preparation and training required to effectively utilize weaponry in the theater of war.

The Shelf2Life Weapons and Warfare Collection is an intriguing set of pre-1923 materials focused on the art and science of weaponry and its use in wars. From the study of topography, field artillery weapons and types of projectiles to military strategies and tactics, these titles offer a behind-the-scenes look at the extensive preparations for battle. Significant attention is given to training, including photographs and descriptions of drill instruction, the study of fire discipline and detailed directions on cleaning and care of equipment, highlighting the meticulous precision and precautions soldiers practiced to prevent disastrous errors on the battlefield. The Weapons and Warfare Collection provides historians, researchers and militarists with a broader understanding of the intense preparation and training required to effectively utilize weaponry in the theater of war.

During the height of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy called the Minuteman missile his "ace in the hole." For much of the Cold War, Minuteman missile sites harbored America's most potent strategic weapon, one which could deliver a thermonuclear warhead to a Soviet target within a half hour. Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, these sites became surplus property. To review their potential for preservation as historic sites, the United States Park Service commissioned a study of the Minuteman site at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. The resulting report includes a brief history of the Minuteman ICBM missile system, followed by a description of the once top-secret installation at Ellsworth, including detailed reproduction of site blueprints. Both as a key source on the history and development of a once classified military site and as a charter document for what is today the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, "Minuteman Missile Sites" represents a unique aspect of America's treatment of its Cold War legacy. Originally published in 1995. 104 pages. ill.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that the booji has attracted very little notice, and that if its merits are to be computed by its popularity, the care tha.t has been bestowed on this edition might as well be spared. Such, at least, has been its fate in America; whether it has met with better success in any other country we have no means of knowing. chapter{Section 4THE DEERSLAYER. CHAPTER I. " There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal, From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.' Child Harold. On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, lie who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity. In no other way can we account for the venerable air that is already gathering around American annals. When the mind reverts to the earliest days of colonial history, the period seems remote and obscure, the thousand changes that thicken along the links of recollections, throwing back the origin of the nation to a day so distant as seemingly to reach the mists of time; and yet four lives of ordinary duration would suffice to transmit, from mouth to mouth, in the form of tradition, all that civilized man has achieved within the limits of the republic. Although New York alone possesses a population materially exceeding that of either of the four smallest kingdoms of Europe, or materially exceeding that of the entire Swiss Confederation, it is little more than tw...

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Full color images throughout. Army Lineage Series. CMH Pub 60-11-1. Describes lineages, honors, heraldic items, and bibliographies of Army Field Artillery regiments in the force structure thru 2005.

Congress has long been concerned about whether U.S. policy advances the national interest in reducing the role of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missiles that could deliver them. Recipients of China's technology reportedly include Pakistan and countries that the State Department says support terrorism, such as Iran and North Korea. This book, updated as warranted, discusses the security problem of China's role in weapons proliferation and issues related to the U.S. policy response since the mid-1990s. China has taken some steps to mollify U.S. concerns about its role in weapons proliferation. Nonetheless, supplies from China have aggravated trends that result in ambiguous technical aid, more indigenous capabilities, longer-range missiles, and secondary (retransferred) proliferation. According to unclassified reports to Congress by the intelligence community, China has been a "key supplier" of weapons technology, particularly missile or chemical technology.

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

The Shelf2Life Weapons and Warfare Collection is an intriguing set of pre-1923 materials focused on the art and science of weaponry and its use in wars. From the study of topography, field artillery weapons and types of projectiles to military strategies and tactics, these titles offer a behind-the-scenes look at the extensive preparations for battle. Significant attention is given to training, including photographs and descriptions of drill instruction, the study of fire discipline and detailed directions on cleaning and care of equipment, highlighting the meticulous precision and precautions soldiers practiced to prevent disastrous errors on the battlefield. The Weapons and Warfare Collection provides historians, researchers and militarists with a broader understanding of the intense preparation and training required to effectively utilize weaponry in the theater of war.