Warfare & defence books

In response to lessons learned, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) launched a comprehensive program, in 2009, to make all...  Read More >>

This study is an historical analysis of the military reform efforts of the United States Army and Marine Corps in...  Read More >>

Beginning in the Korea War, through Vietnam and continuing with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, US forces...  Read More >>

This study is a comparative analysis aimed at determining whether or not the U.S. Army's heavy corps and armor/mechanized...  Read More >>

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. The USAF...  Read More >>

This thesis examines the potential manning shortfalls for the Navy's proposed Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine...  Read More >>

The United States Army is rapidly becoming a modular, highly mobile force based on specific capabilities. The Army...  Read More >>

This study explores the evolution of technology and the aerial dogfight. It looks at how technology has tried unsuccessfully...  Read More >>

This study focuses on the leader development process of Pakistan Army at the tactical level, i.e. up to a maximum...  Read More >>

This Army Heritage collection contains military history books, military technical and field manuals, Department...  Read More >>

Since the early 1960s, post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa has experienced significant crisis and conflict brought...  Read More >>

In 1999 the European Union (EU) established goals of fielding by 2003 a 60,000-troop force, deployable within sixty...  Read More >>

Over the past fifteen years, many have argued that the military's overwhelming battlefield successes stem from the...  Read More >>

This study determines the essential characteristics of an air superiority fighter. Its importance stems from the...  Read More >>

Commitment of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) to the war in South Vietnam in 1965 provided an opportunity to...  Read More >>

The Army is undergoing transformation to an effects-based force capable of functioning in an emerging operating...  Read More >>

This study examines how tactical experience affects confidence about combat decision making. Observations made at...  Read More >>

The Jedburghs consisted of three man allied teams trained to conduct guerrilla warfare in conjunction with the French...  Read More >>

This paper investigates the impact of national threat perceptions on security cooperation within the Association...  Read More >>

The 1956 Suez Crisis is the first example of a preemptive strike after World War II. The episode provides lessons...  Read More >>

Egypt and Palestine offered the British an opportunity to fight a war of movement. Unlike the Western Front, Egypt...  Read More >>

Politique Militaire Ou Traité De La Guerre..., written in French, delves into the intricacies of military strategy...  Read More >>

Given that half of the world's populace currently resides in urban environments, the United States armed forces...  Read More >>

One of the enduring controversies of World War II is the debate over the value of the Brittany campaign following...  Read More >>

""The greater our knowledge and understanding of the Communist theory of insurgency -as they themselves see it -the...  Read More >>