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The Iraq War

A Military History

By: Williamson Murray,Robert H. Scales Jr.

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The Iraq War

A Military History

By: Williamson Murray,Robert H. Scales Jr.

In this unprecedented account of the intensive air and ground operations in Iraq, two of America’s most distinguished military historians bring clarity and depth to the first major war of the new millennium. Reaching beyond the blaring headlines, embedded videophone reports, and daily Centcom briefings, Williamson Murray and Robert Scales analyze events in light of past military experiences, present battleground realities, and future expectations. The Iraq War puts the recent conflict into context. Drawing on their extensive military expertise, the authors assess the opposing aims of the Coalition forces and the Iraqi regime and explain the day-to-day tactical and logistical decisions of infantry and air command, as British and American troops moved into Basra and Baghdad. They simultaneously step back to examine long-running debates within the U.S. Defense Department about the proper uses of military power and probe the strategic implications of those debates for America’s buildup to this war. Surveying the immense changes that have occurred in America’s armed forces between the Gulf conflicts of 1991 and 2003—changes in doctrine as well as weapons—this volume reveals critical meanings and lessons about the new “American way of war” as it has unfolded in Iraq.

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380

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Harvard University Press

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0674504127

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9780674504127

Future Warfare

Anthology

By: Robert H. Scales

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Future Warfare

Anthology

By: Robert H. Scales

This Revised Anthology is about the future of military operations in the opening decades of the 21st century. Its purpose is not to predict the future, but to speculate on the conduct of military operations as an instrument of national policy in a world absent massive thermonuclear and conventional superpower confrontation characteristic of the Cold War. Also absent are indirect constraints imposed by that confrontation on virtually all political-military relationships, not solely those between superpower principals. Most of these essays are attempts to define military operational concepts that might be employed to execute such an engagement strategy.

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305

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Strategic Studies Institute

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1584870265

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9781584870265

Certain Victory

The U.S. Army in the Gulf War

By: Robert H. Scales

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Certain Victory

The U.S. Army in the Gulf War

By: Robert H. Scales

The official U.S. Army account of Army performance in the Gulf War, Certain Victory was originally published by the Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, in 1993. Brig. Gen. Scales, who headed the Army's Desert Storm Study Project, offers a highly readable and abundantly illustrated chronicle.

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372

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1612340776

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9781612340777

US Defence Strategy from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom

Military Innovation and the New American War of War, 1973-2003

By: Robert R. Tomes

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US Defence Strategy from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom

Military Innovation and the New American War of War, 1973-2003

By: Robert R. Tomes

This volume examines the thirty-year transformation in American military thought and defence strategy that spanned from 1973 through 2003.

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219

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Routledge

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1135985626

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9781135985622

Fifth Dimensional Operations

Space-Time-Cyber Dimensionality in Conflict and War—A Terrorism Research Center Book

By: Charles Heal,Robert J. Bunker

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Fifth Dimensional Operations

Space-Time-Cyber Dimensionality in Conflict and War—A Terrorism Research Center Book

By: Charles Heal,Robert J. Bunker

Examples of 5th dimensional practical applications derived from advanced weaponry which generates an invisible pain barrier and a video camera & infrared attachment which allows for crossing the human-sensing dimensional barrier and seeing into barricaded rooms.

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268

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iUniverse

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1491738731

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9781491738733

Imperial Grunts

On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond

By: Robert D. Kaplan

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Imperial Grunts

On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond

By: Robert D. Kaplan

A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror. Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American security. These soldiers, fighting in thick Colombian jungles or on dusty Afghani plains, are the forefront of the new American foreign policy, a policy being implemented one soldier at a time. As Kaplan brings us inside their thoughts, feelings, and operations, these modern grunts provide insight and understanding into the War on Terror, bringing the war, which sometimes seems so distant, vividly to life.

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443

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Vintage

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1400034574

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The US Military Profession into the 21st Century

War, Peace and Politics

By: Sam Sarkesian,Robert Connor

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The US Military Profession into the 21st Century

War, Peace and Politics

By: Sam Sarkesian,Robert Connor

This brand new edition of The US Military Profession into the Twenty-First Century re-examines the challenges faced by the military profession in the aftermath of the international terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. While many of the issues facing the military profession examined in the first edition remain, the 'new war' and international terrorism have compounded the challenges. The US military must respond to the changed domestic and strategic landscapes without diminishing its primary function—a function that now many see that goes beyond success on the battlefield. Not only has this complicated the problem of reconciling the military professional ethos and raison d’etre with civilian control in a democracy, it challenges traditional military professionalism. This book also studies the notion of a US military stretched thin and relying more heavily on the US Federal Reserves and National Guard. These developments make the US military profession increasingly linked to public attitudes and political perspectives. In sum, the challenge faced by the US military profession can be termed a dual dilemma. It must respond effectively to the twenty-first century strategic landscape while undergoing the revolution in military affairs and transformation. At the same time, the military profession must insure that it remains compatible with civilian cultures and the US political-social system without eroding its primary function. This is an invaluable book for all students with an interest in the US Military, and of strategic studies and military history in general.

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250

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Routledge

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113424469X

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9781134244690

Yellow Smoke

The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military

By: Robert H. Scales

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Yellow Smoke

The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military

By: Robert H. Scales

This timely book draws upon a long and distinguished military career and wars dating back to Korea for lessons for America's future land wars. Scales looks at Afghanistan and Iraq, and ahead to a wargame scenario of Kosovo 2020 to develop a picture of the American style of war. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742517748

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Scales on War

The Future of America's Military at Risk

By: Robert H Scales

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Scales on War

The Future of America's Military at Risk

By: Robert H Scales

Scales on War is a collection of ideas, concepts and observations about contemporary war taken from over 30 years of research, writing and personal experience by retired Major General Bob Scales. The book melds Scales’ unique style of writing that includes contemporary military history, current events and his philosophy of ground warfare to create a very personal and expansive view of where American defense policies are heading in the future. The book is a collection. Each chapter addresses distinct topics that embrace tactical ground warfare, future gazing, the draft and the role of women in the infantry. His uniting thesis is that throughout its history the United States has favored a technological approach to fighting its wars and has neglected its ground forces. America’s enemies have learned though the experience of battle how to defeat American technology. The consequences of a learning and adaptive enemy has been a continuous string of battlefield defeats. Scales argues that only a resurgent land force of Army and Marine small units will restore America’s fighting competence.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682471039

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9781682471036

Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars

Air Power in Kosovo and Libya

By: Robert H. Gregory

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Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars

Air Power in Kosovo and Libya

By: Robert H. Gregory

On March 24th, 1999, President Clinton announced that the United States, along with NATO allies, had initiated air strikes against the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo. After seventy-eight days of bombing, Milosevic agreed to withdraw his army from Kosovo. With no troops on the ground, political and military leaders congratulated themselves on the success of Operation Allied Force, considered to be the first military victory won through the use of strategic air power. This apparent triumph motivated military and political leaders to embrace a policy of precision munitions and air strikes as the preferred choice for answering military aggression and, eventually, inspired a similar air campaign ten years later against Muammar Gadaffi's forces in Libya as a wave of protests erupted into revolution. "Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars: Employing Air Power over Kosovo and Libya" offers a fresh perspective on the role, relevance, and effectiveness of air power in contemporary warfare, including an exploration of the political motivations for its use as well as a candid examination of air-to-ground targeting processes. Using recently declassified archival materials from the William J. Clinton Presidential Library along with primary evidence culled from social media posted during the Arab Spring, author Robert Gregory shows that the extreme argument that air power "does it alone" and eliminates the necessity for boots on the ground is an artificial claim and that the popular perception forged in Kosovo and carried forth in Libyan operations--that air power succeeded without the need for a ground contingent--is illusory.

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U of Nebraska Press

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161234786X

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9781612347868

The American Story

By: Robert A. Divine,R. Hal Williams

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The American Story

By: Robert A. Divine,R. Hal Williams

The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative. Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text is available in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

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596

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321183223

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9780321183224

Yellow Smoke

The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military

By: Robert H. Scales

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The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military

By: Robert H. Scales

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The US Military Profession into the 21st Century

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Clean Bombs and Dirty Wars

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