[PDF] A Savage War

• Author : Williamson Murray,Wayne Hsieh
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2018-05-29
• ISBN : 9780691181097

How the Civil War changed the face of war The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. A Savage War sheds

• Author : Alistair Horne
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release Date : 2012-08-09
• ISBN : 9781447233435

Thoroughly sharp and honest treatment of a brutal conflict.The Algerian War (1954-1962) was a savage colonial war, killing an estimated one million Muslim Algerians and expelling the same number of European settlers from their homes. It was to cause the fall of six French prime minsters and the collapse of the Fourth Repbulic. It came close to bringing down de Gaulle and - twice - to plunging France into civil war.The story told here contains heroism and tragedy,

• Author : Williamson Murray,Wayne Hsieh
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2018-05-22
• ISBN : 9781400889372

How the Civil War changed the face of war The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. A Savage War sheds

• Author : Alistair Horne
• Publisher : New York Review of Books
• Release Date : 2011-03-01
• ISBN : 9781590174814

The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and repressive torture. Nearly a half century has passed since this savagely

• Author : Alistair Horne
• Publisher : New York Review of Books
• Release Date : 2006-10-10
• ISBN : 1590172183

The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and repressive torture. Nearly a half century has passed since this savagely

• Author : Alexander R. Alexiev
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1993-01-01
• ISBN : 0060984066

• Author : Murray Brewster
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release Date : 2014-07-01
• ISBN : 9781443430142

On the tenth anniversary of Canada's involvement, a leading journalist offers a fascinating assessment of Canada's past and present role in the Afghan war Of the 33,000 troops under NATO command in Afghanistan in October 2006, 12,000 were Americans and 2,500 were Canadians. Deployed to southern Afghanistan, the Canadian forces were charged with ending the violent insurgency in Kandahar Province. The Savage War offers a compelling look at how the war has been conducted by Canada and its allies on the ground and at

• Author : Richard Slotkin
• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• Release Date : 1998
• ISBN : 0806130318

Examines the ways in which the frontier myth influences American culture and politics, drawing on fiction, western films, and political writing

• Author : James D D Smith
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2018-03-13
• ISBN : 9780429965661

This is an attempt to catalogue the reasons why some wars are so difficult to stop - even when both sides want the fighting to end. Through detailed case studies, the book assesses the obstacles and points toward solutions for ending wars more quickly. Each chapter is devoted to a specific obstacle which the author analyzes and then illustrates with case studies, drawing on such conflicts as the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War and the Yugoslav wars. He assesses the

• Author : Lawrence James
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1985
• ISBN : UOM:39015010391772

• Author : Jonathan Walker
• Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
• Release Date : 2005
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105119801426

An account of Britain's last colonial conflict, this volume shows that as Cold War tensions escalated, a brutal fight was contested with the rebel tribes of the wild interior as well as terrorist assassins in the back streets of Aden.

• Author : W. Negusse Wolde
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1994
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105073498359

• Author : Williamson Murray
• Publisher : Hoover Press
• Release Date : 2017-04-01
• ISBN : 9780817920067

Throughout the world today there are obvious trouble spots that have the potential to explode into serious conflicts at any time in the immediate or distant future. This study examines what history suggests about the future possibilities and characteristics of war and the place that thinking about conflict deserves in the formation of American strategy in coming decades. The author offers a historical perspective to show that armed conflict between organized political groups has been mankind's constant companion and that

• Author : Dr Simon Robbins
• Publisher : The History Press
• Release Date : 2016-10-06
• ISBN : 9780752479019

‘Who is the enemy?’ This is the question most asked in modern warfare; gone are the set-piece conventional battles of the past. Once seen as secondary to more traditional conflicts, irregular warfare (as modified and refashioned since the 1990s) now presents a major challenge to the state and the bureaucratic institutions which have dominated the twentieth century, and to the politicians and civil servants who formulate policy. Twenty-first-century conflict is dominated by counterinsurgency operations, where the enemy is almost indistinguishable

• Author : Jonathan Walker
• Publisher : Pen and Sword
• Release Date : 2014-11-19
• ISBN : 9781473827639

During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax. Britain's dwindling power in the Middle East was under siege from Arab nationalism, the Communist bloc and from American designs in the region. Aden, with its strategic military base and old Protectorate buffer zone, was soon the main battleground. The 1962 Egyptian-inspired coup in the neighbouring Kingdom of North Yemen further tightened the noose. So began a bitter and bloody insurgency war in South Arabia. British regular an special forces were