The Masks Of War
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| Author | : Carl Builder |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 1989-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Why was the Navy ready to clear the skies over the Persian Gulf, yet surprised by the mines laid under it? Why is it that the Army is always prepared for war in Europe, but was caught off guard in Korea and Vietname? And why is the Air Force indifferent to "Star Wars"? In The Masks of War Carl H. Builder asks what motives lie behind the puzzling and often contradictory behavior of America's militay forces. The answer, he finds, has little to do with what party controls the White House or who writes the budget. Far more powerful-and glacially resistant to change-are the entrenched institutions and distinct "personalities" of the three armed services themselves. The Masks of War explains why things sometimes go wrong for the American military. It also explains why things will always go wrong for the military reformers. Changes in the military's strategic thinking have come only in the wake of full-blown disaster-Pearl Harbor, for instance. Today's nuclear world can't afford such lessons.
| Author | : Anthony Spalinger |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 2021-08-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004466118 |
In The Books behind the Masks Anthony Spalinger continues his work on the warrior kings of pharaonic Egypt. Here is covered their actual war records from the perspective of literature and the contemporary court-based society, especially with the eulogies.
| Author | : Simon Harrison |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Melanesia |
| ISBN | : 9780719039119 |
| Author | : John Keegan |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 86 |
| Release | : 2011-02-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307779998 |
John Keegan, widely considered the greatest military historian of our time and the author of acclaimed volumes on ancient and modern warfare--including, most recently, The First World War, a national bestseller--distills what he knows about the why’s and how’s of armed conflict into a series of brilliantly concise essays. Is war a natural condition of humankind? What are the origins of war? Is the modern state dependent on warfare? How does war affect the individual, combatant or noncombatant? Can there be an end to war? Keegan addresses these questions with a breathtaking knowledge of history and the many other disciplines that have attempted to explain the phenomenon. The themes Keegan concentrates on in this short volume are essential to our understanding of why war remains the single greatest affliction of humanity in the twenty-first century, surpassing famine and disease, its traditional companions.
| Author | : Thomas I Faith |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2014-10-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780252038686 |
In Behind the Gas Mask, Thomas Faith offers an institutional history of the Chemical Warfare Service, the department tasked with improving the Army's ability to use and defend against chemical weapons during and after World War One. Taking the CWS's story from the trenches to peacetime, he explores how the CWS's work on chemical warfare continued through the 1920s despite deep opposition to the weapons in both military and civilian circles. As Faith shows, the believers in chemical weapons staffing the CWS allied with supporters in the military, government, and private industry to lobby to add chemical warfare to the country's permanent arsenal. Their argument: poison gas represented an advanced and even humane tool in modern war, while its applications for pest control and crowd control made a chemical capacity relevant in peacetime. But conflict with those aligned against chemical warfare forced the CWS to fight for its institutional life--and ultimately led to the U.S. military's rejection of battlefield chemical weapons.
| Author | : Ron Ruble |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1365283399 |
With more than 650 photographs, this book provides in depth information and a reference guide for identifying 53 common American military gas masks and it also includes information about another 43 uncommon military, special purpose and civilian American gas masks. The book is easily usable by a novice military collector that knows little or nothing about American military gas masks and at the same time, provides a useful quick reference book for the advanced collector. It covers American gas masks and accessories used during the Great War of 1917-1918 to the modern day M50 series Joint Service General Purpose Masks. Additional collector information is included about the quantities of masks manufactured for or procured by the United States military, manufacturing date markings on masks, fakes and reproductions, items issued with gas masks, hints for easy gas mask identification and historical information relating to collecting of American military gas masks.
| Author | : Evelyne Accad |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 1992-05 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 0814706150 |
In this text, the author explores what she argues is an indissoluble link between war and sexuality. She explores the connections among sexuality, war, nationalism, pacifism, violence, love and power as they relate to the body, the partner, the family, political ideologies and religion.
| Author | : Kathleen O'Neal Gear |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 580 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0312858574 |
The archaeologists/authors continue to entertain an avid international audience with their rousing historical epic of adventure, triumph, and heartbreak of the pre-Columbian peoples who struggled to make this great continent their home.
| Author | : John Keegan |
| Publisher | : Jonathan Cape |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
This book discusses generals: who they are, what they do, and how they do it affects the world in which we live.
| Author | : Sun-wŏn Hwang |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Hwang Sun-won, a prolific storyteller, astonished the critics with his collection The Book of Masks, published when he was over sixty, with its intensity and psychological depth.
