The Science of Soldiers
Author | : Lucia Raatma |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0756545269 |
"Describes the science concepts behind military tactics."--Provided by publisher.
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Author | : Lucia Raatma |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0756545269 |
"Describes the science concepts behind military tactics."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Mary Roach |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393245454 |
A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.
Author | : Lucia Tarbox Raatma |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0756550793 |
What does it take to be a soldier? Strength and intelligence both play a part, but soldiers need extra help to do their job of defending their country. Enter technology such as satellites, robotics, and computers. Learn all about these forms of technology and the scientific principles behind them.
Author | : Fred Anderson |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807838284 |
A People's Army documents the many distinctions between British regulars and Massachusetts provincial troops during the Seven Years' War. Originally published by UNC Press in 1984, the book was the first investigation of colonial military life to give equal attention to official records and to the diaries and other writings of the common soldier. The provincials' own accounts of their experiences in the campaign amplify statistical profiles that define the men, both as civilians and as soldiers. These writings reveal in intimate detail their misadventures, the drudgery of soldiering, the imminence of death, and the providential world view that helped reconcile them to their condition and to the war.
Author | : A. Kellett |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9401539650 |
"What men will fight for seems to be worth looking into," H. L. Mencken noted shortly after the close of the First World War. Prior to that war, although many military commanders and theorists had throughout history shown an aptitude for devising maxims concerning esprit de corps, fighting spirit, morale, and the like, military organizations had rarely sought either to understand or to promote combat motivation. For example, an officer who graduated from the Royal Military College (Sandhurst) at the end of the nineteenth century later commented that the art of leadership was utterly neglected (Charlton 1931, p. 48), while General Wavell recalled that during his course at the British Staff College at Camberley (1909-1 0) insufficient stress was laid "on the factor of morale, or how to induce it and maintain it'' (quoted in Connell1964, p. 63). The First World War forced commanders and staffs to take account of psychological factors and to anticipate wideJy varied responses to the combat environment because, unlike most previous wars, it was not fought by relatively small and homogeneous armies of regulars and trained reservists. The mobilization by the belligerents of about 65 million men (many of whom were enrolled under duress), the evidence of fairly widespread psychiatric breakdown, and the postwar disillusion (- xiii xiv PREFACE emplified in books like C. E. Montague's Disenchantment, published in 1922) all tended to dispel assumptions and to provoke questions about mo tivation and morale.
Author | : Editors of Popular Science Magazine |
Publisher | : Liberty Street |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2002-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781931933162 |
Looks at the weaponry, equipment, and technology of the modern-day soldier, and offers an illustrated tour of such innovations as the JDAM smart bomb, the CRW Dragonfly helicopter, and the biosensor.
Author | : Andre Norton |
Publisher | : Baen |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2002-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780743435543 |
Star Soldiers
Author | : Erella Grassiani |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0857459570 |
Often, violent behavior or harassment from a soldier is dismissed by the military as unacceptable acts by individuals termed, “rotten apples.” In this study, the author argues that this dismissal is unsatisfactory and that there is an urgent need to look at the (mis)behavior of soldiers from a structural point of view. When soldiers serve as an occupational force, they find themselves in a particular situation influenced by structural circumstances that heavily influence their behavior and moral decision-making. This study focuses on young Israeli men and their experiences as combat soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), particularly those who served in the “Occupied Palestinian Territories” (OPT) during the “Al Aqsa Intifada,” which broke out in 2000. In describing the soldiers’ circumstances, especially focusing on space, the study shows how processes of numbing on different levels influence the (moral) behavior of these soldiers.
Author | : J F C Fuller |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781013969850 |
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