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Author |
: Chris Kubasik |
Publisher |
: New Amer Library |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0451452127 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780451452122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ideal War by : Chris Kubasik
Captain Paul Master, a knight of the House of Marik, is in over his head, when he journeys to a backwater planet to study a counterinsurgency operation and finds himself in the middle of a guerrilla war. Original.
Author |
: Christopher Kubasik |
Publisher |
: ROC Hardcover |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0451453093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780451453099 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ideal War by : Christopher Kubasik
Author |
: Christopher Kubasik |
Publisher |
: Catalyst Game Labs |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2019-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis BattleTech Legends: Ideal War by : Christopher Kubasik
DOWN IN THE MUD AND BLOOD... Captain Paul Masters, a knight of the House of Marik, is well versed in the art of BattleMech combat. A veteran of countless battles, he personifies the virtues of the Inner Sphere MechWarrior. But when he is sent to evaluate a counterinsurgency operation on a backwater planet, he doesn't find the ideal war he expects. Instead of valiant patriots fighting villainous rebels, he discovers a guerrilla war—both sides have abandoned decency for expediency, ideals for body counts, and honor for victory. It's a dirty, dirty war...and Masters will have to draw on every scrap of combat knowledge he possesses if he's going to find a way out of this mess...
Author |
: Murad Idris |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2018-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190658038 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190658037 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis War for Peace by : Murad Idris
Peace is a universal ideal, but its political life is a great paradox: "peace" is the opposite of war, but it also enables war. If peace is the elimination of war, then what does it mean to wage war for the sake of peace? What does peace mean when some say that they are committed to it but that their enemies do not value it? Why is it that associating peace with other ideals, like justice, friendship, security, and law, does little to distance peace from war? Although political theory has dealt extensively with most major concepts that today define "the political" it has paid relatively scant critical attention to peace, the very concept that is often said to be the major aim and ideal of humanity. In War for Peace, Murad Idris looks at the ways that peace has been treated across the writings of ten thinkers from ancient and modern political thought, from Plato to Immanuel Kant and Sayyid Qutb, to produce an original and striking account of what peace means and how it works. Idris argues that peace is parasitical in that the addition of other ideals into peace, such as law, security, and friendship, reduces it to consensus and actually facilitates war; it is provincial in that its universalized content reflects particularistic desires and fears, constructions of difference, and hierarchies within humanity; and it is polemical, in that its idealization is not only the product of antagonisms, but also enables hostility. War for Peace uncovers the basis of peace's moralities and the political functions of its idealizations, historically and into the present. This bold and ambitious book confronts readers with the impurity of peace as an ideal, and the pressing need to think beyond universal peace.
Author |
: Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1908 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105025380887 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis On War by : Carl von Clausewitz
Author |
: Michael Howard |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2009-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191570858 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191570850 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis War in European History by : Michael Howard
First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far more than a simple military history, the book serves as a succinct and enlightening overview of the development of European society as a whole over the last millennium. From the Norsemen and the world of the medieval knights, through to the industrialized mass warfare of the twentieth century, Michael Howard illuminates the way in which warfare has shaped the history of the Continent, its effect on social and political institutions, and the ways in which technological and social change have in turn shaped the way in which wars are fought. This new edition includes a fully updated further reading and a new final chapter bringing the story into the twenty-first century, including the invasion of Iraq and the so-called 'War against Terror'.
Author |
: Michael C. C. Adams |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2015-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421416670 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421416670 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Best War Ever by : Michael C. C. Adams
"Adams challenges various stereotypes to present a view of World War II that avoids the simplistic extremes of both glorification and vilification. The Best War Ever charts the complex diplomatic problems of the 1930s and reveals the realities of ground combat. Adams exposes the myth that the home front was fully united behind the war effort, demonstrating how class, race, gender, and age divisions split Americans."--Page [4] of cover.
Author |
: Cathal Nolan |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 729 |
Release |
: 2017-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199874651 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199874654 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Allure of Battle by : Cathal Nolan
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains - from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great and Napoleon - play a major role. Wars are decided in other ways. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and wars brief. As he proves persuasively, however, such has almost never been the case. Even the major engagements have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating the erosion of the other side's defences. Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until 1945, have consisted of and been determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, industrial wars in which the determining factor has been not military but matériel. Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of battle's role in war, replacing popular images of the "battles of annihilation" with somber appreciation of the commitments and human sacrifices made throughout centuries of war particularly among the Great Powers. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare.
Author |
: Allen J. Frantzen |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226260853 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226260852 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bloody Good by : Allen J. Frantzen
In the popular imagination, World War I stands for the horror of all wars. The unprecedented scale of the war and the mechanized weaponry it introduced to battle brought an abrupt end to the romantic idea that soldiers were somehow knights in shining armor who always vanquished their foes and saved the day. Yet the concept of chivalry still played a crucial role in how soldiers saw themselves in the conflict. Here for the first time, Allen J. Frantzen traces these chivalric ideals from the Great War back to their origins in the Middle Ages and shows how they resulted in highly influential models of behavior for men in combat. Drawing on a wide selection of literature and images from the medieval period, along with photographs, memorials, postcards, war posters, and film from both sides of the front, Frantzen shows how such media shaped a chivalric ideal of male sacrifice based on the Passion of Jesus Christ. He demonstrates, for instance, how the wounded body of Christ became the inspiration for heroic male suffering in battle. For some men, the Crucifixion inspired a culture of revenge, one in which Christ's bleeding wounds were venerated as badges of valor and honor. For others, Christ's sacrifice inspired action more in line with his teachings—a daring stay of hands or reason not to visit death upon one's enemies. Lavishly illustrated and eloquently written, Bloody Good will be must reading for anyone interested in World War I and the influence of Christian ideas on modern life.
Author |
: Chris Hedges |
Publisher |
: PublicAffairs |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 2014-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610395106 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610395107 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by : Chris Hedges
General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many lives, a fact with which we have become familiar now that America is once again engaged in a military conflict. War is an enticing elixir. It gives us purpose, resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble. Chris Hedges of The New York Times has seen war up close -- in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central America -- and he has been troubled by what he has seen: friends, enemies, colleagues, and strangers intoxicated and even addicted to war's heady brew. In War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, he tackles the ugly truths about humanity's love affair with war, offering a sophisticated, nuanced, intelligent meditation on the subject that is also gritty, powerful, and unforgettable.