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Author |
: Robert H. Scales |
Publisher |
: US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1682471020 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781682471029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scales on War by : Robert H. Scales
"Scales on War is a collection of ideas, concepts, and observations about contemporary war taken from over thirty years of research, writing, and personal experience by retired Maj. Gen. Bob Scales. Each chapter addresses a distinct topic facing the upcoming prospects of America's military, including tactical ground warfare, future gazing, the draft, and the role of women in the infantry. Fusing all of these topics together is Scales' belief that, throughout its history, the United States has favored a technological approach to fighting its wars and has neglected its ground forces."--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Bob Scales |
Publisher |
: Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2016-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781626741034 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1626741034 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scales on War by : Bob 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 Americn 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.
Author |
: Robert H. Scales |
Publisher |
: Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 1998-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781612340777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1612340776 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Certain Victory 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.
Author |
: Robert H. Scales |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2005-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0742517748 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780742517745 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Yellow Smoke 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!
Author |
: M G (Ret) Robert H Scales |
Publisher |
: AuthorHouse |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 2022-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781665576598 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1665576596 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Scales Family History by : M G (Ret) Robert H Scales
Since early childhood Major General “Bob” Scales had always wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps to be a soldier. His story is an Army story. It tells of three generations of service by a family that, beginning with two World War II officers, spawned six decades of service to the Nation. General Scales and his wife, Diana, have lived through twenty nine military moves, a near death experience in Vietnam, seven year’s separation and eleven overseas assignments, to forge a partnership of service very rare in America today. These pages tell in vignette style a piece of military history from early days in the Philippines, through post war Germany, Vietnam and Cold War Europe. Scales’ career from West Point cadet to general officer offers a view of military life unique to a culture increasingly forgotten today.
Author |
: Williamson Murray |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2005-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674041295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674041291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Iraq War by : Williamson Murray
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.
Author |
: Helen Scales |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2015-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472911377 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472911377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spirals in Time by : Helen Scales
The beautifully written story of shells and their makers, and our relationships with them. Seashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are some of the most ancient and successful animals on the planet. But watch out. Some molluscs can kill you if you eat them. Some will kill you if you stand too close. That hasn't stopped people using shells in many ways over thousands of years. They became the first jewelry and oldest currencies; they've been used as potent symbols of sex and death, prestige and war, not to mention a nutritious (and tasty) source of food. Spirals in Time is an exuberant aquatic romp, revealing amazing tales of these undersea marvels. Helen Scales leads us on a journey into their realm, as she goes in search of everything from snails that 'fly' underwater on tiny wings to octopuses accused of stealing shells and giant mussels with golden beards that were supposedly the source of Jason's golden fleece, and learns how shells have been exchanged for human lives, tapped for mind-bending drugs and inspired advances in medical technology. Weaving through these stories are the remarkable animals that build them, creatures with fascinating tales to tell, a myriad of spiralling shells following just a few simple rules of mathematics and evolution. Shells are also bellwethers of our impact on the natural world. Some species have been overfished, others poisoned by polluted seas; perhaps most worryingly of all, molluscs are expected to fall victim to ocean acidification, a side-effect of climate change that may soon cause shells to simply melt away. But rather than dwelling on what we risk losing, Spirals in Time urges you to ponder how seashells can reconnect us with nature, and heal the rift between ourselves and the living world.
Author |
: Stephen Deas |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2012-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101575499 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101575492 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Order of the Scales by : Stephen Deas
Having survived Jehal's betrayal, former Queen Zafir is determined to take back control of the kingdom. To that end, she seizes Jehal's wife and son as hostages. Desperate to save his queen and his heir, Jehal makes a tentative peace with the dragons of the north, and prepares to fly against his enemies. But as politics throw the realms of men into turmoil, a far greater danger threatens. The dragons are awakening from the spells cast upon them, and returning to their native fury. They are out for revenge. And that revenge will be brutal.
Author |
: Anton Myrer |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 1312 |
Release |
: 2013-03-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062039095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062039091 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Once an Eagle by : Anton Myrer
“Once an Eagle is simply the best work of fiction on leadership in print.” —General Martin E. Dempsey, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Required reading for West Point and Marine Corps cadets, Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self-interest. Massengale, however, brilliantly advances by making the right connections behind the lines and in Washington's corridors of power. Beginning in the French countryside during the Great War, the conflict between these adversaries solidifies in the isolated garrison life marking peacetime, intensifies in the deadly Pacific jungles of World War II, and reaches its treacherous conclusion in the last major battleground of the Cold War—Vietnam. Now reissued with a new foreword by acclaimed historian Carlo D'Este, here is an unforgettable story of a man who embodies the best in our nation—and in us all.
Author |
: Ailsa Wild |
Publisher |
: Graphic Universe& 8482 |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781541545281 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1541545281 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Invisible War by : Ailsa Wild
A striking World War I graphic novel that combines historical fiction and an incredible microscopic look at the defenses of the human body.