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Mountain Warfare and Other Lofty Problems Foreign Perspectives on High Altitude Combat

Mountain Warfare and Other Lofty Problems: Foreign Perspectives on High-Altitude Combat (Les Grau and Charles Bartles)

By Kevin O'Connell | 05/18/2011 | Comments Off on Mountain Warfare and Other Lofty Problems: Foreign Perspectives on High-Altitude Combat (Les Grau and Charles Bartles)

(Click image to download book.) There is long history of writings on mountain combat that include such luminaries as Clausewitz…

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Passing It On Fighting the Pushtun on Afghanistans Frontiers General Sir Andrew Skeen. Les Grau and Robert Baer

Passing It On: Fighting the Pushtun on Afghanistan’s Frontiers (General Sir Andrew Skeen. Les Grau and Robert Baer)

By Kevin O'Connell | 05/25/2010 | Comments Off on Passing It On: Fighting the Pushtun on Afghanistan’s Frontiers (General Sir Andrew Skeen. Les Grau and Robert Baer)

(Click image to download book.) This is a reproduction of a 1932 book published by General Skeen, who began fighting…

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The Dragons Quantum Leap Transforming from a Mechanized to an Informatized Force Timothy L. Thomas

The Dragon’s Quantum Leap: Transforming from a Mechanized to an Informatized Force (Timothy L. Thomas)

By Kevin O'Connell | 05/25/2009 | Comments Off on The Dragon’s Quantum Leap: Transforming from a Mechanized to an Informatized Force (Timothy L. Thomas)

(Click image to download book.) Chinese observations of warfare in the information age have resulted in a widespread transformation and…

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Future War Makhmut Gareev and Vladimir Slipchenko

Future War (Makhmut Gareev and Vladimir Slipchenko)

By Kevin O'Connell | 05/25/2007 | Comments Off on Future War (Makhmut Gareev and Vladimir Slipchenko)

(Click image to download book.) In 2005, the Foreign Military Studies Office hosted a unique conference featuring two of Russia’s…

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Decoding the Virtual Dragon Critical Evolutions in the Science and Philosophy of Chinas Information Operations

Decoding the Virtual Dragon: Critical Evolutions in the Science and Philosophy of China’s Information Operations and Military Strategy (Timothy L. Thomas)

By Kevin O'Connell | 05/25/2007 | Comments Off on Decoding the Virtual Dragon: Critical Evolutions in the Science and Philosophy of China’s Information Operations and Military Strategy (Timothy L. Thomas)

(Click image to download book.) This book expands upon Dragon Bytes, the author’s earlier work on Chinese information warfare (IW)…

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The New Great Game Chinese Views on Central Asia Charles Hawkins and Robert Love

The New Great Game: Chinese Views on Central Asia (Charles Hawkins and Robert Love)

By Kevin O'Connell | 08/17/2005 | Comments Off on The New Great Game: Chinese Views on Central Asia (Charles Hawkins and Robert Love)

(Click image to download book.) In August 2005, ten top Chinese scholars traveled to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)…

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Cyber Silhouettes Shadows Over Information Operations Timothy L. Thomas

Cyber Silhouettes: Shadows Over Information Operations (Timothy L. Thomas)

By Kevin O'Connell | 05/25/2005 | Comments Off on Cyber Silhouettes: Shadows Over Information Operations (Timothy L. Thomas)

(Click image to download book.) This book explores the impact of the Cyber Age on military thinking and operations worldwide.…

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Dragon Bytes Chinese Information War Theory and Practice Timothy L. Thomas

Dragon Bytes: Chinese Information War Theory and Practice (Timothy L. Thomas)

By Kevin O'Connell | 05/25/2004 | Comments Off on Dragon Bytes: Chinese Information War Theory and Practice (Timothy L. Thomas)

(Click image to download book.) This work examines China’s information-war (IW) theory and practice from 1995-2003. The effort rests upon…

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The Other Side of the Mountain Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet Afghan War Ali A. Jalali and Lester Grau

The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War (Ali A. Jalali and Lester Grau)

By Kevin O'Connell | 05/25/1998 | Comments Off on The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War (Ali A. Jalali and Lester Grau)

(Click image to download book.) In 1996, The USMC commissioned Ali Jalali and Les Grau to travel to Afghanistan and…

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The Bear Went Over the Mountain Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan Les Grau

The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan (Les Grau)

By Kevin O'Connell | 08/25/1996 | Comments Off on The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan (Les Grau)

(Click image to download book.) This book was written by Soviet officers who had served in Afghanistan and returned for…

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