Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
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Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Japanese Wartime Standard of Living and Utilization of Manpower
Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
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Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Thoughts on War
Author: Phillip S. Meilinger
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813178916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
War is changing. Unlike when modern military doctrine was forged, the United States no longer mobilizes massive land forces for direct political gain. Instead, the US fights small, overseas wars by global mandate to overthrow dictators, destroy terrorist groups, and broker regional peace. These conflicts hardly resemble the total wars fought and expected by foundational military theorists such as Carl von Clausewitz, yet their paradigms are ingrained in modern thinking. The twenty-first-century's new geopolitical situation demands new principles for warfare—deemphasizing decisive land victory in favor of airpower, intelligence systems, and indigenous ground forces. In Thoughts on War, Phillip S. Meilinger confronts the shortcomings of US military dogma in search of a new strategic doctrine. Inter-service rivalries and conventional theories failed the US in lengthy Korea, Vietnam, and Middle East conflicts. Jettisoning traditional perspectives and their focus on decisive battles, Meilinger revisits historical campaigns looking for answers to more persistent challenges—how to coordinate forces, manipulate time, and fight on two fronts. This provocative collection of new and expanded essays offers a fresh, if controversial, perspective on time-honored military values, one which encourages a critical revision of US military strategy.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813178916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
War is changing. Unlike when modern military doctrine was forged, the United States no longer mobilizes massive land forces for direct political gain. Instead, the US fights small, overseas wars by global mandate to overthrow dictators, destroy terrorist groups, and broker regional peace. These conflicts hardly resemble the total wars fought and expected by foundational military theorists such as Carl von Clausewitz, yet their paradigms are ingrained in modern thinking. The twenty-first-century's new geopolitical situation demands new principles for warfare—deemphasizing decisive land victory in favor of airpower, intelligence systems, and indigenous ground forces. In Thoughts on War, Phillip S. Meilinger confronts the shortcomings of US military dogma in search of a new strategic doctrine. Inter-service rivalries and conventional theories failed the US in lengthy Korea, Vietnam, and Middle East conflicts. Jettisoning traditional perspectives and their focus on decisive battles, Meilinger revisits historical campaigns looking for answers to more persistent challenges—how to coordinate forces, manipulate time, and fight on two fronts. This provocative collection of new and expanded essays offers a fresh, if controversial, perspective on time-honored military values, one which encourages a critical revision of US military strategy.
Long Night’s Journey into Day
Author: Charles G. Roland
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 155458776X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity. Long Night’s Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at Hong Kong in December 1941 and incarcerated in camps in Hong Kong and the Japanese Home Islands. Experiences of American POWs in the Philippines, and British and Australians POWs in Singapore, are interwoven throughout the book. Starvation and diseases such as diphtheria, beriberi, dysentery, and tuberculosis afflicted all these unfortunate men, affecting their lives not only in the camps during the war but after they returned home. Yet despite the dispiriting circumstances of their captivity, these men found ways to improve their existence, keeping up their morale with such events as musical concerts and entertainments created entirely within the various camps. Based largely on hundreds of interviews with former POWs, as well as material culled from archives around the world, Professor Roland details the extremes the prisoners endured — from having to eat fattened maggots in order to live to choosing starvation by trading away their skimpy rations for cigarettes. No previous book has shown the essential relationship between almost universal ill health and POW life and death, or provides such a complete and unbiased account of POW life in the Far East in the 1940s.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 155458776X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity. Long Night’s Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at Hong Kong in December 1941 and incarcerated in camps in Hong Kong and the Japanese Home Islands. Experiences of American POWs in the Philippines, and British and Australians POWs in Singapore, are interwoven throughout the book. Starvation and diseases such as diphtheria, beriberi, dysentery, and tuberculosis afflicted all these unfortunate men, affecting their lives not only in the camps during the war but after they returned home. Yet despite the dispiriting circumstances of their captivity, these men found ways to improve their existence, keeping up their morale with such events as musical concerts and entertainments created entirely within the various camps. Based largely on hundreds of interviews with former POWs, as well as material culled from archives around the world, Professor Roland details the extremes the prisoners endured — from having to eat fattened maggots in order to live to choosing starvation by trading away their skimpy rations for cigarettes. No previous book has shown the essential relationship between almost universal ill health and POW life and death, or provides such a complete and unbiased account of POW life in the Far East in the 1940s.
Impact of Air Attack in World War II
Author: United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Impact of Air Attack in World War II
Author: Stanford Research Institute
Publisher:
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Publisher:
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Japanese War Production Industries. Military Supplies Division
Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Publisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Final Report Covering Air-raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Japan
Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Civilian Defense Division
Publisher:
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Category : Bombs
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bombs
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japan's War Economy
Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher:
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Category : Bombing, Aerial
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bombing, Aerial
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Fifth Air Force in the War Against Japan
Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Air Forces Allied with the United States in the War Against Japan
Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description