Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Internet
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Defense Viewpoint
Author: Hold the Marianas
Author: D. Colt DenfeldPublisher: White Mane Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Hold the Marianas is the first English language account of the World War II battle of the Marianas from the Japanese perspective. Employing diaries, messages, and oral histories in the English, Japanese, and Korean languages, the author demonstrates that the Japanese commanders were their own worst enemy. Despite the importance of the Marianas to the survival of the home islands, they were slowly reinforced and defended at the beach line, a terrible choice, in light of American naval and air bombardment capabilities. The book explains why the leadership held to this flawed defense. Hold the Marianas describes how the Japanese high command finally came to realize its errors. The result was better dug-in troops at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, prolonging the battles and inflicting higher American casualties. Had an in-depth defense been used in the Marianas, American casualties might have been four or five times greater.
America's Defense
Author: Carol WekesserPublisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Offers differing views on the issues related to America's defense.
Nonoffensive Defense
Author: Unidir United Nations Institute For Disarmament ResearchPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000263444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book, first published in 1990, examines the theories on ‘nonoffensive’ or ‘nonprovocative’ defence that arose at the end of the Cold War. The debate around the theories is analysed here, including the claims that nonoffensive defence would lead to conventional stability, security at lower levels of armaments, and reduce suspicion leading to peace and stability.
American Defense Policy in Perspective
Author: Raymond Gish O'ConnorPublisher: New York : Wiley
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942
Author: Clayton DonnellPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473879264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This vividly detailed WWII history chronicles one of the hardest-fought battles of the Crimea Campaign. In December 1941, while America was reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and the offensives of the German Army Groups North and Center were stalled in the brutal Russian winter, the German Eleventh Army encircled the vast fortress of Sevastopol in the Crimea. The Red Army faced massive air, artillery and land attacks against their heavily defended positions in one of the most remarkable campaigns in the history of modern warfare: The Siege of Sevastopol. Drawing on his expert knowledge of the history of modern fortifications, Donnell describes the design and development of the Red Army’s formidable base at Sevastopol. He then chronicles the sequence of attacks mounted by the Wehrmacht against the city’s strongpoints. The forts and bunkers had to be taken one by one in a bitter six-month struggle with sever casualties on both sides. Using documentary records and a range of personal accounts, Clayton Donnell reconstructs the events and experience of the campaign in vivid detail.
Our Missing Shield
Author: Harry Beller YoshpePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective
Author: Catherine McArdle KelleherPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804796564
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's overarching concept for American missile defense focuses on developing both a national system of limited ground-based defenses, located in Alaska and California, intended to counter limited intercontinental threats, and regionally-based missile defenses consisting of mobile ground-based technologies like the Patriot PAC-3 system, and sea-based Aegis-equipped destroyer and cruisers. The volume is intended to stimulate renewed debates in strategic studies and public policy circles over the contribution of regional and national missile defense to global security. Written from a range of perspectives by practitioners and academics, the book provides a rich source for understanding the technologies, history, diplomacy, and strategic implications of the gradual evolution of American missile defense plans. Experts and non-experts alike—whether needing to examine the offense-defense tradeoffs anew, to engage with a policy update, or to better understand the debate as it relates to a country or region—will find this book invaluable. While it opens the door to the debates, however, it does not find or offer easy solutions—because they do not exist.
Acquiring Defense Systems
Author: David D. AckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Strategic Defense
Author: Keith B. PaynePublisher: University Press of America
ISBN:
Category : Strategic Defense Initiative
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Surveys current U.S. nuclear policy, and discusses the feasibility of the Star Wars program, arms control, U.S.-Soviet relations, and the morality of the Initiative.
