This book covers the primary armored fighting vehicle of the Panzer-Grenadiers, the SchÃ"tzenpanzerwagen.

During the last decades of the 1800s and the first decade of the 1900s, some of the most elegant and colorful military service caps (schirmmützen) ...

This book presents, in words and pictures, the history of the Schutzstaffeln from their formation as escort aircraft, to their being renamed Schlac...

Information technology has become pervasive in every way, from our phones and other small devices to our enterprise networks to the infrastructure ...

Among the different Luftwaffe units that formed the Legion Condor, one in particular stands out for its important Naval Air contribution: the Aufkl...

Ballistic missile defense (BMD) has been a key national security priority for some time, even though such interest has been ongoing since the end o...

The B-24 Liberatorâ€equipped organization that evolved from its original 2nd Bomb Wing status to a Divisional level commenced operations out of Eas...

This is the comprehensive story of some of the most radical attack aircraft ever designed to operate from an aircraft carrier. These incredible pro...

The P1101 was Messerschmitts second jet aircraft after the Me 262. Designed as a fighter, the test version of this type was to serve as an experime...

This new book covers the great variety of secret and largely unknown German missile programs: GUIDED MISSILES: Ruhrstahl/Kramer X1 "Fritz-X", Hensc...

Historically, the U.S. military's Special Operations Forces (SOF) have had primary responsibility for training, advising and assisting foreign mili...

The United States is relying heavily on private firms to supply a wide variety of services in Iraq, including security. Based on the information av...

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence initiated an investigation in November 2011 to inquire into the counter-intelligence and secur...

The United States maintains about 285 diplomatic facilities worldwide. Attacks on such facilities, and on U.S. diplomatic personnel, are not infreq...

The United States has exported special nuclear material, including enriched uranium, and source material such as natural uranium under nuclear co-o...

Psychological Warfare is by no means a new concept in warfare. To the layman however, this particular aspect of armed conflict has seldom been gree...

In 2015 No.3 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force celebrated 50 years of continuous helicopter operations since it reformed in 1965. Seek and Destr...

After completing a tour of duty (thirty-five missions) in B-17s, Bert Stiles transferred to a fighter squadron. Just four months later he was kille...

Recognising the special burdens that members of the military may encounter trying to meet their financial obligations while serving their country, ...

Sexual harassment is a form of unlawful discrimination that can jeopardise the military's combat readiness and mission accomplishment by weakening ...

This book examines how the Department of Defense and its Armed Services -- the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force (the Services) respond to Se...

Females have long been viewed as the primary victims of sexual assault but, based on survey data, RAND estimated that in 2014, about 9,000 to about...

Civilians in Africa's conflict zones, particularly women and children, are often vulnerable to sexual violence, including rape, mutilation and sexu...

This book documents the development and production of the M4A1 through its many variations, as well as its combat use around the globe. Produced by...

Volume 2 on the famed Sherman medium tank covers the welded-hull, radial-engine-equipped M4 and documents its development and production through it...

Powered by twin General Motors diesel engines, the M4A2 Sherman was the standard tank of the US Marine Corps during WWII. In such service, having a...

Powered by a massive Ford V-8 engine, the M4A3 Sherman was the standard tank of the US Army during the later stages of WWII, as well as the Korean ...

The M4A4, also known at the Sherman V, with its unusual 30-cylinder Multibank engine, was the type of Sherman most widely used by Commonwealth forc...

This book is the first publication that documents and displays copies of the drawings, paintings and samples submitted of every officially authoriz...

Originally designed in 1952 as an anti-submarine warfare platform for the U.S. Navy, almost two-thousand Sikorsky H-34s have served on every contin...

In The Sikorsky HH-52A, noted historian Lennart Lundh presents this diminutive helicopter's story for the first time. Covered are design details, i...

"Silver Wings & Leather Jackets" is the sixth book in Jon Maguire's definitive series on the uniforms and insignia of U.S. Army aviation from W...

This book covers the last chapter, the decline and fall of the air defense of Germany. It is a diary of losses and a chronicle in which the fighter...

This book presents the history of the second largest arms manufacturer in Europe, the Skoda Works, and of those of its heavy guns that were transpo...

This comprehensive, full-color guide features dozens of images of slings from various cultures, both ancient and contemporary. Slings had great sig...

Urban geographic inquiry has for decades been biased towards a focus on larger cities and metropolitan areas, both in the developed and developing ...