Russia has undertaken several largely piecemeal and halting efforts to revamp the armed forces it inherited from the Soviet Union. In 2007, near th...

This book covers all of the various fighter aircraft designed and employed by Russian forces during the years 1920-1941.

Russia launched the war against Georgia in August 2008 for highly valued strategic and geopolitical objectives, which included de facto annexation ...

Russian Negotiating Strategy Analytic Case Studies From Salt & Start

Increasingly, the armed forces have a vision of security as emphasising hard rather than soft security, a view which has come to the forefront in M...

From summer 1941, some 100,000 Russians served in the German Wehrmacht, mostly as so called Schutzmannschaften under the command of the German Poli...

Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. I...

A story of sacrifice and heroism, Sane in Damascus tells the compelling and engaging tale of Amnon Sharon, an officer in the Israel Defense Forces ...

Eugen Sänger's proposed manned, bi-fuel, liquid rocket-powered orbital bomber was truly mid-1940s high tech. The world's first intercontinental bom...

This book covers the design and construction of the two well-known SōryÅ" and HiryÅ" carriers, and the lesser-known ships of the UnryÅ" class, and...

While initally labeled as a troublesome aircraft, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver went on to be noted for striking more Japanese targets than any other ...

The Douglas Dauntless was the US Navy's frontline dive-bomber in the early days of WWII. Even after the larger and more powerful Helldiver joined t...

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...