In January 2011, South Sudan held a referendum to decide between unity or independence from the central government of Sudan as called for by the Co...

This book looks at the Special Operations Forces (SOF), which are small, elite military units with special training and equipment that can infiltra...

Special Operations are military operations requiring unique modes of employment, tactical techniques, equipment, and training often conducted in ho...

The Special Operations Command (SOCOM) was established to oversee the training, doctrine, and equipping of all U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF)...

This new work explores in detailed color the complex subject of Allgemeine and Waffen-SS uniforms, insignia, and accoutrements. Hundreds of authent...

This book focuses on rebuilding Iraq's oil sector which is crucial to rebuilding Iraq's economy. Oil export revenues account for over half of Iraq'...

Mental health providers are essential to the Department of Defense's (DOD) delivery of health care to servicemembers and other beneficiaries. DOD's...

The central concern of this book is power and influence, a twin concept: how African countries can obtain power and use it properly for the common ...

The United States has been party to multilateral and bilateral agreements addressing the status of U.S. armed forces while present in a foreign cou...

Steel Calvary is the story of the transformation of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments.Twentieth century warfar...

Perfectly blending a vast historical scope with intensely individual viewpoints, this stirring collection of stories brings a man-on-the-ground per...

The Stuart light tanks were the first tanks taken into combat by US troops during WWII. Production of these vehicles can be broken into two categor...

The Sturmgeschütz, or StuG, as it is more popularly known, while conceived as self-propelled, infantry support artillery, in time, formed the backb...

In September 2010, media reports emerged about a new form of cyber attack that appeared to target Iran, although the actual target, if any, is unkn...

The economic challenges facing Africa today are serious. Unlike the period from 1960 to 1973, when economic growth in Sub-Saharan African was relat...

Mochitsura Hashimoto was one of only four Japanese submarine captains to survive. Shortly before the end of WW2 he inflicted the greatest single lo...

This superb book describes the superpowers' involvement in the Iran-Iraq war. The study shows how the superpowers, particularly the United States, ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) play key roles in offering post-combat support to servicemembers and ve...

The appointment of a Supreme Court Justice is an event of major significance in American politics. Each appointment is important because of the eno...

The appointment of a Supreme Court Justice is an event of major significance in American politics. Each appointment is of consequence because of th...

In the sequel to the first volume, which introduced the long sword, Herbert Schmidt explains single-handed sword fighting techniques with a buckler...

U.S. policy toward Taiwan is unique. Since both the Chinese governments on Taiwan and on mainland China held that they alone were China's legitimat...

Today, more than 12,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States use conducted energy devices (CEDs) as an alternative to conventional physica...

War, like love, is an experience that each generation must learn for itself. Born into Russian aristocracy at the end of the 19th Century, Paul Rod...

Air Force war-fighting capabilities have a proud heritage of being born from the very best science and technology our Nation can create; indeed, th...

Curtain in two minutes... one minute! Curtain in one minute! Well, here goes. I have been waiting until the very last moment to put on these damn c...

This book examines the economic, political and social issues facing Thailand today. The authors present topical research including an examination o...

A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military un...

A little-known episode in North America's history, the 1839 Aroostook War was an undeclared war with no actual fighting. It had its roots in the 17...

In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada -- as a nation -- was born on its slopes. But the c...

Since 1946, the world-famous US Navy Blue Angels flying-demonstration team has performed in airshows in the United States and around the world. Thi...

The Colt M1911 is one of the most well-known and popular military weapons of the 20th century. Designed by John Browning, this pistol, with its leg...

Shortlisted, 2018 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingSuggested Reading by the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative AssociationNear...

The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife stands symbolic for daring secret operations that Britain ran during World War II. This book provides an insight...

This detailed, highly-illustrated study presents a unique and comprehensive collection of uniforms, insignia, and equipment used by the French Fore...

The Countess Mountbatten's Own Legion of Frontiersmen was conceived and organized in 1905 as a body of frontier sentinels, and they first published...

Ten years have elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, which served as a fitting symbol for the end of the Cold War. That historic juncture brou...

The German MG (Maschinengewehr) 34, along with the later-war MG 42, was a recoil-operated, air-cooled machine gun and is considered the world’s fir...

"This then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the Canadian Rockies in their entirety -- no single volume will ever do that -- but includin...

The chapters in this volume examine facets in the drama of Jewish existence in the tumultuous years of the Twentieth Century and beyond. They inclu...

The chapters in this volume examine facets in the drama of Jewish existence in the tumultuous years of the Twentieth Century and beyond. They inclu...