Military Administration

The Home Guard was formed in 1940 to fight an uncompromising and essentially suicidal campaign that was to buy a few hours grace for the regular fo...

Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach, but it also marches in its boots and its uniforms, carrying or driving its weapons and ...

Marine Maxims is a collection of fifty principle-based leadership lessons that Thomas J. Gordon acquired commanding Marines over a career spanning ...

Col. Wesley Fox is a Medal of Honor recipient who wrote two widely-admired accounts of his wartime experiences in the Marine Corps. His Marine Rifl...

The training which in ordinary times would form the course of study for years now has to be crammed into a few months, and it stands to reason that...

After he was selected to be NATO's sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander, The New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a Renaissance admiral. A U. S....

Much has been written about the 302 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were executed for military offences during the First World War, but there...

Since its establishment in 1930 the Irish Military College has had a vital influence on not only the Defence Forces but on the nation. It has forme...

Historian Chris Bray (a former soldier) tells the sweeping story of military justice from the institution of the American court martial in the earl...

The Untold War draws on revealing interviews with servicemen and -women to offer keen psychological and philosophical insights into the experience ...

Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospe...

The most shocking year in history. Week by week, hour by hour.In his brilliant reconstruction, Richard Collier vividly brings one of the most momen...

Since 2001 and the beginning of the War on Terror, Canadian culture has undergone a profound militarization. Moving away from previous myths of nat...

Northern ''Q'': The History of Royal Air Force, Leuchars takes its title from the long standing primary role as one of the oldest airfields in the...

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

China is modernizing her military very rapidly and as her economy strengthens, the pace of military modernization is going to touch higher trajecto...

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...

We are at a time when international law and the law of war are particularly important. The testing of nuclear weapons that is being used in the rhe...

''Teutonic Titans: Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the Kaiser''s Military Elite'' covers the era 1847-1955-heavily illustrated with over 500 images of ...

In September 2010, James G. Pierce, a retired U.S. Army colonel with the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barra...

This book challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice...

This is the first book ever to present the authentic ninja techniques in a highly accessible, illustrated 'how to' format. The shadowy figure of th...

Inspired by a collection of letters received by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle during the First World War, Philip Abbott sets out to explore the inspiratio...

THE PERFECT STOCKING FILLER for anyone who thinks they''''d survive the world''''s most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do.--...

On the night of 20 November 1914, everything pointed to the likelihood of invasion by a German army, whisked across the North Sea on a fleet of fas...

Normandy, Flanders Field and other overseas cemeteries of the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) are well known. However, lesser-known bu...

From the earliest days of the republic, America''''s Armed Forces have been compensated by military pay, commonly known as basic pay. While the o...

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

Enacted on 1 August 2011, the Budget Control Act (BCA) as amended sets limits on defense spending between FY2012 and FY2021 that are playing a sign...

The United States cannot be confident that our critical Information Technology (IT) systems will work under attack from a sophisticated and well-re...

With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms...

The Administration requested $523.9 billion to cover the FY2017 discretionary base budget of the Department of Defense (DOD). This request is $2.2 ...

The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and ser...

During the Civil War, Confederate military courts sentenced to death more soldiers from North Carolina than from any other state. This study off...