Military Engineering

This unprecedented photographic collection contains 125 stunning black and white photographs of the battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ...

In 1786 the French navy had just emerged from its most successful war of the eighteenth century, and the reputation of its ship design and fighting...

After eight challenging years in Afghanistan, the new U.S. strategy, aimed at winning hearts and minds rather than search-and-destroy, refocuses th...

The Royal Aircraft Establishment(RAE) at Farnborough was well known as a world leading centre for aerospace research and development in the Twentie...

Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected resea...

William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerstons extensive programme of fortification against a feare...

A sonobuoy is a sophisticated underwater device capable of detecting and locating the source of underwater sounds. Sonobuoys -short for sonar-buoy-...

Chinas Warring States era (ca. 5th3rd century BCE) was the setting for an explosion of textual production, and one of the most sophisticated and en...

In the clash of ideologies represented by the Cold War, even the heavens were not immune to militarization. Satellites and space programs became cr...

This book is for the young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Marine Corps. It will walk him or her through the enlistment a...

The question of how the United States should respond to China''''s military modernisation effort, including its naval modernisation effort, has eme...