Weapons & Equipment

Congress has long been concerned about whether U.S. policy advances the national interest in reducing the role of the People''''s Republic of China...

While the 20th century brought many technological advancements to the battlefield, a key weapon of warfare remains the soldier and his rifle. Th...

Hoping to deter the Union navy from aggressive action on southern waterways during the Civil War, the Confederacy led the way in developing torp...

This book assesses current views of the body armour used by the Roman army and its development, melding these with the archaeological evidence avai...

Connecticut in the American Civil War offers readers a remarkable window into the state's involvement in a conflict that challenged and defined the...

In this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, Mary R. Habeck traces the strategies devel...

This book explores the origins, development, combat use and lasting influence of Nazi Germanys automatic rifles, focusing on the Gew 41(W), Gew 43/...

German Machine Guns of the Second World War is a highly illustrated record of the German war machine between 1939 - 1945. Many of the photograph...

Weapons of mass destruction (WMD), especially in the hands of radical states and terrorists, represent a major threat to U.S. national security int...