Military History

This is a hiqh quality reprint of the hihgly sought after 1958 (third) edition of the official manual issued by the Office of the Director of Operations, Federation of Malaya. Essential reading to all...

First published in 1983 this detailed study has only now been made generally available. The Russians have a long history of fighting what are now called unconventional wars. Certainly since the 18th C...

During the height of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy called the Minuteman missile his "ace in the hole." For much of the Cold War, Minuteman missile sites harbored America's m...

Originally published in 2000 by the United States Army Center of Military History. Examines the institutional origins of modern Army Aviation by recounting the experiences of the men who flew observed...

Chapters are headed as follows: Introduction; Organization; Logistics; Training; Initial Operations; Infantry Patrols; Mounted Detachments; Convoys and Convoy Escorts; Aviaton; River Operations; Disar...

Originally published in 1990, this pertinent study focuses on the purely operational and strategic lessons of the war in Afghanistan. It insists that lessons of these kinds were present and that they ...

Provides a narrative analysis of US Army reconnaissance, scout, and cavalry evolution from the post-World War I era through the Iraqi conflict. It outlines key developments in the concepts governing r...

Examines the almost continual efforts of British and Indian soldiers (both regular and irregular) to combat and pacify the Pashtun tribes of the North-West Frontier. It will also examine the tactics e...