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Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itse...
Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton
Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Were the railways vital to Prussia's victory over France in 1870? Was the famous Schlieffen Plan mi...
Martin van Creveld's Moshe Dayan tells the story of one man and of one people, to whom he was a figurehead - a symbol of their patriotism and their de...
At a time when unprecedented change in international affairs is forcing governments, citizens, and armed forces everywhere to re-assess the question o...
German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945
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A Strategic Plan for Peace and Security
"Israel is a tiny country, from tip to toe, it stretches three hundred miles long but is only seventy-eight miles at its widest point. Ever since the ...
'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy. The...
German and US Army Performance, 1939-1945
Analyses the performance of two key parties engaged in fighting during World War II....
Combat from the Marne to Iraq
One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past ...
A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld argues in "The Culture of War" that there is much more to war th...
War and Military Thought
This unique book is the only one to cover the history of military thought in its entirety. Starting with the ancient Chinese writers, and in particula...
The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in dec...
An examination of the nature of war and its radical transformation in our own time. The author argues that the Clausewitzian assumption that war is ra...
From Gladiators to Gigabytes
Where did wargames come from? Who participated in them, and why? How is their development related to changes in real-life warfare? Which aspects of wa...
A renowned military historian tells the story of airpower's rise in the twentieth century-- and argues that its great days are over...
From 2000 B.C. to the Present
In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, l...
Historical Perspectives
'War is a duel written large.' How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone missiles? What led to the human race firing projectiles ...
Ever since Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique back in 1963, all of us have been told that women are discriminated against, oppressed, explo...
A Critical History Of The Israeli Defense Force
Combining razor-sharp analysis with dramatic narrative, vivid portraits of soldiers and commanders with illuminating discussions of battle tactics and...
The Balkan Clue
Dr van Crevland provides provocative answers to some questions surrounding Hitler's Strategy....
Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only two of the many que...
The authors identify and discuss the fundamental concepts and principles of maneuver warfare, compare and contrast it to attrition-style warfare, and ...
The art of making war is among humankind's earliest professions, stretching far back before the written word, when heroic deeds in battles were carved...
The Rise of Modern Israel
The definitive one-volume history of Israel by its most distinguished historian From its Zionist beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century throu...
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Israel is a tiny country. From tip to toe, it stretches 260 miles long but is only 60 miles at its widest point. Since the days of the British mandate...
Tools of mass destruction are in the hands of many third-world countries and feuding nationalities of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Now ...
En nyvurdering af Hitler's strategi i tiden juni 1940 - juni 1941 dvs. den meget betydningsfulde tid efter Frankrigs fald med invasionstrusselen mod E...
A Short History of Prediction
The ability to predict the future is essential to modern life. Planning for population growth or changes in weather patterns or forecasting demand for...
Throughout history, women have been shielded from the heat of battle, their role limited to supporting the men who do the actual fighting. Now all tha...
From Military Professionalism to Irrelevance
Looks at the history of military education, argues that modern officer training is inadequate, and suggests ways to improve the qualities of military ...
This cogent volume--the result of a five-year research project originally commissioned by the Pentagon--gives both general readers and military profes...
From Anarchism to Zhou Enlai
Alphabetically arranged entries cover resistance movements, passive demonstrations, and intellectual and economic revolutions from antiquity to the pr...