Название: This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
Автор: Alan Pell Crawford
Издательство: Knopf
ISBN: 0593318501
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 30,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

A groundbreaking, important recovery of history; the overlooked story—fully explored—of the critical aspect of America’s Revolutionary War that was fought in the South, showing that the British surrender at Yorktown was the direct result of the southern campaign, and that the battles that emerged south of the Mason-Dixon line between loyalists to the Crown and patriots who fought for independence were, in fact, America’s first civil war.

Название: Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic
Автор: Thomas Sheppard
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 264
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic tells the story of the creation of the American Navy. Rather than focus on the well-known frigate duels and fleet engagements, Thomas Sheppard emphasizes the overlooked story of the institutional formation of the Navy. Sheppard looks at civilian control of the military, and how this concept evolved in the early American republic.

Название: Fighting in the electromagnetic spectrum
Автор: Thomas Wildenberg
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 304
Размер: 6,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Naval warfare was confined for centuries to surface combat, or undersea clashes. In the twentieth century aerial warfare became the third domain and shortly thereafter, the electromagnetic spectrum also appeared. Until now, little has been written about this important aspect of military conflict on the high seas. In Fighting in the Electromagnetic Spectrum author Thomas Wildenberg provides the first book covering these aircraft, their missions, and the methodology of conducting combat in all its forms along this fourth domain, the electromagnetic spectrum.

Название: Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang
Автор: Kenneth Swope
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 168247285X
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 456
Размер: 15,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Struggle for Empire provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and military commander, Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885). A national hero in China, Zuo’s remarkable story remains understudied in the West. Author Kenneth Swope traces Zuo's unlikely rise from poverty and obscurity in rural Hunan province to become the most powerful Han Chinese official in Manchu China.

Название: Sea Power and the American Interest: From the Civil War to the Great War
Автор: John F Morton
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682479110
Год: 2024
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 392
Размер: 35,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the Civil War to the Great War, the transatlantic commercial trading system that dated from the nation’s colonial times continued in America. By 1900, the sustainability of this Atlantic System was in the material interest of an industrial America on which its aggregate national prosperity depended.

Название: Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research, 2nd Edition
Автор: Natalie M. Scala, James P. Howard, II
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2025
Страниц: 575
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 34.3 MB

Tracing its roots back to World War II, operations research (OR) has become a vital tool in military and defense strategy. The second edition of the Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research highlights this evolution, showcasing how OR integrates with cutting-edge areas like Artificial Intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and Big Data analytics. This volume is more than a historical account; it is a practical guide. The volume features expert voices and offers insights into OR applications in modern security challenges. Readers will discover a blend of theory and real-world case studies, making it an essential resource for both newcomers and seasoned defense analysis professionals. Operations research (OR) is a core discipline in military and defense management. Coming to the forefront initially during World War II, OR provided critical contributions to logistics, supply chains, and strategic simulation, while enabling superior decision making for Allied forces. Since these early days, OR has grown to include analytics and many applications, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and machine learning, and is the cornerstone of management science in manufacturing, marketing, telecommunications, and many other fields. The Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research presents the voices leading OR and analytics to new heights in security through research, practical applications, case studies, and lessons learned in the field. No longer constrained to printed tables and traditional optimization problems, OR and analytics support a dynamic problem space that has applications for national security, policing, cyberspace, foreign policy, terrorism, and homeland security. Because of this, there is a critical need for students, practitioners, military, and security analysts to understand the problem space, best practices, and lessons learned from real‑life problems.

Название: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Responsibility of States: Challenges and Possibilities
Автор: Lutiana Valadares Fernandes Barbosa
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2025
Страниц: 256
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

The contemporary landscape of armed conflict is undergoing a profound transformation, marked by the escalating integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) into military arsenals. This book reviews whether the existing framework in place can effectively address breaches in the context of Autonomous Weapons Systems. The work endeavors to map out the main gaps and some possible approaches to address them. Part I sets the ground. First, it provides a concept of AWS. Next, it discusses the accountability gap AWS generate and shows how the international community has put far more emphasis on individual responsibility rather than state responsibility. Part II analyzes the challenges AWS pose to the regime governing state responsibility under international law, as codified in the Draft Articles on State Responsibility (ARSIWA). Slijper, Beck and Kayser, affirm that “Lethal autonomous weapon systems are weapons that can select and attack individual targets without meaningful human control. This means the decision on whether a weapon should deploy lethal force is delegated to a machine. This development would have an enormous effect on the way war is conducted and has been called the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and the atomic bomb.” Most of the discussed definitions converge that AWS can select and engage targets without human intervention, can gather and analyze information, and use force autonomously. The Future for Life Institute also envisions autonomy as a task-oriented and explicit AI feature by defining AWS as “weapon systems that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify, select, and kill targets without human intervention.” It is AI that makes AWS’s decision-making process possible because it enables the devices to pursue the entire OODA loop autonomously, especially when analyzing data and opting for a course of action.

Название: Истребитель Ла-5: Сломавший хребет Люфтваффе
Автор: Якубович Н.
Издательство: М.: Яуза; Коллекция; Эксмо
Год: 2009
Cтраниц: 118, ил.
Формат: pdf
Размер: 42 мб
Язык: русский

История создания Ла-5 драматична и парадоксальна. Это история чудесного превращения откровенно неудачной машины, прозванной летчиками «лакированным гарантированным гробом», в один из лучших истребителей Второй мировой войны. Установка на перетяжеленный и неповоротливый ЛаГГ-3 нового мощного мотора буквально преобразила этот грузный тихоходный самолет в великолепный Ла-5 — скоростной, приемистый, маневренный, мало в чем уступавший лучшим истребителям Люфтваффе. А модернизированные Ла-5ФН не только догнали, но и превзошли последние модификации «фоккеров» и «мессеров», обеспечив нашей авиации господство в воздухе. Именно на «Лавочкиных» воевали двое из пяти лучших советских асов — непревзойденный Иван Кожедуб, на боевом счету которого 63 победы, и Кирилл Евстигнеев, сбивший 56 самолетов противника. Советское правительство высоко оценило труд создателей прославленного истребителя.

Название: АЛЯСКА — СИБИРЬ. Трасса мужества
Автор: Негенбля И.Е.
Издательство: Якутский край
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 266
Размер: 30,7 Мб
Язык: русский

Очерки о воздушной трассе Аляска — Сибирь, по которой в годы второй мировой войны американские и советские авиаторы доставили из США в СССР около 8 тысяч самолетов, бомбардировщиков, истребителей, транспортных и др. Общая протяженность трассы от американского Фэрбанкса до сибирского Красноярска составляла 6,5 тыс. км, из них по территории СССР – 5 тыс. км. С завода в США до фронта в СССР самолету приходилось преодолевать до 14 тыс. км. Организация трассы Алсиб стала возможной благодаря соглашению о ленд-лизе – программе поставок Соединенными Штатами товаров союзникам во Вторую мировую войну.

Название: Holy Wars: The Rise and Impact of the Crusades: Unraveling the Intricacies and Legacies of the Medieval Crusades
Автор: ChatStick Team
Издательство: ChatStick Team
ISBN: 8872057361
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 137
Размер: 16,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Spanning over two centuries, this insightful book offers a vivid portrayal of the Crusades, beginning from the fervent call to arms by Pope Urban II to the eventual fall of the Crusader states. Discover the intricate tapestry of religious fervor, political intrigue, and cultural exchange that defined this era.