Название: The AI Wave in Defence Innovation: Assessing Military Artificial Intelligence Strategies, Capabilities, and Trajectories
Автор: Michael Raska, Richard A. Bitzinger
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2023
Страниц: 287
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

An international and interdisciplinary perspective on the adoption and governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in defence and military innovation by major and middle powers. Advancements in AI and ML pose pressing questions related to evolving conceptions of military power, compliance with international humanitarian law, peace promotion, strategic stability, arms control, future operational environments, and technology races. To navigate the breadth of this AI and international security agenda, the contributors to this book include experts on AI, technology governance, and defence innovation to assess military AI strategic perspectives from major and middle AI powers alike. These include views of how the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, the European Union, and Russia see AI/ML as a technology with the potential to reshape military affairs and power structures in the broader international system. This diverse set of views aims to help elucidate key similarities and differences between AI powers in the evolving strategic context. A valuable read for scholars of security studies, public policy, and STS studies with an interest in the impacts of AI and ML technologies.

Название: Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia
Автор: Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 654
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub, mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China with on-the-ground military events and US domestic reactions to the war conducted in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Fire and Rain is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels of government affect the lives of individuals at home and abroad. By drawing these connections, Carolyn Woods Eisenberg brings to life policy decisions about Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, conveying their significance to a new generation of readers.

Название: Тайны синявинских болот и высот. Серия. Книга первая
Автор: Кусаинов М.К.
Издательство: Астана: «Сарыарка»
ISBN: 9965-536-22-6
Качество: Отсканированные страницы, OCR, хорошее
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF/DjVu
Размер: 22,7 Mb
Количество страниц: 328 с., илл.

Серия книг командира поискового отряда “Мемориальная зона” Кусаинова Майдана Комековича посвящена описанию неизвестных, ранее умалчиваемых сражений за Ленинград, которые по потерям личного состава превосходят Смоленское сражение, битву за Москву. Это белые пятна в истории Великой Отечественной войны. К каждому сражению прилагаются списки погибших и похороненных в братских могилах (большинство в списках до сих пор считаются пропавшими без вести).

Название: Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome: Comparing US and Soviet Wars
Автор: Deepak Tripathi
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2023
Страниц: 190
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub, mobi
Размер: 10.2 MB

Great powers have often found that military adventurism to force their will in distant lands comes with the risk of spending excessive military, economic, and moral capital to the extent that war is no longer sustainable. Written by a former BBC Afghanistan correspondent who set up the corporation’s bureau in Kabul in the early 1990s, this book draws both from scholarly knowledge as well as first-hand insights on how the Americans met that fate in Vietnam, and the Soviets and Americans in Afghanistan. America’s 1975 retreat from Vietnam was a consequential event, prompting US commentators to explain it as reluctance to get involved in foreign wars, a mindset described as the Vietnam Syndrome. As Deepak Tripathi points out, the Vietnam experience made the Americans determined to give the Soviets their own Vietnam. The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and retreat after a decade of occupation, represented the revenge America sought. However, President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks was the beginning of a long military venture that ended in retreat in 2021. Addressing an academic as well as a general audience, Tripathi explores parallels between wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam, and shows how the United States and the Soviet Union met the same fate.

Название: The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean
Автор: Mike Carlton
Издательство: William Heinemann/Penguin Random House Australia
Год: 2022
Страниц: 616
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. HMAS Vendetta, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Waterhen were old ships, small with worn-out engines. Their crews used to joke they were held together by string and chewing gum; when the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels heard of them, he sneered that they were a load of scrap iron. Yet by the middle of 1940, these destroyers were valiantly escorting troop and supply convoys, successfully hunting for submarines and indefatigably bombarding enemy coasts.

Название: Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe
Автор: Frank Murphy
Издательство: St. Martin’s Publishing Group
Год: 2023
Страниц: 466
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 44.5 MB

The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series,Masters of the Air. Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering. 4,300 B-17s and B-24s failed to return; nearly 21,000 men were taken prisoner or interned in a neutral country, and a further 17,650 made the ultimate sacrifice.

Название: Vietnam Combat: Firefights and Writing History
Автор: Robin Bartlett
Издательство: Casemate Publishers
Год: 2023
Страниц: 288
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 46.5 MB

The year 1968 was arguably the most significant year of the war. It was the height of the American involvement, and because officer casualties had been so great after the Tet Offensive of January 1968, all prior officer assignments were canceled. 1st Lieutenant Robin Bartlett, originally on orders to the 101st Airborne Division, suddenly found himself at the “repo-depo” in Bien Hoa reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). The unit had more helicopter support than any other unit in Vietnam. The soldiers carried lighter packs, more ammo and water because of the availability of rapid helicopter resupply. Immediate support from artillery, helicopter gunships and ARA (aerial rocket artillery) was only minutes away to support a firefight. Wounded troops could be medevaced even in dense jungle using “jungle penetrators.” It also meant that Bartlett’s platoon could deploy through helicopter combat assaults into hot LZs (landing zones) at a moment’s notice if an enemy force had been spotted. And they did.

Название: Jet Combat in the Nuclear Age: Jet Fighter Campaigns? 1980s to the Present Day
Автор: Martin W. Bowman
Издательство: Skyhorse Publishing
Год: 2016
Страниц: 264
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 26.5 MB

Follow the fighters of the strategic nuclear strike force. In this book, the roles of jet fighters and fighter bombers in the Nuclear Age are explored. Bowman consolidates a range of firsthand accounts from the pilots themselves with a well-researched history of military aviation from the 1980s to today.

Название: Штрафбаты по обе стороны фронта
Автор: И. Пыхалов, А. Пыльцын, А. Васильченко и др.
Издательство: М.: Яуза
Год: 2008
Cтраниц: 320
Формат: pdf
Размер: 47 мб
Язык: русский

Вот уже два десятилетия доморощенные «властители дум» старательно замазывают «белые пятна» отечественной истории чёрной краской. Не является исключением и Великая Отечественная война. Современные средства массовой информации и кинематограф создают впечатление, будто Победой мы обязаны исключительно штрафникам, которых подгоняли пулеметные очереди заградотрядов НКВД. Что же было в действительности? Как и зачем создавались штрафные части?

Название: The Knights Templar: An Enthralling History of the Rise and Fall of the Most Influential Catholic Military Order
Автор: Enthralling History
Издательство: Enthralling History
Год: 2022
Страниц: 139
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub, mobi
Размер: 10.2 MB

Did you know the Templar Order was so strict that its members could only have meat three times a week? The Knights Templar has established itself as the most popular military organization of medieval times. Everyone has heard of the order, and everyone is familiar with the image of a medieval Crusader knight with a red cross on their white uniform. But who exactly were the Templars? What was their purpose? And are the rumors about their secretive nature true? This book will take a look at the two-hundred-year history of the Knights Templar. We will cover how the order was established and why it transformed from a Christian military organization into something much more. The Knights Templar is certainly one of the most intriguing organizations that ever existed. It was a military order at first, created to protect the Christian-controlled Holy Land after the First Crusade, but it became much more than a group of devout Christians who wished to fight in the name of God. Throughout a somewhat short but still very powerful period of its existence, the Knights Templar established itself as a dominant military group with distinct customs, traditions, and rules, and it was respected all over Europe.