The Influence of US Military Elites on National Security
Growing political radicalization and polarization in American government has created a scarcity of civilian leadership, knowledge, expertise, and power. Political rivals and adversaries, too busy combating each other, have abandoned the helm of the ship of state, setting reason, compromise, intellectual curiosity, and effective governing adrift. A ......
In 1937 aged just 19, Edmund Murray left his family and a comfortable job in London, caught the boat train to France and signed up for the minimum of five years' service with the French Foreign Legion. Armed with little more than school-boy French and a desire for a life of adventure, Murray travelled through France and on to the Legion's ......
The Special Air Service (SAS) is Britain's elite special force unit, with the famous `who dares wins' motto. This is the story of the SAS's activities in Italy during the Second World War. Parachute troops operated behind enemy lines to gain intelligence, destroy aircraft, and attack strategic targets-in the process winning many battle honours.
Marc Waszkiewicz served three tours in Vietnam ('67-'69), first on a fire support base, then in the field. He made thousands of photos exploring the beauty, drudgery, hilarity, and horror of the experience. 1000 Yard Stare collects his best photos, offering an unvarnished, compassionate look at life in country and at the young men who served.
Inside the Rowdy World and Risky Missions of the Marines' Elite ANGLICOs
The U.S. Marine Corps' ANGLICOs are the unsung heroes of the U.S. military. They are among the best of the best, and their radio call sign "Lightning" is recognized as the gold standard of qualification and capability. Blending memoir, reporting, and history, this electrifying account takes readers inside this raucous brotherhood of elite Marines.
The true story of operators from a private military contractor working in Iraq shortly after the Gulf War. Steiner had left the British Army to join the gold rush in war-torn Iraq, but grew disillusioned about the declining situation in the country as he believed that the joint US and UK invasion had made things far worse.
The top-secret agreement between Britain and the Soviet Union whereby the British Special Operations Executive, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force arranged the transport of 34 Soviet agents from Archangel and Murmansk to be infiltrated into France, Holland, Italy, Austria and Germany.
* What it was like to fight Hitler's ideological troops in Normandy starting on D-Day, June 6, 1944 Regarded as Nazi Germany's elite military force, the Waffen SS had a reputation for ferocity on the battlefield and mercilessness to prisoners.
The American Ranger from the Colonial Era to the Mexican War
Ranger expert Robert W. Black adds a new chapter to his story of the American Rangers, beginning with the birth of the Ranger concept in the 1600s and tracking Rangers through the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and Texas War of Independence, and the Mexican-American War.
