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The stakes in the race to industrialize space may turn out to be incredibly high: the next Industrial Revolution may very well occur there. This US government document provides an essential status...

Small satellites are the future. This is their Bible. An essential reference for everyone interested in space. Constellations of thousands of satellites are already in orbit. Those who don't have...

In an era marked by escalating cyber threats and the looming specter of quantum computing, safeguarding sensitive information is more critical than ever. This FIPS publication, NIST FIPS 205, stands...

Germany reestablished its air force during the last half of the interwar period of 1919 to1939, a period in which airpower theorists attempted to merge the new technology of aviation with traditional...

Strategic satellite systems are the crown jewels of US national defense. They give the US capabilities matched by no other nation, but they are expensive. This report details a pivotal event in the...

Strategic sealift has never been more important to US national security, and US strategic sealift capability has never been weaker than it is today. An ominous hint of what was to come can be found...

The submarine and the aircraft carrier were the most important naval innovations and the most decisive naval weapons of the 20th and 21st Century. This comprehensive bibliography prepared at the...

This 2007 thesis was written at a time when the threat of suicide bombings inspired by "Islamist" radical ideology was near a peak, and with the renewed conflict in the Middle East, sadly may soon...

From the foreword: Air power has become the dominant form of military power projection in the modern world. The doctrinal underpinnings of air power thought are, of course, traditionally ascribed to...

This study rides the coattails of Colonel Philip S. Meininger's book, Ten Propositions Regarding Air Power. As the United States ponders its future regarding space operations, the time has come to...

The world is in a period of intense geopolitical competition, with the potential for conflict looming large. As potential adversaries field ever more powerful weapons systems designed to keep US...

Widely known as the "Family Jewels," this document consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them...

A unique translation of the maxims of war passed on from French Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte to his heirs on the Swedish throne. An essential reference for any Napoleonic enthusiast.Author:...

William Dodd (29 May 1729 - 27 June 1777) was an English Anglican clergyman and a man of letters. He lived extravagantly, and was nicknamed the "Macaroni Parson". He dabbled in forgery in an effort...

From the foreword by Robert D. Kaplan: "No one is more qualified to talk about the history of Nepal than Colonel John Philip Cross.... In his book, The Call of Nepal, Cross portrays his profoundly...

In a world teetering on the brink of atomic war, the Boris Pasternak novel Doctor Zhivago offered a profound meditation on the human condition, challenging the reader to confront the tension between...

Facsimile edition. WITH one important exception the three volumes here published practically represent the whole mass of Maitland's scattered writing. A few very short notices have been omitted, but...

Facsimile edition. Volume II. WITH one important exception the three volumes here published practically represent the whole mass of Maitland's scattered writing. A few very short notices have been...

Facsimile edition. Volume III. WITH one important exception the three volumes here published practically represent the whole mass of Maitland's scattered writing. A few very short notices have been...

Nimble Books has published several public domain reprints of books on mine warfare that have sold surprisingly well over the years, probably because mine warfare is an effective mode of combat that...

Shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the 987-foot tank vessel Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. What followed was the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The oil...

Written at the end of the Cold War, this 1990 conference paper foreshadowed the arguments that would determine ASW force structure in the next 30 years. Today, with great-power competition near...

The Battle of Stalingrad was a disaster. The German Sixth Army consisted of over 300,000 men when it approached Stalingrad in August 1942. On 2 February 1943, 91,000 remained; only some 5,000...

The successful application of the Fifth Generation of Warfare (5GW) is "indistinguishable from magic" (Rees 2009, following in the spirit of Clarke's Law, propounded by the author of 2001: A Space...

In the words of the author, from the end of World War I to the onset of World War II ""the U.S. went from a force that was unsuccessful operating close to the coast to one that was very successful...

US aircraft carriers are more important, and more vulnerable, than ever. The US Navy knows a lot about damage control for large ships (even if it sometimes appears to forgotten what it once knew!)...

The beautifully clear Introduction, in its entirety: The subject of this pamphlet is coincidence."Coincidence" as the term is used here may be defined as a recurrence of a letter in the same place,...

At the end of World War I, and upon the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the German Armed Forces had been drastically reduced by the Allies. The German Navy was stripped of its battleships,...

The Spanish Civil War was a proving ground for new military technologies--but it also served to reaffirm fundamental strategic and geographic principles. In this essay written at the U.S. Army War...

A collection of thought-provoking essays about the work of the late Colonel John Boyd, a fighter pilot who was one of the most influential figures in American military strategy in the last third of...