Wars Without End Battles Without Winners
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Wars Without End Battles Without Winners
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Author : Michael Kihntopf
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2017-02-28
Wars Without End Battles Without Winners written by Michael Kihntopf and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Fiction categories.
If the Great War had not occurred during those fateful years of 1914-1918, four people from very different walks of life probably would have never crossed paths. An impoverished Silesian Junker, a biergaten server from Essen, and two laborers from Pomerania were thrown together amid the fields of slaughter in northern France in March 1918. From then on their lives seemed to be intertwined, meshed to cross in Silesia amid the German Civil War, in Latvia with the Freikorps, and then in Northern Russia with the doomed counterrevolutionary army of General of the Infantry Nicholai Iudenich. Max von Kemper, the last surviving member of a once aristocratic family, was an impoverished carpenter's apprentice when the war began. Leaving behind nothing of value, he marched off with the city's regiment as a cadet officer living for the moment and not looking to survive beyond the next day. By 1918 he was a stormtrooper lieutenant leading a small detachment in the last battle of the war. Teresa Stumpf, an orphan educated in a convent, served heady beers to the Essen iron works men. As the war progressed business slumped and women took jobs normally reserved for men. The new freedom should have been their salvation but factories cruelly exploited the women with low pay and long shifts. Stumpf could either join the ranks of those women or walk the streets for money. Her salvation came in the illustrated newspaper stories which called for women to volunteer to be sisters of mercy for the wounded heroes of the front. The inducement, the seductive element, was the many stories of the nurse who found a titled or rich husband in a soldier she had brought back to health. Otto Faltz and Michael Boehm, life-long friends from that swampy land along the Baltic coast called Pomerania, saw the war as an opportunity for a military career. Boehm and Faltz were a tragic-comic twosome. Boehm was the straight man while Faltz hatched plans to use their earnings to open pubs, taverns or secluded spas overlooking Petrograd where the restored nobility might have their trysts. Perhaps it was in their destinies forged in some ancient time, whenever one of these characters reached a crisis in their life, the four of them met by chance on a dusty road, in a hospital or amid the December snows of Russia and solved the dilemma. The backdrop to these people's lives is the Great War, the German army's defeat in 1918 and the many civil wars in northern Europe from 1918-1920. For them it seemed only natural that they should go on with the fighting. After all the Germany they had fought for was no more. They had no relatives or job opportunities. Perhaps that's why they struck out to tour Northern Europe. As Gertrude Stein so aptly put it: Those who grew up in the war were a "lost generation."
Women As Weapons Of War
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Author : Kelly Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007
Women As Weapons Of War written by Kelly Oliver and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
From the female soldiers of Abu Ghraib prison to Palestinian women suicide bombers, women and their bodies have been "powerful weapons" in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Kelly Oliver reveals how the media and the George W. Bush administration used metaphors of weaponry to describe women and female sexuality and forge a link between vulnerability and violence. Oliver analyzes the discourse surrounding women, sex, and gender and the use of women to justify America's decision to go to war. She also considers the cultural meaning, or lack of meaning, that lead female soldiers at Abu Ghraib to abuse prisoners "just for fun," and the commitment to death made by women suicide bombers. She examines the pleasure taken in violence and the passion for death and what kind of contexts creates them. Oliver concludes with a diagnosis of our fascination with sex, violence, and death and its relationship with live news coverage and embedded reporting, which naturalizes horrific events and stymies critical reflection.
Pure Strategy
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Author : Everett C. Dolman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005
Pure Strategy written by Everett C. Dolman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
A stimulating new inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy - its purpose, place, utility, and value. This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be summarily discarded. This is not to say that victory has no place in strategy or strategic planning. The outcome of battles and campaigns are variables within the strategist's plan, but victory is a concept that has no meaning there. To the tactical and operational planner, wars are indeed won and lost, and the difference is plain. Success is measurable; failure is obvious. In contrast, the pure strategist understands that war is but one aspect of social and political competition, an ongoing interaction that has no finality. Strategy therefore connects the conduct of war with the intent of politics. It shapes and guides military means in anticipation of a panoply of possible coming events. In the process, strategy changes the context within which events will happen. In this new book we see clearly that the goal of strategy is not to culminate events, to establish finality in the discourse between states, but to continue them; to influence state discourse in such a way that it will go forward on favorable terms. For continue it will. This book will provoke debate and stimulate new thinking across the field and strategic studies.
Day Without End
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Author : Van Van Praag
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2014-03-24
Day Without End written by Van Van Praag and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-24 with Fiction categories.
Day Without End, originally published in 1949 and reissued in 1951 as Combat, is a fictional account of a U.S. Army platoon fighting in the difficult hedgerow country of Normandy, France, several weeks after the D-Day landings. The book follows the battle-weary infantrymen, led by Lieutenant Paul Roth, during the course of a single, gut-wrenching day near St. L�. Their relief, promised for many days, has not come, and except for a handful of green replacements, all of the men are approaching an acute state of battle fatigue. From a pre-dawn patrol to a terrible twilight, Roth's platoon is followed through every protracted moment of a day that seems to have been diverted from the normal course of time and to run on forever.
The Third Macedonian War And Battle Of Pydna
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Author : Graham Wrightson
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2024-01-30
The Third Macedonian War And Battle Of Pydna written by Graham Wrightson and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-30 with History categories.
The Third Roman-Macedonian War was a disaster for Macedon, a defeat leading to the end of that kingdom's independence. This is usually attributed to an innate superiority of the Roman legionary tactics over the Macedonian system. Graham Wrightson, on the other hand, argues that the blame lies entirely with Perseus, the last king of Macedon. He analyzes the whole war, following the primary source accounts and focusing on Perseus’ military decisions and his battlefield strategies. It confirms the prevailing view of the sources that Perseus was too hesitant and non-committal in his early conduct of the war. More significantly it argues that Perseus mishandled the Macedonian army when it comes to combined-arms tactics by adopting a defensive posture, particularly at the final battle of Pydna. The Macedonian military system based on a slow sarissa phalanx is suited entirely to an offensive battle plan coordinating a frontally irresistible phalanx in the centre and a rapid heavy cavalry attack on one wing. Most importantly, though, Perseus refused to spend money to hire 10,000 Gallic horsemen and the lack of cavalry cost him the initiative and the victory. This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched study of these dramatic events that adds fresh insight to the question of the legion's supposed supremacy over the phalanx.
Day Without End
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Author : van van Praag
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-05-15
Day Without End written by van van Praag and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-15 with categories.
Day Without End, originally published in 1949 and reissued in 1951 as Combat, is a fictional account of a U.S. Army platoon fighting in the difficult hedgerow country of Normandy, France, several weeks after the June 1944 D-Day landings. The book follows the battle-weary infantrymen, led by Lieutenant Paul Roth, during the course of a single, gut-wrenching day near St. Lo. Their relief, promised for many days, has not come, and except for a handful of green replacements, all of the men are approaching an acute state of battle fatigue. From a pre-dawn patrol to a terrible twilight, Roth's platoon is followed through every protracted moment of a day that seems to have been diverted from the normal course of time and to run on forever.
War Without End
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Author : Michael Schwartz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
War Without End written by Michael Schwartz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
"In this analysis, commentator Michael Schwartz demolishes the myths used to sell the U.S. public on the idea of an endless "war on terror" centered in Iraq. He shows how the U.S. occupation is fueling civil war in Iraq and beyond and how U.S. officials dismantled the Iraqi state and economy, helping to destroy rather than rebuild the country."--BOOK JACKET.
Horses People And Parliament In The English Civil War
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Author : Gavin Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Horses People And Parliament In The English Civil War written by Gavin Robinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with History categories.
Horses played a major role in the military, economic, social and cultural history of early-modern England. This book uses the supply of horses to parliamentary armies during the English Civil War to make two related points. Firstly it shows how control of resources - although vital to success - is contingent upon a variety of logistical and political considerations. It then demonstrates how competition for resources and construction of individuals’ identities and allegiances fed into each other. Resources, such as horses, did not automatically flow out of areas which were nominally under Parliament’s control. Parliament had to construct administrative systems and make them work. This was not easy when only a minority of the population actively supported either side and property rights had to be negotiated, so the success of these negotiations was never a foregone conclusion. The study also demonstrates how competition for resources and construction of identities fed into each other. It argues that allegiance was not a fixed underlying condition, but was something external and changeable. Actions were more important than thoughts and to secure victory, both sides needed people to do things rather than feel vaguely sympathetic. Furthermore, identities were not always self-fashioned but could be imposed on people against their will, making them liable to disarmament, sequestration, fines or imprisonment. More than simply a book about resources and logistics, this study poses fundamental questions of identity construction, showing how culture and reality influence each other. Through an exploration of Parliament’s interaction with local communities and individuals, it reveals fascinating intersections between military necessity and issues of gender, patriarchy, religion, bureaucracy, nationalism and allegiance.
Winning The Battle To Lose The War
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Author : Maria-Ines Bastos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-10-25
Winning The Battle To Lose The War written by Maria-Ines Bastos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-25 with Business & Economics categories.
A US/Brazil trade conflict on the Brazilian protectionist electronics policy developed during 198589. In that period and under the threat of trade sanctions, a few changes were made in the Brazilian policy. Major consequences of the conflict were felt after its conclusion. It was one important political factor among the forces that pushed for the opening of the Brazilian electronics market in the early 1990s.
Fighting The Forever War
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Author : Lisa M. Mundey
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-02-07
Fighting The Forever War written by Lisa M. Mundey and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-07 with History categories.
During two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, U.S. service members confronted numerous challenges in their mission to secure the country from the threat of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and assist in rebuilding efforts. Because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan occurred simultaneously, much of the American public conflated them or failed to notice the Afghanistan War; and most of the war's archival material remains classified and closed to civilian researchers. Drawing on interviews and letters home, this book relates the Afghanistan War through the experiences of American troops, with firsthand accounts of both combat and humanitarian operations, the environment, living conditions and interactions with the locals.