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11. Post-war Counterinsurgency and the SAS, 1945-1952

    A Special Type of Warfare

    By Tim Jones

    Series: Military History and Policy

    This work details the state of British counterinsurgency knowledge by 1945, and shows how wartime special forces and unconventional warfare affected many postwar counterinsurgencies. The vital role of the Special Air Service (SAS) is revealed here for the first time....

    Published May 30th 2007 by Routledge
12. Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I

    A Comparative Study

    By Edward J. Erickson

    Series: Military History and Policy

    This volume examines how the Ottoman Army was able to evolve and maintain a high level of overall combat effectiveness despite the primitive nature of the Ottoman State during the First World War. Structured around four case studies, at the operational and tactical level, of campaigns involving...

    Published January 31st 2007 by Routledge
13. British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-45

    Edited by Brian Bond

    Series: Military History and Policy

    Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative new collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise their respective country's leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns. This leadership is analyzed on various levels, ranging...

    Published April 30th 2006 by Routledge
14. British Generalship on the Western Front 1914–1918

    Defeat into Victory

    By Simon Robbins

    Series: Military History and Policy

    This book explores the British Army's response on the Western Front to a period of seminal change in warfare. In particular it examines the impact of the pre-war emphasis on worldwide garrison, occupation and policing duties for the Empire's defence of the mindset of the Army's leadership and its...

    Published April 30th 2006 by Routledge
15. Alfred Von Schlieffen's Military Writings

    Edited by Robert Foley

    Series: Military History and Policy

    A collection of some of the writings of Generalfeldmarschall Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, one of the more intriguing of Imperial Germany's military figures. Schlieffens 15 years as Chief of the General staff left a stamp upon both military and political institutions of Wilhelmine Germany....

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
16. British Armour in the Normandy Campaign

    By John Buckley

    Series: Military History and Policy

    The popular perception of the performance of British armour in the Normandy campaign of 1944 is one of failure and frustration. Despite overwhelming superiority in numbers, Montgomery's repeated efforts to employ his armour in an offensive manner ended in a disappointing stalemate. Explanation of...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
17. The Jungle, Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War, 1941-45

    Fighting Methods, Doctrine and Training for Jungle Warfare

    By Tim Moreman

    Series: Military History and Policy

    This book focuses on the British Commonwealth armies in SE Asia and the SW Pacific during the Second World War, which, following the disastrous Malayan and Burma campaigns, had to hurriedly re-train, re-equip and re-organise their demoralised troops to fight a conventional jungle war against the...

    Published April 27th 2005 by Routledge
18. The Evolution of Operational Art, 1740-1813

    From Frederick the Great to Napoleon

    By Claus Telp

    Series: Military History and Policy

    Operational art emerged from the campaigns of Frederick the Great to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It was the result of three dynamic interrelationships: between military and non-military factors such as social, economic and political developments; between military theory and practice; and...

    Published April 20th 2005 by Routledge
19. The Baghdad Pact

    Anglo-American Defence Policies in the Middle East, 1950-59

    By Behcet Kemal Yesilbursa

    Series: Military History and Policy

    This book explores the formation of the Baghdad Pact and Anglo-American defence policies in the Middle East, 1950-1959. It determines the aims with which the pact was established; the failings of the pact, and the struggle that was undertaken against it by hostile countries. It examines the events...

    Published December 20th 2004 by Routledge
20. Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age

    Edited by MATTHEW HUGHES, Gaynor Johnson

    Series: Military History and Policy

    What is fanaticism? Is the term at all useful? After all, one person's fanatic is another's freedom fighter. This new book probves these key questions of the twenty first century. It details how throughout history there have been fanatics eager to pursue their religious, political or personal...

    Published December 14th 2004 by Routledge