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Battles in the monsoon; campaigning in the Central Highlands, Vietnam, summer 1966 / by Marshall, S. L. A.(Samuel Lyman Atwood),1900-1977.(CARDINAL)142669;
Military expert describes in depth three irregular warfare campaigns of the Vietnamese War.
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Swords of Lightning : Green Beret horse soldiers and America's response to 9/11 / by Nutsch, Mark,author.;
A note to the reader : Following the American withdrawal from Afghanistan -- Who's Who -- Fiction, meet fact -- Before 9/11 -- War -- A fighting man's general -- First blood -- Sitting on our duffs? -- Organize to conquer -- Bang -- Opening the door -- Liberation -- Bait and switch -- Captured -- Home beckons -- Lessons learned -- Acknowledgmens and Thanks -- Collaborator's note."The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided bombs to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11.""They called themselves Green Berets--Special Forces ODA 595.""They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find the ground. Welcomed by a band of heavily armed militiamen, they climbed a mountain on horseback to meet the most ferocious warlord in Asia. They plotted a war of nineteenth-century maneuvers against a twenty-first-century foe. They trekked through minefields, sometimes past the mangled bodies of local tribesmen who|d shared food with them hours before. They saved babies and treated fractures, sewed up wounded who|d been transported from the battlefield by donkey. They found their enemy hiding in thick bunkers, dodged bullets from machine-gun-laden pickup trucks, and survived mass rocket attacks from vintage Soviet-era launchers. They battled the Taliban while mediating blood feuds between rival allies. They fought with everything they had, from smart bombs to AK-47s.The men they helped called them brothers. Hollywood called them the Horse Soldiers."
Subjects: United States. Army. Special Forces; Soldiers; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.; Terrorists.; Special operations (Military science); Special forces (Military science); Irregular warfare; Afghan War, 2001-2021; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001;
© 2022., Permuted Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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U.S. Marines in Iraq, 2004-2008 : anthology and annotated bibliography / by Schlosser, Nicholas J.(CARDINAL)300607; Marine Corps University (U.S.).History Division.(CARDINAL)288576(CARDINAL)291500;
The Iraqi insurgency, 2004-2007 -- Counterinsurgency and irregular warfare : observations and principles -- U.S. Marines, counterinsurgency, and urban warfare in Iraq -- Building Iraqi forces, the al-Anbar awakening, and the quest to restore stability to Iraq -- Stability, progress, and the future -- Appendices.Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294)."The selections in this collection include journalistic accounts, scholarly essays, and Marine Corps summaries of action. Our intent is to provide a general overview to educate Marines and the general public about this critical period in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps, the United States, and Iraq. Many of the conclusions are provisional and are being updated and revised as new information and archival resources become available. The accompanying annotated bibliography provides a detailed overview of where current scholarship on the period currently stands"--Foreword.
Subjects: United States. Marine Corps; Iraq War, 2003-2011; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The Israeli secret services and the struggle against terrorism / by Pedahzur, Ami.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The emergence of Israel's counterterrorism doctrine -- The path to the defensive model and back -- Rescuing hostages -- The Lebanese puzzle -- New challenges from the West Bank and Gaza -- The global challenge of Iran and Hezbollah -- New rivals, old responses -- A war against an elusive enemy -- The second Lebanon war and beyond -- Fighting the terrorism plague.
Subjects: Terrorism; Intelligence service; Secret service;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The unvanquished [sound recording] : the untold story of Lincoln's special forces, the manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the shadow war that forged America's special operations / by O'Donnell, Patrick K.,1969-author.(CARDINAL)354465; Sanders, Fred,1955-narrator.(CARDINAL)349085;
Read by Fred Sanders.Patrick K. O'Donnell tells the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forces.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Battalion, 43rd.; United States/ Army. Jessie Scouts.; Guerrillas;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Irregular [videorecording] / by Holmes, Richard,1946-2011.(CARDINAL)128599; Forsyth, Frederick,1938-(CARDINAL)147670; Churchill Films.(CARDINAL)153668;
Series producer, John Gau ; producer, Christopher Warren.The classic use of irregular warfare is by populations against invading or occupying armies; a second aspect is the setting up by regular armies of their own unconventional units to fight indigenous irregulars. This program looks at theorists from Mao Tse-Tung to Che Guevara, and at irregulars and special forces from Rogers' Rangers to the Green Berets.Ages 15-Adults.VHS.
Subjects: Armies.; Guerrilla warfare.; Military art and science.; Special forces (Military science); Strategy.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The American Revolution 1774-1783 / by Marston, Daniel,author.(CARDINAL)293440;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Outmaneuvered : America's tragic encounter with warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan / by Warren, James A,author.(CARDINAL)475712;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Irregular warfare and the American military tradition -- Vietnam : the anatomy of defeat -- The Vietnamese communists : masters of irregular warfare -- The Iranian Revolution and Washington's thrust into the Middle East -- The CIA and the Soviet-Afghan War -- Lost in Lebanon, 1982-1984 -- The indispensable nation syndrome and mission creep in Somalia -- The rise of Islamic extremism and al-Qaeda -- Terrorism and counterterrorism in the 1990s -- The global war on terrorism -- The war in Afghanistan : phase one -- Invading Iraq -- Iraq : stumbling from insurgency to Civil War -- Iraq : the surge and afterward -- Losing Afghanistan -- The rise of special operations forces -- Reflections."Since the early 1960s, there have only been twelve years in which American troops have not been in combat, either in a formally declared conflict or otherwise. The vast majority of these have ended in failure, or something close to it. Why has the US been so ineffective, given the fact that the American armed forces are universally recognized as the best in the world? This is the key question James Warren answers here in Outmaneuvered. Most scholars and analysts believe that the primary cause of our abysmal war record since Vietnam has been the US military's overwhelmingly conventional approach-which favors kinetic operations, highly mobile precision firepower, and sophisticated systems of command and control. Here, Warren argues that the more formidableobstacle to success has been pervasive strategic ineptitude at the highest levels of Washington, including the executive branch, congress, and the national security council responsible for shaping US foreign policy. Time and time again, American presidents have committed military forces to operations in foreign countries whose politics and cultures they did not fully understand. Presidents of both political parties, including Kennedy, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Obama have overestimated the capacity of USforces to alter the social and political landscape of foreign nations, and underestimated the ability of insurgents and terrorists to develop strategies that draw out conflict and wage effective propaganda campaigns to curtail Washington's will to carryon the fight. Warren concludes the book by advocating for a less hubristic foreign policy and a broader conception of warfare as a political and military enterprise. For readers of political, military, and US history-as well as anyone interested in international relations and geopolitical strategy-this book offers unparalleled insights into America's prior-and potentially future-military conflicts"--
Subjects: Military policy.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Another bloody century : future warfare / by Gray, Colin S.(CARDINAL)128323;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-419) and index.
Subjects: Military art and science; World politics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Donovan's Devils : OSS commandos behind enemy lines--Europe, World War II / by Lulushi, Albert,author.(CARDINAL)635064;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-371) and index.Office of Strategic Services -- Irregular warfare in the early years of World War II -- The OSS operational groups -- Special operations in the Western Mediterranean -- Rescuing escaped prisoners of war -- Operations from Corsica -- The ill-fated Ginny Mission -- Operational groups in France -- Americans in Vercors -- Mission Walla Walla in Italy -- Mission Mangosteen-Chrysler -- Rescue missions in the Balkans -- Mission Peedee-Roanoke -- OSS investigations into war crimes -- Swift justice for the Ginny men -- No justice for Major Holohan -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Donovan, William J. (William Joseph), 1883-1959.; Holohan, William V.; United States. Office of Strategic Services; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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