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  • Strangers in Arms

    Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, 1943-1945

    by Robert Engen ...
    Why do soldiers fight? What keeps them going? What compels them to face death when their long-time comrades have fallen around them? Strangers in Arms addresses these questions in a groundbreaking study of the behaviour, morale, and motivations of Canadian infantrymen on the front lines of the Second World War.Canada’s army has long faced intense criticism for its combat performance during the war ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Canadians Under Fire

    by Robert Engen ...
    Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land warfare throughout the twentieth century but precisely how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall for instance famously claimed that most Allied soldiers would not fight at all even when their lives were at stake. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Strangers in Arms

    Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, 1943-1945

    by Robert Engen ...
    Why do soldiers fight? What keeps them going? What compels them to face death when their long-time comrades have fallen around them? Strangers in Arms addresses these questions in a groundbreaking study of the behaviour, morale, and motivations of Canadian infantrymen on the front lines of the Second World War.Canada’s army has long faced intense criticism for its combat performance during the war ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Why We Fight

    New Approaches to the Human Dimension of Warfare

    Edited by H. Christian Breede, Allan English, Robert Engen ...
    Series Book 12 - Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies
    For decades, the Canadian Armed Forces has used the work of foreign scholars and writers in its professional military education to try to understand the human dimension of warfare: why and how people are motivated to fight, and how they behave once they do fight. Yet the specific Canadian context, experience, and perspective are often lost in favour of appeals to universal truths.The first major ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War

    Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War

    by Robert Engen ...
    In Canadians Under Fire Robert Engen explores the dynamics of what combat looked like to Canada's infantrymen during the Second World War. Analyzing unexamined battle experience questionnaires from over 150 Canadian infantry officers, Engen argues for a reassessment of the tactical behaviour of Canadian soldiers in the Second World War. The evidence also shows that Marshall's theory of non ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • Counterinsurgency

    by David Kilcullen ...
    David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced the United States' decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge," now recognized as a ... Read more

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  • Understanding Modern Warfare

    by David Jordan, James D. Kiras, David J. Lonsdale, Ian Speller, Christopher Tuck, C. Dale Walton ...
    Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and ... Read more

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  • The Direction of War

    Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Hew Strachan ...
    The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, public enquiries and defence think tanks have detected a lack of consistent direction, of effective communication, and of governmental coordination. In this important ... Read more

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  • Blood Lust, Trust & Blame

    by Samantha Crompvoets ...
    Series series In The National Interest
    As Australia comes to grips with accusations that some of its elite soldiers committed war crimes in Afghanistan, a catchcry for certain commentators is that the 'fog of war' explains, justifies and possibly excuses the alleged atrocities that have come to light. The term seeks to capture the uncertainty regarding one's own capability, the adversary's capability, and intent. However, the 'fog of ... Read more

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  • Future War and the Defence of Europe

    by John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges, Julian Lindley-French ...
    Future War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a ... Read more

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  • Another Bloody Century

    Future Warfare

    by Colin S. Gray ...
    How the wars of the near future will be fought and who will win themMany nations, peoples and special interest groups believe that violence will advance their cause. Warfare has changed greatly since the Second World War; it continued to change during the late 20th century and this process is still accelerating. Political, technological, social and religious forces are shaping the future of ... Read more

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