Krig

Amid the fanfare around AI and autonomous weapons, decision-makers - both military and political - are imagining an augmented future for warfare that minimises human influence and connection. But in their rush for speed and lethality, leaders have failed to understand the behavioural and technical challenges that accompany these new weapon types, as well as the detail of their operation and the practicalities involved in deploying these assets on tomorrow's battlefields. Indeed, as autonomy starts to flood fighting practices, the classical concepts of combat, tactics and strategy may no longer be fit for task. We are not ready and, as this book makes clear, human oversight over lethal engagement is critical if we are to do more than suffer defeats faster.

The Poet's Game is a remarkably sophisticated, timely, and emotionally resonant portrait of a spy from a master of the genre.

Whitney Straight is a gripping tale of speed, heroism, romance, determination and tragedy

90 Seconds to Midnight tells the gripping and thought-provoking story of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow, a thirteen-year-old girl living in Hiroshima in 1945, when the city was annihilated by an atomic bomb, and her ensuing quest to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Illustrated reference work for all the types of tractor trucks and trailers that kept the U.S. Army supplied during World War II.

Fully illustrated reference work on the systems of tank markings used by USMC combat units throughout the campaigns of the Pacific War.

The previously unpublished wartime diary of Lieutenant General James Gavin, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II.

A personal memoir of deployment with the strike cell that hunted America's enemies in Iraq using cutting-edge technology.

The training, uniform, equipment, and experience of the fighting men who crewed German assault guns, tank destroyers and self-propeled artillery.

"In Glorious Courage, historian Sarah Kay Bierle reconsiders Major John Pelham's extraordinary, if short, life by drawing on primary and other sources and her extensive knowledge of the battlefields. He deserves his place in history as he lived it, not varnished with the perspectives shoved upon him by later generations"--

"The nine-month siege of Petersburg was the longest continuous operation of the Civil War. Large-scale Union "offensives"-grand maneuvers that triggered some of the large-scale battles-broke the monotony of siege warfare. This is tactical battle action at is finest. Horn's explanation for the context and consequences of every decision is grounded in hundreds of primary sources and supported by 40 original maps. This is the first full-length book to put Grant's second effort into its proper perspective-not only in the context of Petersburg's siege and the Civil War, but in the context of warfare's history"--

"Edited by Stephen Davis, this offers 70 selections pertaining to the Atlanta Campaign. Our hope is that these entries advance the cause of Civil War scholarship by bringing back into print an array of some of the most important writing about the conflict penned by the men who fought in it"--

Volume Six of this series chronicles aerial warfare in the New Guinea theatre in the critical period of January to March 1943. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the previous five volumes which span the first thirteen months of the Pacific War.

The destruction left by Nazi Germany was horrendous. Tobias Straumann tells the story of how, why, and to what extent 'Hitler's Debt' was 'paid' in the aftermath of WWII.

For 82 years the Royal Flying Corps, which in 1918 became the Royal Air Force, maintained a permanent military aviation presence in the Far East. Throughout that time a huge variety of squadrons, flying many different aircraft types, took on all that was asked of them. The air and ground crew who were there tell their stories in their own words.

One of the few RAF aircrew to play a central part in two of the Second World War's most momentous events, the Battle of Britain and D-Day, Cyril 'Frank' Babbage was a survivor. If Babbage's name was little known, his image shot to national prominence in late August 1940, briefly becoming the face of 'The Few'.