Bodentruppen & Kriegsführung

The war in Ukraine has been fought with, among others, irregular armed groups since 2014—volunteers, paramilitaries, and mercenaries. Based on interviews in the Russian-controlled Donbas and with Ukrainian combatants, the contributions to this volume disclose various micro-dynamics of the mobilization, group formation, and fighting. Who were these fighters and who organized them? Russia has been increasingly employing mercenaries as a way to conduct undeclared, but ruthless wars beyond her borde

Stalin's Red Army entered the Second World War as a relatively untried fighting force. In 1941, with the launch of Operation 'Barbarossa', it joined the battle with Hitler's army, the most powerful in history. After a desperate war of attrition over four years, the Red Army defeated the Nazis on the Eastern Front and won lasting fame and glory in 1945 by eclipsing the military might of the Third Reich. This book begins with a review of the historical backgroun

Tilo v. Amsberg: Einer von weltweit Tausenden, vielleicht Millionen von Versuchsmenschen. Leuten, die einer unsichtbaren, geräuschlosen Technologieforschung an sogenannten Targeted Individuals zur Beute gefallen sind und dieser Forschung dauerhaft als unfreiwillige Studiensubjekte zur Verfügung stehen. Wie viele andere Versuchsmenschen auch, inzwischen Sozialfall. Wir Versuchskaninchen / Zielpersonen können unser spezielles Schicksal praktisch niemandem erklären. Dies erleichtert es den Täterorg

Die Bundeswehr ist für ihre Kernaufgabe, die Landes- und Bündnisverteidigung, völlig unzureichend aufgestellt: personell stark ausgedünnt, das Material veraltet, die Gerätschaften kaum einsatzbereit. Und nun deckt auch noch die Corona-Krise wie fast überall in der Gesellschaft Missstände und Fehlentwicklungen gnadenlos auf. Ausgehend von dem desaströsen Status quo der Bundeswehr werfen Spiegel-Bestsellerautor Josef Kraus und Oberst a. D. Richard Drexl einen Blick auf ihre 65-jährige Geschichte

Limerick's Fighting Story offers eye witness and first hand accounts of the struggle for independence in Limerick city and county.When the Truce was declared in the War of Independence in July 1921, each of Limerick's brigade areas, west, mid and east had flying columns in the field. While the challenge of city fighting and urban guerrilla tactics were high on the list of concerns for the mid brigade, the east and west flying columns were active raiders and ambush artists.This new edition of the

From Limerick, Dr John O'Callaghan lectures in Atlantic Technological University, Sligo. He has published widely on the history of the Irish Revolution.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2, Universität Salzburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit befasst sich weniger mit der Figur der Heiligen Johanna, sondern vielmehr mit der Planung und der Durchführung der Belagerung, einer Belagerung im Hundertjährigen Krieg, sowie mit einem der wichtigsten Wendepunkte in der Militärgeschichte: Die Einführung von Kanone und Schießpulver in die Militärtechnik.

Während des Hunde

To encapsulate the British Army in one book is no easy task, but here, George Forty presents it as it was during the Second World War. When war was declared in 1939, the British Army was very much the 'Cinderella' of the three armed services, with a total strength of around 865,000 men. However, just four years later when the Allies invaded north-west Europe, the British Army had grown into a powerful, well-organised and well-equipped fighting force of 3 million men and women.

A travers ces chroniques judiciaires, l'auteur de cet ouvrage, ex-officier de la gendarmerie a sélectionné quelques enquêtes judiciaires criminelles et délictuelles, qu'il a été amené à diligenter dans trois régions françaises, en Ile de France, en Normandie et en Champagne Ardenne. Il nous fait revivre le déroulement des investigations menées, lors d'assassinats, de meurtres, de prises d'otages, de vols qualifiés, d'escroqueries, d'affaires de moeurs... Cet essai nous rappelle les catastroph

Die Bundeswehr ist für ihre Kernaufgabe, die Landes- und Bündnisverteidigung, völlig unzureichend aufgestellt: personell stark ausgedünnt, das Material veraltet, die Gerätschaften kaum einsatzbereit. Und nun deckt auch noch die Corona-Krise wie fast überall in der Gesellschaft Missstände und Fehlentwicklungen gnadenlos auf. Ausgehend von dem desaströsen Status quo der Bundeswehr werfen Spiegel-Bestsellerautor Josef Kraus und Oberst a. D. Richard Drexl einen Blick auf ihre 65-jährige Geschichte

Originally published by The Kerryman in 1947, this is one of the four titles in the Fighting Stories Series. It records the events of the War of Independence in the words of the people who fought it and those who wrote about it at the time. The book features reports on the Cork City Volunteers, the ambushes at Tureengarriffe, Clonbanin, Rathcoole, Tureen and many others, the murder of Tómas MacCurtain, the disastrous battle of Clonmult and the campaigns of the flying columns around the county fr

Frank O'Connor (1903–66) grew up in Cork city and fought in the Irish War of Independence and in the Civil War on the anti-Treaty side. He was the author of 150 works and is best known for his short story collections and memoirs. He also worked as a teacher, lecturer and translator. The Frank O'Connor short story festival has been run in his home town since 2000. His story 'Guests of the Nation' was the inspiration for Neil Jordan's film 'The Crying Game'.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Krieg und Frieden, Militär, Note: 1,7, Freie Universität Berlin (Otto-Suhr-Insitut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen einer rasant zunehmenden Privatisierung von bewaffneten Konflikten wird in inner- und zwischenstaatlichen Konflikten in erheblichem Maße nicht nur auf reguläre Streitkräfte, sondern auch auf die Beihilfe von privaten Sicherheits- und Militärfirmen (PMSF) zurückgegriffen.

Mit den Folterungen in Abu-Ghraib,

The British soldier of the Great War has been depicted in many books. Invariably, a pen picture paints him as stoic, joining the army in a wave of patriotic fervour, and destined to serve four years on the Western Front in some of the most costly battles in history. Yet often the picture is difficult to resolve for the reader. What was it like in the trenches? How did the soldier live, where did he sleep? What was it like to go over the top, and when he did, what did he carry with him? For many,

Looking at an old-time cannon, most people are sure of just one thing: the shot came out of the front end. For that reason, these pages are written; people are curious about the fascinating weapon that so prodigiously and powerfully lengthened the warrior's arm. And theirs is a justifiable curiosity, because the gunner and his "art" played a significant role in American history.
Contents:
The Era of Artillery
The Ancient Engines of War
Gunpowder Comes to Europe
The Bombards<

Tommy Atkins is the English soldier, who joking broke the cavalry of France at Minden, who singing marched with the Great Duke to the Danube, who grumbling shattered Napoleon's dreams at Waterloo, who sweating in his red coat tramped back and forth across Indis, who kept his six-rounds-to-the-minute at Mons, and who died in the mud at Passchendaele, the sands of the Western Desert, and the jungles of Burma. If his name has been eclipsed by his more illustrious commanders - Cromwell, Mar

Ten million military personnel died during the Great War. Many millions of them experienced horrendous enemy attacks on entrenched positions that stretched across France and Belgium, as well as further afield. This groundbreaking book relives twenty-four hours of an actual Platoon under attack, using a battalion war diary to follow the assault hour by hour. A team of historians and archaeologists reconstructs the fighting, revealing how the British Tommy defended his hard-won positions against h

Pádraig O'Keeffe joined the elite and secretive French Foreign Legion at the age of twenty, seeking a challenge that would absorb his interests and intensity. He served with the Legion in Cambodia and Bosnia, then returned to civilian life, but military habits would not allow him to settle. His need for intense excitement and extreme danger drove him back to the lifestyle he knew and loved, and using his Legion training, he became a 'hidden soldier' by opting for security missions in Iraq and Ha

Convinced that both God and the Kaiser were on their side, the officers and men of the German Army went to war in 1914, confident that they were destined for a swift and crushing victory in the West. The vaunted Schlieffen Plan on which the anticipated German victory was based expected triumph in the West to be followed by an equally decisive success on the Eastern Front. It was not to be. From the winter of 1914 until the early months of 1918, the struggle on the Western Front was characterised

(* 1953), Dr. phil., studierte in Aachen und Köln, arbeitete für die Weltwoche und die Neue Zürcher Zeitung und betreibt ein eigenes Redaktionsbüro in Zürich. Der Autor schrieb u.a. für Hans J. Bär die Erinnerungen Seid umschlungen, Millionen (2004).

Almost a century ago a small body of men engaged in combat with the armed forces of an Empire. Militarily they were weak. Their strength lay in their faith in their cause and in the unflinching support of a civilian population which refused to be cowed by threats or by violence.This new edition of Kerry's Fighting Stories features stories and reports from every aspect of the conflict, from the formation of the Volunteers in Kerry early in the twentieth century, through the first casualties as th

David North nimmt seit mehr als 40 Jahren eine führende Stellung im Internationalen Komitee der Vierten Internationale ein. Er hat zahlreiche Bücher zur marxistischen Theorie, zur Geschichte der internationalen trotzkistischen Bewegung und zur imperialistischen Geopolitik verfasst, darunter „Das Erbe, das wir verteidigen“, „Verteidigung Leo Trotzkis“, „Die Russische Revolution und das unvollendete Zwanzigste Jahrhundert“, „Die Frankfurter Schule, die Postmoderne und die Politik der Pseudolinken“

James William Fulbright (1905–1995) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Demokratischen Partei.
Reinhold Neumann-Hoditz, 1926-1999, studierte osteuropäische Sprachen und Slawistik in Heidelberg und Hamburg. Er arbeitete zwölf Jahre als außenpolitischer Redakteur, unternahm als Berichterstatter weltweite Reisen und war als Rundfunk-Korrespondent in Moskau tätig. Danach lebte er als freier Publizist in Hamburg
1966 erschien sein Asien-Bericht «Chinas heimliche Fronten». Für «rowohlts mo

David North nimmt seit mehr als 40 Jahren eine führende Stellung im Internationalen Komitee der Vierten Internationale ein. Er hat zahlreiche Bücher zur marxistischen Theorie, zur Geschichte der internationalen trotzkistischen Bewegung und zur imperialistischen Geopolitik verfasst, darunter „Das Erbe, das wir verteidigen“, „Verteidigung Leo Trotzkis“, „Die Russische Revolution und das unvollendete Zwanzigste Jahrhundert“, „Die Frankfurter Schule, die Postmoderne und die Politik der Pseudolinken“