Название: Artificial Intelligence Ethics and the Future of Warfare: Global Perspectives
Автор: Каushik Rоу
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2024
Страниц: 299
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 18.4 MB

This volume examines how the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is likely to impact strategic and operational planning, and the possible future tactical scenarios for conventional, unconventional, cyber, space and nuclear force structures. In addition to developments in the USA, Britain, Russia and China, the volume also explores how different Asian and European countries are actively integrating AI into their military readiness. It studies the effect of AI and related technologies in training regimens and command structures. The book also covers the ethical and legal aspects of AI augmented warfare. Chapter 1 shows that AI-related technologies if applied in the case of defence wholesale, have the potential to revolutionise warfare by changing not only the character but also the nature of warfare. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the possible use of AI-related technologies in the various branches of the military. For him, at the strategic level, the effect of AI is ambiguous. Author argues that, at present, the effects of AI at the tactical and operational levels are massive and amount to an RMA. Author asserts that AI, being a disruptive technology, and its widespread applications, which are inevitable in the near future, will transform the logistics, doctrine, training, command and tactical concepts of combat. In Chapter 3, author focuses on a particular piece of military system: Aviation. He details the various ways in which AI-embedded sixth-generation aircraft is paving the way for the emergence of pilotless aircraft.

Название: Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524
Автор: Neil Murphy
Издательство: The Boydell Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 273
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 15.4 MB

Первое комплексное исследование этой войны помогает нам понять, как каждая страна защищала границы, а также политические проблемы, которые определяли англо-шотландские войны 1520-х годов. Англо-шотландская война 1522-1524 гг. привела к мобилизации десятков тысяч людей и огромного количества ресурсов как в Англии, так и в Шотландии. Помимо британского контекста, война имела и европейское значение: она стала одним из элементов более широкой борьбы Валуа и Габсбургов за Италию, а сложные системы союзов распространили последствия этой борьбы далеко по континенту и до границ Англии и Шотландии. Опираясь на беспрецедентный доступ к английским и шотландским источникам о конфликте, эта книга предлагает новый важный вклад в историю Шотландии и Англии, а также в более широкую военную историю позднего средневековья и раннего нового времени в Европе.

Название: The Lucky Seven: One airman’s remarkable true wartime story of escape and evasion from German-occupied Europe, and the brave resistance fighters who delivered him to freedom
Автор: Norman W. Holden
Издательство: NWH Holdings
Год: 2023
Страниц: 380
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

One airman’s remarkable true wartime story of escape and evasion from German-occupied Europe, and the brave resistance fighters who delivered him to freedom. During the early afternoon hours of April 24, 1944, Second Lieutenant James J. Goebel, Jr. finds himself floating alone toward the war-torn Belgian landscape below. What was his safe passage home, his B-24 Liberator, is now engulfed in flames and hurls to the ground only to report back with a distant thud upon the earth. Just moments earlier, the B-24 and its crew of ten were en route back to England after their inaugural bombing mission and the successful pounding of the Nazi war machine. At the hand of sheer randomness and bad luck, an enemy fighter selected their heavy bomber for retribution from the 230 B-24s dispatched earlier that morning.

Название: Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy
Автор: Philip Jett
Издательство: ?Turner Publishing
Год: 2023
Страниц: 416
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

From the author of Taking Mr. Exxon and The Death of an Heir comes the untold story of four luxury airliners trapped in the Pacific Ocean on and after the Day of Infamy. In the first week of December 1941, four Pan American Airways System (Pan Am) flying clippers—the largest and most lavish transpacific airliners in the world—took off from the North American West Coast, loaded with wealthy and affluent passengers on their way to exotic destinations. On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service executed a surprise coordinated attack against the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. Within hours, Midway Atoll, Wake Island, Guam, and Manila—all of which were refueling stops for these Pan Am flying clippers—were targeted and bombed by the same Japanese forces that had devastated Pearl Harbor.

Название: The Battle of Znaim: Napoleon, the Habsburgs and the end of the War of 1809
Автор: John H. Gill
Издательство: Greenhill Books/Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Год: 2020
Страниц: 496
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

The acclaimed Napoleonic historian sheds new light on a fascinating yet little-known battle in the Franco-Austrian War. The Battle of Znaim is almost unknown. Fought on 10 and 11 July 1809, it was one of the major encounters of the Napoleonic epoch with more than 100,000 soldiers engaged at its height, but it is routinely subsumed in the aftermath of the even larger Battle of Wagram (5–6 July). The usual narrative runs thus: Napoleon won a costly victory in the colossal struggle at Wagram; a brief pursuit ensued; and an armistice was concluded after an action near Znaim in Moravia. This hasty treatment is unfortunate as Znaim is interesting in its own right for several reasons. First, from a purely military perspective, it rewards study as an unplanned meeting engagement between two largely veteran armies in the wake of the second-greatest battle of the entire era. The ferocity of the fighting, the sizes of the forces involved and its two-day duration alone suffice to commend it to our attention. Add to these factors the imbalance in numbers (the numerically inferior French attacking the defending Austrians), the drama of a stunning thunderstorm, instant reversals of fortune, military ruses and a sudden ceasefire and it is surprising that the battle has not drawn more detailed examination.

Название: The Road to Barbarossa: Soviet-German Relations, 1917-1941
Автор: Norman Ridley
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 273
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

This book looks at how these two ‘strange bedfellows’ dealt with western hostility and found ways to accommodate each other in a bid to recover from the economic devastation and dismantling of their historic territorial boundaries. From the chaos of the First World War, during which Germany and Russia had fought each other to a standstill, there emerged two societies whose diametrically opposed ideologies of communism and fascism represented the opposite extremes of the political spectrum. Despite this, in time the governments and military establishments in both countries were able to create an environment where political expediency led to both cooperation and an eventual alliance. Western democracies found both systems repellent but the two countries, Germany and the Soviet Union, embodied vast resources of, in the case of the Soviets, raw materials and, in the case of Germany, huge intellectual, scientific and industrial expertise. Both offered massive opportunities for trade, but neither made comfortable partners. Britain, whose sympathies lay more with the Germans, and France, whose history tied them more to Eastern Europe, tended to treat both Germany and the Soviet Union as outcast states. This created a great deal of animosity in return and ultimately drove the outcasts into each other’s arms.

Название: Pearl Harbor's Revenge: How the Devastated U.S. Battleships Returned to War
Автор: Rod Macdonald
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 362
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 17.5 MB

Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was a date that President Roosevelt declared “will live in infamy”. During the strike, Japanese planes attacked the seven US battleships lined up in Battleship Row – and the flag battleship USS Pennsylvania, in drydock for overhaul. The battleship USS Arizona exploded from a bomb hit at the forward magazine killing 1,177 officers and men. On USS Oklahoma, 429 men were killed – many trapped inside as the great battleship capsized after aerial torpedo strikes. USS West Virginia, meanwhile, was hit by at least seven torpedoes and several bombs, and engulfed in flames; she settled onto the bottom on an even keel. USS California was hit by a pair of torpedoes and a bomb, flooding slowly, she too settled on the bottom. The other four battleships present were more lightly damaged, with the crippled Nevada, the only battleship to get underway during the attack, being successfully beached.

Название: The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East
Автор: Michelle Tusan
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 345
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10.1 MB

In The Last Treaty, Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe's war with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne, which finally ended the war in 1923, she places the decisive Allied victory over Germany in 1918 in sharp relief against the unrelenting war in the East and reassesses the military operations, humanitarian activities and diplomatic dealings that continued after the signing of Versailles in 1919. She shows how, on the Middle Eastern Front, Britain and France directed Allied war strategy against a resurgent Ottoman Empire to sustain an imperial system that favored Europe's dominance within the nascent international system. The protracted nature of the conflict and ongoing humanitarian crisis proved devastating for the civilian populations caught in its wake and increasingly questioned old certainties about a European-led imperial order and humanitarian intervention. Its consequences would transform the postwar world.

Название: Hitler's Trojan Horse: The Fall of the Abwehr, 1943–1945
Автор: Nigel West
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 400
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 14.3 MB

As the Second World War progressed and defeat for Hitler’s Third Reich in all theatres became ever more certain, the tight Abwehr network, built so effectively by its head, Admiral Canaris, began to unravel. High-level defections to the Allies and bitter disputes with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) added to a collapse in morale. Most notably was the increasing opposition within the officer ranks of the Army to Hitler fermented by Canaris and his deputy Generalmajor Hans Oster. The final years of the Abwehr were marked by the Abwehr’s efforts to undermine the regime, which came to a bloody conclusion following the Valkyrie assassination attempt of 20 July 1944. This saw the arrest of many Abwehr officials and the execution of Canaris and Oster.

Название: The Oxford Handbook of World War II
Автор: G. Kurt Piehler, Jonathan Grant
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 721
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 14.4 MB

World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the imagination, with more than 100 million casualties. The war resulted in an almost complete collapse of any norms geared toward avoiding the unnecessary loss of civilian life and shaped the worldview and psyches of generations. The Oxford Handbook of World War II broadens traditional narratives of the war and in the process changes our understanding of this epic conflict. Organized both chronologically and thematically and with particular attention to the pre- and post-war eras, the Handbook revises and extends existing scholarship. With chapters on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, the land war in Western Europe, the Battle of Britain, the impact of war on the major combatants (Great Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and China), the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the decision to use the atomic bomb in 1945, and the cultural responses to the war, the chapters span much of the twentieth century.