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America's First Battles provides a novel and intellectually challenging view of how America has prepared for war and how operations and tactics have changed over time

Learn how both ancient and modern commanders wove the dark art of deception into their victories

an understanding of how resistance movements grow and achieve success will be highly useful

" by Tim Wilkinson: He was one of the Air Force pararescuemen or PJs" —the highly trained specialists for whom "That Others May Live" is no catchphrase but a credo" —and sums up his incomprehensible courage as "just holding up my end of the deal on a bad day

a compellingly written and boldly revisionist account of a war that reshaped the American military and the globe and continues to resonate today

Fire On The Water devices America's First Battles provides aWhen Robert Haddick wrote Fire on the Water, first published in 2014, most policy experts and the public underestimated the threat China"s military modernization posed to the U. S. strategic position in the Indo Pacific region. Today, the rapid Chinese military buildup has many policy experts wondering whether the United States and its allies can maintain conventional military deterrence in the region, and the topic is central to defense planning in