A fascinating new insight into the Falklands Conflict, covering every aspect of its origins and the political and diplomatic response to the Argentinean action as well as illuminating accounts of the military action to retake the islands, at every level of command.
In June 2002, exactly twenty years after the cessation of hostilities between Britain and Argentina, many of the key participants came together at a major international conference. This conference, held at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and organized jointly by RMA Sandhurst and her sister institution Britannia...
A fascinating new insight into the Falklands Conflict, covering every aspect of its origins and the political and diplomatic response to the Argent...
This volume, written by experts from the British armed forces, the news media and academia, on the new relationship between the media and military operations since the cold war. Based on the 1995 conference held at her Royal Military Academia Sandhurst, it has been brought up to date by additional material.
This volume, written by experts from the British armed forces, the news media and academia, on the new relationship between the media and military ope...
This volume, written by experts from the British armed forces, the news media and academia, on the new relationship between the media and military operations since the cold war. Based on the 1995 conference held at her Royal Military Academia Sandhurst, it has been brought up to date by additional material.
This volume, written by experts from the British armed forces, the news media and academia, on the new relationship between the media and military ope...
This publication considers the lessons to be gained for Britain, the British armed forces, and for NATO as a whole, from the Yugoslav wars of dissolution (1991-1999), with particular emphasis on the Kosovo crisis. The papers come from a diverse and high quality mixture of analysts, practitioners and policy-makers. The issues developed here represent a significant advance in the emerging debate on the lessons to be learnt from the Balkan experience, which will shape thinking on defence and international security far into the new millennium.
This publication considers the lessons to be gained for Britain, the British armed forces, and for NATO as a whole, from the Yugoslav wars of dissolut...
D-Day, 6 June 1944, saw the largest amphibious landing operation in history. Stephen Badsey provides a concise account of 'Operation Overlord', from the fiercely contested landings, to the struggle to capture Caen, the 'Cobra' offensive and the dramatic pursuit of the Germans to the River Seine.
D-Day, 6 June 1944, saw the largest amphibious landing operation in history. Stephen Badsey provides a concise account of 'Operation Overlord', from t...
This Atlas contrasts 21 World War II battle plans with their actual outcome. Each battle is covered in an in-depth essay that is complemented by original maps, producing fresh insight into the technical aspects of warfare that drove the last worldwide conflict of the twentieth century. Placing individual battles in context, an introductory essay by the editor provides a strategic overview of the whole of the war. The battles are thereafter presented in seven sections: The Armored Blitzkreigs, The Amphibious Landings, The Slogging Matches, The Airpower Factor, The War at Sea, Airborne...
This Atlas contrasts 21 World War II battle plans with their actual outcome. Each battle is covered in an in-depth essay that is complemented by origi...
A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of the nineteenth century in the face of increased infantry and artillery firepower, and that officers of the cavalry clung to both for reasons of prestige and stupidity. It is this view, commonly held but rarely supported by sustained research, that this book challenges. It shows that the achievements of British and Empire cavalry in the First World War, although controversial, are sufficient to contradict the argument that belief in the cavalry was evidence of...
A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of the nineteenth ce...
In this collection of essays of incomparable scholarship, Stephen Badsey explores in individual detail how the British Army fought in the First World War, how politics and strategy affected its battles and the decisions of senior commanders such as Douglas Haig, and how these issues were intimately intertwined with the mass media portrayal of the Army to itself and to the British people. Informative, provocative, and often entertaining, based on more than a quarter-century of research, these essays on the British Army in the First World War range through topics from a trench raid to...
In this collection of essays of incomparable scholarship, Stephen Badsey explores in individual detail how the British Army fought in the First Wor...
