Название: The Vulcan Story
Автор: Peter R. March
Издательство: Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 0750943998
Год издания: 2006
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 136
Формат: PDF
Размер: 78,5 MB

The RAF's huge delta-wing Vulcan jet nuclear bomber is an enduring image of the Cold War era. One of the cornerstones of Britain's nuclear deterrent, in later years it was adapted for conventional bombing and saw active service in the Falklands War. Avro Vulcan XH558 was the first Vulcan B2 to enter service with the RAF in July 1960, and the last to fly (with the RAF Vulcan Display Flight in 1992).

Название: Herky: The Memoirs of a Checkertail Ace (Schiffer Military/Aviation History)
Издательство: Schiffer Publishing
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 200
Размер: 238 Mb
Язык: English

Herky: The Memoirs of a Checkertail Ace

Название: Fighting Machines: Autonomous Weapons and Human Dignity
Автор: Dan Saxon
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
Год: 2022
Страниц: 261
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub, mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

Lethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator. Fighting Machines explores the relationship between lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), the concept of human dignity, and international law. Much of this analysis speaks to three fundamental and related problems: When a LAWS takes a human life, is that killing a violation of human dignity? Can states and non-state actors use LAWS in accordance with international law? And are there certain responsibilities of human decision-making during wartime that we should not delegate to machines? Today, in the twenty-first century, this trend continues and at a faster pace. The U.S. Department of Defense treats the virtual and anonymous environment of cyberspace as a new domain of warfare, subject to offensive and defensive military operations. By congressional mandate, today at least one-third of essential U.S. military aircraft and ground vehicles deployed should be unmanned and “military robots”—controlled by computer software code that we call “artificial intelligence”—may outnumber manned weapons systems by 2030. The F-35, the latest-generation jet fighter plane, “almost certainly will be the last manned strike fighter aircraft the U.S. Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly.” The increasing computerization and impersonalization of the modern battlespace relegates many soldiers and commanders to mere adjuncts to the software.

Название: Waterloo after the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №32)
Издательство: Helion & Company
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 316
Размер: 11 Mb

Waterloo after the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle

Название: Waterloo after the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №32)
Издательство: Helion & Company
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 316
Размер: 11 Mb

Waterloo after the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle

Название: No Numbered Runways: Floatplane Pioneers of the West Coast
Издательство: Sono Nis Press
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 152
Размер: 171 Mb
Язык: English

No Numbered Runways: Floatplane Pioneers of the West Coast

Название: Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire
Автор: Erik Linstrum
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN:‎ 0197572030
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 329
Размер: 23,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

An eye-opening account of how violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain. When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this period has conventionally been dubbed "postwar," it was punctuated by a succession of hard-fought, long-running conflicts that were geographically diffuse, morally ambiguous, and impervious to neat endings or declarations of victory.

Название: Военная контрразведка по Пограничным войскам в Афганистане
Автор: Середа В.Н., Коковин В.Б., Шаваев А.Г. (сост.)
Издательство: М.: Aegitas
Год: 2022
Формат: fb2
Страниц: 600
Размер: 15 mb
Язык: Русский

В книге охвачен исторический период с первой трети XIX века до 1991 года, когда Российская империя, а затем и СССР твёрдо и уверенно утверждали своё военно-политическое присутствие на южных границах страны. Слаженные и концентрированные усилия дипломатических, военных и разведывательных государственных структур позволили надёжно обеспечить соблюдение интересов национальной безопасности России и Советского Союза в Среднеазиатском регионе и в Афганистане на основе соблюдения принципов международного права и уважения суверенитета сопредельного государства.

Название: Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914-1945
Автор: Stacey Barker, Krista Cooke, Molly McCullough
Издательство: Mercury-Mercure
ISBN: 0776629204
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 338
Размер: 97,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This volume looks at Canadian women's experiences of, and contributions to, the world wars through objects, images, and archival documents. The book tells the stories of women who worked as civilians, served in the military, volunteered their time, and grieved lost loved ones, through thematically organized vignettes.

Название: Final assault on the Rising Sun
Издательство: SpecialtyPress 1995
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 232
Формат: PDF
Размер: 120.5 MB

Final assault on the Rising Sun: combat diaries of B-29 air crews over Japan