It was official. In 1991, two months after an abortive coup in August, the KGB was pronounced dead. But was it really? In KGB: Death and Rebirth, Martin Ebon, a writer long engaged in the study of foreign affairs, maintains that the notorious secret police/espionage organization is alive and well. He takes a penetrating look at KGB predecessors, the KGB at the time of its supposed demise, and the subsequent use of segmented intelligence forces such as border patrols and communications and espionage agencies. Ebon points out that after the Ministry of Security resurrected these domestic KGB activities, Yevgeny Primakov's Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) assumed foreign policy positions not unlike its predecessor's. Even more important, Ebon argues, spin-off secret police organizations--some still bearing the KGB name--have surfaced, wielding significant power in former Soviet republics, from the Ukraine to Kazakhstan, from Latvia to Georgia.

Officer recruits - "young gentlemen" - entered the Royal Navy with dreams of fame, fortune and glory, but many found promotion difficult, with a large number unable to progress beyond lieutenant. Recent scholarship has argued that during the wars of 1793-1815 there was greater social diversity among naval officers, with promotion increasingly related to professional competence. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the social background of around 4,000 "young gentlemen" a term which includes midshipmen and various other categories, including captains' servants, volunteers and masters' mates. It concludes that in fact high birth became an increasingly important factor in the selection of officer candidates, and that as the Admiralty grip on the appointment and management of officer aspirants increased, especially after 1815, aristocratic presence in the ranks of young officers increased significantly as a result of deliberate Admiralty policy. The book also discusses the assertion that the increase in elite sons led to a dramatic increase in cases of indiscipline and insubordination, concluding that although there was a marked increase in courts martial for insubordination during and after the French Wars there is no evidence that such cases related more to the elites than to young aspirants in general". The book includes many case study examples of midshipmen and other "young gentlemen", illustrating what life was like for them and how they themselves viewed their situation. S.A. CAVELL is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology and Louisiana State University and completed her doctorate at the University of Exeter.

La serie de libros Makers of Modern Strategy ha sido una referencia esencial en el estudio de la estrategia militar y política desde su primera edición en 1943. Cada volumen ha reunido a renombrados historiadores y estrategas que analizan como se han moldeado las guerras y los conflictos modernos desde la Antiguedad hasta nuestros dias. Historia de la estrategia es el nuevo tomo actualizado, que incluye entradas totalmente nuevas de la mano de un elenco de especialistas de talla mundial, y en el que se pasa revista a los temas clasicos y actuales de la estrategia, prestando especial atencion a la Guerra Fria y la organizacion mundial resultante de los atentados del 11 de septiembre, los consiguientes conflictos durante el siglo xxi, asi como a las amenazas que nos depara el futuro. Con aportaciones clave que conectan historia, politica y ciencia militar, estas obras se han convertido en un referente indispensable para estudiantes, academicos y profesionales del area. Esta nueva edicion en castellano ofrece a los lectores una oportunidad unica para acceder a este clasico adaptado a los desafios estrategicos contemporaneos, con lecciones vitales de los estrategas mas influyentes de la historia, desde Tucidides y Sun Zi hasta Clausewitz, Napoleon, Churchill, Mao, Ben-Gurion, Andrew Marshall, Xi Jinping y Qassem Soleimani.

Revolution"" is a word that causes fear in some, exhilaration in others, and confusion in most. Originally used to describe a restoration, it eventually came to mean a sweeping, sudden attack on an existing order. Human history has borne witness to a variety of national and social revolutions population revolution, revolution of ideas, technological revolution, and revolution in education. Simultaneously, there has been a proliferation of literature on revolution, armed struggle, and violence aimed at unseating policies and leadership of governments and societies.Revolutionary struggles are more than simply armed internal conflict; they involve the essence of the political system. The desire to make such phenomena understandable often leads to oversimplification. Attempts to encompass their multi-dimensional nature, on the other hand, can become immersed in complexities, ambiguities, and misinterpretations. The perspective of this classic volume, available in paperback for the first time, is that revolution is here to stay. Guerrilla warfare, according to Sarkesian, is a particularly useful strategy for the weak, the frustrated, the alienated, and seekers of power against existing regimes. The collected works in this volume examine thei?1/2social roots of revolution, development of strategy and tactics, practice in city and countryside, dilemmas of attackers and defenders. The actors and thinkers collected and analyzed here range from leading political analysts, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and officials as well as practitioners of guerrilla warfare. This core text with primary sources in the area of war, revolution, and insurgence develops an understanding of revolution, traces the growth of guerilla doctrine, and studies the specifics of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary guerilla warfare.

Puede que este sea el único manual de tiro de precisión a larga distancia, para francotiradores militares y policiales que necesite. No es un manual militar sin gráficos y difícil de comprender, sino un libro altamente ilustrado y facil de leer, escrito por un veterano de las Fuerzas Especiales del U.S. Army y del MAC/SOG y por un Caballero Legionario de Honor del Ejercito Español, ambos con casi dos decadas de experiencia instruyendo a francotiradores militares y policiales.Cientos de fotos, ilustraciones especiales, tablas balisticas e incluso cartillas de tiro no disponibles en ningun otro lugar. Veintitres capitulos que comprenden:Rifles modernos de francotiradors, miras, balas y balistica, tecnicas de tiro, estimacion del alcance y del viento, ocultacion, observacion y deteccion del blanco, camuflaje, acecho y rastreo, tecnicas contra f rancotiradores, operaciones y tecnias especiales de francotiradores, las diferencias entre los francotiradores milittares y policiales y mucho, mucho mas.Tambien cincluye un completo glosario de terminos de francotiradores y de tiro, lista de referencias y un valioso listado de todos los programas de entrenamiento en los EE.UU.Solo para su informacion.

Se trata de la reproducción de la historia de los Jerónimosescrita por José Sigüenza.

The emergence of the professional naval officer was related both to the necessities of naval warfare and to the structure of society on land. Originally warships were manned by two separate sets of commanders - gentleman soldiers skilled in fighting, and 'tarpaulins' of humbler social origin skilled in navigation and the manual skills of sailing. Elias traces the onboard conflicts between them, from Drake's famous insistence that the gentlemen 'haul and draw' with the sailors, to the gradual merging of the two hierarchies by the end of the eighteenth century. The innovation of the midshipmen - boys of gentle birth who both learned the manual skills of the sailor and received the education of a gentleman - gave crucial advantage to the British Royal Navy over the French and Spanish, in which the greater rigidity of social barriers ashore prevented a similar solution afloat. Planned but never completed by Elias, this book has been reconstructed from his mainly unpublished typescripts.

Obra de 5 tomos en 2 volúmenes.Esta obra es fruto del enorme trabajo de investigación de su autor, conocedor profundo de las fuentes y de los diversos archivos que recogían la información sobre la Orden del Temple dentro y fuera de la Peninsula Iberica. Su animo incansable le llevo a no dejar de viajar para completar adecuadamente la busqueda de material para este libro, que ofrece la historia de una Orden religiosa y militar que evoluciono y crecio en poco tiempo hasta ser oprimida y disuelta a principios del siglo XIV. Estos dos volumenes en cinco tomos incluyen su origen, grandes Maestres, hombres ilustres, empresas e importantisimos acontecimientos en los que se vio involucrada la misteriosa Orden desde el siglo XII. El autor pretende hacer una historia justa de la que fue una de las ordenes monasticas militares mas poderosas de la Edad Media, frente a la realizada por gran parte de los historiadores de la Edad Moderna y muchos otros contemporaneos de Bruguera que formularon imputaciones falsas, dieron por buenas exageraciones y trataron de caracterizar a los caballeros templarios de perversos, violentos y corruptos. No se niegan aqui las faltas (en ocasiones gravisimas) que se cometieron, sino que se trata de distinguir entre la leyenda y la historia, entre lo verosimil y lo inverosimil.

Vasily Vereshchagin (1842 -1904) was a Russian soldier, painter and traveller. He was born to a lesser noble family and sent to the Tsarskoe Selo military academy in 1850, 8 years old. in 1853, 11 years old he joined the Sea Cadet Corps in St Petersburg. He graduated in 1861 but left military service to attend the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. In 1863 he won a medal from the academy for his Ulysses Slaying the Suitors. In 1864, he went to Paris, 22 years old, where he studied under Jean-Leon Gerome. In 1867 he was invited to accompany General Konstantin Kaufman's expedition to Turkestan. He was granted the rank of ensign. His heroism at the siege of Samarkand from June 2-8, 1868 resulted an award of the Cross of St George (4th class). Having jointed the diplomatic corps, Vereshchagin was posted throughout Central Asia, and his artistic skills matured. In 1871 he set up a studio in Munich and it was here the initial "Turkestan Series" was painted.

Roma, convertida en incontestable potencia hegemónica del.Mediterráneo tras reducir al enemigo cartaginés, adquiere plena conciencia del horizonte de posibilidades que se abre en la Península Ibérica y emprende, cada vez con mayor ahinco, la expansion de

The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice is an original contribution to the general theory of strategy. While heavily indebted to Carl von Clausewitz, Sun-tzu, and the very few other classic authors, this book presents the theory, rather than merely comments on the theory as developed by others. The author explains that the purpose of strategy is to connect purposefully politics and policy with the instruments they must use. The primary focus of attention is on military strategy, but this focus is well nested in discussion of grand strategy, for which military strategy is only one strand.The book presents the general theory of strategy comprehensively and explains the utility of this general theory for the particular strategies that strategists need to develop in order to meet their historically unique challenges. The book argues that strategy's general theory provides essential education for practicing strategists at all times and in all circumstances. As general theory, The Strategy Bridge is as relevant to understanding strategic behaviour in the Peloponnesian War as it is for the conflicts of the twenty-first century.