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Book Southern Trident

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  • Author : David Stevens
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 174115037X
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Southern Trident written by David Stevens and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how and why the Australian navy has evolved to the type of force it is today.

Book Housing Finance Institutions Abroad

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  • Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Housing Finance Institutions Abroad written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Admirals

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  • Author : Michael Whitby
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2006-01-21
  • ISBN : 1550028936
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Admirals written by Michael Whitby and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-01-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Admirals: Canada’s Senior Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century fills an important void in the history of Canada’s navy. Those who carry the burden of high command have a critical niche in not only guiding the day-to-day concerns of running an armed service but in ensuring that it is ready to face the challenges of the future. Canada’s leading naval historians present analytical articles on the officers who led the navy from its foundation in 1910 to the unification in 1968. Six former Maritime Commanders provide personal reflections on command. The result is a valuable biographical compendium for anyone interested in the history of the Canadian Navy, the Canadian Forces, or military and naval leadership in general.

Book Annual Report

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  • Author : South African Institute of Race Relations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by South African Institute of Race Relations and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperial Defence

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  • Author : Greg Kennedy
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2007-11-21
  • ISBN : 1134252463
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Imperial Defence written by Greg Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays, from leading British and Canadian scholars, presents an excellent insight into the strategic thinking of the British Empire. It defines the main areas of the strategic decision-making process that was known as 'Imperial Defence'. The theme is one of imperial defence and defence of empire, so chapters will be historiographical in nature, discussing the major features of each key component of imperial defence, areas of agreement and disagreement in the existing literature on critical interpretations, introducing key individuals and positions and commenting on the appropriateness of existing studies, as well as identifying a raft of new directions for future research.

Book Seapower

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  • Author : Geoffrey Till
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2009-03-06
  • ISBN : 1134018584
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Seapower written by Geoffrey Till and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised, updated and expanded new edition of Geoffrey Till's acclaimed textbook provides an invaluable guide for anyone interested in the changing and crucial role of seapower in the twenty-first century.

Book A Ceaseless Watch

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  • Author : Angus Britts
  • Publisher : Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 2021-04-15
  • ISBN : 1682475514
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book A Ceaseless Watch written by Angus Britts and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Ceaseless Watch: Australia’s Third Party Naval Defense, 1919–1942 illustrates how Australia confronted the need to base its post–World War I defense planning around the security provided by a major naval power: in the first instance, Britain, and later the United States. Spanning the period leading up to Australia’s greatest security crisis—the military threat posed by Japan throughout the majority of 1942—the work takes the reader all the way up to the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy by the United States Navy in the Solomon Islands campaign. Angus Britts focuses on Anglo-Australian defense relations from 1919–42 when the British were Australia’s primary naval protectors until they were superseded in the Pacific by the United States in May 1942 at the battle of the Coral Sea. Britts traces the process of the alignment or divergence of differing strategic interests between Australia and Britain in particular. Taking place against the backdrop of Imperial Japan’s expansionism debates within Australian political and defense circles during this period, namely the nature of the most likely threat to the continent itself, what became an important subplot to the events then unfolding in the Pacific. Looking at the development of the “Singapore strategy” which utilized the British fleet at Singapore to protect Australia’s interests, Britts lays out how the cornerstone for Australian defense planning was based on the continued assurances from successive British governments that they would honor their naval commitments should Australia itself eventually come under serious threat from Japanese aggression. The Australian-American defense relationship evolved at a later stage within the timeframe in this work, but the varying interactions between both nations throughout the interwar years are likewise addressed, as is the foundation of their wartime relations. Britts illustrates the difficulty in forming a defense relationship between small and great powers, where the needs of the former are not subsumed by the interests of the latter, from the interwar years to the start of World War II. In an era when the entire Pacific region was at war, the inability of a larger power to fulfill its side of a defensive pact with a smaller power shaped the future of the region itself.

Book CEO   s 100 Proposals

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  • Author : Feng ZhiXue
  • Publisher : Funstory
  • Release : 2020-06-29
  • ISBN : 1649750447
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book CEO s 100 Proposals written by Feng ZhiXue and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had been in love for eight years, and yet he was told that he was going to be married. Wasn't it her? Nani! Qingcheng wedding, originally wanted to disturb the wedding scene, but was forced to give the bride Kopp 36, despair! International Great Star: If I can't even get a single rookie to follow the rules, what's the point of me getting here? Ji Rufeng: God of Men, what nonsense are you saying in the middle of the day? Elegant lawyer: My property is yours, and yours is mine. Ji Rufeng: Talking to a lawyer about property ownership, I'm afraid there's nothing left of the divorce. Cold-Blooded Assassin: Either I kill you, or you love me alive.

Book Pietermaritzburg and Natal Country

Download or read book Pietermaritzburg and Natal Country written by South Africa. Department of Posts and Telecommunications and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Periphery

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  • Author : Yossi Alpher
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2015-01-22
  • ISBN : 1442231025
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book Periphery written by Yossi Alpher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its establishment after World War II, the State of Israel has sought alliances with non-Arab and non-Muslim countries and minorities in the Middle East, as well as Arab states geographically distant from the Arab-Israel conflict. The text presents and explains this regional orientation and its continuing implications for war and peace. It examines Israel's strategy of outflanking, both geographically and politically, the hostile Sunni Arab Middle East core that surrounded it in the early decades of its sovereign history, a strategy that became a pillar of the Israeli foreign and defense policy. This “periphery doctrine” was a grand strategy, meant to attain the major political-security goal of countering Arab hostility through relations with alternative regional powers and potential allies. It was quietly abandoned when the Sadat initiative and the emerging coexistence between Israel and Jordan reflected a readiness on the part of the Sunni Arab core to deal with Israel politically rather than militarily. For a brief interval following the 1991 Madrid conference and the 1993 Oslo accords, Israel seemed to be accepted by all its neighbors, prompting then Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to muse that it could even consider joining the Arab League. Yet this periphery strategy had been internalized to some extent in Israel’s strategic thinking and it began to reappear after 2010, following a new era of Arab revolution. The rise of political Islam in Egypt, Turkey, Gaza, southern Lebanon and possibly Syria, coupled with the Islamic regime in Iran, has generated concern in Israel that it is again being surrounded by a ring of hostile states—in this case, Islamists rather than Arab nationalists. The book analyzes Israel’s strategic thinking about the Middle East region, evaluating its success or failure in maintaining both Israel's security and the viability of Israeli-American strategic cooperation. It looks at the importance of the periphery strategy for Israeli, moderate Arab, and American, and European efforts to advance the Arab-Israel peace process, and its potential role as the Arab Spring brings about greater Islamization of the Arab Middle East. Already, Israeli strategic planners are talking of "spheres of containment" and "crescents" wherein countries like Cyprus, Greece, Azerbaijan, and Ethiopia constitute a kind of new periphery. By looking at Israel’s search for Middle East allies then and now, the book explores a key component of Israel’s strategic behavior. Written in an accessible manner for all students, it provides a better understanding of Israel’s role in the Middle East region and its Middle East identity.

Book Modern Naval History

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  • Author : Richard Harding
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2015-12-17
  • ISBN : 1472579100
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Modern Naval History written by Richard Harding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specifically structured around research questions and avenues for further study, and providing the historical context to enable this further research, Modern Naval History is a key historiographical guide for students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of naval history and its contemporary relevance. Navies play an important role in the modern world, and the globalisation of economies, cultures and societies has placed a premium on maritime communications. Modern Naval History demonstrates the importance of naval history today, showing its relevance to a number of disciplines and its role in understanding how navies relate to their host societies. Richard Harding explains why naval history is still important, despite slipping from the attention of policy makers and the public since 1945, and how it can illuminate answers to questions relating to economic, diplomatic, political, social and cultural history. The book explores how naval history has informed these fields and how it can produce a richer and more informed historical understanding of navies and sea power.

Book The South African

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  • Author : Sudáfrica. Community Development
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book The South African written by Sudáfrica. Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Naval Constabulary Operations and Fisheries Governance

Download or read book Naval Constabulary Operations and Fisheries Governance written by Sean A. G. Andrews and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an analysis of naval constabulary operations, in particular Australian fisheries patrols, and challenges the widely accepted Anglo-American school of maritime thought. In the Indo-Pacific, fisheries and the activities of fishing boats are of increasing strategic importance in Australia’s region – Australia’s Four Oceans. Issues of overfishing, population growth and climate change are placing growing pressure on fish as a resource, and in doing so are making fisheries more significant, and significant on a strategic as opposed to simply an economic or environmental level. When, combined with the growing use of fishing vessels as para-naval forces, it is clear that the activities of fishing vessels, whether fishing or not fishing, are matters of considerable strategic relevance. This book illuminates contemporary seapower challenges, explains and defines maritime security and examines and refines existing theory to advance a set of new or refined concepts to help frame the on-water activities of constabulary operations -- reducing the possibility of on-water miscalculation between states. This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of naval studies and sea power, maritime strategy, maritime security and International Relations.

Book Clad in Iron

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  • Author : Howard J. Fuller
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2007-12-30
  • ISBN : 0313345910
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Clad in Iron written by Howard J. Fuller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work addresses many persistent misconceptions of what the monitors were for, and why they failed in other roles associated with naval operations of the Civil War (such as the repulse at Charleston, April 7, 1863). Monitors were 'ironclads'- not fort-killers. Their ultimate success is to be measured not in terms of spearheading attacks on fortified Southern ports but in the quieter, much more profound, strategic deterrence of Lord Palmerston's ministry in London, and the British Royal Navy's potential intervention. The relatively unknown 'Cold War' of the American Civil War was a nevertheless crucial aspect of the survival, or not, of the United States in the mid 19th-century. Foreign intervention—explicitly in the form of British naval power—represented a far more serious threat to the success of the Union blockade, the safety of Yankee merchant shipping worldwide, and Union combined operations against the South than the Confederate States Navy. Whether or not the North or South would be 'clad in iron' thus depended on the ability of superior Union ironclads to deter the majority of mid-Victorian British leaders, otherwise tempted by their desire to see the American 'experiment' in democratic class-structures and popular government finally fail. Discussions of open European involvement in the Civil War were pointless as long as the coastline of the United States was virtually impregnable. Combining extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, this work offers an in-depth look at how the Union Navy achieved its greatest grand-strategic victory in the American Civil War. Through a combination of high-tech 'machines' armed with 'monster' guns, intensive coastal fortifications and a new fleet of high-speed Union commerce raiders, the North was able to turn the humiliation of the Trent Affair of late 1861 into a sobering challenge to British naval power and imperial defense worldwide.

Book The Naval Miscellany

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  • Author : Susan Rose
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-11-25
  • ISBN : 1000340872
  • Pages : 732 pages

Download or read book The Naval Miscellany written by Susan Rose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seventh volume of Naval Miscellany contains documents which range in date from the late thirteenth century to the Korean War. They illustrate the many different ways in which the naval forces of the crown have served the realm. Topics covered include the role of ships in campaigns against Scotland under Edward I and Edward VI, the protection of the Iceland fishery in the days of the Commonwealth government, and the operation of prize courts during the wars against France in the eighteenth century. Moving on to the nineteenth century, the supply of timber to the Royal Navy is examined, while two contributions deal with surveying off the west coast of Africa and another prints a diary kept by a member of the Naval Brigade operating onshore in the Zulu War. The most recent contributions deal with the origins and development of the Royal Australian Navy up to the 1950s. Two more controversial subjects are also included; the first gives more information about the storage of cordite on battle cruisers in 1916 and the battle of Jutland; the second documents the relief of Admiral North from Gibraltar in 1940. There is something here for every enthusiast for naval history and for all students of the relevant periods.

Book Braby s Commercial Directory of South  East and Central Africa

Download or read book Braby s Commercial Directory of South East and Central Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 2308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes: South Africa, Rhodesia, Zambia, Malawi, South-West Africa, Mocambique, Angola, Swaaziland, Botsawana and Lesotho.

Book 2002 Year Book  Australia

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Aust. Bureau of Statistics
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 907 pages

Download or read book 2002 Year Book Australia written by and published by Aust. Bureau of Statistics. This book was released on with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: