Download or read book Use of Mines in Trench Warfare From the French School of St Cyr written by Army War College and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Use of Mines in Trench Warfare (From the French School of St. Cyr)" by Army War College. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Use of Mines in Trench Warfare written by Army War College (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Use of Mines in Trench Warfare from the French School of St Cyr written by United States. Army war college, Washington, D.C. and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Use of Mines in Trench Warfare written by Army War College (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Use of Mines in Trech Warfare from the French School of St Cyr Translated written by Army War College (U.S.). War Department and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book USE OF MINES IN TRENCH WARFARE written by ARMY WAR. COLLEGE and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fighting the Boche Underground written by Harry Davis Trounce and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV SOME PRINCIPLES OF MINING MINING is an effective weapon, but it must be applied to suitable ob-jectives, and its use restricted by certain rules which have been deduced from experience. As regards the actual processes, the only important changes to be anticipated are the development of the use of rapid tools and of high explosives. The most vulnerable points in trench-mine warfare are the following: Listening and observation posts in advance of the line; machine-gun and trench-mortar positions; junction-points of communicating-trenches with front line. Mines were employed to attack, and countermines to defend, many besieged cities in the past, but the application of mining methods in trench warfare has at no time or place reached the scientific development which ob r tains in the present war, though our own Civil War furnishes several examples of its use in connection with the trench fighting of those days, viz.: Petersburg, Va., and other localities. The situation of the western front is briefly as follows: Some thousands of mines have been blown by the Germans, British, and French, many of them with very large charges. The British and French were mostly engaged m defensive operations during 1915 and a portion of 1916, but since that date the application of mining methods by the Allies has been mostly on the offensive. Wherever opposing trenches are close together, mining warfare has almost invariably ensued. Mining fluctuates from time to time, and in 1915 and 1916 was most active on this front. It is always a possibility to be reckoned with, although the element of surprise, the most important factor in offensive mining operations, has now been largely discounted. On the other hand, the field of mining activity has been...
Download or read book The Development of Mine Warfare written by Norman E. Youngblood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) coordinated the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. As of mid-2005, 145 states had signed the agreement. The ICBL's efforts were in large part a response to the careless use of landmines in the previous fifty years. The history of mine use in warfare, however, goes back much further than the World Wars of the 20th century and includes both land and sea use. This first comprehensive study traces the technical, tactical, and ethical developments of mine warfare, from ancient times to the present. Beginning with mine warfare's roots in ancient Assyria and China, Youngblood takes the reader through the centuries of debate about how these hidden weapons should be used. A look at 19th-century developments explores the intertwined development of land and sea mines and the inventors behind them, including Robert Fulton, Samuel Colt, and Immanuel Nobel, father of Alfred Nobel. Subsequent chapters examine the use of mines in the American Civil War, the Russo-Japanese War, both World Wars, and the battlefields of the Cold War, and chart key battles and technical innovations, such as the development of air-delivered munitions. Finally, the author addresses the ethical concerns raised by the careless mining, namely the impact on civilians and the difficulties of de-mining, and the treaties that regulate landmine use.
Download or read book Mine Warfare History and Technology written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-28 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book provides a comprehensive survey of the history of mine warfare from the earliest designs through World War I, II, and the Vietnam War, and modern technologies. The study of mine warfare is a relatively unknown subject outside the mine community. It has an interesting history and technology which tend to reinforce each other as time goes on and from which one can clearly see in hindsight how technology, and a very simple technology at that, has influenced tactics. All the U. S. mine development and technology for the last half century have been centered in the Naval Ordnance Laboratory at White Oak, Maryland, which has consistently devoted up to 20 percent of its effort to projects oriented toward mine warfare. There are a few publications on mine warfare in the open literature which have been consulted and in some cases heavily drawn upon in the preparation of this paper. These are listed in the bibliography in chronological order. INTRODUCTION * Importance of Mine Warfare * Deterrence and War * History of Mine Warfare Not Widely Known * Comment on Admiral Mahan's Views * Accomplishments of U.S. and Allied Mine Warfare in World I and World War II * EARLY MINES * What is a Mine? * Bushnell's Kegs, 1777 * Fulton's Ideas and Experiments, 1797 to 1815 * Colt's New Electric Hot Wire Initiator and The Moored Control Mine, 1842 to 1844 * The Civil War * Mobile Bay and Admiral Farragut, 1864 * The Hague Convention and The Ethical Use of Mines, 1907 * The Evolution of Explosives * Foreign Improvements In Mine Technology Up To World War I * THE EARLY 20TH-CENTURY MINE * The Mine Evolves Toward World War I * Russo-Japanese War, 1904 * Mining The Dardanelles, 1915 * The Dover Straits * The North Sea Barrage * Tactics and Technology * The K-Device * Logistics * Estimation of Minefields Threat * Sweeping Problems * Mines' Effect in WWI * MINES COME OF AGE * The Birth of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and Its Early Struggles * The Magnetic Influence Ground Mine * The Birth of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and Its Early Struggles * The Magnetic Influence Ground Mine * Degaussing, Leads To Induction Mines * The Total Field Mechanism * Mine Sweeping, "Cognizance," and Policy * United States Mine Development * Role of U. S. Submarine-Laid Mines in the Early Pacific War * The Plan For Long-Range Aerial Mining of Japan * Results of Operation Starvation * Summary of Mine Effectiveness in Two World Wars * Post WWII Errors - The Korean Surprise * The Mining of Haiphong Harbor Stops * New Mine Technology * Now What? * FOOTNOTES
Download or read book Landmines in War and Peace written by Mike Croll and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land mines and their antecedents have been used on the battlefield from ancient times, through the world wars, to the modern conflicts in the developing world. Their use in the developing world caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties, and the resulting international outrage transformed rapidly into a highly effective global movement to ban land mines and a multi million dollar mine action business. This book describes how technology and military tactics defined land mine development and deployment, why they are such an effective weapon of war, and how an unlikely alliance of soldiers, peace activists, development workers and celebrities succeeded in banning the use of antipersonnel mines. Comparisons are made between the post WW2 clearance of around 100 million land mines in Europe and contemporary efforts to clear a similar number in the developing world. By 1947 Europe was largely mine free, yet after nearly 20 years and expenditure of $4 billion the land mine crisis in the developing world continues. The elusive search for the easy way to clear mines is described. Despite experiments with machines, airships, rats and explosive clearance methods, mine clearance remains a hazardous, labor-intensive task undertaken by teams of deminers using metal detectors and needle-like probes.
Download or read book Beneath Flanders Fields written by Peter Barton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won. The authors give the first full account of mine warfare in World War I through the words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpublished archive photographs, many in colour. Beneath Flanders Fields also shows how military mining evolved. The tunnellers constructed hundreds of deep dugouts that housed tens of thousands of troops. Often electrically lit and ventilated, these tunnels incorporated headquarters, cookhouses, soup kitchens, hospitals, drying rooms, and workshops. A few dugouts survive today, a final physical legacy of the Great War, and are presented for the first time in photographs in Beneath Flanders Fields.
Download or read book Mine Countermine Operations written by Department of the Army and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-06-08 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guidance provided focuses on individual skills of emplacing and removing mines, team and squad tasks, platoon and company organization and panning, and battalion/task force organization and coordination for successful obstacle reduction and breaching operations.
Download or read book Birdsong written by Sebastian Faulks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.
Download or read book The History of Landmines written by Mike Croll and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While public interest in landmines is recent, their use and that of their non-explosive predecessors has a history which spans 2,500 years. Mike Croll explains the development, employment and reactions to these weapons from the concealed spikes of antiquity to the electronically-fused systems of today." "The History of Landmines takes the reader from ancient Rome to the colonial wars and from the American Civil War to the Gulf War explaining why increasing numbers of these devices have been used and how they have become more sophisticated. The genesis of the present humanitarian crisis is fully described along with the problems of clearing landmines today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Underground Warfare written by Daphné Richemond-Barak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underground warfare, a tactic of yesteryear, has re-emerged as a global and rapidly diffusing threat. This book is the first of its kind to examine tunnel warfare in a systematic and comprehensive way, addressing the legal issues while keeping in mind operational and strategic challenges. Like many other aspects of contemporary warfare, the renewed use of the subterranean in armed conflict presents a challenge for democracies wishing to abide by the law. To Dr. Richemond-Barak, this challenge has not only been under-explored, it is also largely underestimated by the community of states, security experts, and public opinion. She analyzes traditional concepts of the laws of war as they relate to tunnels and underground operations, contemplating questions such as whether tunnels constitute legitimate targets, the assessment of proportionality in anti-tunnel operations, and the availability of advanced warning in this complex terrain. She also identifies issues that are unique to underground warfare, including those that arise when cross-border tunnels burrow under a state's own civilian infrastructure.
Download or read book Miners at War 1914 1919 written by Ritchie Wood and published by Wolverhampton Military Studies. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's compilation of a unique register identifying those individual South Wales miners who served in the tunneling companies has allowed a remarkable story to be told. For the first time, the lives of individual South Wales miners are highlighted from pre-war mining days: their very personal contribution within the tunneling companies, to the resting places of those who did not survive the war - and, for the survivors, their ultimate dispatch home. The underlying theme is of an indefatigable band of men, together with like-minded miners from other British coalfields, asked to carry out multi-tasked duties associated with a form of military mining not foreseen prior to the outbreak of war. Before a major battle, these men constructed large underground dugouts to house troops away from enemy shell fire. In exploding huge mines under German lines immediately before the British attack, they aided the advancing infantry in causing death and confusion in the German lines. During the British advance in 1918, they became experts in the dangerous work of defusing enemy booby-traps, delay-action and landmines in front of the advancing troops. They showed all the resolution, fortitude and determination - if not sheer bloody-mindedness - to see the job through; so reminiscent of the miner at home struggling to earn a decent rate of pay in the most arduous of conditions. There was a price to pay... Details are given of the 207 miners who died whilst on active service and of how many others were repatriated after gunshot wounds, gas poisoning or ill-health. Accounts are given of miners entombed underground as a result of enemy explosions; medals awarded for acts of bravery when attempting to free trapped miners; and of those taken as prisoners of war when the enemy broke into British workings. Old men and young boys lied about their ages to gain acceptance into the tunneling companies - and suffered the harsh consequences. A unique investigation such as this not only acknowledges the miners' personal contribution as tunnelers, but also serves as a scholarly and novel addition to the existing literature concerning the history of the Great War, its tunneling companies, South Wales, its coalfield and the lives of its miners. There can be little doubt that this work will, in years to come, establish itself as a standard text in the history of military mining not only in a specific sense, but also as a work on the Great War in general.
Download or read book Eye Deep in Hell written by John Ellis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed reconstruction of life and death in the trenches of World War I, describing the construction and physical and spiritual environment of the trenches and the soldiers' daily routine.
