The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. |
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... armed services in operational doctrine : its army was prepared to concentrate its tank forces , and then to allow them initia- tive on the battlefield , keeping in touch by radio ; its air force , despite tendencies toward " strategic ...
... armed services in operational doctrine : its army was prepared to concentrate its tank forces , and then to allow them initia- tive on the battlefield , keeping in touch by radio ; its air force , despite tendencies toward " strategic ...
Page 519
... armed forces are committed to one particular region . In view of the above , it is not surprising that the circles most con- cerned about the discrepancy between American commitments and American power are the armed services themselves ...
... armed forces are committed to one particular region . In view of the above , it is not surprising that the circles most con- cerned about the discrepancy between American commitments and American power are the armed services themselves ...
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... armed forces personnel were so much larger than they are now.219 Even in 1985 , forty years after its triumphs of the Second World War and over a decade after its pull - out from Vietnam , the United States had 520,000 members of its armed ...
... armed forces personnel were so much larger than they are now.219 Even in 1985 , forty years after its triumphs of the Second World War and over a decade after its pull - out from Vietnam , the United States had 520,000 members of its armed ...
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