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      Sir Basil Liddell Hart and Tanks

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      Sir Basil Liddell Hart's thinking about tanks is more interesting and varied than he or his disciples portrayed. His ideals of speed and stealthiness are worthy, but unbalanced, This book…

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      Made, Not Born: Why Some Soldiers Are Better Than Others

      Bruce Newsome

      Why do the combat capabilities of individual soldiers vary so much? In this first social scientific study of the effectiveness of combat troops, Newsome evaluates competing explanations for the varying…

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      Valentine Infantry Tank 1938-45

      Bruce Newsome

      The Valentine was the most produced and most widely used British tank of the Second World War. This book describes the evolution of the Valentine design and weighs up its…

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      The Rise and Fall of Western Tanks, 1855-1939

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      How the wealthiest, most industrialized, and most democratic states led the world in tanks from the Great War through the 1920s, but lost their lead in the 1930s.

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      The Rise and Fall of Western Tanks, 1939-1955

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      How Western tanks fell behind Nazi and Soviet tanks from the Second World War to the first decade of the Cold War, and covered it up.

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      A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      Introducing the full spectrum of security risks along with their root causes from the political to the personal, this book provides practical knowledge of and skills in the management of…

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      An Introduction to Research, Analysis, and Writing: Practical Skills for Social Science Students

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      Covering the full spectrum of skills needed, including planning, scoping, analysis, argumentation, theory building, modelling theories, methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing, this book clearly helps students through each…

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      The Tiger Tank and Allied Intelligence: Capabilities and Performance

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      This fourth and final volume in the series analyses Tiger’s technologies, capabilities, and performance, in both German and Allied understanding. The chapters cover the trade-offs, productivity, cost-effectiveness, reliability, maintainability, life…

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      The Dark Side of Sunshine

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      A political, social, and academic satire in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse, The Dark Side of Sunshine follows the story of the guiltless Simon in his confrontation…

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      The Dark Side of Sunshine

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      A political, social, academic satire in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse, The Dark Side of Sunshine follows the story of the guiltless Simon in his confrontation with…

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      A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management shows you how to manage both security and risk, from hazard to target. This second edition features the latest issues, perspectives, and…

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      The Tiger Tank and Allied Intelligence: The Tunisian Tigers

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      THE TIGER TANK was dramatically more powerful than any other tank when deployed in September 1942. Why were the Allies taken by surprise? How did the Germans preserve their secrets…

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      The Tiger Tank and Allied Intelligence: Grosstraktor to Tiger 231, 1926-1943

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      THE TIGER TANK was dramatically more powerful than any other tank when deployed in September 1942. Why were the Allies taken by surprise? How did the Germans preserve their secrets…

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      The Tiger Tank and Allied Intelligence: Tiger 131: From Africa to Europe

      Bruce Oliver Newsome

      THE TIGER TANK was dramatically more powerful than any other tank when deployed in September 1942. Why were the Allies taken by surprise? How did the Germans preserve their secrets…

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      Valentine Infantry Tank vs Panzer III

      Bruce Newsome

      A unique comparison between the two most numerous British and German tank types from 1941 to 1943.

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      A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security and Emergency Management: From Home to Abroad

      Bruce Oliver Newsome,Jack A. Jarmon

      An overview of the homeland security field, examining topics such as counter-terrorism, border and infrastructure security, and emergency management

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      A Practical Introduction to Homeland Security: Home and Abroad

      Bruce Oliver Newsome,Jack A. Jarmon

      The book gives a practical introduction to the concepts, structure, politics, law, hazards, threats, and practices of homeland security everywhere, focusing on US homeland security, Canadian public safety, and European…

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      PzKw. VI Tiger Tank: The Official Wartime Reports

      School of Tank Technology

      ALL TWELVE OFFICIAL WARTIME REPORTS ON TIGER 131 are brought together in a single volume for the first time, complete and fully restored, after careful selection from surviving copies, and…

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      A.F.V. Field Pocket Book 1942

      War Office,British Army

      The AFV Field Pocket Book provided the latest intelligence on formations, units, weapons, tactics and tank design. This facsimile is uncensored, with 100 pages, 23 organizational diagrams, 4 tables of…

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      They Sought Out Rommel: A Diary of the Libyan Campaign

      British Army,War Office

      ‘They Sought Out Rommel’ is a diary, kept from November 16th to December 31st, 1941, by a British Army Public Relations Officer, whose job was to conduct a party of…

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      Developing Senior Navy Leaders: Requirements for Flag Officer Expertise Today and in the Future

      Lawrence M. Hanser,Louis W. Miller,Herbert J. Shukiar,Bruce Newsome

      Could US Navy officers be better prepared to become flag officers? This study examines the kinds of expertise required for successful performance in Navy flag billets, and whether pools of…

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      Tracks for Fighting Vehicles

      School of Tank Technology,E W W Micklethwait

      This facsimile edition of the original wartime report on Tracks for Fighting Vehicles is complete and unedited, as produced in July 1944 by the School of Tank Technology for tank…

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      Countering New(est) Terrorism: Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping, and Active Violence-Assessing, Negotiating, and Assaulting

      Bruce Oliver Newsome (University of California, Berkeley, USA),Aarefah Mosavi (University of California, Berkeley, USA),James W. Stewart (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

      How should we analyze and assess new terrorist behaviors? What are the particular risks and challenges from new terrorism? Should we negotiate with terrorists, and, if so, how? When should…

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      Countering New(est) Terrorism: Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping, and Active Violence-Assessing, Negotiating, and Assaulting

      Bruce Oliver Newsome (University of California, Berkeley, USA),Aarefah Mosavi (University of California, Berkeley, USA),James W. Stewart (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

      How should we analyze and assess new terrorist behaviors? What are the particular risks and challenges from new terrorism? Should we negotiate with terrorists, and, if so, how? When should…

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      Speaking with a Commonality Language: a Lexicon for System and Component Development

      Bruce Oliver Newsome,Matthew W Lewis,Thomas Held (German Foundation for Peace Research Germany)

      As the U.S. Army becomes increasingly interested in commonality –the sharing of common parts across different entities–there is a need for a clearer definition of the concept. Motivated by the…

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      Commonality in Military Equipment: A Framework to Improve Acquisition Decisions

      Thomas Held (German Foundation for Peace Research Germany),Bruce Oliver Newsome,Matthew W Lewis

      To inform the U.S. Army’s decisionmaking process surrounding commonality in military equipment, RAND was asked to assess the advantages and disadvantages of commonality and how to best manage their trade-offs…

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      Breaching the Fortress Wall: Understanding Terrorist Efforts to Overcome Defensive Technologies

      Brian A. Jackson,Peter Chalk,Kim Cragin,Bruce Newsome,John V. Parachini

      Technology systems play a key role within a larger, integrated strategy to target groups’ efforts and protect the public from the threat of terrorist violence. This study draws on relevant…

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