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Lexile measure
1550L
Language
English
Description
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also relevant economic, political, and psychological factors. Indeed, the precepts outlined by Sun Tzu can be applied outside the realm of military theory....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Description
An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now wagedâand how to adapt to this new reality
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âThis brisk everymanâs guideâstraight-talking and free of jargonâis a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems. . . . A lively reminder that war adapts to technology, that civilians are part of modern conflict whether they like it or not.ââRoger Boyes, The...
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âThis brisk everymanâs guideâstraight-talking and free of jargonâis a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems. . . . A lively reminder that war adapts to technology, that civilians are part of modern conflict whether they like it or not.ââRoger Boyes, The...
5) On war
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Language
English
Description
A Prussian soldier and writer, Clausewitz is said to have distilled Napoleon into theory. Perhaps best known among his numerous pronouncements is that war is a continuation of politics by other means. His theories and observations in this work have been heeded by military strategists for nearly two hundred years. Many have considered this to be the bible of military strategy and tactics.
Author
Series
Shockwave volume Science
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 720L
Language
English
Description
Describes how science is used in the production and restoration of major works of art such as in the repair of the Great Sphinx in Egypt or the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Distilled from the Yale University seminar, "Studies in Grand Strategy," a master class in strategic thinking surveys statecraft from the ancient Greeks through FDR and beyond as vital historical lessons for future world leaders.
"John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in [this book], Gaddis reflects...
15) War and weapons
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Language
English
Description
Highlights techniques of warfare from Roman times to the present day.