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Temporally Out of Order
by Juliet E. Mckenna • Laura Resnick • David B. Coe • Stephen Leigh • Laura Anne Gilman • Patricia Bray • Faith Hunter • Joshua Palmatier • Gini Koch • Seanen Mcguire • Edmund R. Schubert • Susan Jett • Amy Griswold • Elektra Hammond • Sofie Bird • Christopher Barili • Steve Ruskin • Jeremy Sim • Chuck RothmanIt's frustrating when a gadget stops working. But what if the gadget is working fine, it's just "temporally" out of order? What would you do if you discovered your cell phone linked you to a different time? Or that your camera took pictures of the past?In this collection, seventeen leading science ... மேலும்
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
US Mechanized Infantryman in the First Gulf War
by Adam Hook • Gordon RottmanOsprey's examination of the US Mechanized Infantrymen of the First Gulf War (1990-1991), In many ways the end of the Vietnam War left the US army a spent force. Plagued by low morale, drug and race issues, and terrible public relations, the army faced an uphill climb in the effort to rebuild itself.... மேலும்
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
US Combat Engineer 1941-45
by Adam Hook • Gordon RottmanAt its peak in World War II (1939-1945), the United States Army contained over 700 engineer battalions, along with numerous independent brigades and regiments. The specialized soldiers of the Engineers were tasked with a wide variety of crucially important tasks including river bridging, camouflage,... மேலும்
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Vietnam Airmobile Warfare Tactics
by Adam Hook • Gordon RottmanOsprey's study of airmobile tactics used in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). * With its first major use in battle during the Vietnam War, the helicopter ushered in a radically different way of fighting, despite its proven vulnerability to ground fire. Either delivering troops into hostile territory and ... மேலும்
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
US Army Long-Range Patrol Scout in Vietnam 1965-71
by Adam Hook • Gordon RottmanOsprey's survey of the Long-Range Patrol Scouts of the US Army during the Vietnam War (1955-1975). The Vietnamese knew the Long-Range Patrol Scouts as "the men with green faces," a reference to the camouflage paint that they used. Operating in patrols of four to six men these men were like ghosts, o... மேலும்
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling it up
As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met. Community-based adaptation (CBA) is one growing proposal that argues for... மேலும்
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014