Pioneers of Irregular Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pioneers of Irregular Warfare write by Malcolm Atkin. This book was released on 2021-05-12. Pioneers of Irregular Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covert operations and ingenious weapons for irregular warfare were developed rapidly, and with great success, by the British during the Second World War, and the story of the most famous organizations involved like SOE, the SAS and Section D of SIS is now well known, but Military Intelligence (Research), the smallest but one of the most influential of these units is relatively unknown. Malcolm Atkin’s intriguing and meticulously researched account describes their role at the heart of the War Office in trying to develop a ‘respectable’ arm of irregular warfare and their innovations ranging from the early Commandos, sticky bombs, limpet mines, booby traps, and even helicopters to the creation of the MI9 escape organization. They were an ‘ideas factory’ rather than an operational body but the book describes their worldwide operations including Finland, Norway, Romania, the Middle East and Central Africa. This is also a story of conflicting personalities between Jo Holland, the visionary but self-effacing head of MI(R) and his ambitious deputy, Colin Gubbins (later head of SOE), and the latter’s private war with SIS.
Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits
Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits write by John Arquilla. This book was released on 2011-07-16. Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Insurgent, Raiders and Bandits explores the history of irregular warfare over the past 250 years through the lives and campaigns ofFrom w the greatest masters of this mode of conflict. The book not only tells their stories, but shapes an alternate history of the world as seen through the eyes of those who made up for their small numbers with clever, unorthodox methods that often brought them victory. Their lesson for military affairs in our time must not be ignored.
Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare
Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare write by Seth G. Jones. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns that are eroding American power. In Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles, and conventional warfighting capabilities, its three principal rivals—Russia, Iran, and China—have increasingly adopted irregular warfare: cyber attacks, the use of proxy forces, propaganda, espionage, and disinformation to undermine American power. Jones profiles three pioneers of irregular warfare in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran who adapted American techniques and made huge gains without waging traditional warfare: Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov; the deceased Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani; and vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission Zhang Youxia. Each has spent his career studying American power and devised techniques to avoid a conventional or nuclear war with the US. Gerasimov helped oversee a resurgence of Russian irregular warfare, which included attempts to undermine the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections and the SolarWinds cyber attack. Soleimani was so effective in expanding Iranian power in the Middle East that Washington targeted him for assassination. Zhang Youxia presents the most alarming challenge because China has more power and potential at its disposal. Drawing on interviews with dozens of US military, diplomatic, and intelligence officials, as well as hundreds of documents translated from Russian, Farsi, and Mandarin, Jones shows how America’s rivals have bloodied its reputation and seized territory worldwide. Instead of standing up to autocratic regimes, Jones demonstrates that the United States has largely abandoned the kind of information, special operations, intelligence, and economic and diplomatic action that helped win the Cold War. In a powerful conclusion, Jones details the key steps the United States must take to alter how it thinks about—and engages in—competition before it is too late.
Godfathers of Irregular Warfare
Godfathers of Irregular Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Godfathers of Irregular Warfare write by . This book was released on 2014. Godfathers of Irregular Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Section D for Destruction
Section D for Destruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Section D for Destruction write by Malcolm Atkin. This book was released on 2017-11-30. Section D for Destruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Neville Chamberlain made his famous Peace in Our Time statement in 1938, after the Munich Agreement with Hitler, he may, or may not, have been aware that the new Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service was already making plans to mount an all-out political and sabotage war against Nazi Germany. This was a new form of warfare, encompassing bribery, black propaganda and sabotage by agents described as having no morals or scruples. To the horror of many, it disregarded the conventions of neutrality and was prepared to hit the Nazi state wherever it could do most damage. Malcolm Atkin reveals how Section D's struggle to build a European wide anti-Nazi resistance movement was met with widespread suspicion from government, to the extent of a systematic destruction of its reputation. It was, however, a key pioneer of irregular warfare that led to the formation of the famous Special Operations Executive (SOE). His study is the first in-depth account of it to be published since the release of previously secret documents to the National Archives.
