Military Theory from Viceroy Books

Osprey Pub Co, 2021. New book, 64 pages, ELI238. The American Revolution presented a series of unique tactical challenges to its competing factions. For Britain, the Army would be forced to re-learn many of the lessons from the Seven Years' War. After the debacle of Concord and Bunker Hill, the British implemented a range of changes throughout the Army, including… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2021. New book, 64 pages, ELI238. The American Revolution presented a series of unique tactical challenges to its competing factions. For Britain, the Army would be forced to re-learn many of the lessons from the Seven Years' War. After the debacle of Concord and Bunker Hill, the British implemented a range of changes throughout the Army, including… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2021. New book, 64 pages, ELI238. The American Revolution presented a series of unique tactical challenges to its competing factions. For Britain, the Army would be forced to re-learn many of the lessons from the Seven Years' War. After the debacle of Concord and Bunker Hill, the British implemented a range of changes throughout the Army, including… Read more about this item

Air Power Development Center, 2008. New book, 70 pages. Doctrine is the lifeblood of military forces and provides them with the foundation to conduct successful operations. The veracity of any doctrine is completely dependent on it being relevant to current and future operations - essentially by its very nature doctrine is dynamic. National security perceptions and definitions have evolved in… Read more about this item

Air Power Development Center, 2009. New book, 70 pages. Command and Control (C2) is a critical enabler for all military organisations. In particular, C2 of air power has unique characteristics that reflect the way that professional airmen fly and fight. It is therefore vital that all members of the Royal Australian Air Force, the wider Australian Defence Force and the… Read more about this item

Air Power Development Center, 2009. New book, 70 pages. Command and Control (C2) is a critical enabler for all military organisations. In particular, C2 of air power has unique characteristics that reflect the way that professional airmen fly and fight. It is therefore vital that all members of the Royal Australian Air Force, the wider Australian Defence Force and the… Read more about this item

Air Power Development Center, 2008. New book, 70 pages. Doctrine is the lifeblood of military forces and provides them with the foundation to conduct successful operations. The veracity of any doctrine is completely dependent on it being relevant to current and future operations - essentially by its very nature doctrine is dynamic. National security perceptions and definitions have evolved in… Read more about this item

Air Power Development Center, 2009. New book, 70 pages. Command and Control (C2) is a critical enabler for all military organisations. In particular, C2 of air power has unique characteristics that reflect the way that professional airmen fly and fight. It is therefore vital that all members of the Royal Australian Air Force, the wider Australian Defence Force and the… Read more about this item

Air Power Development Center, 2008. New book, 70 pages. Doctrine is the lifeblood of military forces and provides them with the foundation to conduct successful operations. The veracity of any doctrine is completely dependent on it being relevant to current and future operations - essentially by its very nature doctrine is dynamic. National security perceptions and definitions have evolved in… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2011. New book, 64 pages, ELI185. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire there was a decline in 'professional' cavalry forces, and infantry dominated in the Germanic successor 'barbarian' kingdoms. In the Carolingian and Norman periods from the 9th to the 11th centuries, the cavalry arm gradually expanded from the small remaining aristocratic elite. Even so,… Read more about this item

Zenith Press, 2009. New book, 320 pages. From ancient surprises like Cannae and Yaqrmouk to the earthshaking upsets of Trenton and Little Big Horn to recent shocks of Gozny and suicide bombers, aberrational events are mileposts that mark changes in the paradigm of armed conflict to the detriment of the apparently stronger military through the ages. This book develops an… Read more about this item

Zenith Press, 2009. New book, 400 pages. Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a conflict whose nature is only obscured by the linear narrative. In this book, a veteran and respected military… Read more about this item

Zenith Press, 2009. New book, 256 pages. Author: Michael Davidson 'Our combat readiness to fight a conventional war is in freefall.' This is the alarm sounded with clarity, authority, and conviction in 'Victory at Risk,' a veteran Army officer and policymaker's deeply disturbing critique of today's U. S. military establishment. Major General Michael W. Davidson, a decorated combat veteran and… Read more about this item

Zenith Press, 2009. New book, 256 pages. Author: Michael Davidson 'Our combat readiness to fight a conventional war is in freefall.' This is the alarm sounded with clarity, authority, and conviction in 'Victory at Risk,' a veteran Army officer and policymaker's deeply disturbing critique of today's U. S. military establishment. Major General Michael W. Davidson, a decorated combat veteran and… Read more about this item

Zenith Press, 2009. New book, 400 pages. Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a conflict whose nature is only obscured by the linear narrative. In this book, a veteran and respected military… Read more about this item

Zenith Press, 2009. New book, 320 pages. From ancient surprises like Cannae and Yaqrmouk to the earthshaking upsets of Trenton and Little Big Horn to recent shocks of Gozny and suicide bombers, aberrational events are mileposts that mark changes in the paradigm of armed conflict to the detriment of the apparently stronger military through the ages. This book develops an… Read more about this item

Air Power Development Center, 2009. New book, 248 pages. Conventional military forces across the world are investigating and adopting measures to be effective in the increasing incidence of irregular wars in order to counter non-state adversaries perpetuating acts of violence in support of causes ranging from extremist political and religious ideologies, transnational crime, local insurgencies and guerrilla wars. Air power… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2009. New book, 288 pages. Out of the last 3,500 years of our ‘civilised’ world, only for 230 have we been at peace. In The Heat of Battle features those who by rising to the occasion on the battlefield or failing to do so turned the course of history. For some military leaders or politicians their actions… Read more about this item

Osprey Pub Co, 2009. New book, 320 pages. Throughout time, violent battles and bloody clashes have changed the course of history and shaped nations or empires. Battles of annihilation are rare, but ever since antiquity a stunning victory on the battlefield, even if it has failed to win the war, has captured the imagination. In this book Mir Bahmanyar examines… Read more about this item

Brockhampton Press, 2000. New book, 224 pages. Napoleon said that the success of the coup de main depended absolutely upon luck rather than upon judgement. This must rank as one of his less considered comments: as this book makes plain, the military tactic of the sudden acquisition of a strategic objective can be - should be - clinically designed and… Read more about this item