Describes weapons, such as firearms, vehicles, missiles, and bombs, including how they work and the types of warfare and ideal conditions in which to use them.
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These are challenges that come with no preexisting playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy, ...
The units and formations of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) have privileged access to the finest weaponry in the world's arsenal.
A War that began with single-shot horse pistols ended with multi-shot revolvers. Poignant archive photography is used throughout the book, showing the weapons in contemporary action, and placing them in their Civil War context.
If you think you can slip one past these readers, you're wrong. Dead wrong. You don't have to be a gun buff to need this book.
Kendall & Lawrence became Robbins, Kendall & Lawrence in 1844, but the aging Kendall sold his share in 1847. Robbins & Lawrence thereafter grew rapidly, obtaining a contract to equip the British Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield with ...
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Dictionary of Weapons and Military Terms
Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor tells this epic story of the entire spectrum of weaponry through stunning photography and authoritative coverage, from the stone axes of the earliest warfare to the heavy artillery of today's ...
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