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• Foreword-Christopher Marsh. Forging the Anvil. FINDING VOLUNTEERS: THE MAKING OF THE INTERWAR INFANTRY.
• The United Kingdom: Lowering Selection Standards. The United States: Raising Selection Standards. Germany: Learning from World War I. BUILDING COMBAT DIVISIONS: FROM CONSCRIPTION TO WAR. The United Kingdom: Fighting a Defensive War. The United States: Mobilizing for War. Germany: Fighting an Offensive War. FACING INFANTRY CRISES: TO FINAL VICTORY AND DEFEAT. The United Kingdom: Consolidating Recruitment and Induction. The United States: Improving Infantry Quality. Germany: Fighting the Anvil. CONCLUSION. The Anvil Forged.
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It has long been accepted wisdom that Germany's infantrymen possessed superior tactical ability relative to their Anglo-American adversaries in World War II. Now, drawing on newly available information, Stephen Lauer unpacks that assumption, exploring the conscription, classification, and training methods of the US, British, and German infantries from 1919 through 1945. How did conscripted citizens become foot soldiers willing to fight, and even die, for each other in the face of brutal physical and mental demands? How was it decided which men to assign to combat units? How did each nation engender the social bonds that were essential if soldiers were to succeed - and - survive in their small unit milieus? Addressing these questions of manpower quality, Forging the Anvil is a landmark study of the key factors that influenced the creation of World War II infantries and sustained them in the crucible of close combat.
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• Weapons Dictate Tactics
• New Technology, Old Enemies
• Council House to Plum Creek
• Jack Hays and the Paterson
• Walker Colt and Mexican War
• New Colts and New Rangers
• Civil War on the Frontier
• The Frontier Forces
• Winchester 1866
• 1873 and Arming the Frontier Battalion
• Frontier Battalion
• Doing their Job
• Ranger Force: New Century
• New Weapons
• DPS
• Modern Rangers
• Ranger Firearms

From their founding in the 1820s up to the modern age, the Texas Rangers have shown the ability to adapt and survive. Part of that survival depended on their use of firearms. The evolving technology of these weapons often determined the effectiveness of these early day Rangers. John Coffee 'Jack' Hays and Samuel Walker would leave their mark on the Rangers by incorporating new technology which allowed them to alter tactics when confronting their adversaries. The Frontier Battalion was created at about the same time as the Colt Peacemaker and the Winchester 73 - these were the guns that 'won the West'.Firearms of the Texas Rangers, with more than 180 photographs, tells the history of the Texas Rangers primarily through the use of their firearms. Author Doug Dukes narrates famous episodes in Ranger history, including Jack Hays and the Paterson, the Walker Colt, the McCulloch Colt Revolver (smuggled through the Union blockade during the Civil War), and the Frontier Battalion and their use of the Colt Peacemaker and Winchester and Sharps carbines. Readers will delight in learning of Frank Hamer's marksmanship with his Colt Single Action Army and his Remington, along with Captain J. W. McCormick and his two .45 Colt pistols, complete with photos. Whether it was a Ranger in 1844 with his Paterson on patrol for Indians north of San Antonio, or a Ranger in 2016 with his LaRue 7.62 rifle working the Rio Grande looking for smugglers and terrorists, the technology may have changed, but the gritty job of the Rangers has not.
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• Mountain Troops 1935-39 Poland, 1939 Campaigns in the West, Norway and France, 1940 The Balkans, 1941 North Africa, 1941-43 The Eastern Front, 1941-43 The Northern Front, 1941-43 Afterword Further Reading Index.
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Fifteen elite mountain divisions and a multitude of small units fought for the Wehrmacht during World War II. They fought on all fronts, operating in hostile environments ranging from the far north to Libya, the Atlantic to the Caucasus - serving in all the "hot spots." This book, the culmination of some four decades of research and the support of many veterans and collectors, describes the life, operations and equipment of these specialist units.
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"The book re-evaluates both the plug bayonet as a weapon and its implementation which fundamentally changed how it impacted both the formation and tactics of all armies of the long seventeen century. The plug bayonets reputation was marred by General Hugh Mackay following his defeat at the Battle of Killiekrankie on the 27th July 1689 when he supposedly stated: 'his men were defeated by an unforeseen technical flaw in their weaponry [plug bayonet]'. This view of the plug bayonet has been re-iterated constantly over the following 300 years, with military historian's sideling the plug bayonet as a dead-end technology with little to commend it. While the introduction of the bayonet was a monumental step in the development of infantry in infantry tactics from pike to shot, one chapter will look at some of the other important developments with military technology. It will look at the arguments of matchlock vs flintlock and how they developed, and the introduction of Chevaux de frise, etc. It will prove that unlike some previous assertions, advancements within this sphere were not linear in nature"--Back cover

Who Dares Lives consists of three parts: Part I: The first part tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy as he begins to turn into a man. Lenord has endured poverty and hardship, but through tears and sweat his story turns from mud to glory. It is an inspirational memoir celebrating life's ups and downs. Part II and III: Readers are made aware of unexpected events that can befall them. It ranges from the perils of modern society and personal safety to medical emergencies and even man-made and natural disasters. The key objective of these parts is the development of an analytical mindset to tackle these challenges proactively. Learn how to think and act like a Bush War veteran while equipping yourself with a defence and survival mindset. Above all, you must learn that the behaviour that may save your life is cultivated by thinking and behaving within the parameters of emotional intelligence patterns so that decision-making takes precedence during dangerous situations. Understanding the human psychological state in life-or-death situations is the apex you can reach in the development of situational awareness, turning you into a force multiplier.
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• tom 1. Meritum
• tom 2. Annexis

• For want of a nail
• Why replace the M14?
• The M16 and its development
• The small arms weapons systems test
• CYA-- the name of the game
• The troops deploy-- an autopsy of the problem
• Weighed in the balance-- a jammed M16 caused my first KIA / by Lyman Duryea
• Someone had blundered
• In council rooms apart
• The uncertain trumpet
• Why not the ARVN?
• The rifle, politics, the aftermath / by Lyman Duryea
• "When will they ever learn?" / by Bob Orkand
• Afterword.

The M16 rifle is one of the world's most famous firearms, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam War - and, indeed, as the U.S. military's standard service rifle until only a few years ago. But the story of the M16 in Vietnam is anything but a success story. In the early years of the war, the U.S. military had a problem: its primary infantry rifle, the M14, couldn't stand up to the enemy's AK-47s. The search was on for a replacement that was lighter weight, more durable, and more lethal than the M14. After tests (some of which the new rifle had failed) and debates (more than a few rooted in the army brass's resistance to change), Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered the adoption of the M16, which was rushed through production and rushed to Vietnam, reaching troops' hands in early 1965. Problems appeared immediately. Soldiers were not adequately trained to maintain the new rifle - billed as self-cleaning--nor were they given cleaning supplies or instructions. The jungle humidity corroded the rifle's inner components (the manufacturer had decided against chrome-plating); the cheap gunpowder in the rounds fouled the chamber. The M16 often failed to eject spent cartridges, often jammed, making the rifle "about as effective as a muzzleloader, " in the words of one officer. Men began to be killed in combat because they couldn't return fire or because they had paused to fix their rifles. Congress investigated, and the rifle and its ammunition were modified, greatly improving its reliability by 1967-68. But the damage to its reputation had been done, and many soldiers remained deeply skeptical of their rifle through the war's end. Misfire combines insider knowledge of U.S. Army weapons development with firsthand combat experience in Vietnam to tell the story of the M16 in Vietnam. Even as it details the behind-the-scenes development, tests, and debates that brought this rifle into service, the book also describes men and M16s in action on the battlefield, never losing sight of the soldiers who carried M16s in the jungles of Vietnam and all too often suffered the consequences of decisions they had nothing to do with.
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• "L'arme favorite du poilu est la baïonnette"
• À hauteur d'hommes
• "Quant à l'homme, où était-il?"
• "Se battre sans se voir"
• "Beaucoup de bruits circulent"
• L'impossible barda
• "Avant de monter à l'échafaud"
• Courir à l'ennemi
• "Ça y est, on les a bousillés"
• La guerre, c'est surtout l'assaut et le combat
• Le choc, le chef, l'héroïsme
• A l'épreuve du feu
• La presse et les manuels scolaires
• La caserne ou l'école du soldat
• Un mythe militaire paradoxal
• Une baïonnette pour les cavaliers ?
• Les statistiques sont formelles
• La zone de mort
• Bouleversements tactiques
• Les "offensifs" montent en puissance
• Se tenir droit : le primat des forces morales
• L'exaltation du "tempérament français"
• Rosalie, figure-clé dès l'entrée en guerre
• La source d'une inépuisable confiance
• La baïonnette allemande, arme de sauvages
• La presse, porte-voix de l'armée
• Premiers doutes
• Les premiers mois, la vaillante baïonnette
• Une histoire bien rodée
• Histoire d'un surnom
• Le haut commandement dans l'impasse
• "Creuser des trous pour n'y planter que des hommes"
• Renouer avec la "vraie guerre"
• "Après la Champagne, Verdun; après Verdun, la Somme; et après?
• "Vivement la tranchée qu'on se repose"
• Une image discréditée mais tenace
• La baïonnette disparaît progressivement de la presse
• Vers un certain réalisme
• Un ressort humoristique
• Dans le roman populaire, la baïonnette reste "rouge de sang"
• Jusqu'aux biens de consommation patriotiques...
• Un point de fuite hors champ mais incontournable
• Une "image emblématique"
• L'ambivalence des combattants
• "Les journaux continuent à nous servir leurs histoires"
• "Ils déchiraient les journaux avec rage"
• "Ça doit être beau une charge à la baïonnette!"
• "Dis donc: baïonnette, ça s'écrit comment?"
• "C'est mou, il n'y à qu'à enfoncer"
• D'un siècle à l'autre
• Derniers feux
• Des hommes fauchés en plein élan
• Le meurtre à l'arme blanche, un observatoire fascinant.

""Baïonnette au canon !" "En avant, à la baïonnette !" Les conscrits de 1914 sont d'abord des fantassins, préparés à faire la preuve de leur bravoure lors d'assauts et de combats au corps à corps à l'arme blanche, où ils surpassent leurs ennemis et remportent la victoire. Pourtant, dans les tranchées, la réalité est tout autre. Sur un champ de bataille bien peu propice à l'héroïsme et face à la puissance destructrice des pluies d'obus, au feu de l'artillerie, aux attaques chimiques et aux raids de l'aviation, les soldats tombent en masse et sont tués à distance dans une guerre résolument moderne. Par-delà les mythes et les images d'Épinal, à hauteur d'hommes, la véritable histoire d'une arme devenue paradoxalement l'emblème de la Première Guerre mondiale."--Page 4 of cover.