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In a war zone, military working dogs and their handlers risk their lives for each other every day. Learn what these dogs do and how they are trained, and meet some who have served in military conflicts around the world.

"A highly illustrated guide to aircraft, tanks, and warships from the beginning of the Cold War to the present day. Includes main battle tanks, antitank vehicles, armored personnel carriers, amphibious tanks, fighter jets, interceptors, bombers, transport aircraft, Stealth bombers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines. Each entry is illustrated with a full-color artwork, showing its characteristics and markings in detail, alongside detailed...

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) agreement was reached in 2011, and both Russia and the United States are bringing nuclear strategic warhead deployments down to roughly 1,500 on each side. In the next round of strategic arms reduction talks, though, U.S. officials hope to cut far deeper; perhaps as low as several hundred warheads on each side -- numbers that approach what other nuclear weapons states, such as France, China, Israel, India,...

Many military tactics during World War II were based on the assumption that new technologies would lead to decisive battlefield victories, demoralization of the enemy by intensive bombing, or even a quick surrender. Political and military leaders, Allies and Axis alike, believed that "blitzkrieg" was the best way to victory. But in The Blitzkrieg Myth, John Mosier argues that this was not the case. Mosier examines the major European campaigns,...