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Military history texts discuss the historical record of armed conflict in the history of humanity, its impact on people, societies, and their cultures. Some fundamental subjects of military history study are the causes of war, its social and cultural foundations, military doctrines, logistics, leadership, technology, strategy, and tactics used, and how these have developed over time. Thematic divisions of military history may include: Ancient warfare, Medieval warfare, Gunpowder warfare, Industrial warfare, and Modern warfare.
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Military strategy texts present ideas for military organizations to achieve their desired strategic goals. Military strategy discusses the planning and conduct of campaigns, the movement and disposition of forces, and how to deceive the enemy. Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), defined military strategy as "the employment of battles to gain the end of war." B. H. Liddell Hart defined strategy as "the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy", which places more emphasis on political aims relative to military goals. Sun Tzu (544-496 BC) is the father of Eastern military strategy and greatly influenced Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese war tactics. His book The Art of War has been very popular and has seen practical implementation in Western societies.
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(Excerpt from Defenseless America
The strong appeal of Lo...)
Excerpt from Defenseless America
The strong appeal of Lord Roberts for the British nation to prepare for the Armageddon that is now on, which he knew was coming, did not awaken England, but served rather to rouse Germany.
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Leading Opinions Both for and Against National Defense (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Leading Opinions Both for and Against National Defense
At this time, when the people of the other great nations of the world are destroying one another's property, robbing one another and cutting one another's throats, it is only natural that the people of this country should begin to inquire about our ability to protect our homes from destruction, our property from plunder, and our throats from being cut, in the event Of our being drawn into this war, or into a war with any Of the belligerent nations after the present war is over.
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Dynamite Stories and Some Interesting Facts about Explosives (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Dynamite Stories and Some Interesting Facts About Explosives
Dynamite is used mostly for commercial blasting purposes, such as blasting rock in the Construction of railways, and so forth.
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The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language (Classic Reprint)
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To many persons it will appear an audacity to cross question the Muses, a sacrilege to enter the temple of their worship with the lamp of science. Galileo startled the orthodoxy of his age, religious and scientific alike, by his declaration that the earth revolves around the sun. Darwin Shocked the world with his announcement that man and monkey are descendants of a common ancestor nu arboreal creature with tail and pointed ears. The thought of such lowly origin was most repugnant to many, who had been taught to believe in man's divine origin; but Darwin's evidence staggered the world, made it pause and investigate. Investigation was followed by conviction.
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Lake Hopatcong the Beautiful: A Plea for Its Dedication as a Public Park and for Its Preservation as a Pleasure and Health Resort for the Benefit of All the People (Classic Reprint)
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This book is a plea for the life of New Jerseys most beautiful lake, and a plea for the life of the communities around that lake, and a plea also for the life of thousands of people in all parts of the State who, if that lake is preserved as a summer and health resort, will continue to find renewal of health and life in visiting it.
This plea is addressed to the Morris Canal Investigation Committee, to the Legislature, and to the people of the State of New Jersey.
Lake Hopatcong is threatened with ruination; the prosperous communities around it are threatened with extinction, and our most precious mountain-lake resort is in imminent danger of being wiped off the map.
Armed with fore-knowledge of the intentions of the enemy, and having the facts, the truth and justice as my allies, I hope and I trust that I shall be able to convince any citizen of this State that he should join issue with the defenders where also his own interests lie, and help to prevent a great wrong being done to the whole population of the State as well as to the immediate lake communities.
People of the State of New Jersey, let it be known to you that there is a movement to take away from you, without any sort of compensation whatsoever, a very valuable lake and summer resort property which belongs to you.
Citizen of the State of New Jersey, you are a member of a company, an actual shareholder in a corporation, which is the State, in which also every man, woman and child in the State are shareholders. A part of your annual dividends, due and payable to you, are your rights and privileges in your lakes, public parka and summer and health resorts.
There is a scheme afoot to rob you of your best and most valuable mountain-lake and summer resort property, in order to appropr…
Hudson Maxim was an American inventor and expert in explosives.
Background
Hudson Maxim was born on February 3, 1853 in Orneville, Piscataquis County, Maine. He was the sixth child of Isaac Weston and Harriet Boston (Stevens) Maxim. He was named for his father but disliked the name so much that he dropped it when eighteen years old and took that of Hudson. His father was a wood-turner, millwright, and miller, impoverished in worldly goods but a philosopher, lover of poetry and history, a gifted story teller, and the source of abounding inspiration to his children. Maxim's early life, accordingly, was a difficult but happy one. He rarely had decent clothing and obtained his first pair of shoes when thirteen, but he developed into an unusually strong and healthy boy, full of ambition and determination to amount to something.
Education
He attended the district schools occasionally between the ages of nine and seventeen and then worked for a year for his brother Hiram, the machine-gun inventor, in New York. During the next seven years he alternately worked a few months and attended Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's Hill, Me. , completing there the course in chemistry and the natural sciences.
Career
For the next decade he was engaged in job printing and book publishing with a schoolmate, Alden Knowles, who was an expert ornamental penman. The first part of this period was spent in the vicinity of Columbus, Ohio, where the partners enjoyed considerable success canvassing with their chart of writing styles and their colored ink powders; but in Pittsfield, Massachussets, where they later established themselves and began publishing their own book, Real Pen-Work Self-Instructor in Penmanship (copr. 1881), their success was phenomenal. In five years, through canvassers and mail orders, over a half-million copies of the book were sold. It was followed by a family record book, the sale of which reached more than a million copies. With the advent of the fountain pen and the typewriter, however, their business stopped. Maxim then hired a number of mechanics for his brother Hiram, and went with them to England to work in the latter's gun factory. There Hudson had his first opportunity to examine some smokeless powder of French manufacture, and after a few simple experiments he determined its composition. This work proved fascinating, and upon returning to Pittsfield, Massachussets, in December 1888, as the American representative of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns and Ammunition Company, Limited, he began the serious study of explosives. Although he had a two-years' contract with his brother's company, business difficulties soon arose and Hudson felt bound to look to his own future.
He continued his studies, began experimenting, and occasionally contributed articles to the newspapers on his favorite subject. He secured a patent on the production of high explosives, September 17, 1889, and another for a detachable gas check for projectiles, May 20, 1890. Early in 1891 the contract between the Maxims expired, and shortly thereafter Hudson, known chiefly through his newspaper writings, became chief engineer of the Columbia Powder Manufacturing Company, makers of dynamite at Squankum, N. J. He thereupon moved to New York and for a year or more worked on the problem of making a safer dynamite. He assigned two patents, issued May 10 and August 2, 1892, to the company; and when it failed in 1893, he organized the Maxim Powder Company and took over the plant at Squankum. He then began serious work on smokeless powder and secured a number of patents between 1893 and 1895. He was unsuccessful in selling these to his brother in England but in 1897 sold them, together with his plant, to E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company of Wilmington, Del. He now became a consultant for this company, which position he held throughout his life. From 1895 to 1900 Maxim worked on the perfection of a shock-proof high explosive for guns of large caliber and finally produced an explosive, which he named "Maximite", that could propel a projectile through the heaviest armor plate and was fifty per cent more powerful than dynamite. For this invention Maxim received $50, 000 from the United States government in 1901. That year the Du Pont Company established an experimental laboratory for him at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. , and from that time until his death he worked there. He invented "stabillite, " a smokeless powder that could be used as soon as produced and gave much better ballistic results. He was a consultant for E. W. Bliss Company of Brooklyn, N. Y. , manufacturers of torpedoes for submarines and destroyers, and secured a number of patents for torpedo-boat improvements; for "motorite, " an explosive compound for driving torpedoes; and for apparatus for propelling torpedoes. Interspersed with his inventions in the explosive field, Maxim invented an automobile in England as early as 1895; a process of manufacturing calcium carbide, patented October 8, 1901; and a game of skill in 1912, patented June 25. During the World War he served as chairman of the committee on ordnance and explosives on the Naval Consulting Board in Washington. In 1915 he published Defenseless America, a vitriolic denunciation of pacifism; in 1916, Leading Opinions Both for and Against National Defense; and Dynamite Stories. No religious services were held at his death and his body was cremated.
Achievements
Maxim produced an explosive, which he named "Maximite". He also invented "stabillite, " a smokeless powder and the machinery to manufacture smokeless powder and invented a number of gun cartridges as well as the United States service projectiles. He also invented an automobile. He was greatly interested in aviation and became president of the Aeronautical Society of New York. He was also a member of the Navy League and the Chemists Club of New York.
Quotations:
"Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. "
"The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing just as surely as the iron shoe does the foot of the Chinese girl. "
"If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood . .. and that the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals and fools-not men-it ought to deter them some. The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and chain. "
Membership
a member of the Navy League, a member of the Chemists Club of New York
Personality
He was a fluent public speaker, a frequent contributor to newspapers and periodicals on current topics, and the author of The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language (1910). A man of decisive opinions, he was no respecter of persons or reputations and voiced his likes and dislikes with great freedom and emphasis.
Connections
He was married, first, in 1888, to Jane Morrow of Pittsfield, Massachussets, from whom he was soon afterwards divorced; second, on Marср 26, 1896, to Lilian Durban, of London, England.
Father:
Isaac Weston Maxim
Mother:
Harriet Boston (Stevens) Maxim
Brother:
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916
Was an American-born British inventor, best known as the creator of the Maxim Gun, the first portable fully automatic machine gun.
Wife:
Lillian Durban Dee
25 May 1875 - 8 October 1952
nephew:
Hiram Percy Maxim
September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936
Was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder (with Clarence D. Tuska) of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL).
