Siegecraft - No Fortress Impregnable - Skaarup, Harold A

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Résumé :
It has been said that the taking of a fortress depends primarily on the making of a good plan to take it, and the proper implementation and application of the resources to make the plan work. Long before a fortress has been besieged and conquered, it has to have been outthought before it can be outfought. This book outlines some of the more successfully thought out sieges, and demonstrates why it is that no fortress is impregnable....

Sommaire:
Major (Retired) Harold A. Skaarup served with the Canadian Forces as an Army Intelligence Officer, retiring in August 2011. During his 40 years of service, he was a member of the Canadian Airborne Regiment and served three tours with the Canadian
Forces Parachute Demonstration Team The Sky Hawks. He served overseas as an Intelligence Officer with HQ CFE and 4 CMBG in Lahr, Germany, and with NORAD in Colorado Springs. He has been on operational deployments with the UN in Nicosia, Cyprus, with SFOR in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and with ISAF's KMNB in Kabul, Afghanistan. He served as an instructor at the Combat Training Centre, CFB Gagetown, and at the Intelligence Training Schools at CFB Borden and CFB Kingston. He earned his Master's degree in War Studies through the Royal Military College and has authored a number of books on military history....