A comprehensive military textbook for our times, our wars

It is the second Age of Man, the age before the world turned. The Empire of the Dragon-Blooded -- an invincible colossus -- stands astride the ruins of the First Age. For millennia, the scarlet Empress held the world in her steel grip. But the empress is no more, and the Realm spirals toward chaos and civil war. Its enemies descend -- demon princes, deathlords, skin-changing barbarians and the twisted and inscrutable Fair Folk hammer at the gates. In this time of darkness are reborn the solar Exalted, heroes of legend once slain by the Dragon-Blooded. Will these living legends herald the return of the Golden Age... or the end of creation? The source on magic for Exalted players and Storytellers.

Based on many years of applied research, modeling and educating future decision makers, the authors have selected the critical set of mathematical modeling skills for decision analysis to include in this book. The book focuses on the model formulation and modeling building skills, as well as the technology to support decision analysis. The authors cover many of the main techniques that have been incorporated into their three-course sequence in mathematical modeling for decision making in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. The primary objective of this book is illustrative in nature. It begins with an introduction to mathematical modeling and a process for formally thinking about difficult problems, illustrating many scenarios and illustrative examples. The book incorporates the necessary mathematical foundations for solving these problems with military applications and related military processes to reinforce the applied nature of the mathematical modeling process.

Marco Wyss examines the extensive Anglo-Swiss armaments relationship between 1945 and 1958 in light of their bilateral relations, and thereby assesses the role of arms transfers, neutrality and Britain, as well as the two countries' relationship during the Cold War.

Victoria Gomez is a Filipina-American, military brat, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She’s the proud wife of a soldier and mother of three, bright and amazing, young men. Victoria has a multi-faceted resume: U.S. Army veteran, Pentagon policy writer, fitness instructor, substitute teacher, mental health therapist, Department of the Army equipment distribution analyst, NCAA recruiting compliance specialist, unit volunteer, team mom, coach, and university enrollment counselor. She’s an avid journal keeper, lover of languages and cultures, car karaoke singer, selfie-taker, work-outaholic, and traveler. She enjoys writing whenever she can, mostly in the early hours when the world is asleep or in the carpool line, since time is typically constrained by work-life-balance. She’s often seen watching and listening, writing in her journal, taking notes in her car, at a football game, or in a restaurant. She loves deeper and laughs louder than most, and seeks every opportunity to make the ordinary extraordinary. She loves the beach, good food, football, and her family. She calls the world home, but now parks her gypsy van in Leawood.