Fort de sa brillante carrière de Colonel des Forces Spéciales de l'Armée américaine, Henrik O. Lunde apporte une perspective unique à l'histoire et à la stratégie militaires. Après son service, il s'est tourné vers l'écriture, se concentrant sur sa région natale du Nord et tirant parti de son expertise tactique alliée à sa perspicacité stratégique. Ses ouvrages révolutionnaires plongent dans des conflits historiques cruciaux, offrant de nouvelles analyses des décisions militaires et de leurs implications mondiales. Il continue d'explorer l'efficacité des compétences militaires dans les affaires internationales, examinant à la fois les événements passés et les défis contemporains.
This book examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s, and then follows its line of warrior kings into the next century until the Swedes finally meet their demise, in an overreach into the vastness of Russia.
A thorough examination of one of history’s revolutionary campaigns . . . After Hitler conquered Poland, and while still fine-tuning his plans against France, the British began to exert control of the coastline of neutral Norway, an action that threatened to cut off Germany’s iron-ore conduit to Sweden and outflank from the start its hegemony on the Continent. The air, airborne, sea, amphibious, infantry, armor and commando aspects of this brief but violent campaign are here covered in meticulous detail. Henrik Lunde, a native Norwegian and former U.S. Special Operations colonel, has written perhaps the most objective account to date of a campaign in which 20th century military innovation found its first fertile playing field.