Military and defence strategy

This book, first published in 1990, examines the nature and causes of the changes to Soviet national security policy under Gorbachev.

This handbook offers the techniques and tactics that make Army Rangers the best soldiers in the world.

During the past twenty-five years, U.

This book, first published in 1978, examines the military use of space - around 60 per cent of US and Soviet satellites were military ones.

In his 1933 inaugural address, Franklin D.

This cohesive set of case studies collects scholarly research, policy evaluation, and field experience to explain how terrorist groups have developed into criminal enterprises.

Smallpox was a devastating disease that decimated human populations for centuries, and its eradication in 1980 was a monumental achievement for the global health community.

The United States-Australia alliance has been an important component of the US-led system of alliances that has underpinned regional security in the Indo-Pacific since 1945.

Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this text provides a unique insight into counterinsurgency and Australia''s involvement in the Vietnam War.

First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon.

The chilling political thriller dangerously close to becoming reality 'Make no mistake: if Russia marches into the Baltics it means nuclear war.

This book examines Pakistan's strategies in the war against Islamist armed groups that began late 2001, following the 9/11 attacks.

Broadly defined as the grey area between strategy and tactics, operational art spans the theory and practice of planning and conducting campaigns and major operations aimed at accomplishing strategic and operational objectives in a given theatre of operations.

To what extent are Canada and Mexico "e;natural allies"e; in continental and world affairs?

What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D.

An exploration of German World War II small-scale military strategy, edited by the former chief historian of the U.

This book examines how exclusion from cyberspace is possible and explores ways that states can respond to this threat.

This book, first published in 1985, examines the Cold War risks of superpower confrontations, mainly in the Third World, resulting in war in Europe.

This book explores the process by which defence policy is made in contemporary Britain and the institutions, actors and conflicting interests which interact in its inception and continuous reformulation.

John M.

Published each year since 1959, The Military Balance is an indispensable reference to the capabilities of armed forces across the globe.

In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of security .

Geneva and the Drift to War (1938) is based on the work of the 1937 session of the Geneva Institute of International Relations, which brought together men and women from all parts of the world to pool the results of their studies in international affairs, their experience of international administration, or their personal knowledge of international politics.

This book shows the risks and protections cyberspace offers for national security and information warfare.

Historically, most terrorist attacks on civilian targets have involved the use of firearms or explosives, and current defensive strategies are aimed at preventing attacks perpetrated by such means.

The Casualty Gap shows how the most important cost of American military campaigns--the loss of human life--has been paid disproportionately by poorer and less-educated communities since the 1950s.

This book explores the conditions under which Nuclear Weapons Free Zones (NWFZs) can be established.

Misuse of handguns is a significant factor in deaths, morbidity, and crime in the United States.

Defence against military attack has had a considerable geographical impact.

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Archduke Carl of Austria lived during a time fractured by the collision of revolution and reaction, and he drew upon the French Revolution as the source for most of his experiences as a field commander and theoretician.

The first volume in a groundbreaking work of WWII history presents a startlingly different narrative of D-Day based on newly released documents.

This textbook provides an overview of qualitive and quantitative methods used in different social sciences to investigate defence issues.

While American national security policy has grown more interventionist since the Cold War, Washington has also hoped to shape the world on the cheap.

Some 600 pipe bomb explosions have occurred annually in the United States during the past several years.

Today the vast archipelago of Southeast Asia islands known as Indonesia is in the headlines because of political instability, religious tension, and violence in the streets.

The book explores how small states adjust their military strategies in response to external shocks.

Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award If the Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last gasp, it was also America's proving ground-the largest single action fought by the U.

Drawing upon extensive original research, this book explores best practice in army lessons-learned processes.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the emerging underwater challenges facing India in the Indian Ocean region.

The Soviet-German War of 19411945 was the most extensive intelligence/counterintelligence war in modern history, involving the capture, torture, deportation, execution, and doubling of tens of thousands of agentsmost of them Soviet citizens.

This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework.

Critical acclaim for William B.

This in-depth WWII history examines how the Battle of Britain was shaped by military intelligence on both sides of the conflict.

This edited volume bridges the "e;analytical divide"e; between studies of transatlantic relations, democratic peace theory, and foreign policy analysis, and improves our theoretical understanding of the logic of crises prevention and resolution.

This book, first published in 1991, examines the changes to security and intelligence agencies envisioned in the uncertain world at the end of the Cold War.