Military and defence strategy

Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on two frontsin New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardMost histories of the U.

The Psychological War for Vietnam, 19601968, for the first time fully explores the most sustained, intensive use of psychological operations (PSYOP) in American history.

World War II was a media war.

This book critically analyzes US political-military strategy by arguing that freedom of the seas discourse is fundamentally unfit for an era of maritime great power competition.

Richard M.

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 .

Strategy is not a modern invention.

Stone & Stone Editor’s ChoiceBy the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point.

International Security is a cutting-edge analysis of the key security challenges and developments in the post-Cold War world.

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This book offers a comprehensive guide to ethical decision-making for practitioners of operational psychology working in national security and defense.

There is more to defense than military might and more to the military than a fighting force.

Winner: Air Force Historical Foundation AwardWhen large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.

The true story of Australia's SAS and the soldier who was there from the start.

an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller' Michael McKernan, Sydney Morning Herald The bestselling, acclaimed, authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in Australian military history now established as a classic.

Clive 'Killer' Caldwell was a natural and brilliant pilot, a superb shot, and a born leader.

The CIA is at the top of a cosmology of government and private concerns known collectively as the intelligence community.

Over the course of World War II, guerrillas from across the Philippines opposed Imperial Japans occupation of the archipelago.

The joint British and US campaigns in the European theater of operations during World War II rank among the most impressive examples of coalition warfare in history.

World War II was a media war.

In The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23July 4, 1863, noted Civil War scholar Timothy B.

Southern Strategies is the first-ever analysis of Confederate defeat using the lenses of classical strategic and leadership theory.

Late in 1967, American officials and military officers pushed an optimistic view of the Vietnam War.

By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it.

During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high.

American fighting men had never seen the likes of it before.

No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great Duty First!

Finalist, Templer MedalIn the spring of 1944, on the eastern front of India near the Burmese border, the seemingly unstoppable Imperial Japanese Army suffered the worst defeat in its history at the hands of Lieutenant General William Slims British XIV Army, most of whose units were drawn from the little-esteemed Indian Army.

During his 800 days of war, Nikolai Litvin fought at the front lines in the ferocious tank battles at Kursk, was wounded three times, and witnessed unspeakable brutalities against prisoners and civilians.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn the face of the German onslaught in World War II, the Soviets succeeded, as Molotov later recalled, in relocating to the rear virtually an entire industrial country.

Winner: Arthur Goodzeit AwardThroughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare.

Benjamin F.

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.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardWhen American and South Vietnamese forces, led by General Creighton Abrams, launched an attack into neutral Cambodia in 1970, the invasion ignited a firestorm of violent antiwar protests throughout the United States, dealing yet another blow to Nixon's troubled presidency.

Forever known for its blazing cinematic image of General George S.

For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats.

Winner: Society for Military History Distinguished Book AwardThis year begins the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history.

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.

When the Red Army invaded Finland in November 1939 most observers expected a walkover.

In the Allies post-war analyses of the Nazis defeat, the weakness and incompetence of the German intelligence services figured prominently.

When President George W.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardDuring the Civil War, thirty-six officers in the Army of the Potomac were assigned corps commands of up to 30,000 men.

Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigious Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and quickly established itself as the definitive book for understanding a crucial component of our national defense capabilities.

With Allied armies poised on the banks of the Rhine, Nazi Germany tottered on the brink of collapse.

In 1947 German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II.

Pressed by advancing enemy armies on both fronts, Adolf Hitler played his final card in World War II by mobilizing all German civilian males between sixteen and sixty and indoctrinating them for a final apocalyptic defense of the Reich.

When the German Wehrmacht swarmed across Eastern Europe, an elite corps followed close at its heels.

Choice Outstanding TitleIt was one of the most ruthlessly conceived and executed invasions in the annals of warfare.