Military and defence strategy

In Bracing for Armageddon, Dee Garrison pulls back the curtain on the U.

Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity.

The Civil War and the World War II stand as the two great cataclysms of American history.

Ronald E.

ORBIT (Observing Rapport Based Interpersonal Techniques) is an approach to interviewing high-value detainees, encompassing not only analysis and research into the methodology, but also a framework for training.

ORBIT (Observing Rapport Based Interpersonal Techniques) is an approach to interviewing high-value detainees, encompassing not only analysis and research into the methodology, but also a framework for training.

Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag.

Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag.

Fearing the loss of Korea and Vietnam would touch off a chain reaction of other countries turning communist, the United States fought two major wars in the hinterlands of Asia.

Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "e;New Look"e; program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy.

Over the past twenty years, a revolution has occurred in relations between the American executive and legislative branches.

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech.

Today, even as America asserts itself globally, it lacks a grand strategy to replace "e;containment of communism.

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.

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.

A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics.

A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics.

Why did Britain go to war in Iraq in 2003?

Why did Britain go to war in Iraq in 2003?

The Fear of Invasion presents a new interpretation of British preparation for War before 1914.

The Fear of Invasion presents a new interpretation of British preparation for War before 1914.

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the theory of strategy, examines the general theory of strategy in accordance with 23 key Principles and explains its nature, functions, and intended consequences.

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the theory of strategy, examines the general theory of strategy in accordance with 23 key Principles and explains its nature, functions, and intended consequences.

Perspectives on Strategy examines in depth five aspects of strategy.

Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century: The Mosaic Method provides an industry insider's assessment of current intelligence methods and offers a new strategic model, directed toward the police, military, and intelligence agencies.

Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century: The Mosaic Method provides an industry insider's assessment of current intelligence methods and offers a new strategic model, directed toward the police, military, and intelligence agencies.

The Gestapo was the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy of the Nazi regime: socialists, Communists, Jews, homosexuals, and anyone else deemed to be an 'anti-social element'.

The Gestapo was the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy of the Nazi regime: socialists, Communists, Jews, homosexuals, and anyone else deemed to be an 'anti-social element'.

The existence of the Schlieffen plan has been one of the basic assumptions of twentieth-century military history.

During the Second World War British intelligence provided politicians and soldiers with invaluable knowledge.

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.

This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War.

The main aim of this book is to argue that the use of private force by states has been restricted by a norm against mercenary use.

Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as 'not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war'.

The existence of the Schlieffen plan has been one of the basic assumptions of twentieth-century military history.

A Chronology of European Security and Defence 1945-2006 is a unique and authoritative source of reference for all those with an interest in European defence and security over the last 60 years.

This book explains the creation of the European Union's Security and Defence Policy - to this day the most ambitious project of peacetime military integration.

This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War.

Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as 'not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war'.

The main aim of this book is to argue that the use of private force by states has been restricted by a norm against mercenary use.

Why did the British government declare war on Germany in August 1914?

Many books have been written about the Second World War and the majority of them either concentrate on a particular battle, campaign or unit.

In strategic studies and international relations, grand strategy is a frequently-invoked concept.

In strategic studies and international relations, grand strategy is a frequently-invoked concept.

No modern intervention is intended to endure indefinitely; indeed some fashion of exit is always envisioned from the outset.

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.

Based on a detailed analysis of archives and high level interviews this book looks at the role of beliefs, culture and identity in the making of British nuclear policy from 1945 through to the present day.

Strategy and Defence Planning: Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty explores and examines why and how security communities prepare purposefully for their future defence.

The United States maintains defense ties with as many as 60 countries, which not only enables its armed forces to maintain command globally and to project its force widely, but also enables its government to exert leverage over allies' foreign policies and military strategies.

The United States maintains defense ties with as many as 60 countries, which not only enables its armed forces to maintain command globally and to project its force widely, but also enables its government to exert leverage over allies' foreign policies and military strategies.