Weaponizing Civilian Protection exposes how coalition efforts to minimize and mitigate civilian casualties during the recent conflict in Afghanistan also worked to rationalize the harm inflicted upon Afghan civilians.
Weaponizing Civilian Protection exposes how coalition efforts to minimize and mitigate civilian casualties during the recent conflict in Afghanistan also worked to rationalize the harm inflicted upon Afghan civilians.
With a wealth of valuable empirical materials, Strategy Dynamics explores the concept of adaptation in strategic decision-making through detailed engagement with professional military education at various war colleges and three in-depth case studies of significant strategic reversals by the United States, France, and former Czechoslovakia.
With a wealth of valuable empirical materials, Strategy Dynamics explores the concept of adaptation in strategic decision-making through detailed engagement with professional military education at various war colleges and three in-depth case studies of significant strategic reversals by the United States, France, and former Czechoslovakia.
Sun Tzu's thirteen short chapters cover everything from terrain and supply lines to spies and the psychology of a frightened enemy, built around one central idea: the best victory is the one where the fighting was never really necessary.
In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's Tribe and Chris Hedges's classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military education in the United States, and how it formed and fuels increasingly volatile strains of American masculinity.
Chinese Martial Code provides clear, easy-to-follow translations of three of the most respected Chinese works of military strategyIt features a masterful translation of The Art of War of Sun Tzuthe most respected of all works of military strategyas well as the less famous but equally wise The Precepts of War by Sima Rangju and Wu Zi On the Art of War.
Chinese Martial Code provides clear, easy-to-follow translations of three of the most respected Chinese works of military strategyIt features a masterful translation of The Art of War of Sun Tzuthe most respected of all works of military strategyas well as the less famous but equally wise The Precepts of War by Sima Rangju and Wu Zi On the Art of War.
Thirty-six StratagemsA classic military text from ancient China, it contains a collection of strategies that reflect profound wisdom and long experience in managing conflicts and wars.
Más de dos milenios después de que fuera escrito, El arte de la guerra sigue siendo uno de los tratados de estrategia militar más influyentes y, además, se ha revelado como una herramienta propicia en el ámbito de los negocios y de las relaciones interpersonales para toda persona que necesite conseguir su objetivo venciendo a un oponente.
El libro aborda el tema de la dirección de las operaciones militares durante el conflicto armado, para dilucidar si su "acontecer operacional" es una mera continuación de la política, cuando pone en juego sus medios más graves o, por el contrario, introduce una nueva lógica en el devenir de lo político, que no podría manejarlo conforme a los parámetros de una razón instrumental.
This book deals with the morality, self-conception and honour of states, something that goes well beyond the narrow, rationalist defence of national interests, which dominates most IR studies.
This book deals with the morality, self-conception and honour of states, something that goes well beyond the narrow, rationalist defence of national interests, which dominates most IR studies.
'Phillips O'Brien is one of the keenest observers of modern strategy, and his new book takes a deep historical look at the evolution of warfare and its implications for conflicts like the ongoing one in Ukraine' Francis Fukuyama--------------------War and power are two of the most-widely discussed issues in all of human history, and yet they are, time and again, misunderstood often disastrously so.
Organizing for Cyber Power examines how states organise to develop and employ offensive cyberspace operations (OCO) as an instrument of national security under conditions of time compression, partial intelligence, attribution friction, and technical volatility.
Organizing for Cyber Power examines how states organise to develop and employ offensive cyberspace operations (OCO) as an instrument of national security under conditions of time compression, partial intelligence, attribution friction, and technical volatility.
Dictators' Endgames examines the political role of the military in "e;dictators' endgames"e;: large-scale nonviolent mass protests in autocracies that demand the regime leader's removal from office.
Dictators' Endgames examines the political role of the military in "e;dictators' endgames"e;: large-scale nonviolent mass protests in autocracies that demand the regime leader's removal from office.
This edited volume examines the challenges and opportunities confronting the various powers that were and currently are active within the East China Sea and the Northeast Asia sub-region.
This edited volume examines the challenges and opportunities confronting the various powers that were and currently are active within the East China Sea and the Northeast Asia sub-region.
Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale.
Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale.
An in-depth examination of the United States' indirect intervention into the Syrian war on two fronts: the covert CIA-led campaign against the Bashar al-Assad regime and the overt, Pentagon-led military operation against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq & Syria (ISIS).
An in-depth examination of the United States' indirect intervention into the Syrian war on two fronts: the covert CIA-led campaign against the Bashar al-Assad regime and the overt, Pentagon-led military operation against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq & Syria (ISIS).
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Neuzeit, Absolutismus, Industrialisierung, Note: 1,3, FernUniversität Hagen (Fakultät für Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Entwicklung der Eisenbahn beeinflusste die territoriale Mobilität der Menschheit in einer Art und Weise, wie es kein anderes Verkehrsmittel bis in die Gegenwart zu leisten im Stande war.
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of important works of military science fiction from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and their implications for how we think about armed conflict and the future of war.
Great Power Politics, Elites and Energy explores the dynamics between great power politics, elites and energy, utilizing a critical political economic and historical materialist perspective that moves away from a Western-centric viewpoint and dominant International Relations methodologies.
Despite their untold human suffering, widespread destruction and loss, and far-reaching destabilization, the fires of many of the world's most violent civil wars continue to burn.
Despite their untold human suffering, widespread destruction and loss, and far-reaching destabilization, the fires of many of the world's most violent civil wars continue to burn.
