As communities continue to undergo rapid demographic shifts that modify their composition, culture, and collective values, police departments serving those communities must evolve accordingly in order to remain effective.
Fighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the operational level of war--striking, screening, scouting, and basing--and that successful operational art is achieved when they are brought to bear in a cohesive, competitive scheme.
Admiral Stavridis, a leader in military, international affairs, and national security circles, shares his love of the sea and some of the sources of that affection.
The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.
Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.
Rapid and momentous technological changes at the turn of the 20th century forced military professionals and educated civilians to envision the future of war and warfare, especially during an age where nations found themselves aggressively competing for dominance on the world stage.
This book introduces the concept of "e;oceanic strategy,"e; expanding beyond traditional maritime and naval perspectives to include political, economic, socio-cultural, and ecological dimensions.
Rozman and Glosserman follow a momentous decade in the transformation of Japanese foreign policy from 2013 to 2023 that unveils Japan in a new light as a leading power more closely aligned with the United States than ever before but with distinct aspirations.
As communities continue to undergo rapid demographic shifts that modify their composition, culture, and collective values, police departments serving those communities must evolve accordingly in order to remain effective.
Understanding Non-State Actors aims to reduce the scarcity of academic literature on armed non-state actors (NSAs) that have always been a part of world politics and wars.
This book examines public perceptions of the legitimacy of drones, and how this affects countries' policies on and the global governance of drone warfare.
This book argues for reform of the convention that, when politicians decide on a course of action, the general in supreme command obeys without question.
This book analyses the categories of thought underpinning Russia's strategic decision-making and military operations, unpacking their nature, development, and interaction.
An extraordinary collection of essays by Nobel Peace laureates and leading scholars on the concluded Iraq War, The Iraq War and its Consequences is the First and Only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war that has drawn both widespread opposition and strong support.
Physical science and technology (engineering) are fundamentally linked by the possibility of predictions: science tests itself and grows by making and checking predictions; technology relies on predictions and thus furthers the growth of the associated science.
Military conflicts, particularly land combat, possess the characteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces are composed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and are organized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action, which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order; military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium; military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there is no master "e;voice"e; that dictates the actions of every soldier (i.
Will international wars where energy resources play a central role continue to hold sway over life and death for industrialized nations, or is this a transient phase in the evolution of industrial societies?
An extraordinary collection of essays by Nobel Peace laureates and leading scholars on the concluded Iraq War, The Iraq War and its Consequences is the First and Only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war that has drawn both widespread opposition and strong support.
This book offers an unique analysis of small states in international relations from the perspective of Nepal, which lies at a strategic geopolitical position between China and India.
Después de haber declarado y consumado la independencia, el inmediato y fundamental desafío que los emergentes gobernantes neogranadinos y venezolanos debieron asumir consistió en crear y sentar las bases políticas, jurídicas e institucionales a partir de las cuales debía erigirse e instituirse el nuevo orden estatal.
This book presents a systematic comparison of the military strategies pursued by five great powers, eight major middle powers and eight middle powers during the early twenty-first century.
This unique book captures state of the art thinking and methodologies designed to advance intelligence education to produce a capable and qualified intelligence workforce.
Estrategia es un libro mítico, un clásico inencontrable en España, que inspiró a insignes militares y fue lectura de cabecera de Kennedy durante la crisis de los misiles de Cuba en 1962.
El arte de la guerra de Sunzi es, junto con el Laozi, el texto filosófico chino más conocido en Occidente desde que el jesuita francés Jean-Jacques Amiot lo tradujera por primera vez en 1772.
Learn how to fight as a sniper and to defend yourself against the enemy sniper - Find out the sniper & counter sniper tactics formulated and used by the U.
Greenmantle John Buchan - Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's notoriety lies primarily in his Sherlock Holmes stories, which remain the quintessential crime and detective novels of the twentieth century.
Fortune's Fool Rafael Sabatini - London 1665 is no place for Randal Holles, a former soldier in Cromwells army, now that the monarchy has been restored and the exploits of the Republicans are being condemned in the highest degree.
This book looks at the history of the US Air Force through the lens of its (lack of) preparedness for major wars, which is shown to be a result of its organizational culture.
This book focuses on strategic special operations and how these have led to the achievement of major foreign policy goals, which is illustrated by six case studies.
Eine detaillierte Analyse der militärischen Macht Chinas stellt diese in den Kontext der wachsenden wirtschaftlichen Leistungskraft des Landes und der Funktion einer Stabilisierung der totalitären Herrschaft der Kommunistischen Partei.
