Warfare and defence

This book discusses the moral and legal issues relating to military drones, focusing on how these machines should be judged according to the principles of just war theory.

How Jewish responses during the Holocaust shed new light on the dynamics of genocide and political violenceFocusing on the choices and actions of Jews during the Holocaust, Ordinary Jews examines the different patterns of behavior of civilians targeted by mass violence.

September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the engines of Flying Tiger flight 923 to Germany burst into flames, one by one.

Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II.

In thirty-five chapters, The Greatest Air Aces Stories Ever Told covers many of the leading American and British Commonwealth fighter aces of WW I and II, together with a few bomber crews whose gallantry made a substantial contribution to the end of WW II.

This book introduces the field of hermeneutics through a critique of military operations in Afghanistan.

Risk, Threats and the New Normal explains the new political and technological developments that created new domestic national security threats against the nation and the people of the United States.

In this powerful and moving memoir, Robert Beecham tells of his Civil War experiences, both as an enlisted man in the fabled Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac and as an officer commanding a newly raised African-American unit.

Between 1946 and 1958, the U.

The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and militaries connect.

A South African national serviceman recounts becoming a soldier and an ensuing David-and-Goliath face-off against Angolan armed forces in 1987.

This handbook provides critical analyses of the theory and practices of small arms proliferation and its impact on conflicts and organized violence in Africa.

Contemporary fears of rogue state nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism pose unique challenges for the global community.

CSIS senior adviser Mark Cancian annually produces a series of white papers on U.

"e;Over the past dozen years special operations forces (SOF) have been one of the few areas of growth and expansion in a number of militaries.

The eighth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Government Facilities Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise project designers, engineers, security specialists, managers, building and grounds superintendents, and/or supervisors and responsible-managers-in-charge.

The typical wounded soldier must complete and file 22 forms following an active-duty injury.

In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance, and increasing connectivity, conflict has become ever more complex.

This book addresses key aspects relating to the use of international sanctions by assembling contributions from different fields of expertise with a view to providing readers with an interdisciplinary perspective.

The sixth of a new, well-received and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Dam Protection and Homeland Security is a reference source that is designed to serve and advise U.

Mass killing through genocide haunts humanity as one of the most horrific forms of warfare.

A comprehensive reference guide to German military symbols used on documents, maps, orders of battle and elsewhere.

What happens in a tradition that links citizenship with soldiering when women become citizens?

Lessons from Veterans provides an array of personal storiesfrom nightmarish fights on the islands of Iwo Jima to the shores of Normandy on D-Day.

Written in accordance with the President's 2003 homeland security directive and the Department of Education's guidelines, and in response to the ever-present threats facing our school systems, this book helps schools and institutions develop a comprehensive emergency response plan.

In the closing days of World War II, scientists working for the U.

This book explains why more Jewish people survived in some German-occupied countries compared to others during World War II.

This handbook provides a detailed analysis of threats and risk in the international system and of how governments and their intelligence services must adapt and function in order to manage the evolving security environment.

This book explores and problematises the war discourse regarding Egypt's victory in the 1973 War.

This book describes the ontology structure, types of actors, their potential actions, and ways that actions can affect the things that are part of the conflict.

This book provides fundamental concepts in human thermal physiology and their applications in general public, occupational, military, and athletics settings from the biometeorological perspective.

This book discusses the relationship between geology and fighting during the American Civil War.

This book examines how the armed forces of the United States and Australia have responded to the threat posed by climate change to national security.

Much has been written about reintegration of ex-combatants in a traditional or conventional disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme.

This book examines how emergent trends in innovation and its governance are raising new and old questions about how to control technology.

This book provides a detailed analysis on the history and development of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) and the Conference on Disarmament (CD) and the coordination and cooperation between these two fora.

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This edited volume critically assesses emerging trends in contemporary warfare and international interventionism as exemplified by the 'local turn' in counterinsurgent warfare.

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation.

This book discusses ethical questions surrounding research and innovation in military and humanitarian contexts.

This book offers a unique approach to memory studies by focusing on local memory work conducted across the divide of the fall of Communism, whereas other histories have consistently used 1989 as a watershed moment.

This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations.

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This book examines the challenges foreign fighter returnees from Syria and Iraq pose to Western countries.

Caught in a violent storm and blown far off their intended course, five American airmen--flying the dangerous Himalayan supply route known as "e;The Hump"e;--were forced to bail out just seconds before their plane ran out of fuel.

This book describes how American international policy alternates between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs.

This book analyzes the development and evolution of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a multinational aircraft endeavor involving the U.

This book examines the evolution of the Euro-Atlantic security system, from cooperation to rivalry and crisis, since the beginning of the 21st century.

This edited volume examines the political and security issues influencing and shaping the developing maritime order in the Indo Pacific.

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