Warfare and defence

On June 28, 1976, into the all-male bastion of the United States Air Force Academy 157 women stepped, challenging the slogan over the entrance ramp that read "e;Bring Me Men.

Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe.

Survival, the bi-monthly publication from The International Institute for Strategic Studies, is a leading forum for analysis and debate of international and strategic affairs.

Detailed and fully illustrated account of the Philadelphia campaign 1777, with over 150 photographs, maps and contemporary artwork.

A fully illustrated narrative of the Maryland campaign 1862, culminating in Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American military history.

Seit ihrer Gründung 1955 ist die Bundeswehr ein Spiegel der bundesdeutschen Gesellschaft.

El sustento en que se apoya el Antiguo Régimen no aguanta más: irrumpe con estrépito un nuevo espíritu, mientras las viejas ideas heredadas amenazan con el colapso.

En todo proceso de democratización política iniciado a partir de la crisis y caída de un régimen autoritario, el análisis de las relaciones civil-militares y, en su contexto, el estudio de la cuestión del gobierno civil sobre las Fuerzas Armadas constituye una temática central.

While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life.

A history of Americans who spied against their country and what their stories reveal about national securityWhat's your secret?

This textbook introduces students to the critical role of the US intelligence community within the wider national security decision-making and political process.

A challenge to long-held assumptions about the costs and benefits of Americas allies.

A comprehensive challenge to prevailing understanding of international implications of oil wealth that shows why it can create bad actorsIn a world where oil-rich states are more likely to start war than their oil-dependent counterparts, its surprising how little attention is still paid to these so-called petrostates.

Intelligence agencies spend huge sums of money to collect and analyze vast quantities of national security data for their political leaders.

The United Nations, which lacks its own peacekeeping force, faces three dilemmas when organizing a peacekeeping mission: convincing member states to contribute troops, persuading states to deploy troops quickly, and securing a troop commitment long enough to achieve success.

The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism offers a wide-ranging dialogue between theory and German Idealism, joining up the various lines of influence connecting German Idealist and Romantic philosophies in all their variety to post-'68 European philosophies, from Derrida and Deleuze to Zizek and Malabou.

Carl von Clausewitz (17801831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of his ten-volume published writings.

Survival, the bi-monthly publication from The International Institute for Strategic Studies, is a leading forum for analysis and debate of international and strategic affairs.

The understanding of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica has blossomed in recent years.

Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.

Common among moths is a mate-finding system in which females emit a pheromone that induces males to fly upwind along the pheromone plume.

While many books examine specific wars, few study the history of war worldwide and from an evolutionary perspective.

This is the gripping true story of 4 intense years in the life of a US Army Special Forces soldier, who joins the UN and then goes on to an assignment in Iraq at the time of the deadly jihadist bombing attack of the UN headquarters.

This book examines how global policies designed to prevent extremism have shaped religious and security governance in Tunisia in recent years, focusing on local programmes for training imams.

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.

Winner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobzcak Memorial Book AwardWithout what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 19421944, the Normandy landingsand so, perhaps, the Second World War IIwould have ended differently.

Chinas anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM), the DF-21D, has reached the equivalent of Initial Operational Capability.

Action-packed history of the Germans in Africa in World War II.

In asymmetric interstate conflicts, great powers have the capability to coerce weak states by threatening their survival-but not vice versa.

Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the U.

Action-adventure narrative about elite German airborne troops.

Originally published in the 1930's, this book is a mocking expose of European dictators, comparing them to American gangsters like Al Capone.

A foreign policy expert "e;presents a thoughtful, comprehensive case"e; for the War on Terror-a "e;historically powerful support of Mr.

In their comprehensive and authoritative history of boat and shipbuilding in North Carolina through the early twentieth century, William Still and Richard Stephenson document for the first time a bygone era when maritime industries dotted the Tar Heel coast.

When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.

Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day.

The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services.

For modelers and military enthusiasts, a collection of scale drawings of post-WWII 20th century military vehicles.

A military historian analyzes the ingenious WWII tanks known as Hobart's Funnies, detailing their development and their role in the D-Day campaign.

Familiar modes of problem solving may be efficient, but they often prevent us from discovering innovative solutions to more complex problems.

Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis argues that the provision of national security has changed in the 21st century as a result of a variety of different pressures and threats.

Joseph Balkoski concludes his landmark series on the U.

Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics is an analysis of how ideas, or political ideology, can threaten states and how states react to ideational threats.

First full-length history of the largest and most successful airborne offensive ever.

At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the U.

Filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, and Romania.

Angus Konstam setssail through the brutal history of piracy, separating myth from legend and fact from fiction.

From a WWII veteran, an illustrated military history of the German tank division that fought exclusively on the Eastern front.

An look at what Intelligence Community analysts do and how, and how they are affected by the political context that shapes, uses and abuses their outputs.

"e;Examines and analyzes the organizational culture of three armies, those of the United States, Britain, and Israel .