Warfare and defence

CSIS launched the Task Force on Women's and Family Health in the belief that there is an exceptional opportunityand pressing needfor U.

Religious violence is surely as old as both faith and fighting themselves.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the way organizations communicate, collaborate, and coordinate everyday business and industrial processes.

Twenty-five years of relative calm and predictability in relations between Russia and the West enabled European governments largely to neglect their military capabilities for territorial defense and dramatically redraw Northern Europe's multilateral, regional, and bilateral boundaries, stimulating new institutional and cooperative developments and arrangements.

The papers in this CSIS compendium were written by the nine members of the 2019 TUPP delegation.

In a concerted effort to expand Taiwan's presence across the Indo-Pacific, President Tsai Ing-wen has introduced the New Southbound Policy (NSP) to strengthen Taipei's relationships with the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), six states in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan), Australia, and New Zealand.

The papers in this compendium were written by the 10 members of the 2017 CSIS Taiwan-U.

In light of Section 881 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which expanded the legal definition of the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB) to include the United Kingdom and Australia, this report informs NTIB partners on barriers and opportunities for effective integration.

This volume explores the varied outcomes that self-determination movements around the world have achieved, and in particular seeks to understand what factors promote better outcomes and what factors promote worse ones.

The CSIS Commission on Countering Violent Extremism, cochaired by Tony Blair and Leon Panetta, was formed to develop a comprehensive and actionable blueprint to combat the growing appeal of violent extremism in the United States and abroad.

On 6 June 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy.

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The CSIS Reconnecting Asia Project explores the drivers and implications of Asia's infrastructure push.

Despite the rising salience of missile threats, current air and missile defense forces are far too susceptible to suppression.

Economics scholars and policymakers have rung alarm bells about the increasing threat of consolidation within industrial sectors.

This collection of essays addresses the interplay of democratic norms and cultural identity within Asia.

Agricultural biotechnology holds great promise in contributing to Africa's socioeconomic development.

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives.

In his last days, Mussolini, the tyrant, was in the grip of anger, shame, and depression.

The papers included in this volume comprise research from participants in the 2018 Nuclear Scholars Initiative and the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) Conference Series.

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The Founders wrote in 1776 that "e;life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"e; are unalienable American rights.

A groundbreaking study of the Canadians' first major operation in Normandy with new revelations on the death of German panzer ace Michael Wittmann.

More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created.

A History of the Samurai tells the complete story of Japan's legendary warrior class from beginning to end--an epic tale of intrigue, bloodshed and bravery that is central to an understanding of the Japanese character and of Japanese history.

The heroic story of Jewish resistance and survival during the Second World War.

[A] dramatic, affecting account.

For more than a century and a half Texans have honored the heroes of the Texas fight for independence.

Did the bombing of Japan's citiesculminating in the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasakihasten the end of World War II?

Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War.

This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history.

From the biblical days of Delilah to mdern times there have been women who ventured at their peril as spies into the conflicts of armed men.

At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation.

A classic about real-life WWII espionage,as conducted by its modern master*A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help winWorld War II.

The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night.

A WWII Soviet officer recalls leading a battalion of convict-soldiers in this rare firsthand account of a Red Army penal unit.

For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war.

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "e;new woman,"e; Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war.

Robert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero in World War I.

Connecticut privateer Nathaniel Fanning (1755-1805) was captured by the British during the Revolutionary War.

At the outbreak of World War I, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, military commander of Germany's East African Colony, planned to divert British troops from Europe to East Africa.

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Volume 2 continues the history of the U.

After Operation Valkyrie--the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of the German government--both the Third Reich and Hitler came to a violent end.

The Military Metaverse explores the impact that the Metaverse is having today on how the world's militaries procure, maintain, train, plan, and fight, and how the Metaverse presents new challenges and opportunities for future conflict.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

Hampered by lack of materials, shipyards and experienced shipbuilders, even so the South managed to construct 34 iron-armored warships during the Civil War, of which the Confederate Navy put 25 into service.

This dictionary gives an enormous amount of basic information on the Third Reich era by listing, and often depicting, German terms connected to Nazism and the Germany of World War II.

"e;As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war.

One of NASCAR's pioneers, Bud Moore won countless races in the sport's early rough and tumble days.