Warfare and defence

Trailblazer is the remakable and inspiring story of Cheryl Tyler, a Black woman who defied all odds and shattered barriers in her quest to protect the highest office in the land.

Over the last two decades the frequency of humanitarian interventions in Africa has increased.

This book delves into the intertwined narratives of Poland and Germany's post-war experiences, shedding light on their shared trauma from World War II and subsequent confrontations with communism.

Small territories and islands are significant flashpoints in the contemporary world order.

Mucho se ha escrito sobre el "tiroteo en Miami" que tuvo lugar el 11 de abril de 1986: dos sanguinarios atracadores de bancos, ocho agentes del FBI y ciento cincuenta disparos.

No small number of books laud and record the heroic actions of those at war.

This book explores how 'balkanization' as a discourse underpins the policies of the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) toward the Western Balkans.

China's defense industrial base is operating on a wartime footing, while the U.

This almanac compiles the most historically significant events in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1800-2020, containing vignettes of more than 700 events organized per month and specific calendar day, with a foreword from Admiral James Stavridis.

China's defense industrial base is operating on a wartime footing, while the U.

Wer knappe, klare und anschauliche Informationen über die Geschichte der deutschen Marinen von der Bundesflotte von 1848 bis zur heutigen Deutschen Marine sucht, wird hier mit Sicherheit fündig.

La Flomar avanzaba decidida hacia el que era su objetivo militar, «la ocupación territorial de las islas para, por su parte, otras fuerzas atacar a lo largo de la frontera».

El libro analiza las cuestiones más acuciantes del actual sistema penitenciario argentino y latinoamericano : el hacinamiento de personas detenidas.

The Maginot Line was the last great gun-bearing line of subterranean forts built before World War II.

Gabriel examines 18 ancient army systems, examining the organizational structure and weapons employed and the degree to which cultural values and imperatives shaped the form and application of military force.

This is the first study to analyze the content, training, and performance of a World War I draft division from its formation onward.

This superb introduction to NATO is written for the national security novice, yet is full of insights for the more seasoned hand interested in how and why NATO reached its current state.

In the 1830s Russia was facing a crisis.

The IISS Strategic Dossier China's Belt and Road Initiative provides a geopolitical and geo-economic assessment of President Xi Jinping's flagship foreign-policy initiative.

A concise account of the roots of Russia''s invasion of Ukraine, describing how the 2013–14 intra-Ukrainian political clashes were exploited by Russia.

Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution.

Disaster Victim Identification: A Manager's Guide to Policy and Procedure's guiding thesis explains why disaster victim identification (DVI) must be fundamentally integrated-at the outset-into general disaster planning and operations procedures.

War is never a happy subject.

This book examines change processes and the challenge of ambidexterity in military organizations.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

This book provides a sophisticated analysis of cross-border challenges and problems in the southern African region.

Living with Peril explains in detail how the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations adapted to the reality of a Soviet nuclear force capable of destroying the United States and against which there was no effective defense.

This "e;uncommonly astute study"e; examines the early development of the US-UK military alliance that would eventually lead to victory in WWII (Paul Miles, author of FDR's Admiral).

The 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th Georgia volunteer infantry regiments spent most of the Civil War fighting under Brig.

An insider's "e;entertainingly written, brilliantly insightful"e; account of the Iran hostage rescue attempt-and how it led to today's special operations forces (General Stanley McChrystal (Ret.

This book collects some of the most influential scholars in international relations who focus on Asia globally in exploring the challenges of diplomacy faced in Asia as US policy drastically changes.

America's war on terror is widely defined by the Afghanistan and Iraq fronts.

Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.

In early 2004, filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond (Salam Iran, a Persian Letter) and author Fred A.

This book develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the armed forces in fulfilling roles & missions, and on their efficiency in terms of cost.

This book argues that the US Army has made four significant shifts in the content of its capstone operations doctrine along a spectrum of war since the end of WWII: 1) in 1954 it made a shift from a doctrine focused almost exclusively on mid-intensity conventional warfare to a doctrine that added significant emphasis to high-intensity nuclear warfare; 2) in 1962 it made an even greater shift in the opposite direction toward low-intensity unconventional warfare doctrine; 3) in 1976 it shifted back to an almost exclusive focus on mid-intensity conventional warfare content; 4) and this is where Army doctrine remained for 32 years until 2008, when it made a doctrinal shift back toward low-intensity unconventional warfare - five and seven years into the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan respectively.

Today, with combat operations in Afghanistan winding down, U.

The book makes a comprehensive analysis of the basic principles and theories of military law, restructuring the theoretic framework of military law.

Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure.

The US military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan made use of private military and private security companies on an unprecedented scale.

Security in Translation proposes an innovative way to capture the evolution, spread and local transformation of threat images in world affairs.

This edited book provides an insight into the new approaches, challenges and opportunities that characterise open source intelligence (OSINT) at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This book argues that the war on terror is a paradigmatic foreign policy that has had profound effects on domestic social order.

The use of regional organizations to mitigate and respond to disasters has become a global trend.

This book examines the increasing role of development organizations in securitization processes and argues that the new security-development counter piracy framework is (re)shaping political geographies of piracy by promoting disciplinary strategies aimed at the prevention and containment of gendered and racialized actions and bodies in Somalia.

This book puts the widely-held view that 'arms control in space is not possible' to the test and aims to explore how, and under what conditions, arms control could become a reality.

An exploration of German World War II small-scale military strategy, edited by the former chief historian of the U.

In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe.

Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection.