Warfare and defence

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This comprehensive volume provides a thorough overview of 20th- and 21st-century military doctrines worldwide.

This comprehensive overview examines the many facets of military ethics as they are applied during times of armed conflict and times of peace.

Strategy for Victory: The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1919-1943 examines the nature of the inter-Service crisis between the British Army and the RAF over the provision of effective air support for the army in the Second World War.

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This book provides a fresh perspective on causes, consequences, and cures surrounding today's most pressing global security challenges.

This handbook examines the militarization of space, providing a fair and balanced discussion of the emerging issues concerning space security and defense.

The increasingly complex environment of the 21st century demands unprecedented knowledge, skills and abilities for people from all walks of life.

This fascinating book assesses Prussian military thinker Carl von Clausewitz's famous theory on warfare in relation to historical and modern-day conflict-and future trends.

This timely study examines the forces at play in one of the world's most explosive nations, helping readers understand why Syria's popular uprising has been the most violent and hard-fought in the Middle East.

This timely handbook offers an examination of man's history of war crimes and the parallel development of rules of war to prevent them in the future.

The United States government invests billions each year on equipping armed forces with the most advanced military equipment.

This work is a bridge between the failed/weak states' literature and that which examines issues relating to small arms proliferation.

This book fills a gap in Civil War literature on the strategies employed by the Union and Confederacy in the East, offering a more integrated interpretation of military operations that shows how politics, public perception, geography, and logistics shaped the course of military operations in the East.

A longtime scholar of the Cold War deftly weaves together the tradition of "e;just war"e; and an examination of current events to show how the time-honored concepts of jus ad bellum (justice of war) and jus in bello (justice in war) apply to the U.

Kaufman examines the training and status of British military surgeons during the late 18th and 19th centuries.

Archduke Carl of Austria lived during a time fractured by the collision of revolution and reaction, and he drew upon the French Revolution as the source for most of his experiences as a field commander and theoretician.

For many young people weighing the pros and cons of joining the military, the details of what their lives would be like in uniform are often a mystery.

Most studies of ancient warfare focus only on the Greeks and the Romans, but this sweeping study covers the whole of the ancient world from Greece and Rome to the Near East, then eastward to Parthia, India, and China.

In June 1942 the Indian Army suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Japanese Army and subsequently endured its longest retreat ever.

Drawing from more than 120 newspapers, published between 1968 and 1970, this study explores the emergence of an anti-militarist subculture within the U.

On October 15, 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery captain attached to the French General Staff, was arrested on charges of having betrayed his country by selling military secrets to the Germans.

In this book, Daniel Kliman argues that the years following September 11, 2001, have marked a turning point in Japan's defense strategy.

Is there a reason for the busy citizen-leader to read about air and space history, theory, and doctrine?

Today, there are more military family members than there are total uniformed service members.

Many extraordinary women traveled west with their Army officer husbands between 1865 and 1890 and discovered a world that was completely controlled by the United States Army.

The internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II is one of the most shameful episodes in American history.

An insightful and expert assessment examines how best to end-and avert-wars.

This important work, edited by an expert on terrorism, focuses on the 21st-century struggle for strategic influence and ways in which states can neutralize the role of new media in spreading terrorist propaganda.

From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.

The War of the Triple Alliance was one of the longest, least remembered, and, for one of its participants, most catastrophic conflicts of the 19th century.

This is the first account in English of a much-overlooked, but important, First World War battlefront located in the mountains astride the border between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

As Rynning shows, armed forces have a natural interest in shaping military doctrine according to their resources, doctrinal traditions, as well as their assessment of the international environment.

The Senoi Praaq is a Malaysian special forces unit originally created in 1956 by the British colonial authorities to fight communism during the Malayan Emergency.

Faced with severe budgetary constraints, a radically reduced force structure, and a crippling intellectual dogmatism, the American Infantry struggled throughout the interwar years to modernize its doctrine.

Following her defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain shifted her colonial focus to her Protectorate in northern Morocco.

The English/British have always been known as the sailor race with hearts of oak: the Royal Navy as the Senior Service and First Line of Defense.

This selected bibliography on modern European fortifications, from 1850 to 1950, provides a selection of the most important books and articles written on this topic.

Military organizations are cultures, and such cultures have ingrained preferences and predilections for how and when to employ force.

Much of the world reaped a peace dividend with the end of the Cold War, yet Asia has seen little reduction in tensions and military spending.

War proved a seminal influence on the shape of the 20th century.

Of all the violent disputes that have flared across the former Soviet Union since the late 1980s, the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is the only one to pose a genuine threat to peace and security throughout Eurasia.

This examination of the history of the 20th century and the place of war in its unfolding presents a radical, unorthodox interpretation of both.

At midnight on October 2, 1990, the West German armed forces took over the approximately 90,000 men comprising the National People's (East German) Army (NVA) and assumed control of its substantial arsenal.

From riverine operations in the American Civil War and China in the 1860s to the major fleet engagements of the World Wars, plus more recent naval actions in the Falklands/Malvenas War and Gulf War, Lindberg and Todd methodically show how geography has shaped the strategy, tactics, and tools of naval warfare.

Schwab examines America's decision to stand in Vietnam with a fresh perspective provided by new archival materials and the intellectual synthesis of institutional, political, and diplomatic history.

Armies are invariably accused of preparing to fight the last war.

This book is a major reinterpretation of the Iran-Iraq War and is a source for reexamining the U.

Victory over Mexico added vast western territories to America, but it also quickened the domestic slavery debate and crippled Mexico for decades, making the Mexican War one of our most ambiguous conflicts.

The Gulf War has been the only conflict in the last half-century that featured the possible use of chemical-biological weapons against U.