Warfare and defence

During the past twenty-five years, U.

In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L.

El sábado 7 de octubre de 2023 se produjo en el sur de Israel una de las masacres hacia los judíos más sangrientas y crueles desde 1945.

This book describes in detail how the Army trains to win in diverse situations and on different terrains, to overcome strenuous environments and avert all types of attacks.

Does history provide lessons for foreign policy makers today?

The end of the Cold War has brought about significant changes in the political, economic, social, and cultural structure of the international system.

Peimani challenges the practical indifference of many Western and non-Western countries with interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus to their plight.

Garret deals with the issue of humanitarian intervention, of which the recent Kosovo conflict provides a prime example.

One of the greatest sources of America's troubles in Iraq, Afghanistan, and New Orleans was the inability of our government's many parts to work well together.

Three policy actions taken during the Revolutionary War period helped form the military supply and acquisition structure still in place today.

Many years before the U.

Although events in East Asia were a sideshow in the great drama of World War I, what happened there shattered the accord between Japan and the United States.

Perhaps the most famous and admired soldier to fight in World War II was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who achieved immortality as the Desert Fox.

This book tells the story of French interaction with Vietnam and the neighboring region, which began with the French seizure of Cochin-China and Tonking in the 19th century under Emperor Tu Duc and ended with their humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time.

An examination of the political and diplomatic role of American nuclear weapons in conflicts with a non-nuclear China in the Korean War and the Taiwan Strait crises of 1954-1955 and 1958, this study analyzes the American tendency to become involved in confrontations with far weaker powers over issues of very little strategic significance to the United States.

Like the widely praised original, this new edition is compact, clearly written, and accessible to the nonspecialist.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, inaugurated a new global era of counterterrorism policy and activity, led by the United States.

Defense against nuclear attackso natural and seemingly so compelling a goalhas provoked debate for at least twenty years.

This book details the evolution of General George Marshall's relationship with the atomic bomb-including the Manhattan Project and the use of atomic weapons on Japan-as it emerged as the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

This textbook anthology of selected readings on pressing Middle East security concerns serves as an invaluable single-volume assessment of critical security issues in nations such as Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

Color-coded terrorism alerts are issued, then lifted with no explanation.

This textbook anthology of selected readings on pressing Middle East security concerns serves as an invaluable single-volume assessment of critical security issues in nations such as Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

A one-stop resource for understanding historical and contemporary perspectives on ideological extremism in law enforcement, as well as its wider impacts on American society.

Transformation has become a buzz word in today's military, but what are its historical precursors-those large scale changes that were once called Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMA)?

Wird Russland europaisches NATO-Territorium angreifen?