Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month.
In recent years there has been a tendency to intervene in the military, political and economic affairs of failed and failing states and those emerging from violent conflict.
From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milo evi and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of conflict.
The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "e;new media ecology"e; that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror.
Paris Book Festival, 1st Place, NonfictionNew York Book Festival, 1st Place, General NonfictionLos Angeles Book Festival, 1st Place, Biography / Autobiography / MemoirHollywood Book Festival, 1st Place, Wild Card categoryAmerican Book Fest Best Book Awards, Finalist, US HistoryScreenCraft Cinematic Book Writing Competition, Quarter FinalistNautilus Book Awards, Silver Award, Journalism and Investigative ReportingNew England Book Festival, 1st Place, NonfictionSan Francisco Book Festival, 1st Place, HistoryFor more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production.
Winner: Air Force Historical Foundation AwardWhen large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.
The heart-rending story of the Australians brutally imprisoned in Sandakan, the Japanese POW camp in North Borneo, whose very name came to symbolise cruelty and ill-treatment.
an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller' Michael McKernan, Sydney Morning Herald The bestselling, acclaimed, authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in Australian military history now established as a classic.
'[Mat McLachlan's] knowledge of the front is comprehensive' - Sydney Morning HeraldA complete guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front 1916-18.
THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTION For the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind.
The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of newsWhen the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their audiences actually liked, through algorithmic technologies that scrutinize web traffic and activity.
How professionalization and scholarly "e;rigor"e; made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policyTo mobilize America's intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post-9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M.
In 1979, with El Salvador growing ever more unstable and ripe for revolution, the United States undertook a counterinsurgency intervention that over the following decade would become Washington's largest nation-building effort since Vietnam.
Paris Book Festival, 1st Place, NonfictionNew York Book Festival, 1st Place, General NonfictionLos Angeles Book Festival, 1st Place, Biography / Autobiography / MemoirHollywood Book Festival, 1st Place, Wild Card categoryAmerican Book Fest Best Book Awards, Finalist, US HistoryScreenCraft Cinematic Book Writing Competition, Quarter FinalistNautilus Book Awards, Silver Award, Journalism and Investigative ReportingNew England Book Festival, 1st Place, NonfictionSan Francisco Book Festival, 1st Place, HistoryFor more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production.
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award If the Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last gasp, it was also America's proving ground-the largest single action fought by the U.
Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardWhen American and South Vietnamese forces, led by General Creighton Abrams, launched an attack into neutral Cambodia in 1970, the invasion ignited a firestorm of violent antiwar protests throughout the United States, dealing yet another blow to Nixon's troubled presidency.
In light of technological advances and multiplying irregular conflicts, conventional wisdom suggests airpower as the ideal, low-cost means of conducting modern warfareand the air control method adopted by the British between the two world wars seems to back this up.
For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats.
Winner: Society for Military History Distinguished Book AwardThis year begins the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history.