Military Science category: 4493 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
The threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and roadside bombs to American and coalition troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and America's efforts to target and defeat those explosives, is the subject of this comprehensive report, compiled from numerous official documents. Updated with the latest...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This pamphlet, DA Pam 11-31, describes how the Army supports achievement of geographic combatant command (GCC) and functional combatant command (FCC) campaign plan intermediate military objectives and strategic end states through security cooperation (SC) activities conducted by, with, or through...
Ending the U.S. War in Iraq
The Final Transition, Operational Maneuver, and Disestablishment of United States Forces-Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Ending the U.S. war in Iraq required redeploying 100,000 military and civilian personnel; handing off responsibility for 431 activities to the Iraqi government, U.S. embassy, USCENTCOM, or other U.S. government entities; and moving or transferring ownership of over a million pieces of property in accordance...
On Escalation
Metaphors and Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In this widely discussed and influential book, Herman Kahn probes the dynamics of escalation and demonstrates how the intensification of conflict can be depicted by means of a definite escalation ladder, ascent of which brings opponents closer to all-out war. At each rung of the ladder, before the...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
ATP 3-57.50 establishes the techniques used by CA forces for development of civil information management (CIM) requirements that reside in FM 3-57.
CIM is one of the five core tasks of CA forces. CA forces provide the commander with expertise on the civil component of the OE....
The Evolution of Cyber War
International Norms for Emerging-Technology Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Former secretary of defense Leon Panetta once described cyber warfare as “the most serious threat in the twenty-first century,” capable of destroying our entire infrastructure and crippling the nation.
Already, major cyber attacks have affected countries around the world: Estonia in 2007,...
by Martin C. Libicki
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Deterrence is possible only when others have at least a good idea of possible U.S. military reprisals, but cyberattack capabilities resist such demonstration. This report explores ways they can be and under what circumstances, then goes on to examine the difficulties and the drawbacks. Such "brandishing"...
From Warfare to Wealth
The Military Origins of Urban Prosperity in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The economic rise of Europe over the past millennium represents a major human breakthrough. To explain this phenomenon, this book highlights a counterintuitive yet central feature of Europe's historical landscape: warfare. Historical warfare inflicted numerous costs on rural populations. Security...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - is a comprehensive account "of the origin, course of development, and results of the first American earth satellite project, one of several programs planned for the International Geophysical...
The Ideological War on Terror
Worldwide Strategies For Counter-Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This edited book addresses the appropriateness of US and other counter-terrorist (CT) strategies in Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region and in Latin America, with a view to improving their effectiveness.
The book has three main objectives:
to re-examine terrorists'...
Deterring International Terrorism and Rogue States
US National Security Policy after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This new study challenges the widely held view that many current US adversaries cannot be deterred, maintaining that deterrence is not a relic of the Cold War period and that it should shape US policies toward so-called ‘rogue states’ and terror groups.
James Lebovic argues that deterrence...
America's Space Sentinels
The History of the DSP and SBIRS Satellite Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Originally published in 1999, America's Space Sentinels won the American Astronautical Society's prestigious Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award and quickly established itself as the definitive book for understanding a crucial component of our national defense capabilities. It focused on the...
China's Naval Power
An Offensive Realist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The rapid modernization of the Chinese Navy is a well-documented reality of the post-Cold War world. In two decades, the People's Liberation Army Navy has evolved from a backward force composed of obsolete platforms into a reasonably modern fleet whose growth is significantly shaking the naval balance...
Nanoweapons
A Growing Threat to Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Nanoweapons just might render humanity extinct in the near future—a notion that is frightening and shocking but potentially true. In Nanoweapons Louis A. Del Monte describes the most deadly generation of military weapons the world has ever encountered. With dimensions one-thousandth the diameter...