Military Science category: 4493 books
Cultural Diversity in the Armed Forces
An International Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This volume explores ethnicity and gender developments in relation to the military.
In some countries, the armed forces have a long history in responding to ethnic diversity, while elsewhere it has come up only recently as a policy issue. An even-handed representation of ethnic minorities in...
The New Spatiality of Security
Operational Uncertainty and the US Military in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This book provides a rigorous critical analysis of how the US military operates in Iraq, exploring the spatial practices of violence.
Contemporary critical analyses of the United States’ involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan emphasise the hegemonic nature of the US military experience, while...
by Risa Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Arab leaderships have been remarkably stable since the 1970s, particularly given the frequency of military coups in preceding years. Nonetheless, the military remains a key force in most Arab states and political leaders must maintain its loyalty if they are to retain office. Regimes have used a range...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This unique and informative paper was produced by the National Intelligence University / National Defense Intelligence College. Topics and subjects include: interrogation of terrorists, the McCain Amendment, KUBARK counterintelligence interrogation, MKULTRA, CIA, torture, pain and physical discomfort,...
The Military and Liberal Society
Societal-Military Relations in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This book describes to what extent and in what ways the military policies of Western European societies are determined by liberal ideology.
A wide variety of issues affected by liberal ideology, including conscription, conscientious objection, military mission, military ethics and the professional...
Military Innovation in Small States
Creating a Reverse Asymmetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the global diffusion of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and its impact on military innovation trajectories in small states.
Although the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA) concept has enjoyed significant academic attention, the varying...
by Sun Tzu
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise written by Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly known to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics...
Co-ed Combat
The New Evidence That Women Shouldn't Fight the Nation's Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
**A scholar makes a definitive, controversial argument against women in combat **
More than 155,000 female troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002. And more than seventy of those women have died. While that’s a small fraction of all American casualties, those deaths...
Mind Wars
Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
One of the most important thinkers describes the literally mind-boggling possibilities that modern brain science could present for national security.” -LAWRENCE J. KORB, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense
Fascinating and frightening.” -Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The purpose of this study is to take the first steps toward a military space power theory. It begins by answering the question: Why does the US military need space power theory? The United...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
The author introduces basic definitions, functions, and processes of command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I). He develops a conceptual model of the combat operations process based on the American approach to war. The study investigates the stochastic nature of combat operations and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Part of our value-added professional format series, the Police Intelligence Operations Field Manual (FM 3-19.50) is the Military Police Corps' manual for police intelligence operations (PIO) doctrine. It describes the fundamentals of PIO; the legal documents and considerations affiliated with PIO;...
Secret Science
A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated...
Biometrics in Support of Military Operations
Lessons from the Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Biometrics in Support of Military Operations: Lessons from the Battlefield examines and evaluates recent U.S. military experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan in the context of the use of biometrics and related technologies. The book takes a comprehensive look at how biometrics has been used to support...