Military Science category: 4493 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
The Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics is a comprehensive reference work that addresses concerns held in common by the military services of many nations. It attempts to discern both moral dilemmas and clusters of moral principles held in common by all practitioners of this profession, regardless...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book explores the full spectrum of infiltration threats to the Homeland and examines the danger posed by foreign controlled or directed operatives who enter the United States for the purpose of conducting espionage,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This thesis explores the strategy followed by the American military government in overcoming Moro resistance in the Philippines from 1903-1913. A chapter is devoted to the period of each of...
by Christopher Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs? This Adelphi Paper assesses the overall trajectory of Japan’s security policy over the last decade, and the impact of a changing Japanese military posture on the stability of East Asia.
The...
Drawdown
The American Way of Postwar
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Analyzes the cultural attitudes, political decisions, and institutions surrounding the maintenance of armed forces throughout American history
While traditionally, Americans view expensive military structure as a poor investment and a threat to liberty, they also require a guarantee of that...
Social Science Goes to War
The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human Terrain Teams (HTTs),...
Inclusion in the American Military
A Force for Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The U.S. military can be thought of as a microcosm of American society, bringing in people from diverse backgrounds and history to defend one nation. Military leaders must address the same issues and concerns as those found in the civilian world, including exclusion, segregation, and discrimination....
Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror
US and UK Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001-2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror offers an in-depth analysis of US/UK military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to the present day. It explores the development of contemporary military strategy in the West in the modern age before interrogating its application...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This monograph about the convergence of Special Operations Forces (SOF) and civilian law enforcement activities is timely considering the U.S. Government's revamped strategies to promote...
Organizational Cultures and the Management of Nuclear Technology
Political and Military Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Nuclear technology has been an organizing premise of the international system since 1945. Eight countries have officially acknowledged the possession of nuclear weapons. Many countries have harnessed the atom for electricity generation and other civilian uses. Roughly 440 commercial nuclear reactors...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, claims that the inability of the United States to achieve its stated political objectives in its global war on terror (GWOT) reflects its flawed kinetic-centric military strategy. This study erects...
American Biodefense
How Dangerous Ideas about Biological Weapons Shape National Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending...
The Abongo Abroad
Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959-1992
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Blending African social history with US foreign relations, John V. Clune documents how ordinary people experienced a major aspect of Cold War diplomacy. The book describes how military-sponsored international travel, especially military training abroad and United Nations peacekeeping deployments in...
Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria
The Military and Operations against Boko Haram, 2011-2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017.
Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with military units in Nigeria, Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria has two main aims. First, it seeks...