Military Science category: 4493 books
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy
India, Iraq and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.
Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international...
Corporate Warriors
The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication reviews the role of the USAF in space from the end of World War II to the present, based on a historical symposium on the Air Force's experience in the development of space systems and their...
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me
Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Updated with New Information and Additional Patches
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They’re on the shoulders of all military personnel: patches showing what a soldier’s unit does. But what if that’s top secret?
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“A glimpse of [the Pentagon’s] dark world through a revealing lens—patches—the kind worn on...
Conduct Unbecoming
Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
“A thoroughly researched and engrossingly readable history” of gay men and women in the American armed forces by the author of And the Band Played On (The New York Times Book Review).
Published during the same year the American military instituted Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and eighteen...
Introduction to Global Military History
1775 to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Introduction to Global Military History provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments around the modern world from the eighteenth century up to the present day.
Beginning with the background to the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary wars and ending...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Decolonization after the Second World War provides many historical examples for the study and examination of the concept of strategic culture. Based upon similarities in strategic culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
The advent of the all-volunteer force and the evolving nature of modern warfare have transformed our military, changing it in serious if subtle ways that few Americans are aware of. Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy, this stimulating volume brings together insights from a...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This study addresses DELTA II and DELTA III space operations at Cape Canaveral, Florida, from the DELTA II's first launch in 1989 through the DELTA II's most recent launch in late March 2009. The 45th Space Wing has been - and continues to be - responsible for ensuring public safety for all space-related...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
This study addresses ATLAS V and DELTA IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) operations at Cape Canaveral, Florida. It features all the EELV missions launched from the Cape through the end of Calendar Year (CY) 2009. In addition, the first chapter provides an overview of the EELV effort in the...
Security, Strategy and Military Change in the 21st Century
Cross-Regional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing.
A significant shift in policy, strategy and military affairs is underway in both Asia and Europe, with the former gaining increasing...
Military Integration after Civil Wars
Multiethnic Armies, Identity and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts.
The author challenges the assumption that multiethnic composition leads to weakness of the military, and shows how a multiethnic army is frequently...
Greek Military Intelligence and the Crescent
Estimating the Turkish Threat - Crises, Leadership and Strategic Analyses 1974-1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
During the 1987 Greek-Turkish crisis, Greek military intelligence provided essential information on Turkey’s limited military preparations, so helping to prevent an escalation to confrontation. In the 1996 crisis, Greek military intelligence failed to provide tactical information and details of...
The Wounded Giant
America's Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity An eSpecial from The Penguin Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
A farseeing and controversial analysis of the military America needs and the military we can afford from the director of research at Brookings.
As total federal debt trends toward 100 percent of the GDP, and America wavers on the edge of another recession, Congress has responded with a plan...