Military Science category: 4493 books
Military Cooperation in Multinational Peace Operations
Managing Cultural Diversity and Crisis Response
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This edited volume uses theoretical overviews and empirical case studies to explore both how soldiers cope with the new forms of cultural diversity occurring within various multinational military operations, and how their organizations manage them.
Military organizations, like other complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging, internationally focused overview of the field of civil–military relations.
The armed forces are central actors in most societies and are involved in many different roles. Amongst other activities, they engage in peace operations, support the police...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Social Capital, Policing and Rule-of-Law: Keys to Stabilization reflects a breadth of U.S. Army War College Strategy Research papers which tackled tough issues. Stabilization is a process in which personnel identify and mitigate underlying sources of instability to establish the conditions for long-term...
International Military Operations in the 21st Century
Global Trends and the Future of Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book examines the challenges that military forces will face in multinational operations in the 21st century.
Expanding on Rupert Smith’s The Utility of Force, the volume assesses the changing parameters within which force as a political instrument is ultimately carried out. By analysing...
The Evolution of Military Power in the West and Asia
Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book investigates how states in both the West and Asia have responded to multi-dimensional security challenges since the end of the Cold War, focusing on military transformation.
Looking at a cross-section of different countries, this volume assesses how their armed forces have responded...
Context and Circumstance
The Turkish Military and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Debates about military influence on civilian government tend to be partisan and rarely pay sufficient attention to specific contexts. This paper analyses, without condemnation or justification, why and how the military exercises such influence in Turkey and whether it is likely to continue to do so....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding race in the American military establishment from the French and Indian War to the present day. By broadly incorporating the latest research on race and ethnicity into...
Military Inc.
Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the ‘war on terror’. It is the third largest recipient of US aid in the world. Yet Pakistan is a state run by its army and intelligence service.*BR**BR*Operating in the shadows, Pakistan’s military industrial complex owns and controls swathes of the...
by Charles Szypszak
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Military veterans have had some of the most intensive leadership training available. Many return to their communities seeking to apply what they have learned. Those who enter the world of public affairs—where colleagues are increasingly less likely to have served in the military—may encounter...
Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military: The Battle Within America's Armed Forces
The Battle within America's Armed Forces
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book provides an in-depth analysis of sexual assault in the military from historical and contemporary perspectives, offering suggestions that could change the existing culture and approaches that will reduce or eliminate sexual assault in the armed forces.
• Provides fact-based analyses...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This instruction implements AFPD 11-4, Aviation Service. It establishes procedures for managing Air Force flying resources and provides guidance that applies to administering aircrew flight management programs. It applies to all US Air Force flight managers, commanders of flying units, and aircrew...
Military Service and American Democracy
From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
“When I became secretary of defense,” Ashton B. Carter said when announcing that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women, “I made a commitment to building America’s force of the future. In the twenty-first century, that requires drawing strength from the broadest possible pool of...
U.S. Military Operations
Law, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
In U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy, and Practice, a distinguished group of military experts comprehensively analyze how the law is applied during military operations on and off the battlefield. Subject matter experts offer a unique insiders perspective on how the law is actually implemented...
Qualitative Methods in Military Studies
Research Experiences and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies.
Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact. However, only a tiny part of this bibliography deals in depth with the research...