Military Science category: 4493 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report thoroughly examines Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Reform (SSR), which have emerged in recent years as promising though generally poorly understood mechanisms for consolidating...
The Palestinian Military
Between Militias and Armies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This book analyzes Palestinian attempts to create an organized military force from the period of the Mandate up to the present day.
Beginning with a comparative overview of the relationship between insurgent movements and the quest to build up a standard military, the book looks, first, at...
Private Military and Security Companies
Ethics, Policies and Civil-Military Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality of control over the use of coercive force to...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Part of our comprehensive series on the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and its "spy satellite" network, this volume covers the Hexagon photoreconnaissance satellite flown between 1971 and 1986. The previously classified documents in this collection, converted for accurate flowing-text...
Military Professionalism and Humanitarian Law
The Struggle to Reduce the Hazards of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This book challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice. It discusses reducing the human suffering caused by this reality. The current law does not seem to be optimal in balancing the different interests of...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Global tensions and threats such as terrorist acts continue to pressure America's effort to provide peace and stability to regions around the world. Consequently, military leaders have traditionally...
Military Power
Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which materiel...
by Yan Xu
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Based on groundbreaking research, this book is the first of its kind to provide a close examination in English of the extensive imagery of the soldier figure in the war culture of early twentieth-century China. This study moves away from the traditional military history perspectives and focuses on...
The Embedding Apparatus
Media Surveillance during the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
When the war in Iraq began in 2003, the issue of the special status accorded to journalists covering the military operations arose quite naturally. Promising innovation, the Pentagon’s announcement that they would integrate hundreds of journalists into combat units—what has been known as embedding—attracted...
Zero Footprint
The True Story of a Private Military Contractor¿s Covert Assignments in Syria, Libya, And the World¿s Most Dangerous Places
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A dramatic insider account of the world of private military contracting.
Armored cars, burner phones, top-notch weaponry and top-secret missions--this is the life of today's private military contractor. Like author Simon Chase, many PMCs were once the world's top...
General George Washington
A Military Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and “father of his country.” Less often discussed is Washington’s military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing...
Chinese Comfort Women
Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of local...
The Cold War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering dispute between two of the greatest military...
The Cold War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In The Cold War: A Military History, David Miller, a preeminent Cold War scholar, writes insightfully of the historic effects of the military build-up brought on by the Cold War and its concomitant effect on strategy. Bringing together for the first time newly declassified information, Miller takes...