Strategy category: 1253 books
Small Wars
Their Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
This is the original manual for “small wars,” now known variously as guerrilla warfare, asymmetric combat, and low-intensity conflict. It was first published in 1896 as an analysis and how-to guide for the British Army as it fought to expand the boundaries of the British Empire. Its...
Soldiers of Reason
The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
An “entertaining and fast-paced” account of the organization that defines the military-industrial complex—and continues to shape our world today (The New York Times Book Review).
The RAND Corporation was born in the wake of World War II as a think tank to generate research and analysis...
No Substitute for Victory
Successful American Military Strategies from the Revolutionary War to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
**“Neatly encapsulates why the United States has been so successful at warfare . . . should be required reading in the military academies and the White House” (Andrew Roberts, New York Times–bestselling author).
Is there a recipe for military success? In No Substitute for Victory, author...
A Sense of the Enemy
The High Stakes History of Reading Your Rival's Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
More than two thousand years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern of past behavior, but from his...
Hearts and Minds
A People's History of Counterinsurgency
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The first book of its kind, Hearts and Minds is a scathing response to the grand narrative of U.S. counterinsurgency, in which warfare is defined not by military might alone but by winning the "hearts and minds" of civilians. Dormant as a tactic since the days of the Vietnam War, in 2006...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this document from the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) presents a relevant contextual narrative of the space between conventional conflicts and realm of irregular warfare. Major Tim McCulloh and Major Rick Johnson's...
by Jonathan M. House
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts...
FRONTLINE AFGHANISTAN
THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
THIS BANG-UP-TO-DATE BOOK IS SLICK AND TO THE POINT.....THE TITLE'S CLARITY AND HONESTY WILL APPEAL TO ALL RANKS --- SOLDIER MAGAZINE HERE, WITH MORE THAN 200 IMAGES, MIKE RYAN ASSESSES THE STATE OF THIS WAR-RAVAGED NATION AND CONSIDERS THE CURRENT ROLE OF COALITION TROOPS AND THE PROGRESS...
by Jeffrey Record
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Beating Goliath examines the phenomenon of victories by the weak over the strongùmore specifically, insurgencies that succeeded against great powers. Jeffrey Record reviews eleven insurgent wars from 1775 to the present and determines why the seemingly weaker side won. He concludes that external assistance...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars.
Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for and go to war. Whereas security studies has...
America's Security Deficit
Addressing the Imbalance Between Strategy and Resources in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This report analyzes defense options available to the United States in responding to current and emerging threats to U.S. security and interests in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It focuses on ways that the United States might adapt military instruments to meet these emerging challenges, assessing in broad terms the cost of defense investments commensurate with the interests at stake.
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Over the past two decades, China's rapid military expansion has raised concern among U.S. policy makers and defense officials. While it publicly claims a policy of "peaceful development,"...
Leaders and Battles
The Art of Military Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
No one man can win a battle by himself, but battles have been won and lost because of the strength or failings of one individual: the leader.
What went on in the minds and hearts of a select group of military leaders at critical moments in battle is the theme of this book. In Leaders and Battles,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Cyberattacks against critical infrastructure are not merely theoretical. Nations and private enterprises have come to understand that critical infrastructure can be attacked...