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Nonlinear Science and Warfare
Chaos, complexity and the U.S. military in the information age
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book examines the United States military’s use of concepts from non-linear science, such as chaos and complexity theory, in its efforts to theorise information-age warfare.
Over the past three decades, the US defence community has shown an increasing interest in learning lessons from...
by Francis J. McHugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The classic text, U.S. Navy Fundamentals of War Gaming, provides an in-depth introduction to the basics of military gaming and offers historical insights into the development of war gaming methodologies. It covers the evolution of gaming tools such as ancient adaptations of chess and the development...
21st Century Ellis
Operational Art and Strategic Prophecy for the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
For years, the Marine Corps has touted the prescience of Lieutenant Colonel Pete” Ellis, USMC, who predicted in 1921 that the United States would fight Japan and how the Pacific Theater would be won. Now, for the first time, those predictions and other works by the amphibious prophet” are available...
So Much to Lose
John F. Kennedy and American Policy in Laos
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Before U.S. combat units were deployed to Vietnam, presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy strove to defeat a communist-led insurgency in Laos. This impoverished, landlocked Southeast Asian kingdom was geopolitically significant because it bordered more powerful communist and anticommunist nations. The...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this anthology features perspectives on the use of military power across the spectrum of conflict in the 21st century, short of or following general war, and they provide insights into the necessary force structure, policy,...
by Scott N. Romaniuk, Francis Grice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the future of US warfare, including its military practices and the domestic and global challenges it faces. The need to undertake a comprehensive analysis about the future of warfare for the US is more pressing today than ever before. New technologies...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book examines if increased Department of Defense (DOD) involvement in political warfare (PW) is justified through a qualitative, comparative analysis of U.S. PW actions conducted by the Department of State,...
Air War in the Pacific (Annotated)
The Journal of General George Kenney, Commander of the Fifth U.S. Air Force
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Air War in the Pacific details the development and ultimate supremacy of the US Air Force during World War 2. Written from the perspective of General George C. Kenney, the man in charge, the book is a candid insider’s account of how America turned the tables on the Japanese in the Pacific through...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study will explore the relationship between military professionalism and military political influence. While many scholars believe that increased military professionalism will "depoliticize"...
Understanding Carl von Clausewitz
A 59-Minute Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Carl von Clausewitz's book, On War, has stood the test of time. Clausewitz's greatest contribution may have been in the organization and compilation of commonly known facts, rather than in the discovery of new truths with respect to combat and war. He succeeded because he analyzed a great number of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War, with essays from many leading scholars.
The field of Cold War history has consistently been one of the most vibrant in the field of international studies. Recent scholarship has added to our understanding...
India's Doctrine Puzzle
Limiting War in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The balance of power in South Asia is tenuous. Neighbouring states with nuclear arsenal pose a serious threat in times of conflict and the danger of escalation into a nuclear holocaust in South are ever-present.
This book locates the change in India’s war doctrine at the turn of the century,...
The Impact of the First World War on U.S. Policymakers
American Strategic and Foreign Policy Formulation, 1938–1942
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
This study recounts the formulation of foreign and defense policies through an examination of the background of the policymakers, with specific emphasis on the World War I experience. The introduction provides an analysis of the literature of the history of this American World War II policy formulation....
Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism
The Globalization of Martyrdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This highly topical new study clearly shows how there are at least two reasons to question the central role that is assigned to religion, in particular Islam, when explaining suicide terrorism.
suicide terrorism is a modern phenomenon, yet Islam is a very old religion. Except for two periods...