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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This new handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the issues facing naval strategy and security in the twenty-first century.
Featuring contributions from some of the world’s premier researchers and practitioners in the field of naval strategy and security, this handbook covers naval...
by Thomas M. Kane, David J. Lonsdale
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Understanding Contemporary Strategy provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of modern strategy.
Covering all the main issues in the field, the book explores the major themes through a combination of classical and modern strategic theory, history and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this monograph deals with building partnership capacity (BPC) for U.S. national security. The author of this monograph, Dr. Rich Yarger, clearly sees BPC as a strategic necessity for reasons far beyond the current resource...
Grand Strategy and the Presidency
Foreign Policy, War and the American Role in the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
This book examines the role and importance of the Presidency in the formulation and conduct of US grand strategy.
The text discusses US strategic history, with particular emphasis on the period from the end of the Cold War to the present day. While the United States periodically has enjoyed...
US Grand Strategy in the 21st Century
The Case For Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book challenges the dominant strategic culture and makes the case for restraint in US grand strategy in the 21st century.
Grand strategy, meaning a state’s theory about how it can achieve national security for itself, is elusive. That is particularly true in the United States, where...
Understanding Space Strategy
The Art of War in Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
This book examines the rise of great power competition in space, including the relevant and practical space strategies for China, Russia, the United States, and other countries.
The work discusses the concepts and writings of past strategists, such as Thucydides, Sun Tzu, and Clausewitz, in...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice...
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
From the First Century CE to the Third
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the Rhine to the Black Sea. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off everything from overnight robbery raids to full-scale...
The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War
Architecture of Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic...
Military Strategy Classics of Ancient China - English & Chinese
The Art of War, Methods of War, 36 Stratagems & Selected Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Military Strategy Classics of Ancient China presents modern translations of eight of the most important and relevant military texts from antiquity, which have gained new prominence among Western students of Eastern military strategy and philosophy. These texts provide background for a wide range...
Strategy and History
Essays on Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Strategy and History comprises a selection of Professor Gray's key contributions to strategic debate over the past thirty years.
These essays have been selected both because they had significant messages for contemporary controversies, and because they have some continuing relevance for today...
Plotting Power
Strategy in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Military strategy takes place as much on broad national and international stages as on battlefields. In a brilliant reimagining of the impetus and scope of eighteenth-century warfare, historian Jeremy Black takes us far and wide, from the battlefields and global maneuvers in North America and Europe...
Strategy in the American War of Independence
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book examines the strategies pursued by the Colonies and the other combatants in the American War for Independence, placing the conflict in its proper global context.
Many do not realize the extent to which the 1775 colonial rebellion against British rule escalated into a global conflict....
Special Forces, Strategy and the War on Terror
Warfare By Other Means
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This volume undertakes a systematic analysis of the relationship between Special Forces and contemporary strategy, explaining the resurgence of interest in Special Forces, particularly in the West, by exploring their appeal over traditional conventional force options in the current ‘War on Terror’.
Special...