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by Theresa M. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
A re-translation of the master work on strategy by the master ronin and kensei (sword saint) Miyamoto Musashi; containing principles which can be applied to the battlefield, gaming, and the boardroom. This book also includes a biography of Musashi and essays on the history and the martial arts traditions...
The Plans of War
The General Staff and British Military Strategy c. 1900-1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book’s contribution to the discussion on the origin’s of the First World War is a pioneering study of both the British General Staff and the evolution of military strategy in the period immediately prior to the war. It describes the development of the General Staff, Britain’s agency for...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This qualitative research case study attempted to address "How can the U.S. military degrade individual Salafist-jihadi groups without giving energy to the global Salafist-jihadi movement?"...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Abraham Guillen's theory on urban guerilla warfare marked a significant evolution from popular theories on guerrilla warfare during the late 1960s. Guillen's theory developed from...
Strategy and Politics in the Middle East, 1954-1960
Defending the Northern Tier
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
The period covered by this book witnessed a significant change in Allied strategy for the Middle East. Its focus switched from Egypt to the states of the so-called northern tier of the Middle East: Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan. This book reveals the extent to which the UK clung on to great-power...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. It is axiomatic to military officers that civilian leaders will provide clearly defined, achievable, ends-oriented strategic guidance to inform military planning, springing from a completed...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Seven informative papers from the Marshall European Center for Security Studies analyze various important military issues:
Western Unity and the Transatlantic Security Challenge * The defining issue of the 21st century will be whether the democratic community can prevent chaos along the strategic...
To Kill Nations
American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Between 1945 and 1950, the United States had a global nuclear monopoly. The A-bomb transformed the nation’s strategic airpower and saw the Air Force displace the Navy at the front line of American defense. In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and...
Great Power Strategy in Asia
Empire, Culture and Trade, 1905-2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Great Power Strategy in Asia, 1905-2005 analyzes the enduring themes underlying the strategic struggles in East Asia, beginning with the crucial event of the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War.
Jonathan Bailey clearly shows why military history is highly relevant in understanding today’s strategic...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This is a flowing-text ebook format reproduction of an important Department of Defense (DOD) strategy document describing in broad terms how joint forces will operate in response to emerging antiaccess and area-denial security challenges.
From the foreword by Martin Dempsey:
Due to three...
Liberal Wars
Anglo-American Strategy, Ideology and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This book addresses the relationship between the 'liberal' values of Anglo-Saxon cultures and the way that they conduct themselves when they are fighting - or preparing to fight - wars.
The United States and the United Kingdom are characterised by a consensus that their social and political...
EU Security Strategies
Extending the EU System of Security Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This volume offers a coherent analysis of the European Union’s security strategies within a comparative framework.
If the EU is to survive and prosper as an effective security actor, it requires that greater attention be devoted to taking a cohesive and common position on the relationship...
Gambling and War
Risk, Reward, and Chance in International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In 1914, as Germany mobilized for war, Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg remarked to the country’s legislators, “If the iron dice must roll, then God help us.” War has often been compared to a game of dice or a lottery. But just as frequently, war has been compared to a game of pure strategy...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
When this Volume first saw the light of day some 20 years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union were frozen in one of the most frigid antagonisms of the cold war. Each country was making every effort to develop and deploy the new weapons of mass destruction, to strengthen its own bloc of allies,...