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Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America by Ashton B. Carter
RRP: $39.88$36.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815713074Author Ashton B. CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g -
Moscow's War in Syria by Seth G. Jones
RRP: $81.90$77.55This report examines Russia’s military and diplomatic campaign in Syria, the largest and most significant Russian out-of-area operation since the end of the Cold War. Russia’s experience in Syria will shape its military thinking, influence promotion and... -
New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era, Third Edition by Mary Kaldor
$41.77New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that what we think of as war is becoming an anachronism. In... -
The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons by Harold A. Feiveson
RRP: $41.98$38.91Despite the ongoing drawdown of strategic forces under the terms of START, both the United States and Russia maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons poised for immediate launch. Under the most optimistic current scenarios, these arsenals will remain... -
Borders and Border Regions in Europe: Changes, Challenges and Chances by Arnaud Lechevalier
RRP: $81.88$67.16Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighbourhood from various disciplinary perspectives. Special attention is paid to the history and contemporary dynamics at Polish... -
Newport Manual on Arctic Security by Walter Berbrick
RRP: $104.90$85.43The Arctic's growing strategic importance in world affairs and the increasing attention it receives from states inside and outside the region warrants greater cooperation and understanding of practical measures for maintaining regional security and... -
Space and National Security by Paul B. Stares
RRP: $39.88$36.29Examines the development of anti-satellite weapons and discusses the American and Soviet policies concerning the military use of space.Book InformationISBN 9780815781097Author Paul B. StaresFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Brookings... -
Ukraine after Maidan: Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security by Tomasz Stepniewski
RRP: $75.60$62.18When public protests first began in Ukraine at the end of 2013, the failed promise of the Orange Revolution was still fresh in the minds of many Ukrainians. However, unlike in the aftermath of 2004/2005, the political and military crises ignited by the... -
The Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations by Richard C. Bush
RRP: $41.98$38.91The rivalry between Japan and China has a long and sometimes brutal history, and they continue to eye each other warily as the balance of power tips toward Beijing. They cooperate and compete at the same time, but if competition deteriorates into... -
Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security by Michael Desch
RRP: $46.20$35.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780691228990Author Michael DeschFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Principles of Global Security by John D. Steinbruner
RRP: $41.98$38.07From the earliest human records, warfare has been both an organizing focus and a prime source of political motivation. Countless battles have been fought in the course of colonizing the planet, and the experience has created a legacy of military... -
The Army and Vietnam by Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.
RRP: $57.75$56.55Many senior army officials still claim that if they had been given enough soldiers and weapons, the United States could have won the war in Vietnam. In this probing analysis of U.S. military policy in Vietnam, career army officer and strategist Andrew F... -
Hacker, Influencer, Faker, Spy: Intelligence Agencies in the Digital Age by Rob Dover
RRP: $63.00$55.50Intelligence agencies are reflections of the societies they serve. No surprise, then, that modern spies and the agencies they work for are fixated on the internet and electronic communications. These same officials also struggle with notions of privacy,... -
In The President's Secret Service by Ronald Kessler
RRP: $31.48$21.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307461360Author Ronald KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
A World In Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard Haass
RRP: $35.68$24.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399562389Author Richard HaassFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy by Francis J. Gavin
$57.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737919Author Francis J. GavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm)... -
Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict by Tanisha M. Fazal
RRP: $50.38$42.86In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and conclusion of wars over the course of the past one hundred fifty years. Fazal outlines three main arguments:... -
Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) by Andrew A. Bochman 9780367673710
RRP: $67.18$59.49Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) introduces a new methodology to help critical infrastructure owners, operators and their security practitioners make demonstrable improvements in securing their... -
Busted Sanctions: Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail by Bryan R. Early
RRP: $62.98$54.58Powerful countries like the United States regularly employ economic sanctions as a tool for promoting their foreign policy interests. Yet this foreign policy tool has an uninspiring track record of success, with economic sanctions achieving their goals... -
The Dictator's Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes by Caitlin Talmadge
RRP: $62.98$54.58In The Dictator's Army, Caitlin Talmadge presents a compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight very well-and sometimes very poorly. Talmadge's framework for understanding battlefield effectiveness focuses... -
Secret Service: National security in an age of open information by Jonathan Evans
RRP: $16.78$11.74'It was only two days after I arrived that I realised I had actually joined MI5. It did not exactly throw the doors wide and welcome scrutiny. The existence of the service was avowed but very little else about it was. Who worked for it? Where were its... -
The Art of War: An Illustrated Edition by Sunzi 9780691179780
RRP: $39.88$33.29A delightfully illustrated version of Sunzi's classic The Art of War by bestselling cartoonist C. C. TsaiC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in over twenty... -
Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond by Erik J. Dahl
RRP: $50.40$43.58How can the United States avoid a future surprise attack on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, in an era when such devastating attacks can come not only from nation states, but also from terrorist groups or cyber enemies? Intelligence and Surprise Attack... -
COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation by Hal Brands
RRP: $55.65$48.76Leading global experts, brought together by Johns Hopkins University, discuss national and international trends in a post-COVID-19 world.The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating... -
The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars by Barry R. Posen
RRP: $71.40$61.59Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements... -
Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History by Robert Dover 9781589017702
RRP: $100.80$87.44Identifying "lessons learned" is not new - the military has been doing it for decades. However, members of the worldwide intelligence community have been slow to extract wider lessons gathered from the past and apply them to contemporary challenges... -
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich
RRP: $29.38$25.79In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, both conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology, of unprecedented military might wed to a blind... -
The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East by James Shires
RRP: $73.50$64.37Cybersecurity is a complex and contested issue in international politics. By focusing on the 'great powers'--the US, the EU, Russia and China--studies in the field often fail to capture the specific politics of cybersecurity in the Middle East,... -
Asia's New Geopolitics: Military Power and Regional Order by Desmond Ball
RRP: $60.88$52.69Intensifying geopolitical rivalries, rising defence spending and the proliferation of the latest military technology across Asia suggest that the region is set for a prolonged period of strategic contestation. None of the three competing visions for the... -
Divided Gulf: The Anatomy of a Crisis by Andreas Krieg 9789811363139
RRP: $230.98$72.68This book discusses the various critical dimensions of the Qatar Crisis as a development that has fundamentally reshaped the nature of regional integration for the near future. It represents the first academic attempt to challenge the commonly propagated... -
Sexual Jihad: The Role of Islam in Female Terrorism by Christine Sixta Rinehart 9781498557511
RRP: $178.50$165.50Female terrorists are a rare phenomenon. Less than ten terrorist organizations throughout the world have women. These terrorist groups are either Marxist (atheist) or Jihadist in their ideologies. This book ascertains, "What is the role of Islam in... -
The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War by Conor Foley
RRP: $41.98$35.49The idea that we should 'do something' to help those suffering in far-off places is the main impulse driving those who care about human rights. Yet from Kosovo to Iraq, military interventions have gone disastrously wrong. The Thin Blue Line describes how... -
Russia's Military Modernisation, An Assessment by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RRP: $199.48$172.94This new IISS Strategic Dossier examines the recent development of Moscow's armed forces and military capabilities. It analyses the aspirations underpinning Russia's military reform programme and its successes as well as its failures. The book also... -
To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction by Edward Kaplan 9781501752049
RRP: $48.28$41.16"Edward Kaplan's To Kill Nations is a fascinating work that packs a thermonuclear punch of ideas and arguments... The work is suitable for anyone from advanced undergraduates to experts in the field." Strategy Bridge In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan... -
Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy by Kelly M. Greenhill
RRP: $62.98$55.42At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the... -
A Historical Sensibility: Sir Michael Howard and The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1958-2019 by Michael Howard
RRP: $60.88$53.53With the death of Professor Sir Michael Howard, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) lost not only its president emeritus but the last of its founders and intellectual parents. The foremost military historian of his generation, Sir... -
Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military by Stephen Peter Rosen
RRP: $58.78$49.69How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they... -
Proxy Wars: Suppressing Violence through Local Agents by Eli Berman
RRP: $62.98$55.42The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A... -
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll 9780143132509
RRP: $42.00$31.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143132509Author Steve CollFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 697gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *... -
No Miracles: The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War by Michael R. Fenzel
RRP: $132.30$112.22The Soviet experience in Afghanistan provides a compelling perspective on the far-reaching hazards of military intervention. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev decided that a withdrawal from Afghanistan should occur as soon as possible. The Soviet Union's senior...