Security

This textbook offers a way of gaining the analytic skills essential to undertake intelligence work. It acquaints students and analysts with how intelligence fits into the larger research framework. It covers not only the essentials of applied research,...

Why do terrorist organizations use children to support their cause and carry out their activities? Small Arms uncovers the brutal truth behind the mobilization of children by terrorist groups. Mia Bloom and John Horgan show us the grim underbelly of...

An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of...

The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe's most important link with the largest country on the continent. But despite Germany's unparalleled knowledge and historical experience, its policymakers struggle to accept that Moscow's efforts to...

On July 7, 2005, at the end of the morning rush hour, three near-simultaneous explosions tore apart the London Underground. Within an hour, the entire subway network was evacuated, and a fourth explosion in a bus underscored that this was a terrorist...

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the fortunes of NATO - pronounced "braindead" only a few years prior - have been miraculously revived. The alliance, buoyed by surging European military budgets and inflows of combat-ready troops and...

In the United Nations peace operations in Kosovo and East Timor, the police components were responsible for the enforcement of law and order, establishing local police forces, and protecting and promoting human rights. This executive authority...

Loch Johnson explores the subject of covert action, often referred to as a "Third Option" between America's use of diplomacy and warfare-a shadowy approach to international affairs based on the controversial use of secret propaganda, political...

This textbook introduces students to the sub-field of critical security studies through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. This third edition contains two new chapters - on 'Ontological security' and '(In)Security and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176371107Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Chiron Academic PressPublisher Chiron Academic PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307351067Author Gary BerntsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059186Author Bojan DimitrijevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

China's military has entered a new era. It has acquired modern weapons to rival the world's finest, undergone a major restructuring under Xi Jinping, and been on the frontlines of territorial disputes with Japan, India, Vietnam, and the Philippines. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647124090Author Kevin P. RiehleFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Georgetown University PressPublisher Georgetown University Press

The Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies provides a broad overview of the growing field of intelligence studies.The recent growth of interest in intelligence and security studies has led to an increased demand for popular depictions of...

Apologies 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

This book comprises essays that focus on a range of thinkers that challenge the boundaries of the just war tradition.The ethics of war scholarship has become a rigid and highly disciplined activity, closely associated with a very particular canon of...

Secrecy is a staple of world politics and a pervasive feature of political life. Leaders keep secrets as they conduct sensitive diplomatic missions, convince reluctant publics to throw their support behind costly wars, and collect sensitive intelligence...

This book provides the first empirical analysis of lone-actor terrorist behaviour.Based upon a unique dataset of 111 lone actors that catalogues the life span of the individual's development, the book contains important insights into what an analysis of...

In Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning "hearts and minds" is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support,...

How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectivelyThe way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central...

A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn't computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them "loopholes." We call exploits "tax avoidance strategies." And there is an...

This book examines Russia's external security policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and beyond.The Russian Federation has developed from a neglected regional power into a self-declared resurgent superpower. Russia's background...

The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957279971Author Nicholas KollerstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint New Alchemy PressPublisher New Alchemy PressWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm)...

The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe's most important link with the largest country on the continent. But despite Germany's unparalleled knowledge and historical experience, its policymakers struggle to accept that Moscow's efforts to...

When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a single company could accumulate the kind of power and influence that is now wielded by Lockheed Martin...

Roger Owen has fully revised and updated his authoritative text to take into account the latest developments in the Middle East. This book continues to serve as an excellent introduction for newcomers to the modern history and politics of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781979875981Author Research Associate Andrew JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Andrew JohnsonPublisher Andrew JohnsonWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118008Author Martin JacquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 139mm...

What is intelligence why is it so hard to define, and why is there no systematic theory of intelligence? Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke creates a new, systematic model of intelligence analysis, arguing that good intelligence is based on understanding the...

This book introduces a much-needed theory of tactical air power to explain air power effectiveness in modern warfare with a particular focus on the Vietnam War as the first and largest modern air war. Phil Haun shows how in the Rolling Thunder, Commando...

The most extensive and famous example of fortification in the world, the Great Wall of China stretches for more than 4,000 miles across inhospitable terrain. Charting its development from construction in the 7th century BC through to the present day,...

This book examines military space strategy within the context of the land and naval strategies of the past. This second edition has been updated and revised, with several new chapters included.The book examines competition and conflict in the space...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616404949Author Edward J RuppeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

We think of precision warfare as a modern invention, closely associated with the Gulf War, the Kosovo Campaign and drone technologies. But its origins go back much further in history.As historian James Patton Rogers reveals, this quest to achieve...

The Irish border is a manifestation of the relationship between Britain and Ireland. When that relationship has been tense, we have seen the worst effects at the Irish border in the form of violence, controls and barriers. When the relationship has been...

Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with the world: the importance of North America; the special roles trading, transnational, and technological...

This is the first complete detailed study of the military aspects of the first half of this important conflict (1618-1635). Each chapter deals with a particular battle, but Guthrie also examines wider questions of strategy, leadership, armaments,...

Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand expeiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of...