Security

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)...

Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan "Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

This book examines the extent to which Russia's strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin's own operational code.The work argues that, by conflating personalistic regime survival with national security, Putin ensures...

This is a documentary history of how intelligence influenced Britain's policy response to key 20th century events. For more than 50 years, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has been central to the secret machinery of the British Government, acting...

The quality of the peace arrived at via liberal peacebuilding approaches has been poor. The related statebuilding praxis has generally been unable to respond to its critics. What is at stake is a recognition of peacebuilding's everyday political, social,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815734093Author Morton H. HalperinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Exploring the pernicious influence of security capitalism on neighborhoods, airports, cities, and states. Calls to defund the police or to stop brutal police violence, argue Mark Maguire and Setha Low, will never succeed as long as there are those who...

This book examines the UK's response to terrorist communication. Its principle question asks, has individual privacy and collective security been successfully managed and balanced? The author begins by assessing several technologically-based problems...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the use of airpower in the first year of the Ukraine conflict.Airpower has been central to political, military, and public debates from the outset of the Russo-Ukrainian war. After having started with whether...

From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always...

Shabtai Shavit, director of the Mossad from 1989 to 1996, is one of the most influential leaders to shape the recent history of the State of Israel. In this exciting and engaging book, Shavit combines memoir with sober reflection to reveal what happened...

Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876091517Author F. Gregory GauseFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Council on Foreign RelationsPublisher Council on Foreign RelationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738947Author Sten RynningFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

This new handbook provides a wide-ranging overview of the current state of academic analysis and debate on insurgency and counterinsurgency, as well as an-up-to date survey of contemporary insurgent movements and counter-insurgencies.In recent years, and...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the entire world was introduced to Al Qaeda and its enigmatic leader, Osama bin Laden. But the organization that changed the face of terrorism forever and unleashed a whirlwind of counterterrorism activity and two...

This is the first account in English of a much-overlooked, but important, First World War battlefront located in the mountains astride the border between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Not well known in the West, the battles of Isonzo were...

The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.This eye-opening book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China's actions, it...

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...

The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014. Drawing on their unusual access to intelligence sources and material, law enforcement, and groundbreaking research into open...

- How did today's international systems emerge, and how are they shaped by war, unequal development and international cooperation? - How do individuals, firms, international organisations, and nation states operate within these systems? - How can...

When is it right to go to war? The most persuasive answer to this question has always been 'in self-defense'. In a penetrating new analysis, bringing together moral philosophy, political science, and law, David Rodin shows what's wrong with this answer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316213523Author Parmy OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

This work is a powerful demonstration of how historical analysis can be brought to bear on the study of strategic issues, and, conversely, how strategic thinking can help drive historical research. Based largely on newly released American archives,...

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad"--newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the...

An unflinching expose of the hidden costs of American war-making written with "an immense and rare humanity" (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts"[War Made Invisible is] an antidote to twenty years of U.S. media malpractice and should...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441339850Author Sun TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Peter Pauper PressPublisher Peter Pauper PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 119mm...

A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months before it took place, lays out the case for why China's Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years...