Military Science

This probing examination of the period just before and after Hitler came to power corrects many misconceptions about German rearmament. Drawing on previously unexploited sources, Edward Bennett unravels German military plans and shows their implications,...

To contribute to the worldwide debate on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, here are two important studies, Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies and Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures. and Arms Control. Originally published in 1986...

Glenn Bugh provides a comprehensive discussion of a subject that has not been treated in full since the last century: the history of the Athenian cavalry. Integrated into a narrative history of the cavalry from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic...

In Disarmed Democracies: Domestic Institutions and the Use of Force, David P. Auerswald examines how the structure of domestic political institutions affects whether democracies use force or make threats during international disputes. Auerswald argues...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis programs at the...

Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant reviews and evaluates the results of the tests conducted on one of the SCWO units to be provided to Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction...

The Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado is one of two sites that features U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons that need to be destroyed. The PCD features about 2,600 tons of mustard-including agent. The PCD also features a pilot plant, the Pueblo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617289606Author Brandon A DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 518g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624170829Author Jonathan BartensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620818183Author Marschall E HolmesFormat HardbackPage Count 177Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 416g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620818015Author Betsey J RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 111Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 298g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619425897Author Robert J SamuelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 370g

In this volume, a sequel to Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War, James Turner Johnson continues his reconstruction of the history of just war tradition by analyzing significant individual thinkers, concepts, and events that influenced its...

The European Union has made remarkable, unprecedented advances in both external and internal security integration. "Epistemic communities" of ambassadors, military generals, scientists, and other experts who supersede national governments in the...

Field Manual 3-07, Stability Operations, represents a milestone in Army doctrine.With a focus on transforming conflict, managing violence when it does occur and maintaining stable peace, The U.S. Army Stability Operations Field Manual (otherwise known as...

On April 29, 2009 the National Research Council held a 1-day symposium titled, 'Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow's Warfighter.' This volume, a report of the symposium, highlights key challenges confronting the scientific and technical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309088602Author National Research CouncilFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint National Academies PressPublisher National Academies Press

Since the mid-1940s, when Vannevar Bush and Theodore von Karman wrote Science, the Endless Frontier and Toward New Horizons, respectively, there has been a consensus that strong Department of Defense support of science and technology (S&T) is important...

To offer security in the maritime domain, governments around the world need the capabilities to directly confront common threats like piracy, drug-trafficking, and illegal immigration. No single navy or nation can do this alone. Recognizing this new...

This book results from a research programme jointly financed by SIPRI and the United Nations Environment Programme, and examines the way in which certain resource limitations, such as water, oil, fisheries, can lead to conflict.Reviews'This book is a...

More than forty years of commitment to nuclear weapons may have prepared Britain to take part in Armageddon, but not to defend itself against attack. What made British governments choose this path and how have they justified it? How have they responded...

Why did Britain decide in 1947 to build an atomic bomb? What military plans were there for using it? This neglected dimension of British nuclear policy is assessed in detail for the first time, using confidential records - including those of the Chiefs...

Defense of the Baltic has gained unprecedented prominence in the West in view of a post-2014 resurgent Russia. The West's East follows the principles of strategic analysis for a systematic introduction to defense of the three Baltic states within their...

Parity and War is an impressive explanation of why peace predominates in the international arena and why, on occasion, wars do start. Useful for college students and scholars alike, the work scrutinzes and tests ideas about power preponderance, first...

Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown between 1936 and 1992. Characteristics often attributed to the drone-including machine-like control, enmity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626185401Author Amber C RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 384g

Army chaplains have long played an integral part in America's armed forces. In addition to conducting chapel activities on military installations and providing moral and spiritual support on the battlefield, they conduct memorial services for fallen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613241066Author Elisabet A JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 165Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 420g

According to recent reports, the United States currently accounts for less than one-third of global research and development spending, and it is projected that this fraction will decline to 18% by 2050. These statistics, compounded by the recognition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633218840Author Alexis ForrestFormat HardbackPage Count 121Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 344g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633211322Author Sharleen NicholsFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 364g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619420090Author Anthony G LeehyFormat HardbackPage Count 117Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 352g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620813744Author Albert B FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617288463Author James C TentasFormat HardbackPage Count 159Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606924082Author Daniel J McKinleyFormat HardbackPage Count 127Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 360g

The first two volumes of this outstanding history of Canada's defence and foreign policy have drawn unanimous acclaim from scholars and critics alike. Richard Preston said of the first volume that is 'opens up a new chapter in Canadian historiography'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977101174Author Matt ScheffFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

As the costs of a preemptive foreign policy in Iraq have become clear, strategies such as containment and deterrence have been gaining currency among policy makers. This comprehensive book offers an agenda for the contemporary practice of deterrence -...

In the years since the 9/11 attacks - and the subsequent lethal anthrax letters - the United States has spent billions of dollars on measures to defend the population against the threat of biological weapons. But as Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester...

This book focuses on how advances in ICT have brought about a sea change in the way people work, live and share while also making them vulnerable. These advances exhibit a fundamentally reformed global context for development that has not just been...