Military Science

Scholars have argued that the end of the Cold War and the War on Terror have radically changed the context of war and defense, diminished the role of nation-states in favor of multi-lateral defense activities, and placed a new focus on human security. In...

In Gambling with Violence, Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of violence to ordinary civilians, criminals, and ex-insurgents. Why would these countries gamble with their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666350289Author Mari SchuhFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pebble BooksPublisher Pebble BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 209mm * 8mm

First published in 1987, The Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware provides, within a single volume, the salient technical and operational details of the most important weapons. The complete range of hardware used in land, sea and air forces...

This study, extending well beyond military history, documents the ways in which five different countries - Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, China, and Japan - refashioned their armed forces along European lines during the three centuries after 1600...

Stephen M. Meyer steps back from the emotions and rhetoric surrounding the nuclear arms debates to provide a systematic examination of the underlying determinants of nuclear weapons proliferation. Looking at current theories of nuclear proliferation, he...

The Middle East Strategic Balance is prepared annually by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, to provide an authoritative and indispensable guide to strategic developments and military capabilities in the Middle East. MESB...

Numerous states have passed gender integration legislation permanently admitting women into their military forces. As a result, states have dramatically increased women's numbers, and improved gender equality by removing a number of restrictions. Yet...

Many different social scientists have been challenged by the origins of wars, their immediate causes and the mechanisms leading to the breakdown of peaceful relations. Many have speculated whether conflicts were avoidable and whether alternative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833059659Author Chaitra M. HardisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint RANDPublisher RAND

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833040008Author Frank CammFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 153mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833037336Author Victoria A. GreenfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 163mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833036575Author Tim BondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 43Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 149gDimensions(mm) 266mm * 227mm * 6mm

The guiding principle of peacemaking and peacebuilding over the past quarter century has been "liberal peace": the promotion of democracy, capitalism, law, and respect for human rights. These components represent a historic effort to prevent a...

Against the backdrop of four decades of continuous conflict in Afghanistan, the Pashtun male protagonists of this book carry out their daily effort to internally negotiate, adjust (if at all), and respond to the very strict cultural norms and rules of...

Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how U.S. military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although women were barred from serving formally in ground...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784287023Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

You don't need to be a trained soldier to fully appreciate this official Army handbook (TM 31-210). Written for soldiers in guerilla warfare situations, it demonstrates techniques for constructing weapons that are effective in combat.Straightforward and...

Media representations and practices that have emerged out of contemporary wars have been well documented by a wide array of books and articles. These treatments, however, have been less attentive to how cultural constructions of military personnel and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510758360Author Philip LineFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse Publishing

This fun book provides a simple explanation of military vehicles found in the air, on the water, and on land. Labeled photos and a photo glossary help make the text engaging and easy to read.About the AuthorBrienna Rossiter is a writer and editor who...

What is Soviet-American competition all about? Is the Soviet Union a security problem that the United States must solve? Or is it an insecurity condition with which the U.S. must learn to live -- and if so, on what terms? What kind of a player is the...

Many famous texts from classical antiquity-by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer-present powerful and profound accounts of wartime experience,...

This title was first published in 2001. The security dilemma has long been at the heart of the security studies discipline. Moving beyond this, this book attacks the assumptions of the traditional concept and redefines the security dilemma in a way more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666350326Author Mari SchuhFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Stone Arch BooksPublisher 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 -...

CHRISTOPHER PIKE's first book in his trilogy Making Sense of War examined war as a social phenomenon. About War (2021) explained why war, organised violence, happens. War in Context shows - through examples from history - how the state legitimises...

New insights for understanding and combating Al Qaeda and other contemporary security threatsWars were once fought mainly between nations - a presumption put to rest on September 11, 2001. Al Qaeda showed that nonstate actors could threaten a traditional...

This is the third volume of a projected four-volume work delineating, in text and voluminous illustrations, every aspect of the uniforms and equipment of that most colorful of all United States military forces - the cavalry.In Volumes I and II the author...

This is the first volume of a four-volune work. The total work represents the culmination of more than twenty years of painstaking research. It is an exhaustive delineation, in words and pictures, of every aspect of the attire and equipment of that most...

In Defence of Canada: Appeasement and Rearmament is a companion and sequel to Eayrs' In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression (Toronto 1964). Like Volume I, Volume II rejects as outmoded and misleading the traditional division of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170491583Author C N GhoshFormat HardbackPage Count 331Imprint Manas PublicationsPublisher Manas Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815703907Author Susan E. RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

How does the use of military drones affect the legal, political, and moral responsibility of different actors involved in their deployment and design? This volume offers a fresh contribution to the ethics of drone warfare by providing, for the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815781455Author Ashton B. CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815748892Author Catherine McArdle KelleherFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

The Middle East Strategic Balance (formerly the 'Middle East Military Balance') is prepared annually by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, to provide an authoritative and indispensable guide to strategic developments and...

Number 5 in the Luftwaffe Profile Series describes the design and use of the Junkers Ju 87A.Book InformationISBN 9780887409202Author Joachim DresselFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

While Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after being told to cede her job to returning World War II veterans, her sisters and daughters found new work opportunities in national defense. The 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act...

This book dispels two common myths about the American-Israeli patron-client relationship -- that arms transfers to Israel have been motivated by American domestic politics rather than national interests and that these arms transfers have come without any...