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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110785180Author Azamat KumykovFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Walter de Gruyter & CoPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 634g

In the summer of 1940 the British Isles stood isolated and alone facing the might of a seemingly unstoppable German war machine. Never before had the United Kingdom been in a state of such uncertainty and possible peril. Fortunately the full breadth of...

Calls to Arms: Presidential Speeches, Messages, and Declarations of War is a collection of presidential messages and speeches that called America to war from John Adams and the Quasi-War with France to George W. Bush and the fight against international...

Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship which has exerted a persistent attraction for scholars of war and strategy: Makers of Modern Strategy. It reveals the processes by which scholars conceived and devised the...

If asked to pinpoint the beginning of the war against Islamic extremism, most would probably say September 11, 2001. However, there has been tension between Islamic autocracies and Western governments going back centuries. In the early 1980s, the...

Nearly two decades after the declaration of a ‘War on Terror,’ the precise relationship between warfare and terrorism remains unclear. The United States and its allies have long sought to inflict a decisive defeat upon groups such as Al Qaeda and ISIS,...

Why do international actors provide global public goods when they could free-ride on the production of others? Constructing Global Public Goods examines this question by understanding the identities and preferences of the actors. Most rational choice...

Most studies of Asia-Pacific security are marked by pessimism and continuing belief in the virtues of a balance of power. Pacific Asia? goes against the grain by pointing to a number of positive developments-especially economic-in regional relationships,...

The immediate postcolonial moment brought both promise and peril for the states of Africa and their security. The process of decolonization generated instability, and the emergent Cold War caught up the still-fragile independent states in a global...

May 1864. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close-quarter combat in the Wilderness that left the tangled thickets aflame. No one could imagine a more infernal battlefield. Then they marched down the road...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800995994Author Martin WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

The author believes that all international strategic manoeuvrings in the region, mostly rely on information that is entirely fabricated and portrayed by Pakistan’s adversaries to harm its national interests. In his opinion, knowing a realistic picture of...

While much attention has been paid to the commemoration of conflict in the twentieth century, this book is the first to consider conflict memory in the long term, arguing that modern practices were not created out of the mud of the trenches, but evolved...

On the eve of the Civil War, the London Times informed its readers that Castle Pinckney has "been kept garrisoned, not to protect Charleston from naval attack from the ocean, but to serve as a bridle upon the city." Located on a marshy island in the...

Changing the Rules of Engagement documents the lives of women who have shattered the glass ceiling and performed extraordinary feats while serving their country. By telling their stories about their remarkable careers in traditionally male-dominated...

Gabriel Baker provides an important corrective to our understanding of ancient warfare and our thinking about the long history of total war and terror, manifested today by ISIS. He casts a new light on Roman warfare and the strategic use of total war to...

In a surprising number of espionage cases sex has played a significant role-often only in the background-possibly as a reason why a particular individual has lived beyond his means and is in desperate need of cash. FBI agent Earl Pitts sold secrets to...

For Israel-more so than for any other state-an effective Intelligence Community has been a matter of life and death. Over the past half-century or so, Israel has created and refined what is broadly regarded as one of the best intelligence networks in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513477Author Michael Fredholm Von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The relationship between drugs and today's wars has grown more noticeable since the end of the Cold War and will likely gather strength in this era of increased globalization. Many violent groups and governments have recently turned to illicit narcotics...

The decolonization of Namibia was delayed from 1966 to 1989--the period of the war of independence--pitting the Namibian nationalists against the South African minority-ruled regime. This book describes the diplomatic, economic and military campaigns...

This book continues the narrative begun by the author in the preceding volume, Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941. This new work provides a clear and readable description of military combat occurring in Latin America for the years 1948 to the start of 1982...

After World War II, the United States military increasingly found itself involved in operations that have been described variously as limited wars, small wars, low intensity conflicts, operations other than war, support and stability operations, and the...

This book describes the clandestine missions that were defining moments in the evolution of the Mossad, including its pursuit of the Black September terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games, its acquisition on the high seas...

One of the darkest days in United States history since Valley Forge was August 30, 1862. On this date the Confederate army smashed the United States army at Manassas, on the outskirts of Washington. To many, including the president and press, it...

The practice of big business promoting war to profit materially was firmly in place by the time Major General Smedley D. Butler wrote about it in his anti-corporate pamphlets. This historical biography explores the life of Butler, a little-known American...

Downsizing has become one of the defining phenomena of the post-Cold War era, a trend affecting few sectors of American life more than the armed forces. Between 1989 and 1996, the active duty Army was cut back by more than a third, from 770,000 soldiers...

A compelling indictment of the social issues surrounding the Women's Army Corps in the 1940s.Meyer (history, Coll. of William and Mary), formerly trained as a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy, fills a void in the historical debate on women in the...

Introduced in 1998 by the Department of Defense, the concept of information operations (IO) proposed to revolutionize the ways in which warfare, diplomacy, and business were conducted. However, this transformation has not come to fruition. Two large gaps...

America's curiosity about elite military units is greater than ever in today's crisis-ridden world. And while numerous books have examined the various elite forces, Bunker Hill to Bastogne goes much further to show the relationship between these special...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692580295Author James "doc" CrabtreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Jimmy Sinai BooksPublisher Jimmy Sinai BooksWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425262542Author Carlos HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374g

Rarely has a foreign policy event spawned such interest in international public opinion as has the Iraq War. What does this war indicate about the extent to which public opinion influences foreign policy leaders? Have leaders' decisions about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514597Author Grenville BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 630Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354899126Author Hemant Singh KatochFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903872420Author Mick BarhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Posthouse PublishingPublisher Posthouse Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514665Author Antonio Luis Sapienza FracchiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398815032Author Nigel CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 153g

Perhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812. Begun by President James Madison after decades of humiliating British trade interference and impressment of American sailors, the war in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869191146Author Magnus MalanFormat HardbackPage Count 509Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 880g