Strategy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065995Author Theodore A DodgeFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm

Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue: Alexander K. Bollfrass and Stephen Herzog argue that despite facing major...

Between 1994-2014, Israel's security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world. This book is an investigation into this period and the conditions that created 'Occupation Inc.': the institution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095681Author Robert KaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725285279Author Joel SteeleFormat HardbackPage Count 54Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937021030Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Special Edition BooksPublisher Special Edition BooksWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This edited volume offers an in-depth study of heritage and warfare from the perspective of defence studies.The book focuses on how, in different contexts, heritage can be a catalyst and target of conflict, an obstacle to stabilisation, and a driver of...

The widespread practice of intervention by outside actors aimed at building 'sustainable peace' within societies ravaged by war has been a striking feature of the post-Cold War era. But, at a time when more peacekeepers are deployed around the world than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934840177Author Daniel H AbbottFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

International politics have become ever more volatile over the last decade, increasing the risk of large-scale military violence. Yet the precise character of future war will depend on a range of factors that relate to adversaries, allies, technology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800557390Author John WintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 590Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 780gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm

This Dictionary of Fortifications is an attractive and convenient reference for anyone with an interest in castles, forts, walled cities and any other defensive architecture, including temporary structures, of any period. The heart of the book is a...

Are we prepared to meet the challenges of the next war? What should our military look like? What lessons have we learned from recent actions in Afghanistan and Iraq? Macgregor has captured the attention of key leaders and inspired a genuine public debate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815709299Author Richard K. BettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm)...

While scholarship abounds on the diplomatic and security aspects of the Cold War, very little attention has been paid to military planning at the operational level. In Blueprints for Battle, experts from Russia, the United States, and Europe address...

When Napoleon's Glance was first published last spring, former NATO secretary general and now putative presidential candidate Wesley Clark declared, "This is a very important book." In Napoleon's Glance strategist William Duggan shows how Clark, along...

As centers for defense and bases for attack since ancient times, fortifications are a crucial aspect of military history. Indeed, as Jeremy Black shows, the history of fortifications is a global history of humanity itself. Moreover, their remains offer a...

This is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always has been. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine and disease are usually designed. They are policies in war...

Drawing upon extensive original research, this book explores best practice in army lessons-learned processes.Without the correct learning mechanisms, military adaptation can be blocked, or the wider lessons from adaptation can easily be lost, leading to...

The German belt buckle has long fascinated collectors. Now this full color volume will help collectors to identify their buckles and avoid purchasing reproductions. They will also find how to date and identify manufacturer's marks. Only genuine buckles...

What constitutes an effective and realistic strategy for dealing with non-state armed groups? This question has bedevilled states the world over. From Colombia and FARC, Turkey and the PKK, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the persistent...

An army, Lewis Mumford once observed, 'is a body of pure consumers' and it is logistics that feeds this body's insatiable appetite for men and materiel. Successful logistics - the transportation of supplies and combatants to battle - cannot guarantee...

In this newly revised and updated edition of his essential work, John Prados adds his concluding findings on U.S. covert operations in Angola, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and the Persian Gulf. Acclaimed as a landmark book about U.S. intelligence agencies in...

Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost control of its American colonies. Critiquing the...

A critical look into how and why the U.S. military needs to become more adaptable. Every military must prepare for future wars despite not really knowing the shape such wars will ultimately take. As former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates once...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800550551Author Peter YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782824954Author J W FortescueFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

Secret Tactics offers ancient wisdom for contemporary readers-with new interpretations of Japanese martial arts classics In the tradition of Musashi, Kazumi Tabata, one of America's most experienced teachers of karate, distills invaluable lessons drawn...

This volume examines geopolitics by looking at the interaction between geography, strategy and history.This book addresses three interrelated questions: why does the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy of states change? How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541742772Author Lawrence FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm...

The essays in this volume assess the influence of intelligence on the Second World War and open up a number of other important areas for research. Studies of the growth of the imperial intelligence network cast new light on subjects ranging from Canadian...

This book cuts through the misunderstandings about Russia's geopolitical challenge to the West, presenting this not as 'hybrid war' but 'political war.'Russia seeks to antagonise: its diplomats castigate Western 'Russophobia' and cultivate populist...

Waterloo is one of the most famous battles in history and it has given rise to a vast and varied literature. The strategy and tactics of the battle and the entire Waterloo campaign have been analysed at length. The commanders, manoeuvres and critical...

Virtuous War is the first book to map the emergence and judge the consequences of a new military-industrial-media-entertainment network. James Der Derian takes the reader from a family history of war and genocide to new virtual battlespaces in the Mojave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806977Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

The definitive work on the course, conduct, and aftermath of the Iraq war. In Death, Dominance, and State-Building, the eminent scholar of conflict Roger D. Petersen provides the first comprehensive analytic history of post-invasion Iraq. Although the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978465247Author Antoine Henri JominiFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Legacy Books PressPublisher Legacy Books PressWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065988Author Theodore A DodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

From lowly attendants (samurai literally means 'those who serve') to members one of the world's most powerful military organisations, the samurai underwent a progression of changes to reach a preeminent position in Japanese society and culture. Even...

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to modern strategy, covering the context, theory, and practice of military strategy in all its different forms.Covering all the main issues in the field, the book explores the major themes through a...