Fundamental reconceptualization of security policy is a necessary step, and it is important to get on with it. Getting on with it means defining the new concept of cooperative security, identifying the trends that motivate it, outlining its implications for practical policy action, and acknowledging its constraints. These tasks are the purpose of ......
Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War
Given the realities of the Taliban's persistence and the desire of US policymakers - and the public - to find a way out, what can and should be the goals of the US and its allies in Afghanistan? This title provides a comprehensive assessment of the alternatives for restoring peace and stability to Afghanistan.
Fernando Gentilini served nearly two years as the civilian representative of NATO in Afghanistan, running a counterinsurgency campaign in the wartorn nation. Afghan Lessons is the fascinating story of his mission. He explores Afghan history, literature, tradition, and culture to understand some of the most basic questions of Western involvement.
The Race to Capture German Saboteur-Assassin Lothar Witzke during World
On January 30, 1918, Lothar Witzke, the most dangerous German agent in the western hemisphere had reached his destination. His mission: to destroy American defense plants, organize strikes in critical industries, and at a time of intense racial unrest, to incite an insurrection among the southern black citizenry. He was to begin the campaign of ......
India's approach of arming without strategic purpose remains viable, however, as it seeks great-power accommodation of its rise and does not want to appear threatening. What should we anticipate from this effort in the future, and what are the likely ramifications? This title answers those questions.
Examining the direction and underlying assumptions of the transatlantic security relationship, this book presents three essays grounded in competing theoretical traditions. It aims to clarify the intellectual roots of ongoing debate about Atlantic security.
This study, jointly sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examines the strategic, technological, and political issues raised by ballistic missile defense. The volume editors give a comprehensive introduction to a wide range of subjects and an assessment of future prospects.
These are extraordinary times in U.S. national security policy. America remains engaged in both Iraq and Afghanistan while facing a global economic downturn.
In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where three world leaders were holding secret negotiations. When U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin ......
A Comprehensive Approach for International Security
More than ever, international security and economic prosperity depend upon safe access to the shared domains that make up the global commons: maritime, air, space, and cyberspace. This title provides a forum where contributors identify ways to strengthen and maintain responsible use of the global commons.
A Comprehensive Approach for International Security
More than ever, international security and economic prosperity depend upon safe access to the shared domains that make up the global commons: maritime, air, space, and cyberspace. This title provides a forum where contributors identify ways to strengthen and maintain responsible use of the global commons.
Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual World
Brings together scholars, policy analysts, and information technology executives to examine advanced and future threats to cyberspace. This title discusses various approaches to advance and defend national interests, contrast the US approach with European, Russian, and Chinese approaches.
Defence of Houses is one of a series of training books written in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries' archive shows how Second World War trainees learnt to defend themselves amidst the threat of enemy invasion.
The military activity which ensued from the strategic position of Gloucestershire & Bristol, straddling the River Severn, is reflected in the landscape. From hillforts and castles to airfields and electronic eavesdropping activities, defensive sites are described in this book and placed in their social, political, historical and military contexts.
The Military Landscape from Prehistory to the Present
Evidence for Oxfordshire's strategic location in ancient times can be found in the remains of prehistoric hillforts, fortified Roman towns and Saxon burhs. Both Oxford and Wallingford were besieged during Stephen and Matilda's war of succession and again 500 years later during the Civil War. Charles I chose Oxford as his capital, defending it with ......
This updated edition incorporates lessons from the war in Afghanistan, other developemnts since September 11, and a critical assessment of the Bush administration's defense strategy and budget plan, both of which were formulated and publicly unveiled after the release of the book's first edition.
This latest study in the Brookings series on U.S. defense strategy and the defense budget reviews current American military capabilities and offers suggestions for the new administration and Congress.
Dramatic changes under way in the Soviet union and the world have significant implications for American security policy. Soviet expert Raymond L. Garthoff makes use of unique, newly available material - including a complete file of the confidential Soviet General Staff journal - to illuminate the development of Soviet military thinking.
How Leadership Failures Threatened the Normandy Invasion
Two historians--one American and one British--examine the ways in which rivalries and personality conflicts among Allied commanders adversely affected the D-Day invasion and its aftermath.In anticipation of the 75th anniversary of D-Day comes this fresh perspective on the Normandy invasion -- -the beginning of the end of World War II. The book ......
What History Teaches Us about Strategic Barriers and International Secur
A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. This book examines the historical use of strategic defences such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their effectiveness and consider their implications for modern security.
If you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides. But what about the books of the underappreciated military strategist Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss? Until Dr. Seuss & National Security, the military aspect of Ted Geisel's biography and his books ......
If you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides. But what about the books of the underappreciated military strategist Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss? Until Dr. Seuss & National Security, the military aspect of Ted Geisel's biography and his books ......
Analyzes the cultural attitudes, political decisions, and institutions surrounding the maintenance of armed forces throughout American history While traditionally, Americans view expensive military structure as a poor investment and a threat to liberty, they also require a guarantee of that very freedom, necessitating the employment of armed ......
Analyzes the cultural attitudes, political decisions, and institutions surrounding the maintenance of armed forces throughout American history While traditionally, Americans view expensive military structure as a poor investment and a threat to liberty, they also require a guarantee of that very freedom, necessitating the employment of armed ......
The F-100 Super Sabres and their pilots of the United States Air Forces in Europe were dedicated to their mission of tactical nuclear strike. Hun pilots sat alert all over Europe ready to take off at a moment's notice to fly into the enemy's territory and deliver a 'special weapon' on a predesignated target in the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe.
"Fighters Over The Falklands" looks at how the Falkland Islands are defended by RAF air defence fighter aircraft. Covering the period immediately after the Falklands war when the Phantom became the front line of the islands' defence, through to the departure of the Tornado F3s, it captures military life and concludes with why the Typhoon will be ......
"This book explores the global history of fortifications and the threats to them posed by siegecraft. Tracing the interaction of attack and defense over time, Black situates the evolution of fortifications within their broader cultural and political context, showing their ongoing importance to military and social interaction across the world ......
A Principled Agent View of American Civil-Military Relations
This timely work brings a new appreciation for the American military, the complex dynamics of civilian control, and the principled ways in which the four guardian services defend their nation.
This book boldly challenges conventional wisdom about the value of preventive war, beginning with the rise of Hitler's Germany through the disastrous invasion of Iraq. Silverstone argues that the Rhineland crisis leading up to WWII presents a critical case for studying power shifts among states-and the preventive war temptation that results.
Focuses on securing critical infrastructure. In this book, articles uncover the role and extent of international law and norms, public-private cooperation, as well as novel ways of conceptualizing 'security' in efforts to improve critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
The optimism that arrived at the end of the cold war and marked the turn of the Millennium was shattered by September 11. Terrorism is but one aspect of many other wider concerns for national and international security. This title provides an assessment of the prospects for peace and security in the 21st century.
Maintaining Military Preeminence While Cutting the Defense Budget
Considers how best to balance national security and fiscal responsibility during a period of prolonged economic stress and political acrimony - even as the world remains unsettled, from Afghanistan to Iran to Syria to the western Pacific region.
House to House Fighting is one of a series of training books written in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries' archive shows how Second World War trainees learnt to defend themselves amidst the threat of enemy invasion.
More than 80 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this is the classic book about the principal architects of victory in the Pacific during World War II.
Marvin Kalb, former CBS Moscow bureau chief, traces how the Crimea has become a global tinder box. Kalb argues that the post-cold war world today hangs on the resolution of the Ukraine crisis. So long as it is treated as a problem to be resolved by Russia, on the one side, and the United States and Europe, on the other, it will remain a danger ......
Provides the first comprehensive assessment of India as a political and strategic power since its nuclear testing, its 1999 war with Pakistan, and its breakthrough economic achievements.
