Contemporary Maritime Piracy

James Kraska

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• This volume provides a concise introduction to the issues and debates regarding modern piracy, including naval operations, law, and diplomacy, and foc... Lees meer

Information Operations--Doctrine and Practice

Christopher Paul

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• A no-nonsense treatment of information operations, this handbook makes clear what does and does not fall under information operations, how the militar... Lees meer

War and Children

Kendra Dupuy, Krijn Peters

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• A comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of how children and young people are affected by and respond to situations of armed conflict and postwar reco... Lees meer

Military Doctrine

Bert Chapman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• This comprehensive volume provides a thorough overview of 20th- and 21st-century military doctrines worldwide. Military Doctrine: A Reference Handbook... Lees meer

Military Justice

Lawrence J Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• Public, press, and academic interest in the military justice system has increased over the past generation. This is a result of several high-profile t... Lees meer

Returning Wars' Wounded, Injured, and Ill

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• Thousands of American service members are returning from their tours of duty with physical and/or psychological disabilities. Many--if not most--of th... Lees meer

Women in the United States Armed Forces

Darlene Iskra

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• This handbook provides the reader with an historical and contemporary overview of the service by women in all branches of the U.S. military, tracing t... Lees meer

NATO

Brian Collins

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• This superb introduction to NATO is written for the national security novice, yet is full of insights for the more seasoned hand interested in how and... Lees meer

The National Guard and Reserve

Michael Doubler

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• Citizen-soldiers have played one of the most important roles in providing an integral part to the United States national defense system. From the earl... Lees meer

American Missile Defense

Victoria Samson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• This hard-hitting analysis of the U.S. missile defense program explains the system's limitations and argues that it is not nearly as effective as Amer... Lees meer

American Covert Operations

John Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• Traces our country's long history of covert and special operations, focusing on the similarities and differences in the practice from the Revolutionar... Lees meer

Military Transformation and Modern Warfare

Elinor Sloan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• Military transformation can be understood as comprising three overlapping and sometimes competing layers--the conventional-force dominated revolution ... Lees meer

Environmental Security

Elizabeth Chalecki

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• This timely volume presents the key concepts, issues, and debates surrounding environmental security, illustrating through a range of examples and cas... Lees meer

Military Education

Cynthia Watson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• Professional Military Education (PME) is broader and more rigorous than is widely understood in the United States. Improving educational programs with... Lees meer

Strategic Defense in the Nuclear Age

Sanford Lakoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• When Ronald Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in 1983, he boldly challenged the long-accepted nuclear doctrine of mutual assure... Lees meer

An Introduction to Military Ethics

Bill Rhodes

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• This comprehensive overview examines the many facets of military ethics as they are applied during times of armed conflict and times of peace. An Intr... Lees meer

Prisoners of War

Arnold Krammer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Wes... Lees meer

Military Base Closure

David S. Sorenson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• Between 1988 and 1995, the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission closed down 97 bases and realigned over 350 other bases. A hot button topic ... Lees meer

The U.S. Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy

Mael, Ph.D. Embser-Herbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• Embser-Herbert explores the history of the policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, (DADT) the federal law restricting the military service of gays, lesbians,... Lees meer

Arms Control Policy

Marie Chevrier

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• In this work, an expert on biological weapons offers a thoughtful examination of the political and technical issues that have affected the implementat... Lees meer

Military Reform

Winslow Wheeler

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• This volume will help the reader understand fundamental strengths and weaknesses in America's military forces, thereby leading to a comprehension of w... Lees meer

Intelligence and National Security

John Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• Clark presents a brief history of the creation and development of the intelligence services in the United States. He centers his examination on the tw... Lees meer

Serving America's Veterans

Max Bergmann, Sean Duggan, Peter Juul

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• In this authoritative handbook, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense lays out the infrastructural, administrative, and health care challenges facin... Lees meer

International Crime and Punishment

James Taulbee

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
• The basics of international criminal law, how it is actually enforced, and the arguments it has provoked are all introduced in a book that is as curre... Lees meer