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Warfare is often defined as the employment of military means to advance political ends. So understood, conventional warfare may be seen as one military means to ensure national survival and pursue n……続きを見る

Considers what the U.S. can do to overcome traditional American aversion to political warfare and how to be better competitors in the current political struggles that characterize international rela……続きを見る

In the early years of the Cold War, the United States relied on strategic nuclear attack as the primary means of deterring the Soviet Union. The focus on manned bombers and atomic weapons led to the……続きを見る

Traces the usage of and meaning given to the terms "roles and missions" relating to the armed forces and particularly to the United States Air Force, from the birth of military aviation in 1907 to t……続きを見る

FROM THE FOREWORD: This book describes the struggle to desegregate the post-World War II U.S. Army Air Forces and its successor, the U.S. Air Force, and the remarkable advances made during the next ……続きを見る

A series of studies and discussions on the impact of Special Operations. Includes analysis of the threat to the US, the Soviet approach, military capabilities, intelligence and special operations, p……続きを見る

Globalization and Maritime Power focuses on the direct impact of globalization on naval forces and the maritime aspects of commerce and international relations. It seeks to translate what we have le……続きを見る

In this remarkable memoir, Dr. Kenneth W. Iliffーthe recently retired Chief Scientist of the NASA Dryden Flight Research Centerーtells a highly personal, yet a highly persuasive account of the last ……続きを見る

This 50th Anniversary Celebration is a gala review of the last half century of research in aviation medicine. This research has fundamentally shaped the evolution of aircraft design from the wood an……続きを見る

Provides a historical review of women in the Marine Corps from their reservist status in 1946 through active status in 1977. Based upon original research. Illustrated. 続きを見る

The opportunity to command is a tremendous honor and responsibility and unquestionably will be one of the most significant roles of your Air Force career. The very nature of command is unique to the……続きを見る

The second half of the 20th century featured a strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. That competition avoided World War III in part because during the 1950s, scholars……続きを見る

The Department of Defense has been successfully exploiting rapidly developing advances in information technology for military gain. On tomorrow’s multidimensional battlefieldーor “battlespace”ーthe ……続きを見る

One of the perils for military planners in a high-tech world is to be taken in by the destructiveness of modern weapons and to give in to the currently popular theory that modern war will last for d……続きを見る

The last great drama of the Cold Warーthe collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the end of the four-decade-old East-West conflictーunfolded in three acts between 1989 and ……続きを見る

The role of the United Nations as the major international organization chartered to preserve peace and discourage aggression has broadened steadily since the Cold War ended. Regional security concer……続きを見る

A gripping, real-life drama that reveals the true story of a plane full of unsuspecting passengers who landed in a war zone and were delivered into the hands of a murderous dictator. On August 1, 19……続きを見る

Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis details the relationships between the Egyptian Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi……続きを見る

This is a true story of two friends who took it upon themselves to investigate the downing of Iran Air flight 655 which was accidentally shot by USS Vincennes on July 3rd 1988. Mohammad Ali was born……続きを見る

In Banking on Baghdad, New York Times and international bestselling author Edwin Black chronicles the dramatic and tragic history of a land long the center of world commerce and conflict. Tracing th……続きを見る

This book is a true account of my experience as a Marine in the Gulf War. I decided to tell my story in hopes of developing, in the reader, a deeper respect for America's veterans by revealing the e……続きを見る

A collection of essays that discuss for the military student and others the nature of history, the importance of military history, and the applied study of military history. The volume includes bibl……続きを見る

This essay is a brief history of the U.S. army during the years immediately following the Korean War. For many in our own time that periodーcorresponding to the two terms of the Eisenhower presidenc……続きを見る

Highly publicized accounts of abuse in military weapons procurement have raised both citizen awareness of and citizen concern with the properly monitored spending of US defense dollars. Not long ago……続きを見る

An introduction to the works of authoritative and innovative Chinese authors whose writings focus on the future of the Chinese military. These carefully selected, representative essays make Chinese ……続きを見る

How the atomic bomb could be developed as a deterrent to aggressors. “Let’s face it. Sooner or later someone would have to write a book on the battlefield employment of atomic weapons. Hiroshima ups……続きを見る

During much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Washington Navy Yard was the most recognizable symbol of the United States Navy in the nation’s capital. The shipyard built a number of the Navy’s fir……続きを見る

Offers a conceptual pathway for U.S. policymakers to begin recalibrating America's security role to reverse what has appeared to be a widening gap between U.S. ends and means, now and in the future.……続きを見る

The inside story of men, missiles and our race for space by the man who launched America's first satellite. John Bruce Medaris (May 12, 1902 - July 11, 1990) retired a Major General in the United St……続きを見る

This book presents an original set of leadership “rules” or principles that can be used to improve unit performance in any specific group situation and at all organizational levels. The 10 “rules” d……続きを見る