Persian Gulf War 10

The shock discovery of oil in the Gulf States thrust them from relative obscurity to the forefront of international finance and politics. It coincided with the breakdown of the international monetar……続きを見る

"I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index finger, I can rip the turret off a thirty-ton battle tank and throw it 200 feet across the desert, wh……続きを見る

This timely volume explores the impact of dramatic social change that has disrupted established patterns of family life and human development in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It add……続きを見る

The collapse of Souq Al-Manakh in Kuwait in August 1982 was the most spectacular financial crash of recent years. The market had developed as a parallel stock exchange dealing in the shares of Gulf ……続きを見る

The controversial, sometimes emotional national debate over strategic defense has been overshadowed recently by other, even weightier national and global issues. Research programs for the Strategic ……続きを見る

A ground-swell of interest in information as a weapon of warfare is growing within the U.S. armed services. Military strategists are looking at information as a tool to leverage our forces and make ……続きを見る

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

Another Year in Oman & Another Year in Paradise The second book in the American Experiences in Arabia During the War On Terror series, puts you right back where My Year in Oman left off. Another Yea……続きを見る

An “un-putdownable read” (Stephen Grey, author of Ghost Plane) that reveals the true story of a plane of unsuspecting passengers who landed in a war zone and were delivered to a murderous dictator O……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