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  • Havana Syndrome

    A Threat to National Security

    by Armin Krishnan ...
    Havana Syndrome is most likely caused by unknown types of directed energy weapons, either of the acoustic or electromagnetic variety. The technology for such weapons has been under development since at least the 1960s. The first covert attacks on U.S. diplomats may go back to that time when the phenomenon was called the “Moscow Signal.” Havana Syndrome: A Threat to National Security covers the ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Killer Robots

    Legality and Ethicality of Autonomous Weapons

    by Armin Krishnan ...
    Military robots and other, potentially autonomous robotic systems such as unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) could soon be introduced to the battlefield. Look further into the future and we may see autonomous micro- and nanorobots armed and deployed in swarms of thousands or even millions. This growing automation of warfare may come to represent a major ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Fifth Generation Warfare

    Dominating the Human Domain

    by Armin Krishnan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology
    This book outlines the concept of Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) and demonstrates its relevance for understanding contemporary conflicts.Non-kinetic modes of attack and war waged by groups or non-state actors at the societal level has been termed 5GW. This book discusses the theory of generational warfare and explores the key ideas of 5GW, such as secrecy, the manipulation of proxies, the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Military Neuroscience and the Coming Age of Neurowarfare

    by Armin Krishnan ...
    Series series Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs
    Krishnan describes military applications of neuroscience research and emerging neurotechnology with relevance to the conduct of armed conflict and law enforcement. This work builds upon literature by scholars such as Moreno and Giordano and fills an existing gap, not only in terms of reviewing available and future neurotechnologies and relevant applications, but by discussing how the military ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Why Paramilitary Operations Fail

    by Armin Krishnan ...
    This book analyzes U.S. pro-insurgency paramilitary operations (PMOs) or U.S. proxy warfare from the beginning of the Cold War to the present and explains why many of these operations either failed entirely to achieve their objective, or why they produced negative consequences that greatly diminished their benefits. The chapters cover important aspects of what PMOs are, the history of U.S. PMOs, ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • War as Business

    Technological Change and Military Service Contracting

    by Armin Krishnan ...
    The privatization of defence assets and the outsourcing of military services from the armed forces to the private sector is an increasing trend. This book approaches the issue of military privatization by linking it to the transformation of the defence industries since the early 1990s, and shows the extent to which many military functions and activities, ranging from military research to military ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Kill Chain

    Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

    by Christian Brose ...
    From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might.For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons that it fights with, have been uncontested. That old reality, however, is rapidly deteriorating. America's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • War Virtually

    The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future

    by Roberto J. González ...
    A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist.War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Space Warfare in the 21st Century

    Arming the Heavens

    by Joan Johnson-Freese ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book examines the recent shift in US space policy and the forces that continually draw the US back into a space-technology security dilemma.The dual-use nature of the vast majority of space technology, meaning of value to both civilian and military communities and being unable to differentiate offensive from defensive intent of military hardware, makes space an area particularly ripe for a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Army of None

    Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

    by Paul Scharre ...
    **Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award"The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates**The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • In the Shadows of the American Century

    The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

    by Alfred W. McCoy ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    The award-winning historian delivers a "brilliant and deeply informed" analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration ( New York Journal of Books).In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America's rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Duty

    Memoirs of a Secretary at War

    by Robert M. Gates ...
    From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he’d long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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