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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “frans pb osinga”
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  • Science, Strategy and War

    The Strategic Theory of John Boyd

    by Frans P.B. Osinga ...
    Series series Strategy and History
    John Boyd is often known exclusively for the so-called ‘OODA’ loop model he developed. This model refers to a decision-making process and to the idea that military victory goes to the side that can complete the cycle from observation to action the fastest.This book aims to redress this state of affairs and re-examines John Boyd’s original contribution to strategic theory. By highlighting diverse ... Read more

    Was $82.99 USD Now $73.99 USD

  • Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2017

    Winning Without Killing:The Strategic and Operational Utility of Non-Kinetic Capabilities in Crises

    Edited by Paul A.L. Ducheine, Frans P.B. Osinga ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    With a foreword by Major-General Nico Geerts, Commander Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The NetherlandsInternational conflict resolution increasingly involves the use of non-military power and non-kinetic capabilities alongside military capabilities in the face of hybrid threats. In this book, counter-measures to those threats are addressed by academics with both practical and theoretical ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Targeting: The Challenges of Modern Warfare

    Edited by Paul A.L. Ducheine, Michael N. Schmitt, Frans P.B. Osinga ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book offers a multidisciplinary treatment of targeting. It is intended for use by the military, government legal advisers and academics. The book is suitable for use in both military training and educational programs and in Bachelor and Master degree level courses on such topics as War Studies and Strategic Studies.The book first explores the context of targeting, its evolution and the ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

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  • Twenty-First Century Intelligence

    Edited by Wesley K. Wark ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    Twenty-First Century Intelligence collects the thinking of some of the foremost experts on the future of intelligence in our new century. The essays contained in this volume are set against the backdrop of the transforming events of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Intelligence plays a central and highly visible role in the global war on terror, and in new doctrines of global pre-emption of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Modern Military Strategy

    An Introduction

    by Elinor C. Sloan ...
    This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to post-Cold War military theory for students of strategic studies.This second edition has been fully revised and updated, including a new chapter on peacekeeping, and examines contemporary strategic thought on the conduct of war in the sea, land, air, nuclear, space and cyber domains, as well as irregular warfare. Each chapter identifies ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Social Science Goes to War

    The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan

    Edited by Montgomery McFate, Janice H. Laurence ...
    The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human Terrain Teams (HTTs), whose mission was to conduct social science research and analysis and to advise military commanders ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    Edited by Bradley Jay Strawser ...
    The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such worries rightly demand. This volume attempts to fill that gap through sustained analysis of a wide range of specific moral issues that arise from ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Military Ethics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by George Lucas ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    What significance does "ethics" have for the men and women serving in the military forces of nations around the world? What core values and moral principles collectively guide the members of this "military profession?" This book explains these essential moral foundations, along with "just war theory," international relations, and international law. The ethical foundations that define the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Cyber Warfare and the Laws of War

    by Heather Harrison Dinniss ...
    Series Book 92 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    The information revolution has transformed both modern societies and the way in which they conduct warfare. Cyber Warfare and the Laws of War analyses the status of computer network attacks in international law and examines their treatment under the laws of armed conflict. The first part of the book deals with the resort to force by states and discusses the threshold issues of force and armed ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Special Operations Forces in the 21st Century

    Perspectives from the Social Sciences

    Edited by Jessica Glicken Turnley, Kobi Michael, Eyal Ben-Ari ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book sets out the major social scientific approaches to the study of Special Operations Forces.Despite consistent downsizing, over the past two decades the armed forces of the industrial democracies have seen a huge growth in Special Operations Forces (SOF). Through increasing numbers of personnel and more frequent deployments, SOF units have wielded considerable influence in conflicts around ... Read more

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  • The Difficult War

    Perspectives on Insurgency and Special Operations Forces

    Edited by Dr. Emily Spencer ...
    The Difficult War: Perspectives on Insurgency and Special Operations Forces is a collection of essays that deals with theoretical concepts related to insurgency as well as to the practice of irregular warfare. Since special operations forces are such an integral element to counter-insurgency, this volume also contains a large SOF component. Importantly, this book will assist the practitioner of ... Read more

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