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  • Assessing War

    The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure

    by Leo J. Blanken, Hy Rothstein, Jason J. Lepore, Scott Sigmund Gartner, John Grenier0, Edward G. Lengel1, Brooks D. Simpson2, Col. Michael Richardson3, Brian McAllister Linn4, D. Scott Stephenson5, Gehrard Weinberg6, Conrad C. Crane7, Gregory Daddis8, William C. Hix9, Kalev I. Sepp0, Alejandro S. Hernandez1, Julian Ouellet2, Christopher J. Nannini3, Mark Stout4, Bradley J. Strawser5, Russell Muirhead6, Dorothy Denning7, Robert Reilly8, Aric P. Shafran9, Anthony H. Cordesman0 ...
    Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation.In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Afghan Endgames

    Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War

    by Hy Rothstein, John Arquilla, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Barfield, Andrew J. Bacevich, Frederick W. Kagan, Edward N. Luttwak, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Leo J. Blanken0, Russell Muirhead1, Robert Reilly2, Jade I. Rodriguez3, Rebecca Lorentz4 ...
    Series series South Asia in World Affairs series
    The United States and its allies have been fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan for a decade in a war that either side could still win. While a gradual drawdown has begun, significant numbers of US combat troops will remain in Afghanistan until at least 2014, perhaps longer, depending on the situation on the ground and the outcome of the US presidential election in 2012. Given the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by David Jordan, James D. Kiras, David J. Lonsdale, Ian Speller, Christopher Tuck, C. Dale Walton ...
    Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and ... Read more

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  • Military Strategy

    by John M. Collins ...
    John M. Collins has distilled the wisdom of historys great military minds to tutor readers on the necessary intellectual skills to win not only battles but also wars. He illuminates practices that worked well or poorly in the past, together with reasons why. He discusses national security interests, strategic building blocks, military strategies across the conflict spectrum, methods for developing ... Read more

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  • The Big Stick

    The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force

    by Eliot A. Cohen ...
    "Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry but today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military presence, thinking it outdated, unnecessary or even dangerous.In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen-a scholar and practitioner of ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of War

    Edited by Julian Lindley-French, Yves Boyer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental causes of war, before reflecting on the moral and legal aspects of war. Theories on the practice of war ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Anti-Access Warfare

    Countering A2/AD Strategies

    by Sam J Tangredi USN (Ret.) ...
    This is the first book to examine the concept of anti-access and area denial warfare, providing a definitive introduction to both conceptual theories and historical examples of this strategy. Also referred to by the acronym "A2/AD," anti-access warfare has been identified in American strategic planning as the most likely strategy to be employed by the People's Republic of China or by the Islamic ... Read more

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  • America's Victories

    Why America Wins Wars and Why They Will Win the War on Terror

    by Larry Schweikart ...
    In America's Victories, Professor Larry Schweikart restores the truth about our amazing military heritage. Just as he did in his acclaimed previous book, A Patriot's History of the United States, Professor Schweikart cuts through the distortions passed along by academia and the media ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Striking Power

    How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War

    by Jeremy Rabkin, John Yoo ...
    Threats to international peace and security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions, rogue nations, and international terrorism. The United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such as drones, autonomous robots, and cyber weapons. These weapons can provide more precise, less destructive ... Read more

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  • Military Decision-Making Processes

    Case Studies Involving the Preparation, Commitment, Application and Withdrawal of Force

    by Kevin Dougherty ...
    President Bill Clinton, speaking as might any commander-in-chief, on the eve of his decision to deploy ground troops to Bosnia in 1995, declared he had "no responsibility more grave than putting soldiers in harm's way." Such a statement suggests that a study of the decision-making process associated with the weighty matters of using force would be enlightening. Indeed, it is. The decision-making ... Read more

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  • Reconsidering the American Way of War

    US Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan

    by Antulio J. Echevarria II ...
    Challenging several longstanding notions about the American way of war, this book examines US strategic and operational practice from 1775 to 2014. It surveys all major US wars from the War of Independence to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as most smaller US conflicts to determine what patterns, if any, existed in American uses of force. Contrary to many popular sentiments, ... Read more

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  • Understanding Land Warfare

    by Christopher Tuck ...
    This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare.Drawing on a range of case studies spanning the First World War through to contemporary conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the book ... Read more

    $54.99 USD