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  • The Future Of The Soviet Navy

    An Assessment To The Year 2000

    by Bruce W. Watson, Peter M Dunn ...
    The efforts of the Soviet Union since the mid-1950s to develop naval power have produced one of the strongest navies in the world, but this achievement has not been without serious costs. The construction of increasingly complex submarines, ships, and aircraft has required greater investment of resources and manpower. This volume addresses whether the Soviet Union will continue naval expansion and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • American Intervention In Grenada

    The Implications Of Operation ""Urgent Fury""

    by Peter M Dunn ...
    Why did the United States invade the sovereign state of Grenada in October 1983, risking world condemnation and the possible escalation of violence outside the borders of the tiny Caribbean island? According to the contributors to this book, the invasion-code-named "Urgent Fury"--was a product of the increasing concern with political instability in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Robert F. Kennedy ...
    "A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. ... Read more

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  • In Our Image

    America's Empire in the Philippines

    by Stanley Karnow ...
    “A brilliant, coherent social and political overview spanning three turbulent centuries.”—San Francisco ChronicleStanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of America’s imperial experience in the Philippines. In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narrative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from ... Read more

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  • The Sword and the Dollar

    Imperialism, Revolution, and the Arms Race

    by Michael Parenti ...
    A thought-provoking examination of America's political, military, and economic policies towards the world's nations and governments.To many, the foreign policy directives of the United States seem bewildering and sometimes inharmonious with its domestic political values. Why does the U.S. seem to support foreign dictators? Why has it invested so many of its resources in stockpiling nuclear arms? ... Read more

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  • On Power and Ideology

    The Managua Lectures

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    The renowned activist's lectures on Cold War foreign policy delivered in Nicaragua during the US-backed war against the Sandinista government.One of Noam Chomsky's most accessible books, On Power and Ideology is a product of his 1986 visit to Managua, Nicaragua, for a lecture series at Universidad Centroamericana. Delivered at the height of US involvement in the Nicaraguan civil war, this succinct ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia

    by David Vine ...
    The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport the base was a little-known launch pad for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and may house a top-secret CIA prison where terror suspects ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Seizing Power

    The Strategic Logic of Military Coups

    by Naunihal Singh ...
    How coups happen and why half of them fail.While coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of many democratic governments, there has been very little empirical work on the subject. Seizing Power develops a new theory of coup dynamics and outcomes, drawing on 300 hours of interviews with coup participants and an original dataset of 471 coup attempts worldwide ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy

    The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower

    by Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Mackubin Thomas Owens ...
    Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post–World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized by cooperation. When American optimism clashed with Soviet expansionism, the United States ... Read more

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  • The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

    by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman ...
    Series Book 1 - The Political Economy of Human Rights
    Volume one of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media's manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.First published in 1979, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's two-volume work, The Political Economy of Human Rights, is a devastating analysis of the United States government's suppression of human rights and support of authoritarianism in Asia, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • While America Slept

    Restoring American Leadership to a World in Crisis

    by Robert C. O'Brien ...
    Robert C. O'Brien's collection of essays on U.S. national security and foreign policy, with a forward by Hugh Hewitt, is a wake up call to the American people. The world has become steadily more dangerous under President Obama's "lead from behind" foreign policy. The Obama Administration's foreign policy has emboldened our adversaries and disheartened our allies. Indeed, Obama's nuclear deal with ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister

    Three Who Changed the World

    by John O'Sullivan ...
    The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how three great figures changed the course of history. All of them led with courage — but also with great optimism. The pope helped ordinary Poles and East Europeans banish their fear of Soviet Communism, convincing them that liberation was possible. The prime minister restored her country's failing economy by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD