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  • Games, Information, and Politics

    Applying Game Theoretic Models to Political Science

    by Scott Gates, Brian D. Humes ...
    Series series Analytical Perspectives On Politics
    To study the strategic interaction of individuals, we can use game theory. Despite the long history shared by game theory and political science, many political scientists remain unaware of the exciting game theoretic techniques that have been developed over the years. As a result they use overly simple games to illustrate complex processes. Games, Information, and Politics is written for political ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Unconventional Warfare in South Asia

    Shadow Warriors and Counterinsurgency

    by Scott Gates, Kaushik Roy ...
    India is the world's tenth largest economy and possesses the world's fourth largest military. The subcontinent houses about one-fifth of the world's population and its inhabitants are divided into various tribes, clans and ethnic groups following four great religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Framing the debate using case studies from across the region as well as China, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Limited War in South Asia

    From Decolonization to Recent Times

    by Scott Gates, Kaushik Roy ...
    Series series Military Strategy and Operational Art
    This book examines the origins, courses and consequences of conventional wars in post-colonial South Asia.Although South Asia has experienced large-scale conventional warfare on several occasions since the end of World War II, there is an almost total neglect of analysis of conventional warfare in the Indian subcontinent. Focusing on China, India and Pakistan, this volume, therefore, takes a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • War and State-Building in Afghanistan

    Historical and Modern Perspectives

    Edited by Scott Gates, Dr Kaushik Roy ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Military History
    The Mughals, British and Soviets all failed to subjugate Afghanistan, failures which offer valuable lessons for today. Taking a long historical perspective from 1520 to 2012, this volume examines the Mughal, British, Soviet and NATO efforts in Afghanistan, drawing on new archives and a synthesis of previous counter-insurgency experiences. Special emphasis is given to ecology, terrain and logistics ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Conventional Warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the Present

    by Kaushik Roy ...
    Series series Critical Essays on Warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the Present
    The essays included in this volume focus on conventional war on land, sea and air fought by the states of South Asia and their impact on the host societies and economies. The authors are drawn from academia and the military in India and Pakistan, as well as from outside the subcontinent in order to give a wide perspective. In the introduction the editors describe the changing contours of warfare ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Unconventional Warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the Present

    by Kaushik Roy ...
    Series series Critical Essays on Warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the Present
    Unconventional war is an umbrella term which includes insurgencies, counter-insurgencies, terrorism and religious conflicts. Insurgencies and communal conflicts have become much more common in this region since 1947, and more people have died in South Asia due to unconventional wars than conventional warfare. The essays in this volume are organized in two sections. While the first section deals ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Nuclear Shadow over South Asia, 1947 to the Present

    by Kaushik Roy ...
    Series series Critical Essays on Warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the Present
    This collection of seminal articles illustrates the reasons for the spiraling nuclear race in the Asian subcontinent and introduces the principal debates in the field. Authors discuss whether the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the South Asian powers has raised the likelihood of a nuclear war in the subcontinent or reduced the chance of a conventional war breaking out. They examine whether a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Bomb Hunters

    In Afghanistan with Britain’s Elite Bomb Disposal Unit

    by Sean Rayment ...
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  • Takur Ghar

    The SEALs and Rangers on Roberts Ridge, Afghanistan 2002

    by Leigh Neville ...
    Series Book 39 - Raid
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  • Revival: The Conduct of War (1908)

    A Short Treatise on its Most Importsant Branches and Guiding Rules

    by Colmar Freiherr von de Goltz ...
    Translated by G. F. Leverson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
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  • Social and Economic Networks

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