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“thomas mahnken”

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  • Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945

    by Thomas Mahnken ...
    No nation in recent history has placed greater emphasis on the role of technology in planning and waging war than the United States. In World War II the wholesale mobilization of American science and technology culminated in the detonation of the atomic bomb. Competition with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, combined with the U.S. Navy's culture of distributed command and the rapid growth of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century

    Theory, History, and Practice

    Edited by Thomas G. Mahnken ...
    The U.S. today faces the most complex and challenging security environment in recent memory— even as it deals with growing constraints on its ability to respond to threats. Its most consequential challenge is the rise of China, which increasingly has the capability to deny the U.S. access to areas of vital national interest and to undermine alliances that have underpinned regional stability for ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Strategy in Asia

    The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security

    Edited by Thomas G. Mahnken, Dan Blumenthal ...
    Some of the United States' greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region. China and India are rising and Militant Islam continues to take root in Pakistan, while nuclear proliferation threatens to continue in fits and starts. If America is to meet these challenges comprehensively, strategists will have to learn more about Asia, and Asian scholars, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Arms Races in International Politics

    From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo, David Stevenson ...
    This volume provides the first comprehensive history of the arms racing phenomenon in modern international politics, drawing both on theoretical approaches and on the latest historical research. Written by an international team of specialists, it is divided into four sections: before 1914; the inter-war years; the Cold War; and extra-European and post-Cold War arms races. Twelve case studies ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Strategy in Asia

    The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security

    Edited by Thomas G Mahnken, Dan Blumenthal ...
    "Helps to articulate those pressing strategic questions necessary in formulating―and executing―American strategy in this critical part of the world." ― Military ReviewSome of the United States' greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region, with China's and India's rise and the persistence of militant Islam in parts of South and Central Asia, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence

    Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel

    Edited by Richard K. Betts, Thomas Mahnken ...
    Part of a three part collection in honour of the teachings of Michael I. Handel, one of the foremost strategists of the late 20th century, this collection explores the paradoxes of intelligence analysis, surprise and deception from both historical and theoretical perspectives. ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Learning the Lessons of Modern War

    Edited by Thomas G. Mahnken ...
    Learning the Lessons of Modern War uses the study of the recent past to illuminate the future. More specifically, it examines the lessons of recent wars as a way of understanding continuity and change in the character and conduct of war.The volume brings together contributions from a group of well-known scholars and practitioners from across the world to examine the conduct of recent wars in Iraq, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Strategic Studies

    A Reader

    Edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo ...
    The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section.The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • The New Makers of Modern Strategy

    From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

    by John Bew, Lawrence Freedman, Walter Russell Mead, Toshi Yoshihara, Matthew Kroenig, Hew Strachan, John H. Maurer, Michael Cotey Morgan, James Lacey, Eric Helleiner, Jonathan Kirshner, Iskander Rehman, Matt J. Schumann, Michael V. Leggiere, Charles Edel, Kori Schake, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Sarah C. M. Paine, Priya Satia, Margaret MacMillan, Williamson Murray, Robert Kagan, Tami Biddle, Brendan Simms, Francis Gavin, Daniel Marston, Guy Laron, Tanvi Madan, Sergey Radchenko, Thomas G. Mahnken, Christopher J. Griffin, Dmitry Adamsky, Carter Malkasian, Ahmed S. Hashim, Elizabeth Economy, Seth G. Jones, Sue Mi Terry, Jason K. Stearns, Joshua Rovner, Thomas Rid, John Lewis Gaddis, Eric Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Mark Moyar, Antulio Echevarria ...
    The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons

    A Comprehensive Approach for International Security

    by Scott Jasper, Scott Moreland, Sandra R. Leavitt, Ian K. Adam, Schuyler Foerster, Sam J. Tangredi, Mark A. Stokes, Ian Easton, Kevin G. Coleman0, Susan Page Hocevar1, Paul S. Giarra2, Marc J. Berkowitz3, Larry Clinton4, Michael Krepon5, Eneken Tikk-Ringas6, Gordan E. Van Hook7 ...
    More than ever, international security and economic prosperity depend upon safe access to the shared domains that make up the global commons: maritime, air, space, and cyberspace. Together these domains serve as essential conduits through which international commerce, communication, and governance prosper. However, the global commons are congested, contested, and competitive. In the January 2012 ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Strategy

    A History

    by Sir Lawrence Freedman ...
    Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Losing Military Supremacy

    The Myopia of American Strategic Planning

    by Andrei Martyanov ...
    Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia, which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and many others. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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