This in-depth study provides a timely assessment of how the foreign, military, and security policies of Venezuela shape relations with the United States in the Chavez era.
What do we know about war?
What Do We Know About War? reviews the causes of war and the conditions of peace. Drawing analyses from the thirty-five year history of this discipline, leading researchers explore the roles played by alliances, territory, arms races, interstate rivalries, capability, and crisis…
The fundamental driver of American national security and U.S. foreign policy are the undercurrents of American grand strategy represented by presidential national security doctrines. There has been a dearth of work on all of the doctrines of the American presidency and, worse ye…
"African Americans' long campaign for 'the right to fight' forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nati…
The dao of the military: Liu An's art of war
by Liu, An
fromTranslations from the Asian classics
Master Sun's The Art of War, the best-known ancient text on adversarial strategy, is by no means China's only treatise on military affairs. A single chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century B.C.E., synthes…
Overview: First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includ…
"Readership Scholars and students of international relations, especially those interested in military history, and strategic studies Short Description The history of surrender is one of the most neglected in the history of war, and yet it is vital to understanding not only how w…
"This new textbook surveys new and emergent methods for doing research in critical security studies, thereby filling a large gap in the literature of this emerging field. New or critical security studies is growing as a field, but still lacks a clear methodology; the diverse ran…
Centurion tank: rare photographs from wartime archives
by Delf, Brian, Ware, Pat
fromImages of war
Centurion tank: rare photographs from wartime archives
by Delf, Brian, Ware, Pat
fromImages of war
This book tells the compelling story of how and why Pakistan's government, scientists, and military, persevered in the face of a wide array of obstacles to acquire nuclear weapons. It lays out the conditions that sparked the shift from a peaceful quest to acquire nuclear energy …
The book demonstrates how France and Russia were originally seen as the potential enemies, with the focus changing to Germany in the early years of the twentieth century. Throughout the period, the book argues, Britain had a consistent, well-developed strategy.
The author explores the far-reaching ambitions of US and German elite naval officers before WWI as they advance navalism. Viewing the causes of the industrial nation, global influence, elite rule, and naval power as inseparable, they channeled in different directions as they dev…
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engined heavy bomber flown primarily by the United States in World War Two and the Korean War. The B-29 remained in service in various roles throughout the 1950s. The British Royal Air Force flew the B-29 and used the name Washington for …