Understanding Land Warfare provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The book is a thematic, debate-driven analysis of what makes land warfare unique; how it interacts with the other environments; the key c…
Throughout the last decade, defenders of the US role in Vietnam have argued that America's defeat was not the result of an illegitimate intervention or military shortcomings but rather a failure of will because national leaders, principally Lyndon B. Johnson, forced the troops t…
"Throughout the Vietnam War, military officials such as Matthew Ridgway, James Gavin, Maxwell Taylor, Harold K. Johnson, Wallace Greene, Victor Krulak, and John Paul Vann consistently warned against the peril of waging conventional war in Vietnam, while even advocates of U.S. in…
Argues that the creation of the C.I.A. was greatly influenced by the public relation skills of Donovan, founder of the O.S.S.
The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates it resources have enormous implications for national defense and the economy. The Science of War is the only comprehensive textbook on how…
During wartime, the need for mental health professionals intensifies, and the role they play is increasingly important.
"The major part of this study will be based on data collected in a number of rural communities? Discussions of the activities of the army?s organizations in these communities will be presented as case studies of the military?s efforts at the socialization of civilians. The local…