Military Science category: 4493 books
The Ethics of Military Privatization
The US Armed Contractor Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate.
While privatization is not a new concept for the US military, the public debate on military privatization is limited to legal, financial, and pragmatic...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
This manual. converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction, provides doctrinal guidance, techniques, and procedures governing the employment of human intelligence (HUMINT) collection and analytical assets in support of the commander's intelligence needs. It outlines HUMINT operations,...
by Wilson W.S. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Emerging Military Technologies: A Guide to the Issues examines the potential of the United States to bring new technologies to deployment in the service of America's security and defense. The work also discusses how other international actors may regard the United States' investment in these high-tech...
by Rain S. Chetdav
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The Japanese new-fangled regime publicized itself as a self-sufficient, self-sustaining entity, freed from Big Brother USA and the United Nations sphere of influence, asserting itself as an anti-Big Brother USA and aligning its military might with North Korea, China, Taiwan, and Russia. As a more...
All In
The Education of General David Petraeus
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
General David Petraeus is the most transformative leader the American military has seen since the generation of Marshall. In the New York Times bestseller All In, military expert Paula Broadwell examines Petraeus's career, his intellectual development as a military officer, and his impact on the U.S....
The Ideology of the Offensive
Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War offers new insight into the tragic miscalculations of that era and into their possible parallels in present-day war planning. By 1914, the European military powers had adopted offensive military strategies...
Between Threats and War
U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.S. interests, and that cannot be adequately addressed through economic or political pressure, American policymakers and opinion formers have increasingly resorted to recommending the use of limited military force: that is, enough...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this is a massive compendium of over thirty authoritative reports, investigations, and academic research papers about the Abu Ghraib iraq war prison abuse scandal. Major investigatory reports, such as the Taguba Report...
National Insecurity
The Cost of American Militarism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
"Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military, and now, in National Insecurity, he tells us what we must do to change the way the system works, and how to fix it. Goodman is not only telling us how to save wasted...
Secret Trials and Executions
Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Since the attacks of September 11th, there has been a sweeping revision of U.S. immigration laws, foreign intelligence gathering operations, and domestic law enforcement procedures. While aimed at countering terrorism and bringing to justice those individuals who are responsible for carrying out acts...
Beyond the Shadow of Camptown
Korean Military Brides in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, nearly 100,000 Korean women have immigrated to the United States as the wives of American soldiers. Based on extensive oral interviews and archival research, Beyond the Shadow of the Camptowns tells the stories of these women, from their presumed association...
How America Got It Right
The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
At last, a historian tells the truth about America’s role in the world—refuting the lies of anti-American propagandists.
Left-wing critics—both at home and abroad—relish blasting our country for being the world’s sole superpower, or even an “imperialist” power.
But as acclaimed...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Part of our value-added professional format series, the Ranger Unit Operations
Field Manual (FM 7-85) covers the operations of US Army Ranger units. This FM has been converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
In the preface, it states:
"This publication contains doctrinal...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Army Field Manual provides keystone Army doctrine for civil support operations. It expands on the discussion of civil support operations, the fourth element of full spectrum operations, in FM 3-0. This manual focuses...