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Cover of Whispers of Warriors: Essays on the New Joint Era - Essays on Military Leadership, Education, Combined Operations, Intelligence Support, Importance of History, Lessons from Desert One to the Balkans
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book of informative essays explores issues such as professional military education, joint and combined operations, military leadership, the role of Congress in defense, intelligence support of military operations,...
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Cadets on Campus

History of Military Schools of the United States

by John A. Coulter II
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017

Since the founding of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1802, more than eight hundred military schools have existed in this country. The vast majority have closed their doors, been absorbed into other educational institutions, or otherwise faded away, but others soldier on, adapting...
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Military Ethics and Virtues

An Interdisciplinary Approach for the 21st Century

by Peter Olsthoorn
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010

This book examines the role of military virtues in today's armed forces. Although long-established military virtues, such as honor, courage and loyalty, are what most armed forces today still use as guiding principles in an effort to enhance the moral behavior of soldiers, much depends on whether...
Cover of The Planner's Role in the Civil-Military Relationship: Syrian Crisis Action Planning (2011-2013) - CAP Work During Obama Administration, Hagel, Dempsey, Response to Syrian Chemical Weapons Usage
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Crisis action planning (CAP) is the military process for resolving imminent and emerging crises. CAP activities require the interaction and collaboration of numerous echelons to provide military...
Cover of Eisenhower: Military Assistance Policies During the Eisenhower Administration - Shaped by World Events, Reorganization Around Findings of Draper Committee, Five Regional Policies
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017

This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. When World War II ended, the U.S. was left as one of the remaining superpowers. Although the Soviets were also very strong militarily, the U.S. found itself as the one nation with the most stable political...
Cover of Command and Control of Military Forces in the Homeland: Lack of Unity of Effort between National Guard and Federal Military Forces in Disasters and WMD Incidents, Posse Comitatus, Hurricane Katrina
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique study examines the question of how command and control of military forces in support of civil authority can be achieved when the scope of a crisis requires federal involvement. Moreover, it recommends that the...
Cover of Eliminating War by Eliminating Warriors: A Case Study in Costa Rica - Abolishing the Military and Army, Culture, Economic Evolution, Domestic Developments, External Threats, Historical Foundations
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Armed conflicts have a destabilizing effect on individual nations and the international community alike. Conversely, reducing warfare has a positive effect on both national and international...
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Shaping US Military Law

Governing a Constitutional Military

by Joshua E. Kastenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Since the United States’ entry into World War II, the federal judiciary has taken a prominent role in the shaping of the nation’s military laws. Yet, a majority of the academic legal community studying the relationship between the Court and the military establishment argues otherwise providing...
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Military Power, Conflict and Trade

Military Spending, International Commerce and Great Power Rivalry

by Michael P. Gerace
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

Wherever international commerce flows in world politics, military power often flows with it - sometimes as a protector of commerce, sometimes as its promoters and sometimes as a tool of aggression against it. How are military power and international trade related? Do military power and commerce expand...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

Like the industrial revolution before it, the information technology revolution appears to be creating a new ruling class, a new economy and a new society. Information technology is also transforming military operations and warfare. A vast literature on the revolution in military affairs (or "RMA")...
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Understanding Military Doctrine

A Multidisciplinary Approach

by Harald Hoiback
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science. Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing 'War on Terror', serious divergences over what the message...
Cover of The Cape: Military Space Operations 1971-1992 - USAF Space Programs, Space Shuttle, Titan Rocket, Delta II, Navstar, Atlas/Centaur, Starbird, Red Tigress
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013

This is the companion volume to an earlier work, "The 6555th: Missile and Space Launches Through 1970." It presents the Air Force's space launch operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) from the beginning of 1971 through 2 July 1992. Though the focus of this monograph is the...
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The Sword Arm

Military Forces in the Twenty-First Century

by Dr. Sanu Kainikara
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019

Military forces have long been the arbiters of national security and continues to be at the vanguard of assuring the sovereignty and stability of a nation. This is an enduring fact. However, in the past few decades, the role of the military forces have undergone an evolutionary change and now spans...
Cover of America's Covert Warriors: Inside the World of Private Military Contractors
by Shawn Engbrecht
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010

Private military contractors, especially those in Iraq, have taken on far more than their original mandates required. Initially intended for combat support, they have become full-fledged warriors, many with little experience, scant oversight, and no accountability to the rules of engagement that constrain...
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