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Wars of Disruption and Resilience
Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Increasingly, the power of a large, complex, wired nation like the United States rests on its ability to disrupt would-be cyber attacks and to be resilient against a successful attack or recurring campaign. Addressing the concerns of both theorists and those on the national security front lines, Chris...
by Terry Fiehn
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This vital reference work looks at current areas of debate in genocide studies to provide insights into what a genocide is, why genocides occur, and what the consequences are once a genocide is recognized as such. It also illuminates how and why rational people can view the same set of circumstances...
by Carlton Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
CERTAIN basic principles in society and in politics were proclaimed by the French Revolution. The Napoleonic Era served to communicate them to Europe. The ensuing period was marked by a bitter struggle within nearly every European state for their general acceptance or for their wholesale rejection....
by Laura Lisy-Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Unlike many narratives about the Czech lands, which place them on the periphery of their own history, this study considers Czechs as central characters, looking both east and west to find their place in the early modern world. Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453-1683 works through...
Technicals
Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Great Toyota War to modern Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Over the last 30 years, the 'technical' or armed pick-up truck has become arguably the most ubiquitous military land vehicle of modern warfare.
Harking back to the armed Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks of the SAS and Long Range Desert Group in North Africa in World War II, the world's first insurgent...
by Ian van der Waag
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid and fundamental socioeconomic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Natal colonies together into the Union of South Africa.
The...
Lost Lives, New Voices
Unlocking the Stories of the Scottish Soldiers at the Battle of Dunbar 1650
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 years, a complex jigsaw of evidence was pieced together by a team of archaeologists to establish the identity of the human remains. Today we know them...
by Major Anthony M. Raper
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This study is a historical analysis of selected special operations missions in the American Civil War. The analysis is intended to determine if there are lessons to be learned from these operations that are applicable to present special operations forces.
Selected Civil War direct action and unconventional...
Remaking Madrid
Culture, Politics, and Identity after Franco
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Remaking Madrid is the first full-length study of Madrid's transformation from the dreary home of the Franco dictatorship into a modern and vibrant city. It argues that this remarkable transformation in the 1980s helped secure Spain's fragile transition to democracy and that the transformation itself...
Guerrilla Leader
T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Reclaiming T. E. Lawrence from hype and legend, James J. Schneider offers a startling reexamination of this leader’s critical role in shaping the modern Middle East. Just how did this obscure British junior intelligence officer, unschooled in the art of war, become “Lawrence of Arabia” and inspire...
Monsoon Revolution
Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was the longest running major armed struggle in the history of the Arabian Peninsula, Britain's last classic colonial war in the region, and one of the highlights of the Cold War in the Middle East.Monsoon Revolution retrieves the political, social, and cultural...
The Development of Modern Europe Volume I
From the Wars of Louis XIV to the Congress of Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The nation which has unmistakably assumed the leading role in European affairs during the past two hundred years is France. At the opening of the eighteenth century she already enjoyed a commanding position. In the wars to which the ambition of her king, Louis XIV, gave rise, almost all the countries...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This reference work covers the history of Middle East nations, addressing military, political, diplomatic, and ideological trends in each respective country and enabling readers to better understand the factors behind the crises shaping the Middle East today.
• Provides a detailed overview...