Arms Control category: 475 books
by Michael Dyer, Clark Murdock, Thomas Karako
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
For decades, the United States has led the effort to stem the spread of nuclear weapons, both among potential adversaries and among its allies and partners. The current state of deterrence and of the nonproliferation regime, however, is open to many doubts. What happens if the nonproliferation regime...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
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...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This Letort Paper analyzes the topic of Security Force Assistance (SFA) and provides some specific recommendations designed to improve U.S. performance. SFA may be a new term, but the activities themselves are familiar ones related to how the Department of Defense (DoD) works to train, advise, and...
Slaying the Nuclear Dragon
Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In recent decades the debate on nuclear weapons has focused overwhelmingly on proliferation and nonproliferation dynamics. In a series of Wall Street Journal articles, however, George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons, helping...
by Stephen J. Cimbala; Peter Jacob Rainow
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Russia is a post-communist country struggling to adapt to the modern world economically and politically. In the twenty-first century, Russia faces postmodern social, cultural, and political problems with its old policy of deterrence. For RussiaÆs political leaders and military planners, three scenarios...
The End of Overkill
Reassessing U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
U.S. security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systems—bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—to deliver them. A new paper from Benjamin H. Friedman, Christopher A. Preble and Matt Fay...
by Gopi Krishna
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book is not a prophecy in the generally accepted meaning of the term but a prognosis of the events to come as revealed from a higher dimension of consciousness. There is nothing mysterious or miraculous about it, just as there is nothing miraculous about the prediction of eclipses, or the prognosis...
Future War In Cities
Rethinking a Liberal Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2004
This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the west in the twenty-first century, urban military operations - as currently being undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates military operations in cities to the wider study of conflict and security in an era of urbanisation, expeditionary warfare and new power
Space Warfare in the 21st Century
Arming the Heavens
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book examines the recent shift in US space policy and the forces that continually draw the US back into a space-technology security dilemma.
The dual-use nature of the vast majority of space technology, meaning of value to both civilian and military communities and being unable to differentiate...
The Indonesian Way
ASEAN, Europeanization, and Foreign Policy Debates in a New Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
On December 31, 2015, the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ushered in a new era with the founding of the ASEAN Community (AC). The culmination of 12 years of intensive preparation, the AC was both a historic initiative and an unprecedented step toward the area's regional integration....
U.S. Military Operations
Law, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
In U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy, and Practice, a distinguished group of military experts comprehensively analyze how the law is applied during military operations on and off the battlefield. Subject matter experts offer a unique insiders perspective on how the law is actually implemented...
The Détente Deception
Soviet and Western bloc Competition and the Subversion of Cold War Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Détente Deception examines the competition between the U.S.-led Western bloc and the Soviet bloc in the less developed world during the final years of Détente. Rivero assesses whether or not the Soviet bloc pushed for strategic gains in the Third World and whether this contributed to the U.S....
Nuclear Apartheid
The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy from World War II to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world. Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shut out. An Indian diplomat called the system "nuclear apartheid."
Drawing on recently...
India's Nuclear Debate
Exceptionalism and the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s nuclear tests in 1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst India’s ‘attentive’ public shifted from supporting nuclear abstinence to accepting — and even feeling a need for — a more assertive policy, by examining the complexities...