International Security category: 2908 books
by william kealey
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Document from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 89.00, University of Nottingham, language: English, abstract: Since this document primarily focuses on the role of air power within the confines of the latter of the two...
by Terry Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, abstract: Science, History and Art all have something in common: they all depend on metaphor, on the recognition...
Military Chaplains in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond
Advisement and Leader Engagement in Highly Religious Environments
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The role of military chaplains has changed over the past decade as Western militaries have deployed to highly religious environments such as East Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. U.S. military chaplains, who are by definition non-combatants, have been called upon by their war-fighting commanders to...
by Terry Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: None, Counterinsurgency Training Center Kabul, language: English, abstract: Five historical vignettes from the history of counterinsurgency that look at the paradox of strategy...
Technology and the Intelligence Community
Challenges and Advances for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This volume examines the role of technology in gathering, assimilating and utilizing intelligence information through the ages. Pushing the boundaries of existing works, the articles contained here take a broad view of the use and implementation of technology and intelligence procedures during the...
Modern Military Strategy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to post-Cold War military theory for students of strategic studies.
This second edition has been fully revised and updated, including a new chapter on peacekeeping, and examines contemporary strategic thought on the conduct of war in the sea,...
The Politics of Destroying Surplus Small Arms
Inconspicuous Disarmament
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Although it receives much less attention than better known disarmament processes, the destruction of small arms is reshaping the military arsenals of the world. Out of roughly 200 modern military small arms world-wide, about 500,000 are destroyed every year. The commitment of major governments and...
Afghan Endgames
Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The United States and its allies have been fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan for a decade in a war that either side could still win. While a gradual drawdown has begun, significant numbers of US combat troops will remain in Afghanistan until at least 2014, perhaps longer, depending on...
Maritime Command Pacific
The Royal Canadian Navy’s West Coast Fleet in the Early Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
As the first comprehensive account of Canada’s maritime defense of the West Coast during the early Cold War, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Royal Canadian Navy, maritime air forces, and Canadian defence policy during this period. It will also prove invaluable to...
Negotiating with Evil
When to Talk to Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
In a career spanning decades, Mitchell B. Reiss has been at the center of some of America’s most sensitive diplomatic negotiations. He is internationally recognized for his negotiation efforts to forge peace in Northern Ireland and to stem the nuclear crisis in North Korea. In Negotiating...
Dangerous Sanctuaries
Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Since the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Africa have led to the international spread of civil war. In Central Africa alone, more than three million people have died in wars fueled, at least in part, by internationally supported refugee populations....
Turkey and the West
Fault Lines in a Troubled Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Turkey: A necessary ally in a troubled region
With the new administration in office, it is not clear whether the U.S. will continue to lead and sustain a global liberal order that was already confronted by daunting challenges. These range from a fragile European Union rocked by the United Kingdom’s...
Terrorist Organizations and Weapons of Mass Destruction
U.S. Threats, Responses, and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Weapons of Mass Destruction are diverse and pose unique challenges to governments attempting to keep them out of the wrong hands and preparing to respond to an attack. This text analyzes Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons and terrorist groups with a known interest in them....
Meeting China Halfway
How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Though a US China conflict is far from inevitable, major tensions are building in the Asia-Pacific region. These strains are the result of historical enmity, cultural divergence, and deep ideological estrangement, not to mention apprehensions fueled by geopolitical competition and the closely related...