Military Science category: 4493 books
by Alexander B. Downes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Accidental harm to civilians in warfare often becomes an occasion for public outrage, from citizens of both the victimized and the victimizing nation. In this vitally important book on a topic of acute concern for anyone interested in military strategy, international security, or human rights, Alexander...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This excellent compilation of reports has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. It includes a reproduction of important documents from the Department of Justice and U.S. Military about less-lethal and non-lethal weapons and equipment for military and civilian...
The Modern Mercenary
Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide, without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's employer, the military contractor...
American Soldiers in Iraq
McSoldiers or Innovative Professionals?
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
American Soldiers in Iraq offers a unique snapshot of American soldiers in Iraq, analyzing their collective narratives in relation to the military sociology tradition.
Grounded in a century-long tradition of sociology offering a window into the world of American soldiers, this volume serves...
Lifting the Fog of Peace
How Americans Learned to Fight Modern War
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Lifting the Fog of Peace puts the U.S. military’s frustrating experiences in Iraq into context and reveals how the military was able to turn the tide during the so-called surge in 2007–8.“Lifting the Fog of Peace is a captivating study of an agile and adaptive military evolving through the chaos...
Private Security Companies during the Iraq War
Military Performance and the Use of Deadly Force
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book explores the use of deadly force by private security companies during the Iraq War.
The work focuses on and compares the activities of the US companies Blackwater and Dyncorp. Despite sharing several important characteristics, such as working for the same client (the US State Department)...
@War
The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
**"Chilling . . . Extraordinary and urgent." — Washington Post
“Scary but well documented . . . A deep dive into the world of cyber war and cyber warriors.” — Los Angeles Times
“Unsettling . . . A deeply informative account of how corporations, governments, and even...
Military Legitimacy
Might and Right in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Focusing on the challenges faced by the US military in responding to "operations other than war" in the post-Cold War era, Rudolph Barnes makes a plea for the US government to address the "organizational bias for combat" and "narrow traditionalist view of military professionalism"...
American Military Communities in West Germany
Life in the Cold War Badlands, 1945-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
On April 28, 1946, a small group of American wives and children arrived at the port of Bremerhaven, West Germany, the first of thousands of military family members to make the trans–Atlantic journey. They were the basis of a network of military communities—“Little Americas”—that would spread...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
This informative report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Active shooter attacks appear to occur more in the United States than other countries and some data shows that their rate of occurrence has increased in the past several years. In...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Counterland operations dominate the surface environment by crushing an enemy's ability to fight on land. Through air interdiction, air and space power can divert, disrupt, delay, or destroy enemy military potential before it can be brought to bear against friendly ground forces, and achieve joint...
Transforming Warriors
The Ritual Organization of Military Force
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors.
War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize...
Reconstructing Afghanistan
Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book identifies some of the main lessons for civil-military interactions that can be derived from the experiences of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan.
The book has three main themes. Firstly, the volume analyses why the ways in which civil and military actors interact...
Arsenal of World War II
The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production. Artillery, tanks, planes, ships, trucks, and weaponry of every kind were constantly demanded by the military and readily supplied by American business....