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Military Strategy as Public Discourse
America's war in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This book presents the current history of United States military strategy in Afghanistan as an example of dysfunctional policy discourse among the nation’s elites.
The legitimacy of a country’s military strategy can become a subject of intense public debate and doubt, especially in prolonged...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique study asks the following question: How does trafficking in persons (TIP) affect U.S. national security interests and regional stability in Southeast Asia? The United States government finds human trafficking...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report by the U.S. Army carefully examines the threat posed by the aggressive Russian strategy in Europe pursued by President Vladimir Putin.In the summer of 2014, Russia forcibly annexed Crimea from Ukraine...
A Tale Of Two Navies
Geopolitics, Technology, and Strategy in the United States Navy and the Royal Navy, 1960-2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book describes and analyses in hitherto unexplored ways the unique relationship of the United States Navy and the Royal Navy as exemplars of the US-UK Special Relationship” in the context of strategy, operations, technology, and intelligence. A continuous thread of 55 years of maritime strategic...
Strategy, Evolution, and War
From Apes to Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things – with dramatic consequences for international affairs. This book explores the evolutionary origins of human strategy, and makes a provocative argument that Artificial Intelligence...
Westmoreland's War
Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
General William C. Westmoreland has long been derided for his failed strategy of "attrition" in the Vietnam War. Historians have argued that Westmoreland's strategy placed a premium on high "body counts" through a "big unit war" that relied almost solely on search and destroy missions. Many believe...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The United States has used primacy as its grand strategy for some time now. While this strategy has ensured US hegemony, it has also fiscally drained American power and left the United States...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, informs strategy at the highest stations of power. He notes that strategy is about managing context and that the context of US national security changed with the end of the Cold War, although its...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. When faced with any type of irregular warfare, technology integration has proved to be problematic for developed countries with technologically advanced militaries. Developed countries train...
The Making of Strategy
Rulers, States, and War
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996
Most writing about strategy has focused on individual strategic theorists or great military leaders. This book focuses instead on the messy processes by which rulers and states have framed strategy in the past - a subject of vital practical importance to strategists, and of great interest to students...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
As U.S. Joint Forces Command continues to interact with the combatant commands and Services, we recognize that there is no universal agreement on the best way to plan and execute a strategic communication and related activities strategy. Additionally, there is very little doctrinal guidance, consequently...
On Strategy
A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Stunning in its insight, On Strategy is required reading not just for everyone who is interested in the Vietnam War, but for anyone who is concerned about the place of the United States on the world stage and how America can, and more importantly cannot, employ its immense military force to help bring...
Strategy Before Clausewitz
Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking.
There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern definition existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz....
Strategy Strikes Back
How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The most successful film franchise of all time, Star Wars thrillingly depicts an epic multigenerational conflict fought a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But the Star Wars saga has as much to say about successful strategies and real-life warfare waged in our own time and place. Strategy Strikes...