Strategy category: 1253 books
Special Operations and Strategy
From World War II to the War on Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2006
James D. Kiras shows how a number of different special operations, in conjunction with more conventional military actions, achieve and sustain strategic effect(s) over time. In particular, he argues that the root of effective special operations lies in understanding the relationship existing between...
Military Strategy
A General Theory of Power Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
No military service can long remain effective without searching self-criticism and continuous re-examination of its own ideas. Wylie, well known in the Navy, is a refreshingly and outspoken individual, thoroughly at home on the bridge of a ship, but equally at home in the semantics of dialectical discussion....
Abandoning Vietnam
How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Did America's departure from Vietnam produce the "peace with honor" promised by President Richard Nixon or was that simply an empty wish meant to distract war-weary Americans from a tragic "defeat with shame"? While James Willbanks doesn't offer any easy answers to that question,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. With the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, hybrid war became a buzzword within political and academic circles. This study examines hybrid warfare applications using contemporary and historical...
Strategy for Chaos
Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'.
The author explores the RMA hypothesis both theoretically...
The EU, Strategy and Security Policy
Regional and Strategic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU’s efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions.
Despite a special European Council summit in December 2013 on defence, it is generally acknowledged that fifteen years since its inception the EU’s...
by Geoffrey Sloan
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This volume examines geopolitics by looking at the interaction between geography, strategy and history.
This book addresses three interrelated questions: why does the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy of states change? How do these changes occur? Over what period...
Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea.
Illustrated by examples from naval and military history, the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both peacetime and wartime; in defense versus offense;...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. As the war on terrorism progresses, it appears stability operations may continue to be the logical follow-on phase after intervention into each failed state. There is a necessity for military...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book examines the role of religious rhetoric in the articulation and promotion of the National Security Strategies (NSS) since 9/11, that is, of the Bush and Obama administrations, and more specifically how...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
The concept of asymmetrical warfare is a popular and much discussed issue in U.S. defense literature these days. Joint Vision 2010 (JV 2010), the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), and the National Military Strategy (NMS) are just a few of the documents that express concern about it. Understandably,...
European Strategy in the 21st Century
New Future for Old Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book argues that Europe, through the European Union (EU), should act as a great power in the 21st century.
The course of world politics is determined by the interaction between great powers. Those powers are the US, the established power; Russia, the declining power; China, the rising...
The War in Southern Africa
An Analysis of South Africa’S Total National Strategy (1948 - 1994)
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
South Africa, a country rich in natural resources, had a singular mission with the arrival of the Cold War: Get the world to embrace apartheid. The strategy was remarkable in the sense that it was seeking to preserve a society that almost everyone condemned. As a result, South Africa found itself...
by Carl von Clausewitz,Colonel J.J. Graham (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Vom Kriege (On War) is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife in 1832. It has been translated into English several times as On War. On War is actually an unfinished...