Stanford Security Studies imprint: 74 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The authors of Culture, Conflict and Counterinsurgency contend that an enduring victory can still be achieved in Afghanistan. However, to secure it we must better understand the cultural foundations of the continuing conflicts that rage across Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, and shift our strategy...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Following the 9/11 attacks, a war against al Qaeda by the U.S. and its liberal democratic allies was next to inevitable. But what kind of war would it be, how would it be fought, for how long, and what would it cost in lives and money? None of this was known at the time. What came to be known was...
Terrorism, War, or Disease?
Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
The use of biological warfare (BW) agents by states or terrorists is one of the world's most frightening security threats but, thus far, little attention has been devoted to understanding how to improve policies and procedures to identify and attribute BW events. Terrorism, War, or Disease? is the...
Diversionary War
Domestic Unrest and International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
The very existence of diversionary wars is hotly contested in the press and among political scientists. Yet no book has so far tackled the key questions of whether leaders deliberately provoke conflicts abroad to distract the public from problems at home, or whether such gambles offer a more effective...
No Miracles
The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The Soviet experience in Afghanistan provides a compelling perspective on the far-reaching hazards of military intervention. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev decided that a withdrawal from Afghanistan should occur as soon as possible. The Soviet Union's senior leadership had become aware that their strategy...
The Politics of Weapons Inspections
Assessing WMD Monitoring and Verification Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Given recent controversies over suspected WMD programs in proliferating countries, there is an increasingly urgent need for effective monitoring and verification regimes—the international mechanisms, including on-site inspections, intended in part to clarify the status of WMD programs in suspected...
Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons
Why Secondary States Support, Follow, or Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
This book adds a new dimension to the discussion of the relationship between the great powers and the weaker states that align with them—or not. Previous studies have focused on the role of the larger (or super) power and how it manages its relationships with other states, or on how great or major...
Constructing Cassandra
Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947–2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Constructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks—surprises still play out today...
On Flexibility
Recovery from Technological and Doctrinal Surprise on the Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
This book addresses one of the basic questions in military studies: How can armies cope effectively with technological and doctrinal surprises—ones that leave them vulnerable to new weapons systems and/or combat doctrines? Author Meir Finkel contends that the current paradigm—with its over-dependence...
Contractors and War
The Transformation of United States’ Expeditionary Operations
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The U.S. military is no longer based on a Cold War self-sufficient model. Today's armed forces are a third smaller than they were during the Cold War, and yet are expected to do as much if not more than they did during those years. As a result, a transformation is occurring in the way the U.S. government...
Getting to Zero
The Path to Nuclear Disarmament
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Getting to Zero takes on the much-debated goal of nuclear zero—exploring the serious policy questions raised by nuclear disarmament and suggesting practical steps for the nuclear weapon states to take to achieve it. It documents the successes and failures of six decades of attempts to control nuclear...
Transforming Command
The Pursuit of Mission Command in the U.S., British, and Israeli Armies
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
On today's complex, fragmented, fast-moving battlefield, where combatants adapt constantly to exploit one-another's weaknesses, there is a demonstrable requirement for military commanders to devolve a high level of autonomy of decision-making and action to leaders on the ground. An effective model...
The End of Intelligence
Espionage and State Power in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors—and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have...
The Future of Transatlantic Relations
Perceptions, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Since the end of the Cold War, and especially following the US decision to invade Iraq, the once strong partnership between the US, Canada, and the European allies has faced the serious possibility of significant change, or even dissolution. At the very least, fundamental differences have emerged...