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  • Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War

    Edited by Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this new volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained.It does so by confronting two inter-related research problems: the nature of victory and defeat in modern war and the explanations of victory and defeat. By first questioning the extent to which the concepts of victory and defeat are meaningful to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Contemporary Military Theory

    The dynamics of war

    by Jan Angstrom, J.J. Widen ...
    The book aims to provide the reader with a state-of-the-art introduction to classic and modern military theory.The text accounts for the most important theories within the field by developing and analyzing these theories, as well as problematizing both their normative and explanatory aims. While focusing on military theory, the book does not only reflect a single way of relating to knowledge of ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Nature of War

    by Jan Angstrom, Isabelle Duyvesteyn ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    Have globalization, virulent ethnic differences, and globally operating insurgents fundamentally changed the nature of war in the last decade?Interpretations of war as driven by politics and state rationale, formulated most importantly by the 19th century practitioner Carl von Clausewitz, have received strong criticism. Political explanations have been said to fall short in explaining conflicts in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Modern War and the Utility of Force

    Challenges, Methods and Strategy

    Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Jan Angstrom ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war.After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally have not been trained and equipped for, in environments that they often have not been prepared for. A ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Drones and the Future of Air Warfare

    The Evolution of Remotely Piloted Aircraft

    by Michael P. Kreuzer ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book examines the evolution of airpower and specifically the growth and proliferation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs).While most existing literature examines either the law or ethics of RPAs, and some newer scholarship looks to the battlefield effectiveness (the gains from strikes versus the potential for ‘blowback, etc.), this work investigates it from a broader military perspective. It ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Strategic Studies

    A Reader

    Edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo ...
    The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section.The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • Liberal Wars

    Anglo-American Strategy, Ideology and Practice

    Edited by Alan Cromartie ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book addresses the relationship between the 'liberal' values of Anglo-Saxon cultures and the way that they conduct themselves when they are fighting - or preparing to fight - wars.The United States and the United Kingdom are characterised by a consensus that their social and political arrangements are, in a very broad sense, ‘liberal’. Liberalism is not pacifism; nor are liberals necessarily ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Arming without Aiming

    India's Military Modernization

    by Sunil Dasgupta, Stephen P. Cohen ...
    India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it now has the resources. But so far, the drive to rebuild has lacked a critical component-strategic military planning. India's approach of arming without strategic purpose remains viable, however, as it seeks great-power accommodation of its rise and does not want to appear threatening. What should we anticipate from this effort in the ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Strategy in the American War of Independence

    A Global Approach

    Edited by Donald Stoker, Kenneth J. Hagan, Michael T. McMaster ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book examines the strategies pursued by the Colonies and the other combatants in the American War for Independence, placing the conflict in its proper global context.Many do not realize the extent to which the 1775 colonial rebellion against British rule escalated into a global conflict. Collectively, this volume examines the strategies pursued by the American Colonies, Great Britain, France, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • We Know All About You

    The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America

    by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones ...
    We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative and interpretation of what has happened since, covering the agencies, programs, personalities, technology, leaks, criticisms and reform. Concentrating on America and Britain, it delves into the roles of credit agencies, private detectives, and phone-hacking journalists as ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • When Money Talks

    The High Price of "Free" Speech and the Selling of Democracy

    by Derek Cressman ...
    "When money talks, democracy walks. Read this book to learn how We the People can take back our elections from the billionaires." —Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and author of The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix ItSpecial-interest money is destroying our democratic process. And ever since the Citizens United decision threw out campaign spending limits abridgments of free speech, ... Read more

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  • India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad

    The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004

    by Praveen Swami ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad explores the history of jihadist violence in Kashmir, and argues that the violent conflict which exploded after 1990 was not a historical discontinuity, but, rather, an escalation of what was by then a five-decade old secret war.Praveen Swami addresses three key issues:the history of jihadist violence in Jammu and Kashmir, which is examined as it evolved from ... Read more

    $82.99 USD