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  • #Duped

    How the Anti-gun Lobby Exploits the Parkland School Shooting—and How Gun Owners Can Fight Back

    by Mark W. Smith ...
    While the nation grieves over tragedies like the Parkland school shooting, the anti-gun lobby jumps into action. They exploit such tragedies to advance their political agenda.The gun grabbers—with the help of the mainstream media—trot out a few traumatized young survivors of the shootings and hail them as the brave leaders of a new anti-gun movement, speaking truth to power.It’s a cynical ploy. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 1983

    Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink

    A riveting, real-life thriller about 1983--the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear ArmageddonThe year 1983 was an extremely dangerous one--more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the United States, President Reagan vastly increased defense spending, described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 2010 American Nuclear Posture Review: Nuclear Weapons Policy Changes by the Obama Administration, Nonproliferation and Terrorism, Sustaining the Nuclear Arsenal, Security Strategy

    The Nuclear Posture Review, released in April 2010, reflects policy changes implemented by the Obama Administration on force structure and use policy. Contents of the NPR report include: The Changed and Changing Nuclear Security Environment; Preventing Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Terrorism; Reducing the Role of U.S. Nuclear Weapons; Maintaining Strategic Deterrence and Stability, and more. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 2012 Complete Guide to North Korea (DRPK): Authoritative Coverage of Nuclear and Missile Programs, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Confrontations with South Korea, Military, History, Economy, Human Rights Violations

    This massive compilation provides a complete picture of North Korea and its threatening nuclear weapon and missile programs with hundreds of pages of up-to-date information, featuring professional analysis and background data about the nation and its leadership. There is coverage of the government, military, human rights, and much more. The U.S. response to nuclear and missile testing, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 2012 US Department of Defense Strategic Guidance - Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for the 21st Century Defense

    2012 US Department of Defense Strategic Guidance - Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for the 21st Century Defense ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • 20th Century Atomic Bomb and Nuclear Weapon History: Manhattan Project and the Nevada Test Site Official History Documents

    Learn about the history of America's development and testing of nuclear weapons from this reproduction of two important Energy Department publications: The Manhattan Project - Making the Atomic Bomb, and Origins of the Nevada Test Site. Each publication provides exclusive details of the extraordinary development program known as the Manhattan Project and the subsequent early days of the Cold War. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 21st Century Defense Science Board Report: Assessment of Nuclear Monitoring and Verification Technologies (January 2014) - Difficulty of Detecting Secret Nuclear Weapons Activity

    This report from the Defense Science Board, issued in January 2014 and widely reported in the media, discusses the difficulty of detecting secret nuclear weapons activity and recommends improvements of nuclear monitoring and verification technologies.A relatively straightforward, albeit technically rich, charge was given to this Task Force to assess technologies in support of future arms control ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 21st Century U.S. Military Manuals: Multiservice Procedures for Humanitarian Assistance Operations - HA - FM 100-23-1 (Value-Added Professional Format Series)

    Part of our value-added professional format series, the Multiservice Procedures for Humanitarian Assistance Operations Field Manual (FM 100-23) covers the role of the U.S. military in humanitarian assistance operations. This FM has been converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.Some highlights of the contents:"Humanitarian assistance (HA) is different things to different ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 21st Century U.S. Military Manuals: Opposing Force OPFOR Worldwide Equipment Guide (WEG) Part 1 - Ground Systems - Infantry Weapons, including Russian, Chinese, U.S., German, Marksman, Sniper Rifles

    This illustrated Worldwide Equipment Guide (WEG) describes the spectrum of worldwide systems and system trends in the Contemporary Operational Environment (COE), serving as an authoritative "encyclopedia" of weapons around the world. This is the newest edition revised in 2011. This handbook is one of a series that describes a contemporary Opposing Force (OPFOR) for training U.S. Military ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of International Relations

    The World Made Easy

    The world does not need to be complex and confusing. It can be made simpler so that the business, political, social, and economic implications of global news briefs beaming across televisions and electronic devices can be easily grasped. Key to this is knowing that a five-hundred-year competition for global supremacy between the Chinese, European, Islamic, and Russian empires only ended in 1945. ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • A Comprehensive Approach to Improving U.S. Security Force Assistance (SFA) Efforts - DoD Programs to Train, Advise, and Assist Foreign Partners' Security Establishments

    This Letort Paper analyzes the topic of Security Force Assistance (SFA) and provides some specific recommendations designed to improve U.S. performance. SFA may be a new term, but the activities themselves are familiar ones related to how the Department of Defense (DoD) works to train, advise, and assist foreign partners' security establishments to accomplish common objectives. The United States ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Criminological Biography of an Arms Dealer

    by Yarin Eski ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    For many, the arms trade and its dealers are the root cause of regional wars and global terrorism. In both public and academic debates, arms dealers are considered immoral as they profit from conflict, due to their key position in the international arms trading business. Nevertheless, there seems to be little to no interest in the personal lives of those actively involved. In his criminological ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention

    by Kurt Mundorff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
    This book critiques the dominant physical and biological interpretation of the Genocide Convention and argues that the idea of "culture" is central to properly understanding the crime of genocide.Using Raphael Lemkin’s personal papers, archival materials from the State Department and the UN, as well as the mid-century secondary literature, it situates the convention in the longstanding debate ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Dangerous Delusion

    Why the West is Wrong About Nuclear Iran

    The definitive case against military action in Iran, passionately argued and meticulously researchedIn 2013 it is possible that Israel, backed by the United States, will launch an attack on Iran. This would be a catastrophic event, risking war, bloodshed, and global economic collapse. In this passionate but rationally argued essay, the authors attempt to avert a potential global catastrophe by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Guide to International Disarmament Law

    Series series Routledge Research in the Law of Armed Conflict
    Disarmament is integral to the safeguarding and promotion of security, development, and human rights. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year on disarmament operations, yet no comprehensive guide exists to explain clearly the international rules governing disarmament. This book seeks to fill that gap. It describes the international legal rules that govern disarmament and the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A High Price

    The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism

    by Daniel Byman ...
    The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical account of Israel's bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. Beginning with the violent border disputes that emerged after Israel's founding in 1948, Daniel Byman charts the rise of Yasir Arafat's Fatah and leftist groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Historical Sensibility

    Sir Michael Howard and The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1958–2019

    With the death of Professor Sir Michael Howard, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) lost not only its president emeritus but the last of its founders and intellectual parents. The foremost military historian of his generation, Sir Michael embodied and epitomised a historical sensibility that informed all his writing. He will forever remain an icon not only for historians, but ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A History of U.S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 1945–1963

    Series series Weapons of Mass Destruction and Emerging Technologies
    The story of U. S. nuclear testing between 1945 and 1963 is a vivid and exciting one, but also one of profound importance. It is a story of trailblazing scientific progress, weapons of mass destruction, superpower rivalry, accidents, radiological contamination, politics, and diplomacy. The testing of weapons that defined the course and consequences of the Cold War was itself a crucial dimension to ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • A Military History of the Cold War, 1944–1962

    Series Book 34 - Campaigns and Commanders Series
    The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts during World War II in Warsaw, Athens, and Saigon and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis.A major ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Narco History

    How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"

    The term Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A New Concept of Cooperative Security

    At the moment, the revision of security policy and the formation of a new consensus to support it are still at an early stage of development. The idea of comprehensive security cooperation among the major military establishments to form an inclusive international security arrangement has been only barely acknowledged and is only partially developed. The basic principle of cooperation has been ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A New Trusteeship?

    The International Administration of War-torn Territories

    Series series Adelphi series
    This paper analyses and assesses the effectiveness of international administrations of war-torn territories and discusses the key issues - strategic, political, and economic - that arise in the context of these experiences. It reflects on the policy implications of these experiences and recommends reforms or new approaches to international administration. ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • A Nuclear Family Vacation

    Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry

    In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger hit the road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry. Weaving together first-class travel writing and crack investigative journalism, the pair pursues both adventures and answers: Why are nuclear weapons still on hair-trigger alert? Is there really such a thing as a suitcase nuke? And which ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Quest for Global Peace

    Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

    One of the 'inventors' of the nuclear bomb, Sir Joseph Rotblat very soon turned away from weapons research to make a prolonged and principled stand against the dangers of nuclear proliferation. A physicist of great brilliance, he metamorphosed into a campaigner of admired moral conviction and leadership. This series of dialogues between two leading ethical thinkers brings together the courage and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD