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  • Battle for Ulster

    A Study of Internal Security

    by Tom F. Baldy ...
    Attention to the conflict in Northern Ireland is often pre-empted in North America by such other international problems as worldwide terrorism, eruptions in the Middle East, and insurgencies in Latin America. The Irish “troubles” seem to catch our attention primarily as headline events, such as the 1981 hunger strikes or the 1983 Christmas bombing of Harrod’s department store. Yet the protracted ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Guide to the Study and Use of Military History

    A collection of essays that discuss for the military student and others the nature of history, the importance of military history, and the applied study of military history. The volume includes bibliographical essays on military history, descriptive accounts of the historical organization of the U.S. Army and other parts of the Defense establishment, and discussions of the study of military ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Rules For Leadership

    Improving Unit Performance

    by Jon W. Blades ...
    This book presents an original set of leadership “rules” or principles that can be used to improve unit performance in any specific group situation and at all organizational levels. The 10 “rules” describe the influence which leadership style, leader enforcement of performance standards, group member intelligence, group member ability, leader intelligence, leader ability, group member motivation, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Countdown For Decision

    The inside story of men, missiles and our race for space by the man who launched America's first satellite.John Bruce Medaris (May 12, 1902 - July 11, 1990) retired a Major General in the United States Army. During World War II he became a highly decorated colonel in the ordnance corps, serving in every campaign from North Africa to Sicily, Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and invasion of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Science and Technology

    The Making of the Air Force Research Laboratory

    Chief of the Laboratory's history office in Albuquerque, Duffner traces how the US Air Force consolidated 13 separate laboratories into one. He begins with a discussion of why the decision was made, then explores how the plan was implemented in the mid-1990s.The thought of consolidating laboratories was not new. Over the last decade, this idea had grown out of the Packard Commission 's blue-ribbon ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Borderlands of Southeast Asia

    Geopolitics, Terrorism and Globalization

    As an academic field in its own right, the topic of border studies is experiencing a revival in university geography courses as well as in wider political commentary. Until recently, border studies in contemporary Southeast Asia appeared as an afterthought at best to the politics of interstate rivalry and national consolidation. The maps set out all agreed postcolonial lines. Meanwhile, the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Rational Methods, Prudent Choices

    Planning US Forces

    Planning for US military forces goes on regardless of the political party in power, the state of the budget, or the issues of the moment. Because planners decide the size and shape of land, air, and sea forces, force planning is at the very core of our national security effort. In this primer on force planning, Colonel Robert P. Haffa reviews the process used to structure our strategic, general ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Washington Navy Yard

    During much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Washington Navy Yard was the most recognizable symbol of the United States Navy in the nation’s capital. The shipyard built a number of the Navy’s first warships and repaired, refitted, and provisioned most of the frigates, sloops, and other combatants of the fledgling naval service. The masts and rigging of USS Constitution were a common site on the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Maneuver in War

    An excellent study on the theory of maneuver with many historical illustrations, it is as applicable today as it was when published in 1939.Military movements play critical roles at all three levels of war: tactical, operational, and strategic. This essay explores how the principles of war apply specifically to military movements in the rapidly changing global environment of the late twentieth ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Iranian Revolution and Modernization

    Way Stations to Anarchy

    To many observers in the West, events in Iran leading up to the revolution in 1979 took a mystifying and seemingly irrational course. In this National Security Essay, Jack Miklos, a foreign service officer who served in several key assignments in Iran, discusses the Iranian Revolution. He looks at theories of social modernization as applied to the history and culture of Iran, and then focuses in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Aiming at Targets

    The Autobiography of Robert C. Seamans Jr.

    An essential volume in the NASA History Series by Robert C. Seamans, Jr., the Associate Administrator of NASA during the Apollo program. A stirring insider’s account of NASA and the manned space program at the highest levels. Relationships with the Department of Defense, the Apollo 204 fire, the assassination of President Kennedy, and more.Aiming at Targets is a series of fascinating topical ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • The Chinese View of Future Warfare

    An introduction to the works of authoritative and innovative Chinese authors whose writings focus on the future of the Chinese military. These carefully selected, representative essays make Chinese military thinking more accessible to western readers. It reveals, for example, China's keen interest in the Revolution in military affairs. This volume is an important starting point for understanding ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • U.S. Army Special Warfare Its Origin

    Psychological and Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952

    Colonel Paddock traces the origins of Army special warfare from 1941 to 1952, the year the Army’s special warfare center was established. While the Army had experience in psychological warfare, the major recent U. S. experience in unconventional warfare had been in the Office of Strategic Services, a civilian agency, during World War II. Many army leaders, trained and experienced in conventional ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Atomic Weapons in Land Combat

    How the atomic bomb could be developed as a deterrent to aggressors.“Let’s face it. Sooner or later someone would have to write a book on the battlefield employment of atomic weapons. Hiroshima upset the world’s military applecart. Professional soldiers returned from World War II or from Korea dare not rest on their laurels. The next war, if it comes, is going to be different—made so by the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Russia and the Iranian Nuclear Program

    Replay or Breakthrough?

    While coordinating more closely with Washington on Iran during the Medvedev administration, Moscow did not and has not closed the door to engagement with Tehran. In 2010, Russia voted for new, enhanced sanctions against Iran at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Nevertheless, Moscow and Tehran have remained engaged diplomatically, and their relations have stabilized and begun to recover ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • NATO-Warsaw Pact Force Mobilization

    by Jeffrey Simon ...
    Recent demographic and economic trends present mobilization problems for both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact. When the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to rid Europe of intermediate-range nuclear weapons, their agreement increased the emphasis on conventional force balances—thus creating anew strains within and between the alliances. These developments make the ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Global Strategic Assessment 2009

    America's Security Role in a Changing World

    Offers a conceptual pathway for U.S. policymakers to begin recalibrating America's security role to reverse what has appeared to be a widening gap between U.S. ends and means, now and in the future. Provides an overview of eight broad trends shaping the international security environment; a global analysis of the world's seven regions, to consider important developments in their distinctive ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • China Debates the Future Security Environment

    This study offers over 600 selected quotations from the writings of over 200 Chinese authors published from 1994 to 1999. Analysis and interpretation are kept to a minimum so that the Chinese may speak for themselves. Many Chinese scholars assisted with this study by providing hard-to-get books and articles unfamiliar to most Westerners. Half the authors were interviewed in China. They explained ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Defense Policy in the Reagan Administration

    By substantially increasing defense budgets, the Reagan Admin. (RA) did more than merely underwrite improvements in military forces, it undertook initiatives that changed both the image and reality of America's national defense. This book examines: the Strategic Defense Initiative, the 600 ship Navy, and the hefty increase in the Defense budget. Critics and supporters of the RA do agree on one ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Understanding War in Afghanistan

    This monograph aims to provide military leaders, civil servants, diplomats, and students with the intellectual basis they need to prepare for further study or for assignments in Afghanistan, a nation that has been at war for 33 years ... By analyzing the land and its people, recapping Afghan history, and assessing the current situation, this work hopes to set a foundation upon which leaders and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Air Force and the Great Engine War

    Highly publicized accounts of abuse in military weapons procurement have raised both citizen awareness of and citizen concern with the properly monitored spending of US defense dollars. Not long ago, media reports of spare parts overpricing and related problems ignited harsh public criticism of the handling of the multibillion dollar defense contracts for the F100 jet engine. According to Colonel ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Pentomic Era

    The US Army between Korea and Vietnam

    This essay is a brief history of the U.S. army during the years immediately following the Korean War. For many in our own time that period—corresponding to the two terms of the Eisenhower presidency—has acquired an aura of congenial simplicity. Americans who survived Vietnam, Watergate, and painful economical difficulties wistfully recall the 1950s as a time when the nation possessed a clearly ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Commanding an Air Force Squadron

    The privilege of commanding an Air Force squadron, despite its heavy responsibilities and unrelenting challenges, represents for many Air Force officers the high point of their careers. It is service as a squadron commander that accords true command authority for the first time. The authority, used consistently and wisely, provides a foundation for command. As with the officer’s commission itself, ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • RAF Tornado Units of Gulf War I

    Series Book 138 - Combat Aircraft
    When the Gulf Crisis of 1990 was triggered by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the RAF responded by sending Tornado F 3 fighters to Saudi Arabia to help defend the country against further aggression. These aircraft were followed by the deployment of Tornado GR 1 strike/attack aircraft to Bahrain. Eventually three wings of Tornado GR 1s were established in Bahrain, Tabuk and Dhahran, as well as a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD