Strategy

These poems by Tagore written primarily to entertain the children moved many contemporary writers. The beauty and simplicity of these poems translated from the Bengali collection of poems Sishu (1903) are very moving. The Globe in its review (1913) described it as 'a revelation more profound and mor... More

These poems by Tagore written primarily to entertain the children moved many contemporary writers. The beauty and simplicity of these poems translated from the Bengali collection of poems Sishu (1903) are very moving. The Globe in its review (1913) described it as 'a revelation more profound and mor... More

The Military Balance 1998/99 is an indispensable database of the military strength, organization, equipment, and defence expenditure of the world's armed forces in some 170 countries.The Military Balance 1998/99 is an indispensable database of the military strength, organization, equipment, and defe... More

THis book explores the emergence, meaning, and significance of the Cold War mentality. Tracing the evolution of strategic thinking from its origins in medieval Europe to the demise of the Cold war, he considers the peculiar character and autonomy that strategy acquired in the nuclear age. It is conc... More

This collection of groundbreaking series of articles for "The Atlantic Monthly" is a powerful expos of the Bush administration's numerous failures of planning and execution, from the lead-up to the Iraq War to the bungling of the occupation afterward.In the autumn of 2002, "Atlantic Monthly "nationa... More

Like its predecessors, the 1999/2000 edition of Military Balance is an indispensable database of the strength, organization, equipment, and defense expenditure of the world's armed forces in some 170 countries.Like its predecessors, the 1999/2000 edition of Military Balance is an indispensable datab... More

This concise and comprehensive work makes clear the relationship among the three parts of the encryption triad--cryptology, communications, and computers. As former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry writes in his foreword to this book, it "tells in one easily accessible condensed form the remark... More

Information operations involve the use of military information and how it is gathered, manipulated, and fused. It includes such critical functions as intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, command and control, communications, and precision navigation. This authoritative resource provides milita... More

More than 25 years after the official end of the Vietnam War, "Dear America" allows readers to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served there. Excerpt in "Time" magazine.... More

First published 20 years ago, Lawrence Freedman's "Evolution of Nuclear Strategy" was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been rewritten, drawing on a wide range of... More

This study of World War I crosses the boundaries of national histories to examine the various connections between the 400-mile-long Western Front and the home fronts of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, the United States, and other participants. A thorough reexamination of the ... More

In this gripping and disturbing history, Davis traces the worldwide use and development of the car bomb and, in the process, exposes the role of state intelligence agencies in globalizing urban terrorist techniques.This brief history of the car bomb traces the political development of this most infl... More

Peter Wilkinson's vivid insider account of the undercover campaigns of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War looks at the foundation and structure of the SOE, as well as his personal experience as an intelligence officer during the invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Poli... More

Drawing on a very wide range of unpublished and previously unexploited sources, Martin van Creveld examines the "nuts and bolts" of war. He considers the formidable problems of movement and supply, transportation and administration, often mentioned (but rarely explored) by the vast majority of books... More