Author: Li, Rex Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Rising China and Security in East Asia provides a systematic and in-depth analysis of the security discourse of Chinese elites on the major powers in East Asia, namely the US, Japan and Russia, and ...
Author: Kelly, Terrence K. / Jones, Seth G. / Barnett, James E. II Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: China's Tianjin Binhai New Area and the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area commissioned a technology-foresight study to help plan for economic growth. The authors recommend seven emerging...
Author: Harris, Brice Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book analyses the American way of war within the context of Clausewitzian theory. In doing so, it draws conclusions about the origins, viability, and technical feasibility of America's current st...
Author: Treverton, Gregory F. / Gabbard, C. Bryan Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This report assesses intelligence analysis across the main U.S. intelligence agencies and makes a number of recommendations, some of which parallel initiatives that have begun in the wake of the Decem...
Author: McCaffery, Jerry L Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most of the literature on public sector budgeting ignores defense budgeting, even though aircraft, ships, tanks, smart weaponry, skilled crews, electronically boosted infantry, and other facets of nat...
Author: Jones, L.R. / McCaffery, Jerry L. Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book we have introduced the basics of the federal budget process, provided an historical background on the foundation and development of the budget process, indicated how defense spending may ...
Author: U. S. Marine Corps Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Tactical success in combat does not of itself guarantee victory in war. What matters ultimately in war is strategic success: attainment of our political aims and the protection of our national intere...
Description: China and the European Union intelligently weaves together China and the EU's policies in Africa and the impact of this interaction on Africa's future. A much needed insight into how the interaction b...
Author: Dethloff, Henry C Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Americans grow up expecting that in a time of need, their country can depend on its people for volunteer service to the military. Indeed, this has been a social and at times legal expectation for the ...
Author: Nathan, Laurie Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Community of Insecurity examines the vital issues of wh...
Author: Bosse, Eloi Publisher: Artech House Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the heat of battle, a split second can be all the time a military commander has to give orders. Information fusion technology enables commanders to lead decisively and confidently during active con...
Author: Bennett, Michael Publisher: Artech House Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today, more than ever, the use of denial and deception (D&D) is being used to compensate for an opponent's military superiority, to obtain or develop weapons of mass destruction, and to violate intern...
Description: Critical Security Studies introduces students of Politics and International Relations to the sub-field through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices.? ...
Author: Koplow, David A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book addresses an important but little-noticed phenomenon in the revolutionary world of military technology. Across a wide range of otherwise-unrelated weapons programs, the Pentagon is now pursu...
Author: Castaneda, Laura Werber / Harrell, Margaret C / \Varda, Danielle M Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The volume of freight transported in the United States is expected to double in the next 30 years. An increased use of rail freight could allow the supply chain to accommodate these increased volumes ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers and responding to their first-hand intern...
Author: Zisk, Kimberly Marten Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Did a "doctrine race" exist alongside the much-publicized arms competition between East and West? Using recent insights from organization theory, Kimberly Marten Zisk answers this question in the affi...
Description: Operation Just Cause was the culmination of a gradually escalating confrontation between the United States and Panama. This volume examines the various ways representative examples of the global media...
Author: Patman, Robert G. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume highlights the gap between the new security environment and the notion of state-centred national security favoured by Washington, showing how the national security state remains largely in...
Author: Lorell, Mark A. / Lowell, Julia / Moore, Richard M. Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since the end of the Cold War, a dramatic decline in overall defense authorizations has led both the U.S. aerospace industry and that of Europe to undergo extensive consolidation -- a trend that has l...
Author: Anonymous Publisher: Paladin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This handy little manual teaches you everything you need to know to legally manufacture a silencer for any .22 - without a lathe or welder. These inexpensive homemade silencers give you all the suppre...
Author: Peou, Sorpong Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores human security in East Asia, focusing especially on the challenges of coordination and collaboration among actors involved in securing and promoting human security. It includes deta...
Description: There is a growing interest in human security in Southeast Asia. This book firstly explores the theoretical and conceptual basis of human security, before focusing on the region itself. It shows how h...
Author: Davis, Paul K. / Kulick, Jonathan / Egner, Michael Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A selective review of modern decision science and implications for decision-support systems. The study suggests ways to synthesize lessons from research on heuristics and biases with those from "natu...
Description: This book traces the triangular strategic relationship of India, Pakistan and China over the second half of the twentieth century, showing how two enmities - Sino-Indian and Indo-Pakistani - and one f...
Author: Allen, Patrick D. Publisher: Artech House Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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, comman...
Author: Zicheng, Ye Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: China's enormous size, vast population, abundant natural resources, robust economy, and modern military suggest that it will emerge as a great world power. Inside China's Grand Strategy: The Perspecti...
Author: U. S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps / United States Marine Corps, States Marin Publisher: Wildside Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP) 2, "Intelligence," describes the theory and philosophy of intelligence as practiced by the United States Marine Corps. It provides Marines a conceptual framew...
Author: N/A Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Command and leadership are very personal endeavours. The manner in which an individual commands others and exercises leadership speaks more to the character and personality of the individual in questi...
