Transforming War – serie
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11 produkter
Mars Adapting
Military Change During War
Häftad, 2024
326 kr
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As Clausewitz observed, “In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.” The essence of war is a competitive reciprocal relationship with an adversary. Commanders and institutional leaders must recognize shortfalls and resolve gaps rapidly in the middle of the fog of war. The …
Mars Adapting
Military Change During War
Inbunden, 2021
378 kr
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As Clausewitz observed, ""In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect."" The essence of war is a competitive reciprocal relationship with an adversary. Commanders and institutional leaders must recognize shortfalls and resolve gaps rapidly in the middle of the fog of war. …
Training for Victory
U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan
Inbunden, 2025
362 kr
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One of the most difficult security challenges of the post–Cold War era has been stabilizing failing states in an era of irregular warfare. A consistent component of the strategy to address this problem has been security force assistance where outside powers train and advise the host nation’s …
Always at War
Organizational Culture in Strategic Air Command, 1946-62
Inbunden, 2018
682 kr
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Always at War is the story of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the early decades of the Cold War. More than a simple history, it describes how an organization dominated by experienced World War II airmen developed a unique culture that thrives to this day.Strategic Air Command was created because …
Blood Money
How Criminals, Militias, Rebels, and Warlords Finance Violence
Inbunden, 2022
344 kr
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It is convenient to think that bad guys are drumming up money for their activities far away and in shady back alleys, but the violent non-state actors (VNSAs) of the world are hiding in plain sight. They peddle knockoff sneakers, pass the hat at ethnic festivals, take a cut of untaxed booze sales, …
Strategy
Context and Adaptation from Archidamus to Airpower
Av Richard J Bailey Jr., USAF, James W Forsyth Jr. m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
242 kr
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How does one engage in the study of strategy? Strategy: Context and Adaptation from Archidamus to Airpower argues that strategy is not just concerned with amassing knowledge; it is also about recognizing our imperfect understanding of the environment and respecting the complex nature of adaptation …
Untaken Road
Strategy, Technology, and the Hidden History of America's Mobile ICBMs
Häftad, 2021
420 kr
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Steven A. Pomeroy has authored the first history of the American mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a technology the United States spent four decades and billions of dollars creating but never deployed. An Untaken Road showcases how the evolution of a technology that ultimately never …
Cool War
Nuclear Forces, Crisis Signaling, and the Russo-Ukraine War, 2014 - 2022
Inbunden, 2025
390 kr
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Sean Maloney reveals how Vladimir Putin has aggressively leveraged nuclear signaling to manipulate NATO and deter Western intervention in Ukraine. With Cold War–level brinkmanship and modern information warfare, Russia’s tactics have reshaped the strategic landscape—and raised urgent questions …
From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets
A Century of Women in the U.S. Navy
Inbunden, 2024
403 kr
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From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets addresses a major element of twenty-first century sea power —the integration of women into all military units of the U.S. Navy. Randy Goguen delineates the cultural, economic, and political conditions as well as the technological changes that shaped this movement …
How the Few Became the Proud
Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874-1918
Häftad, 2025
374 kr
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For more than half its existence, the U.S. Marine Corps and its members largely self-identified as soldiers. In the early decades, being a Marine did not yet mean something distinct, either to Marines or to the public at large. The Corps’ peculiar position resulted in a sort of identity crisis: …
Strategy
Context and Adaptation from Archidamus to Airpower
Av Richard J Bailey Jr., USAF, James W Forsyth Jr. m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
444 kr
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How does one engage in the study of strategy? Strategy: Context and Adaptation from Archidamus to Airpower, argues that strategy is not just concerned with amassing knowledge; it is also about recognizing our imperfect understanding of the environment, and respecting the complex nature of …
