In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys technologically innovative weapons systems. Buying Military Transformation examines how political and military leaders work with the defense industry to develop the small ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced communications equipment, and systems-of-systems integration that will...

The last six years have witnessed a virtually unending debate over U.S. policy toward Iraq, a debate that is likely to continue well into the new administration and perhaps the next, notwithstanding recent improvements on the ground. Too often, however, the debate has been narrowly framed in terms of the situation in Iraq and what steps the United States should take there next, leaving the broader impact of the war on American interests largely overlooked. Ultimately, though, the success and failure of the war will have to be judged in terms of its overall contribution to U.S. national...

Das vorliegende Buch zielt auf eine Vertiefung und Erweiterung geometrischer Kenntnisse von Studierenden der Mathematik und der Physik nach dem Grundstudium, und zwar an Hand unterschiedlicher, attraktiver, elementar-zuganglicher Themen der Geometrie. Bezuge zur Analysis und Physik werden betont, zur Historie einiger bedeutender geometrischer bzw. physikalischer Begriffe oder Fragestellungen gibt es eingehendere Beitrage. Die generelle Ausfuhrlichkeit des Textes sollte es Dozenten ermoglichen, den Vortrag auf die Vermittlung der Begriffe, Resultate und Beweisideen zu konzentrieren und fur...

The Indian Ocean is a critical artery for global commerce, a highway to conflict zones, and a potential location for geopolitical strife. The region's importance for the international economy and international security is increasing, yet the US does not have a coherent strategy for protecting its interests in the Indian Ocean or managing diplomatic relationships across the region. This volume examines US grand strategy in the context of the Indian Ocean region and presents a range of viewpoints about whether and how the US should to alter its diplomatic and military strategies for this...

Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's overarching concept for American missile defense focuses on developing both a national system of limited ground-based defenses, located in Alaska and California, intended to counter limited intercontinental threats, and regionally-based missile defenses consisting of mobile...

Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective explains the origins, evolution, and implications of the regional approach to missile defense that has emerged since the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and has culminated with the missile defense decisions of President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's overarching concept for American missile defense focuses on developing both a national system of limited ground-based defenses, located in Alaska and California, intended to counter limited intercontinental threats, and regionally-based missile defenses consisting of mobile...

In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America's military actually does, day to day. They...